Examining finds from the latest digs in the Athenian Agora

Photo by Yannis Kontos. To see more of Yannis' work click here

For Bryn Mawr review of Cambridge Scholars' 'Classics For All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture' click here

Icons and Iconoclasm - podcast of debate at Royal Academy in conjunction with Byzantium exhibition and Bettany's Radio 4 series Byzantium Unearthed, a landmark three part series that explored the meaning of Byzantium to both East and West, now available

‘...Bettany beautifully chaired our Icons and Iconoclasm panel discussion, deftly handling complex issues and a variety of perspectives, and making the links between ideas, issues, and speakers seamless. Her chairmanship contributed greatly to the evening’s success...’ Dr. Alison Bracker, Events and Lectures Manager, Royal Academy of Arts.

Summer 2010 Bettany was awarded the Naomi Sargent Education Award for Broadcast Excellence. She also delivered the keynote lecture at the UK’s only Postgraduate Festival hosted by Leicester University. This year she will be a judge of the Threadneedle prize for fine art and the chair of a major literary prize.

September 2010 Bettany will open Europe’s new academic year with a keynote address at Maastricht University ‘Ta Erotika – the Search for The Good Life’.

Spring 2011 – Bettany has been invited to give the Hellenic Institute’s Tenth Annual Lecture at Royal Holloway.

October 2011 Bettany will be delivering a residential course for Cambridge University to examine the Spartans and their reception by non-Spartans over a period of 26 centuries.

Bettany currently holds a Visiting Research Fellowship at King's College, London. Exciting developments planned; please check this site for updates.

Bettany will also be teaching on the UK's first ever MA in Public History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Photo series to support Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. To see more of the series click here

Following the adoption of Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore as a central text on academic modules in Canada and the U.S.A, Bettany will be giving a major public lecture series in North America in 2011.