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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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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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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

🌟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...

Impact Awards 2025 nominations are now 📢OPEN📢

Apply here by the 31st March: classicsforall.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#impactawards #classics #teachers

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.

So excited for this book! Great review from @belovedofoizys.bsky.social

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 ?

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.

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...

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

‘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 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.

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

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

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 …

#AncientBlackness www-development.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/3790

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

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...

One petition up :

www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

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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A picture taken of a newspaper page showing Miri and George from Working Classicists holding up the book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology. The title is “Classic case of a need for seats at the table”.

Thanks to @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the wonderful write-up about A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology in @heraldscotland.bsky.social this morning!

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

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...

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University

www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

UK Class in Classics Report – One Year On

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...

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...

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.

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake I Letters Letters: Senior academics call for a government rethink on scrapping the Latin excellence programme

Proud to be one of the signatories of this letter. Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake I Letters www.theguardian.com/education/20...

State school pupils in England may have to drop GCSE Latin after funding pulled DfE urged to delay ending funding of popular programme so that hundreds of students can complete their courses

Glad to see the cuts to the Latin Excellence program getting some higher profile coverage. Could this have anything to do with the excellent letter from colleagues that appeared in the Guardian a few days ago?

Heading to #AIASCS? Don’t forget about our panel tomorrow!

You can also pre-submit questions for our panelists! Unfortunately we cannot livestream but our Q&A will be written down and posted afterward for those who could not attend in person.