Dan Stewart
@drdanstewart1.bsky.social
Ancient historian/archaeologist at the University of Leicester. Likes ancient landscapes, Roman Crete, Peloponnese, & Pausanias. Spuddling. He/him.
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Dan Stewart
@drdanstewart1.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Apropos of nothing, here's some posters I made for outside my office in case anyone wants them. Text on one edited from @blacktrowel.bsky.social, the other from an Eco article (both cited of course). If you'd like the PDF files, just email me. #antifascist #AncientBluesky 🏺
I happen to know that this department is chockablock with wonderful people, and the social mission of Birkbeck is hard to beat
Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
Current Vacancies - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 AM
I happen to know that this department is chockablock with wonderful people, and the social mission of Birkbeck is hard to beat
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🚨 SAVE CLASSICS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! 🚨
University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints.
This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary!
Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...
University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints.
This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary!
Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...
Call for Support: Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary | Appel à soutien: Études classiques et médiévales à l'Université de Calgary - The Classical Association of Canada
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January 29, 2026 at 8:37 PM
🚨 SAVE CLASSICS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! 🚨
University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints.
This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary!
Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...
University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints.
This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary!
Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...
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Dear all, we have a shiny new website pelagios.org. We hope that it does a better job of setting out who we are, what we do, and why you might want to join us.
Welcome to Pelagios Network
The Pelagios Network is a community of scholars, technologists, and cultural heritage professionals working together to make the world’s historical places and spaces more visible online.
pelagios.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Dear all, we have a shiny new website pelagios.org. We hope that it does a better job of setting out who we are, what we do, and why you might want to join us.
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Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?
'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'
From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'
From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?
'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'
From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'
From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
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Want to take a deep dive into an ancient studies topic, but don't know where to start? Check out the #NEW SASA Intro Guides project to get basic overviews of general and complex topics
Check out our NEW Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides
Check out our NEW Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides
January 26, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Want to take a deep dive into an ancient studies topic, but don't know where to start? Check out the #NEW SASA Intro Guides project to get basic overviews of general and complex topics
Check out our NEW Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides
Check out our NEW Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides
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I just learned that this exists and now I have to share it with you all because I don't even listen to podcasts, but just knowing that this is a thing has unironically increased my overall happiness and wellbeing:
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I just learned that this exists and now I have to share it with you all because I don't even listen to podcasts, but just knowing that this is a thing has unironically increased my overall happiness and wellbeing:
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5/ Here’s a more recent interview about the book I did for the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social podcast: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/24/p...
Podcast Season 4, Episode 8: Selective Salvage: Archaeology and Hydropolitics with William Carruthers
On this episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. William Carruthers, a lecturer at the school of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of E…
peoplingthepast.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
5/ Here’s a more recent interview about the book I did for the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social podcast: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/24/p...
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Anyone in the UK who has ever posted or reposted anything about ICE needs to fill this in to avoid being a hypocrite. It’s happening here too.
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Anyone in the UK who has ever posted or reposted anything about ICE needs to fill this in to avoid being a hypocrite. It’s happening here too.
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Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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It's both heartening and depressing that my favourite bad movie podcast is sending out links for charities to support. Heartening because of course they're decent people. Depressing because it's so necessary. @flophousepodcast.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It's both heartening and depressing that my favourite bad movie podcast is sending out links for charities to support. Heartening because of course they're decent people. Depressing because it's so necessary. @flophousepodcast.com
I'm obviously a little biased, but @jenbaird.bsky.social is doing some of the most interesting, reflective, and inspiring work in Roman #Archaeology right now. It's only ever a privilege to read her work early.
In mid-2023 I was invited to speak about the 3rd Century Crisis at a conference in Copenhagen. By the time I was writing the paper later that year, the irony of writing about ancient crises from a position of safety in a world full of real violence (in the very same places) was almost too much.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I'm obviously a little biased, but @jenbaird.bsky.social is doing some of the most interesting, reflective, and inspiring work in Roman #Archaeology right now. It's only ever a privilege to read her work early.
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'Nishan Canagarajah, vice-chancellor at the University of Leicester, told Times Higher Education that the staff may have to cope with lower wage increases in order to ensure colleagues can remain on the payroll.'
Presumably this is also his and Ucea's approach to VCs' and SMTs' salaries too?
Presumably this is also his and Ucea's approach to VCs' and SMTs' salaries too?
‘We can either save jobs or award pay rises – but not both’
New Ucea chair warns ‘much is at stake’ if unions and employers don’t collaborate to tackle ‘negative’ sector image, as he promises action on the ‘employee experience’
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:57 AM
'Nishan Canagarajah, vice-chancellor at the University of Leicester, told Times Higher Education that the staff may have to cope with lower wage increases in order to ensure colleagues can remain on the payroll.'
Presumably this is also his and Ucea's approach to VCs' and SMTs' salaries too?
Presumably this is also his and Ucea's approach to VCs' and SMTs' salaries too?
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"Confounding invaders by using the metric system but also incorporating imperial measures in specific but not especially logical ways."
Future Canadian Resistance Tactics
“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada.” — Headline from op-ed in The Globe and Mail. - - -Jam...
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"Confounding invaders by using the metric system but also incorporating imperial measures in specific but not especially logical ways."
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How it was going before the EAA meeting: thepipeline.info/blog/2026/01... and how it it actually went 👇
January 10, 2026 at 11:45 AM
How it was going before the EAA meeting: thepipeline.info/blog/2026/01... and how it it actually went 👇
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Good reading.
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? - HEPI
Join HEPI and Advance HE for a webinar onTuesday, 13 January 2026, from 11am to 12pm, exploring what higher education can learn from leadership approaches in other sectors. Sign up here to hear this a...
www.hepi.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Good reading.
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
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This is an important and sobering read about a 1943 American pamphlet warning citizens what fascism in America would look like. Every bit of it is happening now
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
This is an important and sobering read about a 1943 American pamphlet warning citizens what fascism in America would look like. Every bit of it is happening now
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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One week into 2026, and this is as fitting as ever.
January 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
One week into 2026, and this is as fitting as ever.
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With all this carnyx talk today, you can hear Letty Stott play a piece she composed for our Europa Conference in 2021 here. 👇
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/wNVKQw0-cIk?...
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/wNVKQw0-cIk?...
"Metamorphosis"
YouTube video by The Prehistoric Society
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Thanks to @mythsbaby.bsky.social for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Conversations: White Ain't Right, How White Supremacy Uses Classics to Defend Bigotry with Curtis Dozier
Podcast Episode · Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · 01/06/2026 · 1h 26m
podcasts.apple.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Thanks to @mythsbaby.bsky.social for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Publication news! Very excited to share that this special issue of Mouseion, with a focus on "Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World," was just published! Natalie Swain deserves so much credit for organizing this and I'm really excited about all the pieces here!
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Publication news! Very excited to share that this special issue of Mouseion, with a focus on "Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World," was just published! Natalie Swain deserves so much credit for organizing this and I'm really excited about all the pieces here!
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The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...
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A manifesto for every university. Keep it present!
I'm pleased to see that the manifesto by staff and students at Aberdeen University 'Reclaiming our University' is still available on the web. It is still a terribly necessary and well-considered list of demands. reclaimingouruniversity.wordpress.com
Reclaiming our University
Visit the post for more.
reclaimingouruniversity.wordpress.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A manifesto for every university. Keep it present!
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Trans rights are human rights and it's not negotiable, you fucks
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Trans rights are human rights and it's not negotiable, you fucks