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Come and join us for fun, laughter, and, of course, healthy competition! The winner gets bragging rights until the Christmas quiz!
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Hooray! It made it! ❤️

Society for the Study of the Past – Annual Meeting – Call for Papers Society for the Study of the Past – Annual Meeting – Call for Papers ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’ Methodological nationalism – or the idea that “the nation/state/society is the natural social a...

Don’t forget we have a conference coming up - a good place to present work that is explicitly pro-Palestine, anti-occupation and anti-colonial more generally - especially if you are tired of the apathy of existing subject organisations! 🍉

For more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why do we need a new Society for the Study of the Past? The brilliant George Connor of @workingclassicists.bsky.social explains!

This is excellent! All great advice & information. We tried a lot of this at the Our Voices in Classics conference at Columbia back in Feb of 2020. We didn’t get everything right, but I like to think we helped show what was possible. Thank you @workingclassicists.bsky.social for doing this work! ❤️

Φερδινάνδος ὁ Ταῦρος: An Ancient Greek Version of The Story of Ferdinand | Contubernales For the first time ever, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf is available in Ancient Greek. This faithful and thoughtful translation by Luca Valle Salazar and Rogelio Toledo Martin brings the timeles...

New book! Φερδινάνδος ὁ Ταῦρος: An Ancient Greek Version of The Story of Ferdinand. 🐂

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A framed certificate reads "Working Classicist of the Year Zena Kamash Working Classicists Awards 2025"; the certificate is beige with a border of Greco-Roman pottery in brown. Hanging on the top left corner of the frame is a burgundy lanyard, which is decorated in gold with the Working Classicists logo of a closed fist holding a thunderbolt. By the bottom left corner is a blue pin badge in the shape of a shield that reads "Classicist" in gold. In front of the frame to the right is an olive branch sculpture on a black rectangular base. Propped up against the base is a circular, burgundy badge with the Working Classicists logo in gold. All of these are against a background of oak at the bottom and a painted duck egg blue wall above.

SWAG! Thank you @workingclassicists.bsky.social 🙏🏻 I will treasure these 🥰

This is a fantastic guide and well worth a read!

ICYMI: I won the Creative Classicist award for my work on The Afrodyssey.

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we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Absolutely get your eyes on this! Great work. 👀

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

Thank you 🫡

I wish there had been something like this when I began going to conferences!

Brilliant work as usual.

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This is a great set of recommendations and I can guarantee that the Accessibility and Diversity Committees for Feminism & Classics 2026 will be looking closely at them!

This is great Zena, we'll be sure to give this a read after work. Thanks so much for sharing.

I also make some recommendations about inclusivity at conferences/events in this article (free to read and download). Many of these overlap with those from @workingclassicists.bsky.social , so meeting these needs is even simpler & easier for event organisers:
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/4...

This is something we've been working on for a long time and its great to finally put it out there.

Although we are primarily concerned with access to Classics-related events, there's plenty in here more generally for providing access for working class people to events in any industry. 👇

Read it. Use it!

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...

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We love to see it!

Jordan Lynch from Thurso High School giving a talk on improving access to classics for geographically remote teachers and learners at the Classical Association Conference 2025 on the Working Classicists panel.

George Connor from Working Classicists giving a talk on class as an accessibility requirement in Classics at the Classical Association Conference in St Andrews

Sam Newington and Alex Imrie giving a talk at the Classical Association Conference about their Ancient Voices summer school.

Miri Teixeira from Working Classicists giving a talk on the book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology at the Classical Association Conference 2025

Some photos from our panel today!

Thanks so much to Jordan, Alex, and Sam for their wonderfully engaging papers! And to everyone who came to listen and speak to us ☺️

If you dropped us a business card we’ll be in touch next week 📧

Miri and George from Working Classicists

We’re on our way to St Andrews for the CA Conference!

Looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day 🌞

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!

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Here’s some more info on our panel:

YouTube video by uncivilized The West vs. The Persian Empire

"If you want to understand why the west hates Persia, first you must understand why it worships Greece."

A really sound look at the weaponisation of racist history.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4b...

I have a list of hundreds of reasons why private schools should be abolished and are a detriment to society, spanning a range of diverse political and social issues

but I fear this leaflet goes right to the top of the list.