Emilio Zucchetti
@emizuc.bsky.social
Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi🏳️🌈, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades 🍉; MINOTAUR
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Inviting all the classicists, archaeologists and historians who care about Palestinian colleagues/students/heritage to donate a little something to @gmandreou.bsky.social's fundraiser for Gazan students in archaeology and history: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/h...
July 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Inviting all the classicists, archaeologists and historians who care about Palestinian colleagues/students/heritage to donate a little something to @gmandreou.bsky.social's fundraiser for Gazan students in archaeology and history: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/h...
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This guide from CAGE International should be required reading for anyone out and about for 🇵🇸 in the UK today ✊🏻
Read here: www.cage.ngo/articles/kno...
Read here: www.cage.ngo/articles/kno...
July 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This guide from CAGE International should be required reading for anyone out and about for 🇵🇸 in the UK today ✊🏻
Read here: www.cage.ngo/articles/kno...
Read here: www.cage.ngo/articles/kno...
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One can assume Sarah Pomeroy doesn't mind being identified given she is not shy to send horrendously anti-Palestinian emails to the huge number of folks on the Classics list, on the heel of Francesca Albanese's UN report naming archaeology as core to the ideological architecture of apartheid
It is WILD that there’s now been a threat of withholding jobs made by a highly known and well regarded scholar on the List, based on support for *discussing* the use of cultural heritage as a marker of ethnic cleansing mentioned in a UN report.
July 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One can assume Sarah Pomeroy doesn't mind being identified given she is not shy to send horrendously anti-Palestinian emails to the huge number of folks on the Classics list, on the heel of Francesca Albanese's UN report naming archaeology as core to the ideological architecture of apartheid
Solidarity to @luxmea.bsky.social and all organisers of the Forum.
I don’t want to spend my day dealing with hateful classicists - but this is actually an extraordinary thing to say about a colleague (me) simply because she has organised an event that you do not feel like attending.
Luckily there’s little I want less than a job in the US, hey? 😂
Luckily there’s little I want less than a job in the US, hey? 😂
July 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Solidarity to @luxmea.bsky.social and all organisers of the Forum.
If you're a historian and you divide between slogan and fact, you're probably not a good historian. That's all I'm going to say about the jenn-o-cyde cheerleaders on professional mailing lists.
July 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If you're a historian and you divide between slogan and fact, you're probably not a good historian. That's all I'm going to say about the jenn-o-cyde cheerleaders on professional mailing lists.
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Quite apart from the ridiculously offensive paternalism of these people who seem to think they are personally in control of my own academic freedom, this is the worst aspect of that list.
The past is political. If it were not there would be no reason for any of us to care about it at all.
The past is political. If it were not there would be no reason for any of us to care about it at all.
"This is a Classicists List not a political one."
A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?
A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Quite apart from the ridiculously offensive paternalism of these people who seem to think they are personally in control of my own academic freedom, this is the worst aspect of that list.
The past is political. If it were not there would be no reason for any of us to care about it at all.
The past is political. If it were not there would be no reason for any of us to care about it at all.
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. @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute needs to be resolved.
It needs to be resolved bc Congress voted for @ucu.org.uk leadership to do so.
It needs to be resolved bc it's the right thing to do.
It needs to be revolved bc not resolving it makes things harder for branches in dispute.
Solidarity!
It needs to be resolved bc Congress voted for @ucu.org.uk leadership to do so.
It needs to be resolved bc it's the right thing to do.
It needs to be revolved bc not resolving it makes things harder for branches in dispute.
Solidarity!
April 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
. @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute needs to be resolved.
It needs to be resolved bc Congress voted for @ucu.org.uk leadership to do so.
It needs to be resolved bc it's the right thing to do.
It needs to be revolved bc not resolving it makes things harder for branches in dispute.
Solidarity!
It needs to be resolved bc Congress voted for @ucu.org.uk leadership to do so.
It needs to be resolved bc it's the right thing to do.
It needs to be revolved bc not resolving it makes things harder for branches in dispute.
Solidarity!
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Royal Holloway UCU is now on bluesky! @rhucu.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Royal Holloway UCU is now on bluesky! @rhucu.bsky.social
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It gets worse…
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It gets worse…
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
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632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
We Are The 632: University of Dundee staff speak out
YouTube video by Dundee UCU
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March 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
UCU leadership once again undermining the ballot and launching a weird internal democracy survey through the single most undemocratic instrument we have, the bloody e-ballot
In midst of heavy redundancies, with branch reps working into night & weekends, it’s v difficult to see how this q doesn’t:
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
UCU leadership once again undermining the ballot and launching a weird internal democracy survey through the single most undemocratic instrument we have, the bloody e-ballot
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In midst of heavy redundancies, with branch reps working into night & weekends, it’s v difficult to see how this q doesn’t:
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
In midst of heavy redundancies, with branch reps working into night & weekends, it’s v difficult to see how this q doesn’t:
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
- position union members as passive consumers right when we need action
- treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed
Is this trade unionism?
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Just in case this got lost on Friday, sharing again this WonkHE piece on Phase 1 of the project that I'm running with @emizuc.bsky.social, @zenakamash.bsky.social and Lee Dibben on supporting students in the Classics dept living with neurodivergence and/or mental illness. It is good, important work.
Asking students about the challenges they face
Lee Dibben, Liz Gloyn, Zena Kamash and Emilio Zucchetti explain how engaging with students who are neurodivergent or living with a mental health condition can identify simple and effective interventio...
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January 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Just in case this got lost on Friday, sharing again this WonkHE piece on Phase 1 of the project that I'm running with @emizuc.bsky.social, @zenakamash.bsky.social and Lee Dibben on supporting students in the Classics dept living with neurodivergence and/or mental illness. It is good, important work.
@lizgloyn.bsky.social @zenakamash.bsky.social, Lee Dibben and I have published an account of Phase 1 of our MINOTAUR project on @wonkhe.bsky.social today. It's work that we are very proud of; the project is now in its Phase 2, also thanks to support by @cucd.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/asking...
Asking students about the challenges they face
Lee Dibben, Liz Gloyn, Zena Kamash and Emilio Zucchetti explain how engaging with students who are neurodivergent or living with a mental health condition can identify simple and effective interventio...
wonkhe.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@lizgloyn.bsky.social @zenakamash.bsky.social, Lee Dibben and I have published an account of Phase 1 of our MINOTAUR project on @wonkhe.bsky.social today. It's work that we are very proud of; the project is now in its Phase 2, also thanks to support by @cucd.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/asking...
First panel at #RomRep70 : Bertrand Augier snd Gaelle Perrot talked about their CRRITIC project and Ed Bispham guided us in a reading of the Pro Cluentio reflecting on what it can tell us about ancient narratives of the 70s #romanhistory #ancienthistory @rhulclassics.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
First panel at #RomRep70 : Bertrand Augier snd Gaelle Perrot talked about their CRRITIC project and Ed Bispham guided us in a reading of the Pro Cluentio reflecting on what it can tell us about ancient narratives of the 70s #romanhistory #ancienthistory @rhulclassics.bsky.social
And we started: The conference "The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises" started in Stewart House, London, and online. If you want to join us online just comment here or email me on my RHUL address to get the invitation to the Teams meeting.
January 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And we started: The conference "The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises" started in Stewart House, London, and online. If you want to join us online just comment here or email me on my RHUL address to get the invitation to the Teams meeting.
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For someone elected on to HEC to publicly sabotage a ballot, taking advantage of Tory TU laws, is deplorable.
December 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
For someone elected on to HEC to publicly sabotage a ballot, taking advantage of Tory TU laws, is deplorable.
Juan, Bertrand, Robinson and I are pleased to announce the programme of the upcoming “The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises”, Stewart House, London, 9-11 January 2025.
November 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Juan, Bertrand, Robinson and I are pleased to announce the programme of the upcoming “The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises”, Stewart House, London, 9-11 January 2025.
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Closely allied to #archaeology is #ancientbluesky
@elliemackinroberts.net has created a list of starter packs on her blog. So, go dive in and check them all out. Many are near and dear friends & colleagues to me. and definitely go follow Ellie!
www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/the-blu...
@elliemackinroberts.net has created a list of starter packs on her blog. So, go dive in and check them all out. Many are near and dear friends & colleagues to me. and definitely go follow Ellie!
www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/the-blu...
The BlueSky List of Lists
Or, more accurately, the List of Starter Packs (but that just doesn't sound as good, does it?). After discovering that 150 slots is clearly not enough for a full 'Ancient Mediterranean Studies'...
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November 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Closely allied to #archaeology is #ancientbluesky
@elliemackinroberts.net has created a list of starter packs on her blog. So, go dive in and check them all out. Many are near and dear friends & colleagues to me. and definitely go follow Ellie!
www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/the-blu...
@elliemackinroberts.net has created a list of starter packs on her blog. So, go dive in and check them all out. Many are near and dear friends & colleagues to me. and definitely go follow Ellie!
www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/the-blu...
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Shameless seasonal plug as I begin to contemplate my own Christmas shopping list: my book Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture is affordable, accessibly written, and ideal for any bookworms in your life who like the ancient world and/or monsters. If you were short of ideas. #Books
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world?…
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November 17, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Shameless seasonal plug as I begin to contemplate my own Christmas shopping list: my book Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture is affordable, accessibly written, and ideal for any bookworms in your life who like the ancient world and/or monsters. If you were short of ideas. #Books
Today, as Gramsci Research Network, we run a roundtable titled "Postcolonial Gramsci(s?) in transhistorical perspective" at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies at Royal Holloway, with contribution by S. Agbamu, S. Kroonenberg, M. Puddu, V. Saldutti ->
June 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Today, as Gramsci Research Network, we run a roundtable titled "Postcolonial Gramsci(s?) in transhistorical perspective" at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies at Royal Holloway, with contribution by S. Agbamu, S. Kroonenberg, M. Puddu, V. Saldutti ->
I've avoided talking about colleagues who have made a career using "decolonisation" as a key word and have been silent about this or worse they refused to engage politically with what is happening in Gaza, because this is not about us but about the right to exist of Palestinian civilians.
November 7, 2023 at 2:59 PM
I've avoided talking about colleagues who have made a career using "decolonisation" as a key word and have been silent about this or worse they refused to engage politically with what is happening in Gaza, because this is not about us but about the right to exist of Palestinian civilians.
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Super hype for The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, co-edited by my UCLA colleague Ella Haselswerdt and containing contributions from many friends and collaborators.
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory
New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast—and increasingly uncharted—intersection betwe...
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September 21, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Super hype for The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, co-edited by my UCLA colleague Ella Haselswerdt and containing contributions from many friends and collaborators.
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Hey, Classics / Ancient Mediterranean folks, if you haven't come across the Queering the Past(s) online resource that focuses on LGBTQ+ subjects and the ancient world, may I draw your attention to it here: https://classicalassociation.org/queering-the-past/
Check it out!
Check it out!
Queering the Past(s) - The Classical Association
The Classical Association is proud to support 'Queering the Past(s)', a new interactive online resource, which has been developed by a team of teachers and scholars to address an important gap in scho...
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August 9, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Hey, Classics / Ancient Mediterranean folks, if you haven't come across the Queering the Past(s) online resource that focuses on LGBTQ+ subjects and the ancient world, may I draw your attention to it here: https://classicalassociation.org/queering-the-past/
Check it out!
Check it out!