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🏺UQ’s Classics and Ancient History Society 🌳 Check our linktree for our events and website!

Founded in 1949, the Classics and Ancient History Society (CAHS) is one of the oldest student societies at UQ, and the oldest classical studies students' society in Australia. With a long history of entertaining and educating UQ students enrolled, or just interested in, Classical Languages and Ancient History, CAHS is you go to club at UQ for all things ancient history! Joining CAHS is an easy way

to meet other students whose interest and better judgement has compelled them to pursue the study of dead people and really dead languages. It’s a society that allows the patricians to fraternize with the plebs at a variety of social events as well as offering academic support programs to assist in cultivating your Ciceronian wits. We're a welcoming bunch, and really hope you're interested.

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Our 2021 executives are:
President: Chris Wood
Secretary: Emily Boon
Treasurer: Ethan Clark-Kistowski
Vice-President (Ancient History): Emily Hutton
Vice-President (Classical Languages): Sarah Vanden Berg
Social Media Manager: Arabella Green

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Visit our website at www.cahsociety.com
Send us an email: [email protected]
Twitter:

01/06/2026

This Thursday will be our Classics & Ancient History SWOTVAC Study Day !!

Whether you have assignment questions, need some more language tutoring, or just want some company while you study, we will have the space for you.

CAHS Execs and Members will be sat at Merlo from 10am-4pm to help out with any of your assessment woes.

When: Thursday 4th June
Time: 10am-4pm
Where: Merlo Coffee

We will also provide some study snacks to keep you all going.

24/05/2026

It’s that time of semester again !! Join the History and Classics and Ancient History Societies for our biannual W(h)ine night where we let go of all our semesterly grievances with a little bit of vino.

🍷Snacks and Wine provided as a pre-exam refresher.
⏰The drinks will be flowing from 4pm but you’re welcome to come along whenever you can.

Safe drinking practices will be encouraged and welfare officers will be present. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available for those who do not wish to drink.

20/05/2026

This week at Conversations and Curiosities we will be discussing book three of the Medicina Plinii, which tells us how to heal bruises including in the manner of charioteers, antiquity’s version of UFC fighter (pancrationists), and the emperor Nero himself.

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Join us Thursday 21st May from 5:30 in Michie room 536

19/05/2026

Join us this Wednesday to discuss the theory surrounding translated texts. Whether you’re studying classical languages or read the classics, you would have engaged with translated texts so this is a great chance to discuss the technicalities of creating and using translated works.

When: Wednesday 20th May 12pm
Where: Bagel Boys

We hope to see you there !!

13/05/2026

Bring your class mates, your reading group, or your lab team and grab a snag from the CAHS BBQ today !!

We’re doing our Sausage Sizzle at Campbell Place today so come along to grab a snag and support the society.

We will be serving from 9am this morning until we sell out!!

Hope to see you there !!

11/05/2026

ΑΧΙΛΛΕΥΣ ΗΝ ΕΝΘΑΔΕ

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This week at Classics & Coffee we’ll be discussing graffiti in the ancient world. What did it look like? Why was it done? What can it tell us about the lives of ancient people?

Come along with your favourite example of ancient graffiti and join the conversation!

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Meeting 10am @ Bagel Boys, Tuesday the 12th of May (tomorrow!!)

28/04/2026

Join us for a night of special presentations from current honours students within the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry as well as Archaeology.

The night will feature lots of short presentations by students to show off the board range of topics being studied by those in the honours program, with plenty of time for questions and discussions. This is a great event for those who are thinking about pursuing honours and is a great opportunity to help out some fellow students with any parts of their theses they are struggling with.

When: Thursday 7th May at 6pm
Where: TBD

There will be food and drink provided from 5pm in the great court, so join us there before we head over to the room !!

27/04/2026

This week at Classics and Coffee we’ll discuss “truth” in ancient texts - how can we tell fact from fiction? Is it even possible?

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Meet us at the Bagel Boys next to Darwin’s cafe (we’ll post on our story which table we’re at) at 12pm and join the conversation

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We look forward to seeing you!

24/04/2026

Are you currently completing your honours with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry or Archaeology ?? We’re taking expressions of interest for our upcoming Honours Seminar !!

This is an opportunity for students completing an honours within HAPI or Archaeology to make a 5-10 minute presentation about their honours topic or process. It is a great opportunity to get feedback from your peers, ask questions, or even just get in some speaking practice.

Submit EOI’s to: UQ Classics & Ancient History email @ [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Include:
    ⁃    Name
    ⁃    Field of Study (Ancient History, History, Archaeology, Classics/Classical Languages or Philosophy)
    ⁃    The topic/title of your presentation

You can also contact us if you have any further questions !!

Event Details:
Date: 7th May, 2026
Time: 6pm
Location: TBD, UQ St Lucia

All the best,
UQ Classics & Ancient History Society 💜
UQ History Society ♥️
UQ Archaeological Society❤️

22/04/2026

Conversations and Curiosities is back for our April meeting!

Come along to Michie (09) room 536 on Thursday 23rd April to join us for our next topic: The Journal of the Trojan War “written” by Dictys of Crete.

The work purports to be a first-hand account of the Trojan War. We will be focussing on the letter and prologue which accompanied this work, the text for which is in our linktree !!

Don’t worry, there’s no assumed knowledge and everyone is welcome!

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We’ll kick off at 5:30pm for chats & a cheeseboard for your snacking pleasure (yum yum)! Then, the session will officially start at 5:45pm with our wonderful host Yvette Hunt.

Whether you know everything or nothing about Ancient History, these sessions are for you. As long as you bring curiosity to learn about the stranger parts of history, you’ll be welcomed with open arms.

Address

Brisbane, QLD
4072

Website

http://linktr.ee/cahsuq

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