by bcoleman | Jun 3, 2013 | Events
Thursday 6 June 2013 This workshop will seek to initiate a broad synthetic and comparative study of the intellectual, cultural and religious context of the nineteenth-century study of comparative religion. Organised by: Guy Stroumsa (Oxford), Peter Mack and Charles...
by bcoleman | May 29, 2013 | Comms Team
Introduction and Overview It has been a fairly successful month for our podcasting service. YouTube stats have remained roughly the same as last month (despite the Easter break). Whilst our iTunes U stats are starting to increase again after a slow couple of months....
by bcoleman | May 28, 2013 | Events
SAS pick of the week. On the island of Crete, there are around 850 historical churches containing fresco programmes, at least ninety-three of which contain vivid depictions of Hell. Many of these Hell scenes occur within the traditional setting of the Last Judgement,...
by bcoleman | May 21, 2013 | Events
An exciting upcoming event this week. The Afterlife of Plutarch – 23 – 24 May 2013 This conference will address the uses of Plutarch’s historical and philosophical works by late antique, medieval and early modern scholars, writers and artists. It is by The...
by bcoleman | May 20, 2013 | Comms Team
SAS is currently considering using SoundCloud to promote our academic podcasts, but is it worthwhile? What is SoundCloud? For those who don’t know, SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform that allows collaboration and promotion of audio recordings by...
