Dominic Dalglish
@dominicdalglish.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at The Open University, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, working on gods and how people communicate about them in the Ancient Mediterranean.
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❗️CONDEMN THE #CARDIFF CUTS! Cardiff University is at risk of losing its entire Ancient History department. Help stop this from happening by signing the #petition below!
➡️Sign the petition now! chng.it/GmqcC9BsNJ
➡️Sign the petition now! chng.it/GmqcC9BsNJ
February 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
❗️CONDEMN THE #CARDIFF CUTS! Cardiff University is at risk of losing its entire Ancient History department. Help stop this from happening by signing the #petition below!
➡️Sign the petition now! chng.it/GmqcC9BsNJ
➡️Sign the petition now! chng.it/GmqcC9BsNJ
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January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Nearly five years ago, @miri.bsky.social and I set up @workingclassicists.bsky.social to draw attention to the state of Classics in Scottish state schools.
Today, we have a big project to announce, so please give us a follow. We're really proud of it.
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Today, we have a big project to announce, so please give us a follow. We're really proud of it.
⚡🏺
January 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Nearly five years ago, @miri.bsky.social and I set up @workingclassicists.bsky.social to draw attention to the state of Classics in Scottish state schools.
Today, we have a big project to announce, so please give us a follow. We're really proud of it.
⚡🏺
Today, we have a big project to announce, so please give us a follow. We're really proud of it.
⚡🏺
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Removing the financial support enabling students in state schools learn Latin in the UK is an appalling and shortsighted policy. Please sign this petition to keep the Latin Excellence Programme - www.change.org/p/save-the-l... #AncientBlueSky
Sign the Petition
Save the Latin Excellence Programme - keep teaching Latin in state schools
www.change.org
December 22, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Removing the financial support enabling students in state schools learn Latin in the UK is an appalling and shortsighted policy. Please sign this petition to keep the Latin Excellence Programme - www.change.org/p/save-the-l... #AncientBlueSky
Christmas offerings.
December 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Christmas offerings.
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The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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heady mix of labor retaliation and divestment from humanities, with a jubilant redirection of resources towards AI. futures of meaningful and critical work replaced with water and energy devouring artificial intelligences www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
www.insidehighered.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
heady mix of labor retaliation and divestment from humanities, with a jubilant redirection of resources towards AI. futures of meaningful and critical work replaced with water and energy devouring artificial intelligences www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
Some interesting pictures and a brief writeup of Peter Suchin's show, 'Optimum State':
www.curationspace.com/post/peter-s...
www.curationspace.com/post/peter-s...
March 25, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Some interesting pictures and a brief writeup of Peter Suchin's show, 'Optimum State':
www.curationspace.com/post/peter-s...
www.curationspace.com/post/peter-s...
Seminar on material religion and light, 5PM (GMT) today, with Efrosyni Boutsikas and Ruth Bielfeldt:
‘Greek temples in light and darkness: Discovering the power of the chronotope in religion’
‘Roman household shrines between light and shadow’
www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/202...
‘Greek temples in light and darkness: Discovering the power of the chronotope in religion’
‘Roman household shrines between light and shadow’
www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/202...
March 11, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Seminar on material religion and light, 5PM (GMT) today, with Efrosyni Boutsikas and Ruth Bielfeldt:
‘Greek temples in light and darkness: Discovering the power of the chronotope in religion’
‘Roman household shrines between light and shadow’
www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/202...
‘Greek temples in light and darkness: Discovering the power of the chronotope in religion’
‘Roman household shrines between light and shadow’
www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/202...
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Unfortunately, there is a plan to close the study programme of Ancient Culture in the Uni. Helsinki. The programme focuses on ancient material culture, and I have been coordinating it. There is now a petition to continue the programme, so please sign it.
Antiikin materiaalisen kulttuurin opetuksen on jatkuttava Helsingin yliopistossa
Antiikin materiaalisen kulttuurin opetuksen on jatkuttava Suomessa
Helsingin yliopisto (HY) aikoo lakkauttaa antiikin kulttuurin opintokokonaisuuden kesällä 2024. Tämä kattaa enti...
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January 26, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Unfortunately, there is a plan to close the study programme of Ancient Culture in the Uni. Helsinki. The programme focuses on ancient material culture, and I have been coordinating it. There is now a petition to continue the programme, so please sign it.
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Hello again Bluesky. Critical Ancient World Studies ans Everyday Orientalism bring you an event in solidarity with the Palestinian people against genocide and epistemicide. Full details coming soon but please save the date if you would like to join us!
January 8, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Hello again Bluesky. Critical Ancient World Studies ans Everyday Orientalism bring you an event in solidarity with the Palestinian people against genocide and epistemicide. Full details coming soon but please save the date if you would like to join us!
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With great pleasure we launch a new book series, "Studies in Ancient Civil War". The series welcomes outstanding monographs and edited volumes exploring any given aspect of ancient civil war. Please feel free to contact the series editors.
www.degruyter.com/serial/stacw...
www.degruyter.com/serial/stacw...
January 8, 2024 at 6:26 AM
With great pleasure we launch a new book series, "Studies in Ancient Civil War". The series welcomes outstanding monographs and edited volumes exploring any given aspect of ancient civil war. Please feel free to contact the series editors.
www.degruyter.com/serial/stacw...
www.degruyter.com/serial/stacw...
A pleasing cup for a Monday morning
January 8, 2024 at 11:36 AM
A pleasing cup for a Monday morning