🎮CALLING ALL EDUCATORS! Download our #FREE Archeogaming Education Modules! ~ Intro to Ancient Pottery ~ Building the First Cities ~ All Roads Lead to Rome ~ Intro to Medieval Ireland ~ Viking Diaspora ~ Medieval Medicine ➡️saveancientstudies.org/archaeogaming-modules#FREE #SASA #GameStudies

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book Launch tomorrow at London @histmat.bsky.social with @redprof.bsky.social , Gargi Bhattacharya, Pepijn Brandon, and Charles Post. Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery

New issue of The Classical Review Vol. 75 , No. 2 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org @debscavator.bsky.social @thedancinggrad.bsky.social @alysonroy.bsky.social @jessicamckenzie.bsky.social @pacman343.bsky.social

Amazing how many people in universities have imbibed metrics as the only marker of value. It needs to change.

Definitely great to be back to another @saveancientstudies.bsky.social event! Excellent stuff, I thoroughly enjoyed it - kudos to the SASA Team and Habiba for the hosting. Let's do something similar again! #SASA #HalloweenBash #Masterclass #AncientGreek #Epigraphy #inscriptions #curses #Epidauros

Reminder! Halloween is upon us, what better to do tomorrow than join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social and @isegoriapublishing.bsky.social to talk about Healing, Dreams, and Curses as seen on Ancient Greek inscriptions? #SASA #HalloweenBash #maaterclass #Greek #epigraphy #inscriptions #AncientGreece

New issue of Classical Receptions Journal Vol. 17, No. 4 (2025) academic.oup.com/crj/issue/17/4 @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @archaeoastro.bsky.social

New volume of Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica Vol. 31 (2025) saa.uaic.ro/issues/no-xx... #openaccess

A shout out to the SAAH team @archanchistleic.bsky.social, the colleagues that contributed to it and our publisher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social. Our volume (a result of our work in the department) just received its first official Review (by BMCR), and a good one: tinyurl.com/44h9xrjx

🎃Check out SASA’s Virtual Conference Team, led by Sweta Maity and Anh Nguyen! https://www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conference-annual ➡️saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash #Halloween #HappyHalloween #Education #virtualconference

This is the context in which I and all my colleagues are being told that we must bring in a minimum of £25k in external funding per year. We get 100 hours of research time per year. The bid-writing process will take up most of it.

Coming Soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Finally (but not leastly) in #TEIFriday news today: We're going to run an #EpiDoc training workshop *and* a "teach the teachers" discussion day at @durhamclassics.bsky.social in April 2026 (tba). The fabulous @carolinebarron.bsky.social @geophilologist.bsky.social and many fabulous others are hosts.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Book Review (First Read) |Matei-Popescu, F. (2025). A Review of: Mlambo, Obert Bernard 2022. Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War. London: Bloomsbury . Pnyx: Journal of Classical Studies, 4, FR0001. doi.org/10.55760/pny... #Pnyx #OA #Classics

🎃Join us for LIVE Halloween Bash Master Class: ‘Healing, Dreams and Curses: Unveiling The Supernatural In Ancient Greece, led by Dr. Manolis Pagkalos. 🗓October 31st, 12:00 PM to 13:00 PM EDT ➡️Click here to RSVP now! saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash #Halloween #AncientGreece #SASA

On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time. The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!

Read the latest research published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies - including articles on Roman picture galleries; the reuse of antiquities; Tiberius’ words in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum; making gods real through choral dance…and more! academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

LOL. Well, just some humans.

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford ([email protected]) ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r... fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ

Join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for this year's Halloween Bash. Many events for a week and a good place to support not only the Ancient Studies, but the Humanities and a diversity of voices from scholars worldwide!

🎃Check out the full lineup of FREE live streamed spooktacular events during our Halloween Bash Fundraiser 2025! Make sure not to miss your favorite topics and speakers! 🗓 October 25-31, 2025 ➡️ Click here to learn more: saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash 👻 #Halloween #History

👻The rest of our Halloween Bash live events! https://www.saveancientstudies.org/events

Honoured to have been part of the 4th Balkan Studies Forum, held at Beijing Foreign Studies University (27-28/09/2025). A great insight on the Balkans' history, culture, and modern challenges. A big thank you to the organisers and see you again soon! #BalkanStudies #AcademicExchange #BFSU #2025

Recently, also: Review of (K.) MAWFORD and (E.) NTANOU (eds) Ancient Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 119). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2021, Pp. ix + 320, illus. €139.95. 9783110728712. JHS, 145. FirstView. #AncientMemory

Some news! My book, _Strike:Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ (currently $3.62 on Amazon, lol) is one of the best books of the year from @newyorker.com. Thx to all the friends, family, colleagues, and reviewers who helped make this book a collective effort about collective action.

Exciting event in Shanghai! The Academic Mixer and Thematic Group Meeting of the Social Sciences & Humanities Section hosted by Euraxess & the EU Delegation to China - mapping ideas, research, and future pathways. Kudos to all involved! #Euraxess #EUChina #SSH #Humanities #Research #Networking

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...

Join our Virtual Conference Special Sessions for FREE! 🗓️Sunday, July 20th, 1:00 PM EDT & 🗓️Monday, July 21st, 3:30 PM EDT www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conf... #VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #Education

I have finally gone and updated the ACOUP Book Recommendation page to bring the list up to the present - it includes all of the books (~65 of them) recommended at the end of all of the Fireside chats (acoup.blog/book-recomme...) Go read some books!

Free Talk "V for Viking: TikTok, Viking Archaeology & the Far Right" - Tomorrow 17.30 British Summer Time - sign up here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/

How’s that ‘institutional neutrality’ working out for y’all now?

We're searching for a VAP in Archaeology at Ohio University! www.classicalstudies.org/placement-se...

We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

📖 RSVP NOW - FREE Reading Group: “Roots of Healing – Medical Systems of Ancient India” with Shrangi Mishra! 🗓 Fridays @ 12pm ET - July 11, 18, 25 ➡️ RSVP REQUIRED: saveancientstudies.org/event-details/3-week-sasa-reading-group-roots-of-healing-medical-systems-of-ancient-india

❗️Introducing our streaming partners for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference! @kayleighhistory.bsky.social @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social @newclassicists.bsky.social @melissaindenile.bsky.social @davidmiano.bsky.social @worldhistory.org ➡️ RSVP: www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conf...

Introducing our first Keynote Speaker for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference: Casey Kirkpatrick! RSVP here: www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conf... Day 1, July 20th, 2025 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT #VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #OpeningTheAncientWorld #Education

✨Introducing our second Keynote Speaker for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference: Bronwen Wickkiser! ➡️RSVP here: www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conf... 🗓️Day 2, July 21st, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT #VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #OpeningTheAncientWorld #Education

"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?

Roman Coinage in Britain: An Online Course #AncientBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #ClassicsBlueSky www.theclassicslibrary.com/roman-coinag...

#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

Royal tomb unearthed in Gordion could belong to King Midas' family 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

Cafe Mortuary Archaeology howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/p...

Exploring some interdisciplinary work across fields. As part of the proceedings for the inauguration of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Academy (ICHA) of Zhejiang A&F University, I offered some observations for a sustainable future, from a Classical Studies Reception viewpoint. #ich #China #zafu

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

'Viking Death Rituals' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccC...