What's happened thanks to a Public Engagement grant from the Institute of Classical Studies

Every time that I speak about my autism and myth project, it moves on in some way. Sometimes this is because of comments from people who hear me talk about what I’m doing. Sometimes it comes out of articulating my thoughts in line with a specific event. Back in October 2018, I ran an event at which has led me to revisit what I am doing, and why I am doing it. This was an event, ‘Autism and Classical Mythology: Workshop for External Partners,’ where a group of specialists on autism met to discuss the first draft I had put together of activities around the Choice of Hercules.

The event took place thanks to support from the Institute of Classical Studies’s Public Engagement Fund. It took me a while to write a report on the event – partly because I needed a bit of time to reflect on what took place, and process it all. I finally wrote it the other week. I did it in the form of a posting for the ICS’s blog. It was Emma Bridges, the Public Engagement Fellow at the ICS who invited me to do this – in place of a formal report. And would that all reports could be in the form of blog postings…

The posting was published a few days ago – and it is my pleasure to share it HERE blog-to-blog.