New volume of thersites: Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date Vol. 17 (2023) thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/… #OpenAccess thersitesjournal Classics and the Supernatural in Modern Media (eds. A. Potter & Hunter Gardner) CeDiS FU Berlin

Today Oxford Brookes announced the closure of its Maths & Music departments, & that many colleagues in others are at risk of redundancies in a ridiculously short timeframe & insulting VS scheme: in English, History, Film, Anthropology, and more to come. All doing great research.

The decision to close wholesale rather than invest and support is very shortsighted. In the long run, as lifelong education becomes more common, music and other arts will grow again.

The Arts and Humanities Alliance remains deeply concerned by news of proposed closures & redundancies in a number of our disciplines: languages and cultures University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Uni LLMVC and most recently the planned cuts to English, History, Film, & closure of Music Oxford Brookes

Excellent projects arising from CUCD education grants: cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/obj…

Arts and Humanities laundering? Impact-washing? Universities derive cultural capital from projects and departments that they subsequently cut. OBU using music for planning permission, then closing the department. completemusicupdate.com/oxford-brookes…

Trombonist friends in London and South: d left beloved Conn88h trombone on the train (8.23 Thameslink Rys to Cbg, Mon 11 Dec). Sentimental value. Tiger hard foam black case, left in the luggage rack above the seats. Hairbrush in pocket! Pls rt Pic of d w/old trom +c/up lost one

Very proud of my article, ‘Revisiting Apuleius’ De re publica (Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum 44),’ which has just appeared in Mnemosyne 77.1. You can read it in open access here: brill.com/view/journals/…

Urge Hertfordshire County Council to save Royston Town Band's bandroom - Sign the Petition! My band is facing a 1400% land rent increase, might lose the band room they built. chng.it/ZQB9ysHy via Change.org UK

🚨 Please share! This report is a really important read for organisations and individuals in Classics.

This is a v important report for Classics, UKHE and how we do EDI. Social class compounds other inequalities. Classics in partic has associations with elitism, despite much effort, but other arts and humanities have similar problems of access. workingclassclassics.uk/2024/02/25/uk-…

Anything can be coopted, by resistance or back by money and power again.

Our Prof Helen Lovatt, Prof Alex Mullen, Dr Matt Thompson, Dr Emily Kneebone, Dr Davide Massimo, Dr Thea Sommerschield, Dr Alexandra Morris and our PhD student Chloë Choong will present their research at @CA_2024 (22-24.03)! Don't miss their papers! tinyurl.com/3cydt7pk

Workshop on classical reception and material culture in a Scottish context. PG bursaries available ⁦CUCD Bulletin⁩ ⁦CUCD-EDI⁩ ⁦CUCD Education⁩

Here are some Equality, Diversity & Inclusion groups & initiatives in #Classics (broadly conceived) with a UK focus that you should know about #ClassicsTwitter 1. The Christian Cole Society for Classicists of Colour, a group for BAME classicists in Oxford share experiences ...

30% off at Bloomsbury until Sunday, in case anyone was thinking of buying my Argonauts book? All you ever wanted to know and more about the way people use this story bloomsbury.com/uk/in-search...

May 17 online (6pm AEST, 8pm NZ, 9am UK) #AWAWS Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies Equity & Diversity seminar: Prof Helen Lovatt (Helen Lovatt Classics Nottingham Nottingham), Collaboration & critique: Drawing on disability to underpin a social model of dealing with disadvantage. otago.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The sadness of Bacchylides. This time last year, I went to Kea, home of Simonides and his nephew Bacchylides. I’ve always had a soft spot for Bacch, and had never been to Kea before. Simonides has a monument in town. No mention of his nephew. 1/6

If people assume Latin is elitist and restrict it to Letitia environs then they prove themselves right. It’s boring. I’ve never had an issue getting all demographics interested in Latin (former school teacher and Classics Outreach Officer turned lecturer and disability advisor)