CUCD Bulletin

Picking up after a social media break! So many cool things going on.

The CUCD Bulletin editors are delighted to announce that the Bulletin now has an ISSN! Former contributors are welcome to contact us to help update their personal publication profiles. New contributors and contributions are welcome as ever, do get in touch!

We're always happy to receive unsolicited articles about Classics in various guises, so if you have an idea brewing, please do get in touch!

Obituary out! David Harvey, edited and curated by John Wilkins. A very heartfelt read: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...

Map of the British Isles with indie bookshop locations added as pins

You may or may not know but I run a blog highlighting indie bookshops and on it there is an opportunity to do an interview where as a bookshop you answer some questions and get added to the growing directory

#bookshop #IndieBookshop #interview

www.indiebookshops.com/questions-fo...

Another Italian tourist site brings in strict restrictions The changes start next week

Restrictions on visitor numbers to Pompeii and free shuttle bus to encourage more visitors to Stabia, Torre Annunziata and Boscoreale sites.

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

New article: Steve Hunt has amazingly collated introductions to each of the Classics ITE courses available. A must read. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/1...

New article! "When teachers direct researchers: optimising public engagement activities by partnering with classroom practitioners": cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/1... by Arlene Holmes-Henderson

Do get in touch @cressidaryan.bsky.social if you have responses, ideas, or any other comments and feedback.

The Bulletin used to publish annual Classics statistic, and Covid brought a hiatus. After some reworking, we have a restart. Huge thanks to everyone who helped and we hope they’re useful. Feedback welcome. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

Thank you to Roger Rees for writing about Jonathan Coulston: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

Also Diana Rodríguez Pérez on Sir John Boardman: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

Several obituaries as well. First, Richard Seaford, with thanks to Lynette Mitchell cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

And a second piece writing about a range of papers on AI. It’s an important topic we need to approach proactively with curiosity and not just suspicion and panic! cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

First of all, thank you to @nevillemorley.bsky.social for a thoughtful piece on AI in teaching. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

We’ve been very busy recently talking to amazing people writing things for us. Here comes a great collection of pieces from the bulletin, with lots more to come this year! Thank you to all contributors.

New article out courtesy of Matthew Fox, on the Venice Biennale. An important read for those interested in art and / or Classical reception generally. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0...

A response to the NWCC Class in Classics report 2024 The results of the 2024 Class in Classics report by the Network for Working Class Classicists (no affiliation) come as a welcome confirmation – but small surprise – to those who have long believed tha...

Here are some of our thoughts on the Class in Classics NWCC report that came out today.

And then some more thoughts.

And some more.

Strap in...

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Summer Schools in Greek and Latin Back in July 2020 I put up a blogpost on Summer Schools 2020. This page rounds up the available summer schools on an ongoing basis. Inclusion here is not an endorsement. 10th January 2024: the next se...

Finally updated my Blog with all the summer schools I've seen advertised so far. There are gaps where I need to proactively look them up... I'll fill those in soon. In the meantime, cressidaryan.wordpress.com/summer-schoo... @classicsacademy.bsky.social

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First article of the year! A reflection by @cressidaryan.bsky.social on Sycamore Gap: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/0... All feedback welcome. With special thanks to @annapjudson.bsky.social for the photographs.

Wonderful Creativity blog from Liverpool's Archchaeology, Classics, & Egyptology department: www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-...

E-mail: an assessment Because I'm just a fun-loving sort of academic (ahem), I thought it would be interesting to do a quick post about what has greeted me when I've opened my work inbox this morning after three weeks of l...

I did a blog post about precisely what horrors were waiting for me when I opened up the e-mail this morning:

10.) A Chair's report with huge thanks to @helenlovatt.bsky.social @cucd.bsky.social cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/1...

9.) Steve Hunt's latest update on the state of Classics ITE in England cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...

8.) A #WCCWiki-related discussion on Wikipedia in Classics thanks to @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @annapjudson.bsky.social and Katherine Shields cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...

7.) John Rich's obituary for Wolf Liebeschuetz cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...

6.) Mair Lloyd and James Robson's survey of Beginners' Latin courses cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...

5.) Philip Hardie's obituary for John Bramble cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...

4.) Peter Kruschwitz's obituary for Jane F. Gardner cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/0...