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Established in 2020 by the Council of University Classical Departments (CUCD), we work to advance equality, diversity and inclusion in Classics in the UK. @samagbamu.bsky.social posting
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Since 1965, the NEH has awarded over $6 billion to support museums, historic sites, universities, teachers, libraries, documentary filmmakers, public TV and radio stations, research institutions, scholars, and local humanities programming. Now its funding is under threat.
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May 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Since 1965, the NEH has awarded over $6 billion to support museums, historic sites, universities, teachers, libraries, documentary filmmakers, public TV and radio stations, research institutions, scholars, and local humanities programming. Now its funding is under threat.
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If your medieval studies project has been impacted by the NEH cuts and you would like your fundraising project amplified by SSMLL, please contact us at ssmll[AT]history.ox.ac.uk.
SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues.
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SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues.
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May 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If your medieval studies project has been impacted by the NEH cuts and you would like your fundraising project amplified by SSMLL, please contact us at ssmll[AT]history.ox.ac.uk.
SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues.
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SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues.
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Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Combined Classics Library Bursaries
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May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
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Thanks for this testimony. How many absolutely brilliant immigrants make our universities and health service flourish/ survive? My life would be so much poorer without my international friends. My father’s healthcare would be nonexistent without them.
Btw, the 10 year route to citizenship (which isn’t a 10 year route, it’s 10 years plus a year on ILR lol) has already existed and anyone on a student visa has been pushed onto that route more or less.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
One of the sickest things about this is that it was already an uphill battle for most immigrants to “earn the right to live” here, made more difficult depending on certain factors.
May 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Thanks for this testimony. How many absolutely brilliant immigrants make our universities and health service flourish/ survive? My life would be so much poorer without my international friends. My father’s healthcare would be nonexistent without them.
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Today we are launching the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: an alliance of scholars who have come together because our field & institutions are in crisis.
To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.
To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.
April 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today we are launching the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: an alliance of scholars who have come together because our field & institutions are in crisis.
To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.
To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.
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Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com
RACING THE CLASSICS
Racing the Classics began as a conference series. The summer seminar takes up the mantle of that series by inviting fellows to gather in-person for intensive, sustained conversation.
www.racingtheclassics.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com
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🌟Nominate your Classics Teacher🌟
The Classical Association's Teaching Awards celebrate brilliant teachers who inspire and support the study of the ancient world.
classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
The Classical Association's Teaching Awards celebrate brilliant teachers who inspire and support the study of the ancient world.
classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
Teaching Awards - The Classical Association
Each year, the CA is proud to award prizes of £500 to individuals or school/college-based projects whose work is felt to have had a significant and positive impact on the teaching of Classics in the U...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🌟Nominate your Classics Teacher🌟
The Classical Association's Teaching Awards celebrate brilliant teachers who inspire and support the study of the ancient world.
classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
The Classical Association's Teaching Awards celebrate brilliant teachers who inspire and support the study of the ancient world.
classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
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Impact Awards 2025 nominations are now 📢OPEN📢
Apply here by the 31st March: classicsforall.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#impactawards #classics #teachers
Apply here by the 31st March: classicsforall.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#impactawards #classics #teachers
February 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Impact Awards 2025 nominations are now 📢OPEN📢
Apply here by the 31st March: classicsforall.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#impactawards #classics #teachers
Apply here by the 31st March: classicsforall.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#impactawards #classics #teachers
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Instead of asking “how can we make workplaces/communities more accessible for disabled people” they just take the money that keeps ‘em barely afloat and frame them as a burden
Reduce quality of life. That’ll force ‘em into work!
Not a coincidence that euthanasia bills are back on the table either.
Reduce quality of life. That’ll force ‘em into work!
Not a coincidence that euthanasia bills are back on the table either.
March 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Instead of asking “how can we make workplaces/communities more accessible for disabled people” they just take the money that keeps ‘em barely afloat and frame them as a burden
Reduce quality of life. That’ll force ‘em into work!
Not a coincidence that euthanasia bills are back on the table either.
Reduce quality of life. That’ll force ‘em into work!
Not a coincidence that euthanasia bills are back on the table either.
So excited for this book! Great review from @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
🎉NEW ARTICLE!
Alexandra Sills (@belovedofoizys.bsky.social) reviews All Roads Lead to Rome, the new book by @rhigarthjones.bsky.social
"...a book of dizzying scope, covering multiple empires and the men within them who couldn’t shake Rome."
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
Alexandra Sills (@belovedofoizys.bsky.social) reviews All Roads Lead to Rome, the new book by @rhigarthjones.bsky.social
"...a book of dizzying scope, covering multiple empires and the men within them who couldn’t shake Rome."
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
Book Review: All Roads Lead to Rome — Working Classicists
Alexandra Sills runs an eye over Rhiannon Garth Jones’ forthcoming book (out on May 25th this year).
www.workingclassicists.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So excited for this book! Great review from @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
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Hey #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky @alexvandewalle.bsky.social @belovedofoizys.bsky.social @amchristensen.bsky.social Any of you using Greek-set video games in teaching, or know anybody who would be up to being contacted by a querying book editor about doing a chapter? @ancientplay.bsky.social ?
March 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Hey #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky @alexvandewalle.bsky.social @belovedofoizys.bsky.social @amchristensen.bsky.social Any of you using Greek-set video games in teaching, or know anybody who would be up to being contacted by a querying book editor about doing a chapter? @ancientplay.bsky.social ?
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Academic and/or writer colleagues who think AI is inherently a good thing might want to enter their names into the search engine linked below... I counted 23 works of mine which have been stolen in the name of "training data".
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Academic and/or writer colleagues who think AI is inherently a good thing might want to enter their names into the search engine linked below... I counted 23 works of mine which have been stolen in the name of "training data".
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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‘Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level,’
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level,’
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
‘Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level,’
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level,’
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
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The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
February 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
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Please sign and share widely! After the devastating news about the planned cuts at Cardiff, the students have got the ball rolling to save their Ancient History programme. It is a very fine department: student numbers are strong, the staff team is fantastic. There is no rationale. chng.it/G5SMYxNbMQ
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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January 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Please sign and share widely! After the devastating news about the planned cuts at Cardiff, the students have got the ball rolling to save their Ancient History programme. It is a very fine department: student numbers are strong, the staff team is fantastic. There is no rationale. chng.it/G5SMYxNbMQ
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Putting the situation at Cardiff into context.
💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social
👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …
💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social
👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …
The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
February 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Putting the situation at Cardiff into context.
💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social
👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …
💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social
👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …
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Well, this is exciting! On March 21st, I'll be at @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social, discussing what it meant to be a woman entering that most masculine of spaces - the Roman arena. Do come along if you're in the area, I'd love to see you!
www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...
Women of the Roman Arena | Alexandra Sills – Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Join award-winning historian Tom Holland for a talk exploring Rome's Colosseum at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
www.dorsetmuseum.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Well, this is exciting! On March 21st, I'll be at @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social, discussing what it meant to be a woman entering that most masculine of spaces - the Roman arena. Do come along if you're in the area, I'd love to see you!
www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...
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January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Our thoughts are with anyone facing job losses or insecurity in higher education at the moment.
It’s a brutal situation to be in and it’s never your fault. Remember to join and participate in your union, as they can offer the most effective support.
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It’s a brutal situation to be in and it’s never your fault. Remember to join and participate in your union, as they can offer the most effective support.
❤️✊
January 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our thoughts are with anyone facing job losses or insecurity in higher education at the moment.
It’s a brutal situation to be in and it’s never your fault. Remember to join and participate in your union, as they can offer the most effective support.
❤️✊
It’s a brutal situation to be in and it’s never your fault. Remember to join and participate in your union, as they can offer the most effective support.
❤️✊
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Thanks to @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the wonderful write-up about A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology in @heraldscotland.bsky.social this morning!
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thanks to @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the wonderful write-up about A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology in @heraldscotland.bsky.social this morning!
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When the UEA v-c said that 10k jobs could be lost in UK universities this academic year, it might have sounded like hyperbole. These four unis, plus Newcastle last week, total over 1,050 planned job losses. UEA v-c might have been too conservative? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs - Research Professional News
Cardiff, Durham, Kent and UEA the latest institutions to join wave of sector redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When the UEA v-c said that 10k jobs could be lost in UK universities this academic year, it might have sounded like hyperbole. These four unis, plus Newcastle last week, total over 1,050 planned job losses. UEA v-c might have been too conservative? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University
www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
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Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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January 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University
www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
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The following Weds (5 Feb), we'll be hosting a panel discussion of the UK Class in Classics Report - one year on, with @cucdequality.bsky.social and the Network for Working-Class Classicists: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/uk-cl...
UK Class in Classics Report – One Year On
ics.sas.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The following Weds (5 Feb), we'll be hosting a panel discussion of the UK Class in Classics Report - one year on, with @cucdequality.bsky.social and the Network for Working-Class Classicists: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/uk-cl...