Dan Stewart

It's a desperate time in Higher Education. 71 institutions are being formally monitored to track their finances, including requests for bespoke data. Five are at material risk of failure.

Looks like a fascinating book, but basically retweeting for “Mr Murder Mittens”

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Assistant Professor in Roman History at University of Nottingham Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Roman History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Don’t forget - we have two posts currently advertised. 1) Assistant Prof in Roman History - deadline August 1st 2025 #classics 1/2

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a...

Heritage Science Technician (Fixed term) at University of Nottingham jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for professional services jobs in higher education, invites you to apply for the Heritage Science Technician (Fixed term) position. Click to apply today!

And Heritage Science Technician, closing date August 7th 2025. Come and join us, we have lots of lovely new kit! #Archaeology 2/2

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW637/h...

Group of people stood looking at a trench photograph in museum

Two children looking at fingerprint in a brick column

We're back this afternoon at Chester House Estate for the #FestivalOfArchaeology Activity Youth Day!!!

Our teams of budding archaeologists are off to undertake their second activity of the day. From tile making to Building's Archaeology
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Free stuff!

Another clip from our recent emergency meeting on ‘Archaeology and Apartheid’. Here Jen Baird explains how archaeology is used to justify occupation and colonialism.

You can watch the meeting back via our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@Societyfort...

"One of the great moral catastrophes of our time"

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) at University of Warwick Apply now for the Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

I know it's only part time, since this is cover for Alison Cooley being made head of Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies (take it up with the powers who decide these buy outs), but there is a 3 year teaching gig at in Roman history at Warwick.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX770/a...

Panorama of ground penetrating radar at Knossos, looking down a slope and across the valley

The #Minoan Palace of #Knossos has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list - but only the palace site. The palace sits within a 70 ha ancient city, and @britschoolathens.bsky.social will be investigating it for at least the next 5 years. #archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

In the grimdark reality of the current world, look at this amazing initiative - pointing the way for collaboration in #archaeology, with some amazing people!

Working Classicists Guide to Event Accessibility — Working Classicists This weekend past we were delighted to host our first panel at the Classical Association Conference in St Andrews. The panel, featuring contributions from Jordan Lynch, Alex Imrie, and Sam Newingt...

After announcing it at the Classical Association Conference over the weekend, today we launch our Working Classicists Guide to Event Accessibility.

In it, we suggest ways to equalise access and eliminate anxieties around event attendance.

Read more: www.workingclassicists.com/zine/working...

Neo-Classicist Shop | Redbubble Neo-Classicist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

❗My shop is back❗Check out my illustrations of classical antiquities in all their polychromatic glory🏺

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A Working Classicists Manifesto: First-hand accounts and actionable policies to improve access for working class academics Classical Association Conference 2025 Saturday 12 July 2025 Younger Hall, Seminar Room 4 | 11:30am Miri Teixeira A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology: Rewriting the landscape for working class contributors Jordan Lynch Spatio disiuncti non cordibus: improving access to Classics for geographically remote teachers and Learners Samantha Newington & Alex Imrie Ancient Voices: Modern Relevance George Connor Beyond half-measures: class as an accessibility requirement in Classics

✨ Come and see us tomorrow at the Classical Association Conference 2025!

#ancientsky #classicssky

Here’s some more info on our panel:

Running Safer Sessions In the spirit of creating positive outcomes from negative circumstances, the Black Trowel Collective has collaboratively produced a set of guidance for running safer sessions, whether they are onli…

Just a reminder of the Black Trowel Collective's guide to running safer sessions:

blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/r...

Printable:

blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

An actionable way for classicists and ancient historians in particular to support Gazan students in this moment

So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)!
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

Society for the Study of the Past This is the YouTube channel for the Society for the Study of the Past, a new subject organisation aimed at doing history in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed. You will find recordings of ...

The @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social now has a YouTube channel, and if you would like to catch up on our event on Friday, ‘Archaeology and Apartheid’, you can do so here: m.youtube.com/channel/UCVI...

He passed! Proud academic papa!

One of my students is having his PhD Viva right now, and I'm hella nervous by association, but there's a goldfinch twittering outside the window and that's lovely. #tinyjoy

Shout out to @drconortrainor.bsky.social, who gave generously of his time to talk pottery (and pose for photos, looking youthful - whereas I just look like an old man with a hat)

Certainly encouraging public engagement in historical research, yet this @theguardian.com opinion piece, again, perpetuates an outdated notion:

🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.

If you have another way of hearing about conferences, etc., then stay away. I've been subscribed for 20 years and often think it's not worth the energy

I am flabbergasted. I hope you know you are much admired for your unrelenting efforts to keep the spotlight on Gaza and foregrounding Palestinian voices. Classics is a big tent, and we shouldn’t all agree, but surely we don’t have to be absolutely massive bellends about disagreements

It can be genuinely useful to have a single place for conference announcements etc, but the shitshow component often makes me wonder if it’s worth it

Just the usual collection of asshats and ostriches trying to claim that archaeology and classics shouldn’t be engaged with Palestine or the unfolding horrors

It was set up (I think) and is loosely moderated by Nick Lowe at Royal
Holloway. He normally steps in after a few reply-alls and tells all sides to take it elsewhere

"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?