Elly Polignano

AHRC PhD Student @ClassicsNCL. Trainee @dg_classics. Former alumna @unibait and @univcadiz. Greek epigrams + other fun stuff. Curly chatty Apulian lassie.

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

PhD done, chuffed to say I’m now officially doctor in Classics 🎓

[St Andrews Classics @StA_Classics]

#CA2025 Session 5 starts at 2:30pm. Explore panels and abstracts: https://t.co/mhFsKagNIR

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Come along on the 12th – session 5 if you’re into entomology 🦗 We’ll talk about epigrammatic cicadas and grasshoppers!

[CA 2025 @StAConf25]

Classical Association Conference, 11-13 July 2025, @univofstandrews

Daily agenda and abstracts are now available: https://t.co/FA80LfY7qW

Enquiries to: [email protected]

https://t.co/Rm4xRvOAdF #CA2025 @StA_Classics @CAScotia @Classical_Assoc #ClassicsTwitter

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University https://t.co/Hnq7djvgPe via @UKChange

[elDiario.es @eldiarioes]

OPINIÓN | Yo estudié Filología clásica: las carreras 'de letras' como antídoto de un futuro triste

https://t.co/5qPzX40oFK ✍️ Por Marina Solís de Ovando

[Dr Thomas R.P. Coward @ThomasCoward3]

International Workshop: ‘The Herculaneum Papyri: Texts and Interpretations’ (Newcastle University, 20-21 June). The workshop is co-organised by Nick Freer and myself with the generous support of @ClassicsNCL. See https://t.co/10OlVwJg4M for registration and programme.

[Durham Classics and Ancient History @Durham_Classics]

"Who’s That Girl? Portraits of Hetairai between the Hellenistic and Imperial Ages" 20-21 June. Organisers @robertodituccio @EffrosyniTsakou, keynotes @edithmayhall @ZiogasIoannis

Registration (in person/online): https://t.co/I5RsSyXGqB

#ClassicsTwitter #AncMedTwitter

[De Gruyter Classics ➡️ Bluesky / Facebook @dg_classics]

Today you have met us @bbaw_de attending the wonderful presentation of Prof. Jürgen Hammerstaedt on the #papyri found at the Villa dei Papyri at Herculaneum and their exploration. The evening was completed by an interesting discussion attended by Ira Rabin & @Youssef_M_Nader.

[De Gruyter Classics ➡️ Bluesky / Facebook @dg_classics]

This new volume edited by Thorsten Fögen and Nina Mindt examine the similarities and differences between the text types "#letter" and "#epigram" in antiquity and the Middle Ages analyzing constants and divergences across epochs and literary spaces.
📨 https://t.co/pvUD9aZRCU

[De Gruyter Official ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @degruyter_pub]

📢Noch wenige Tickets übrig! Am 20. Februar findet anlässlich unseres neuen Podcasts WAGNIS WISSEN bei De Gruyter eine Podiumsdiskussion zu den Chancen und Herausforderungen des Podcast-Formats in den Geisteswissenschaften statt:
https://t.co/mSWjdulsNV

Kommt vorbei!

[De Gruyter Classics ➡️ Bluesky / Facebook @dg_classics]

Hopefully at a conference soon, or through a phone call in the meantime, but in any case:

Let’s get to know each other.

#wewanttoknow

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Come and meet us on the 20th of February here in Berlin to hear more about Podcast and Humanities 📌

[De Gruyter Official ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @degruyter_pub]

A match made in heaven? Anlässlich des Starts des neuen De Gruyter Wissenschaftspodcasts WAGNIS WISSEN wollen wir uns über die Chancen und Herausforderungen des Podcast-Formats in der Kommunikation von Geisteswissenschaften austauschen.

Kommt vorbei! https://t.co/JgrbtDuYM7

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Thanks to all those who attended today the Wellbeing in the North Workshop! It was incredibly nice to see so many people coming along from NCL, Edinburgh, Durham and Leeds to discuss mental health/Academic issues and to find strategies together to overcome them.
@UniofNewcastle

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Delighted to share the final programme of the 16th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry. Come along if you want to hear @veropiccirillo and I dabbling with sexual recommendations and erotic silences in epigrams! ⁦@univgroningen⁩ ⁦ https://t.co/Uks68M33me

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

So excited to be speaking at the 14th Celtic Conference in Classics, 11-14 July 2023 in Coimbra (Portugal). Panel 8: "Etymology in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Literary, Linguistic, and Philosophical Perspectives".

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg,
Cod. Pal. graec. 23, p. 97 and 103
(Constantinople, mid 10th c. AD)

Marc.Arg. AP 5.63 and 5.113

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Other people out there struggling/having struggled settling back in their routine lives after a research stay at the idyllic #HardtFoundation ?

Main Library, pic from two weeks ago.

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

It's a wrap! Cannot thank you all enough for having embarked onto this journey together and having made it an absolute success!

[Nicolò Campodonico @campodonicolo]

Very happy with the conference «Ut ipse dixit» we have organized in Parma, which brought me back at least virtually to Italy! Many thanks to the other members of the committee and to all the speakers for their fantastic talks!
@EllyPolignano @VeroPiccirillo

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

📢 Programme finally out!

📍University of Parma (Chiostro di Lettere - via D'Azeglio 85, Aula C, ground floor)
🗓️ 3-4 April 2023

You are all welcome to attend the conference in person or online through this Zoom link (https://t.co/BI2ev2VVXm).

[Elly Polignano @EllyPolignano]

Some wise suggestions from yesterday’s workshop on #failures and #ImposterSyndrome in Academia.