Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Links with Monash

The University of Warwick is very much a global university, ensuring each student is internationally aware. Classics are no exception to this, using Warwick’s relationship with Monash University, Australia, to create an exciting opportunity for students to engage with the course through different perspectives and interdisciplinary learning.


On 10th May 2013 Warwick’s Classics department took part in the Monash-Warwick International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR). Research from a vast range of disciplines was presented via 20 minute oral or poster presentations. There were international links between Monash Australia, Monash Malaysia, Monash South Africa and Warwick. Two first years presented the following papers; Mike Wrench, Woodwind Players in Ancient Spartan Society; and Bradley Waters, Greeks on the Knife Edge: an evaluation of Graeco-Scythian relations in the ancient world. Three finalists made presentations based on research for their final year dissertations: Nathan Murphy, Land rental and Rural Monetisation in Roman Egypt; Grant McCallum, How Important is Fatherhood in Virgil's Aeneid from a Political and Poetic standpoint? And Sarah Irving, Restitution of Ancient Artefacts.


On 30th April 2014 students taking the ‘Democracy and Imperialism’ module held a live debate with Monash University Classics students via the international video portal. The three topics of debate were: the Power of Women in Athens, the Most Democratic Space in Ancient Athens, and the Most Radical Athenian Politician. Students prepared group presentations, and then rebutted arguments before a vote was taken. This coming year is a 2-hour Monash conference in term 3 under the module ‘Greek Religion.’ The conference will make its focus religious change, diversity and interaction in the late Classical and Hellenistic worlds. Students will have the opportunity to deliver 10-minute papers during the conference which the class will have the chance to listen to.