Conference presentations
I have presented papers on issues affecting Classics teaching and learning at conferences internationally. These have included:
2023
Can We Preserve Ancient Languages?
Classical Wisdom online seminar (January 11th)
Trends and innovations in UK Classics. Keynote:
Australian Classical Association Conference, Sydney, Australia (February 22nd-24th)
Classical Association Annual Conference, Cambridge: panel convenor for Reading and ICT panels:
Classical Association, Cambridge (April 21st-23rd)
Delphi Forum, Greek Languages Conference, Delphi, Greece:
Delphi Forum (April 27th-28th)
Making Digital History Reading Classics Online Conference:
University of Lincoln (May 15th)
Developments in Ancient Language Pedagogy Conference:
University of Reading (May 19th)
Contextual clues for reading support with intermediate students of Latin:
Institute of the American Classical League, Washington University, St Louis, USA (June 29th-July 1st)
Primary Ancient Languages: Ofsted and Latin.
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (28th September)
Active Latin and Greek Conference: Story-building: the why and the how
Haileybury School (21st September)
2024
Ancient History Conference - Harrow School
TBC January 30th
Coimbra Classics Conference, Portugal
TBC
Classical Teachers' Conference, Sydney, Australia
TBC February
Classical association Annual Conference
TBC May 9-11
Ontario Student Classical Conference
University of Warwick (March)
Canadian Classical Association Conference
TBC May 15-17
Institute of the American Classical League
June
2022
Latin & Greek in Primary Schools
University of Ghent, Belgium (December) [Classics at Primary School book launch]
'Reading to learn how to read': some new and not-so-new practices.
Harris Federation ITE Annual Conference (October)
Keynote: Active Latin in the Classroom: 'Ten reasons to try Active Latin.'
Harrow School, UK (September)
Big Latin and Little Latin in the UK
Randolph-Macon College, W Virginia, USA (online) (March)
Monsters in the Classroom
International conference on Latin and Greek in Primary Schools (conference organizer) (January)
2021
Reading Latin - what we do and what we should do
ARLT INSET (March)
2020
Getting Classics into Schools - a multi-partnered approach
Clenardus Conference, Portugal (June)
Really Reading Latin
American Classical League Institute, Charleston (postponed) (June)
Improving learners' vocabulary through teaching about receptions of mythology
Classical Association Annual Conference, Swansea (postponed) (April)
2019
Museums without worksheets with Benjamin Joffe
and
University Outreach and Classics - the UK model roundtable
at the ACL in New York
2018
What is the Latin that we teach? Who is it for?
Keynote speech at the Euroclassica Conference, London, August 2018.
Latin is Alive. The need for the inclusion of more communicative approaches in the Latin classroom
Paper presented as part of a panel with Mair Lloyd, Clive Letchford (Warwick) and Laura Manning (Kentucky), along with a demonstration workshop, at the Classical Association Annual Conference, Leicester.
2017
Fantasy, Computer Games and Latin. A teenager on the autistic spectrum talks about his worlds.
Teaching Students with Anxiety Conference, University of London.
The reading method is Comprehensible Input
American Classical League Institute, Grand Rapids.
University Outreach for Classics
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury
Differentiation, inter-cultural awareness and literacy; Latin for all
Classical Association of Australia, Sydney
2015
Growing Classics in state schools. Initiatives to increase opportunities for Classics teacher training in response to government policy 2013-4
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Bristol
Developments in Classical education in the UK, 2010 to the present
Classical Association of South Africa Biennial Conference, Potchefstroom
Organised the Classics in Communities conference, Cambridge
2016
Gove’s Classicists
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh
2014
Teaching controversial subjects in the secondary school
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Nottingham
Digital technology in the Classics classroom
i-Greek and e-Latin Conference for the Open University, London
2013
The North Norfolk Latin Cluster Project: a case study
Classics in Communities Conference, Oxford University
The impact of the higher fees regime on applicants for teacher training in Classics
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Reading
2012
The experiences of the GTP teacher trainees in Classics
Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Exeter
2011
Rhapsody in Classics: pulling the pieces together
at the Classics in Comprehensives conference, Oxford