❗️CONDEMN THE #CARDIFF CUTS! Cardiff University is at risk of losing its entire Ancient History department. Help stop this from happening by signing the #petition below!
➡️Sign the petition now! chng.it/GmqcC9BsNJ
Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...
Nearly five years ago, @miri.bsky.social and I set up @workingclassicists.bsky.social to draw attention to the state of Classics in Scottish state schools.
Today, we have a big project to announce, so please give us a follow. We're really proud of it.
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Removing the financial support enabling students in state schools learn Latin in the UK is an appalling and shortsighted policy. Please sign this petition to keep the Latin Excellence Programme - www.change.org/p/save-the-l... #AncientBlueSky
Christmas offerings.
The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
heady mix of labor retaliation and divestment from humanities, with a jubilant redirection of resources towards AI. futures of meaningful and critical work replaced with water and energy devouring artificial intelligences www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
Gallery view of three paintings by Peter Suchin
Painting, 'Connotation Field' by Peter Suchin
‘The Landing Gallery’ in Gaunston Creative Studios, as the name would suggest, is found in the central stairwell and landing of one of the factory-turned studio spaces in these parts. Like the surrounding area, this place day-to-day is shaped by the people who use it: a bike kept out of the rain, studio materials waiting to be moved, offcuts and scraps left out for others to take if they want. It’s a communal working space. It’s an appropriate setting for this collection of Peter Suchin’s work. I suspect Jamie Wagg – artist, curator, and a contemporary of Suchin’s at Leed’s Polytechnic – had a sense of the potential. The title of the show, ‘Optimum State’ is how he refers to ‘a condition that any given painting he is working on may reach.’ No preconceived concept lies behind each work, no drafts are done outside of the picture, and they are titled after the fact.
Painting, 'Ghosting the Baroque' by Peter Suchin
Some interesting pictures and a brief writeup of Peter Suchin's show, 'Optimum State':
www.curationspace.com/post/peter-s...
Seminar on material religion and light, 5PM (GMT) today, with Efrosyni Boutsikas and Ruth Bielfeldt:
‘Greek temples in light and darkness: Discovering the power of the chronotope in religion’
‘Roman household shrines between light and shadow’
www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/202...
Unfortunately, there is a plan to close the study programme of Ancient Culture in the Uni. Helsinki. The programme focuses on ancient material culture, and I have been coordinating it. There is now a petition to continue the programme, so please sign it.
Poster for the event. Text reads: In Solidarity with Palestine, a roundtable with the Critical Ancient World Studies Collective and Everyday Orientalism. Save the date: 23rd January, 4-6pm GMT (Zoom webinar). To the right is an image of the Madaba map. It shows the city of Gaza on the left hand side.
Hello again Bluesky. Critical Ancient World Studies ans Everyday Orientalism bring you an event in solidarity with the Palestinian people against genocide and epistemicide. Full details coming soon but please save the date if you would like to join us!
With great pleasure we launch a new book series, "Studies in Ancient Civil War". The series welcomes outstanding monographs and edited volumes exploring any given aspect of ancient civil war. Please feel free to contact the series editors.
www.degruyter.com/serial/stacw...
A pleasing cup for a Monday morning
