Today, CUCD submitted a co-ordinated response to the University of Exeter’s Executive Board, setting out our concerns about the potential impact on Classics and Ancient History if their planned cuts go ahead. You can view a copy of this letter here: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/07/07/l...

Looking forward to hosting this joint @ics.bsky.social / @bsrome.bsky.social event with Peter, @christophersmith.bsky.social, @profyarrow.bsky.social and @kathryntempest.bsky.social in a few weeks! ‘Myth, History and Archaeology’ Please do share and come along if in London 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

📣REF has now been ‘unpaused’ and REF2029 is moving forward. 👉A full update on changes is here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202... ⬇️ A reminder that we have a session on REF with Professor Katherine Harloe (Chair of sub-panel 29) at our Subject Annual Meeting on Tuesday 16 December

Council of University Classical Departments@cucd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣Registration is now open for our Subject Annual Meeting on 16 December, hosted by @ics.bsky.social. ➡️ Check out the programme, featuring fantastic spotlight talks on interdisciplinary research and public engagement, as well as an all important REF update at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣Registration is now open for our Subject Annual Meeting on 16 December, hosted by @ics.bsky.social. ➡️ Check out the programme, featuring fantastic spotlight talks on interdisciplinary research and public engagement, as well as an all important REF update at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Classics and Ancient History subject meeting

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📣Registration is now open for our Subject Annual Meeting on 16 December, hosted by @ics.bsky.social. ➡️ Check out the programme, featuring fantastic spotlight talks on interdisciplinary research and public engagement, as well as an all important REF update at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Classics and Ancient History subject meeting

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Join us on Friday 10 Oct at 6pm: Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture: Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art: shorturl.at/upBPy One of Britain's leading art historians, Prof Jaś Elsner, will look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity.

The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture: Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art

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👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... 📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.

REF 2029 UPDATE! With congratulations to those appointed so far and what happens next. Read more here: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/05/r...

The scale of the cuts to Ancient History, Archaeology and the Ancient Languages at Macquarie University are staggering and brutal. ⬇️ If you know colleagues there, now would be a good time to reach out and support them. Scroll down for the letter CUCD sent in April

In the light of recent news from Cardiff University it seems timely to re-post this letter championing the work of colleagues in Ancient History and Religion from CUCD, CA, FIEC, @ics.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social Update at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cardiff University backtracks on plans to cut music and languages

Music and modern languages will still be offered at Cardiff University, the vice chancellor says.

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Laurence Totelin@ltotelin.bsky.social · last yr.

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship. Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg

REF sub-panel chairs and deputy chairs have been announced and it’s very good news for colleagues in Classics. Congratulations to @katherineharloe.bsky.social (Chair) and Catherine Steel (Deputy). More info in the link for other Panel D sub-panels! 2029.ref.ac.uk/main-panel-d/

An important read on an urgent issue. CUCD has joined many other subject associations and learned societies in raising concerns about the impact of decoupling outputs on researchers at all career stages …

Jenny Richards@jennyrichards.bsky.social · last yr.

Another important contribution to the REF2029 debate raising concerns over portability, and the risks to fairness of decoupling outputs from the researchers who authored them, thanks to @mmdelgado.bsky.social @rentravailer.bsky.social @milespadgett.bsky.social.

Latest CUCD bulletin out now, with thanks to our fantastic editors for a thought-provoking set of contributions on a difficult theme.

Cressida Ryan@cressidaryan.bsky.social · last yr.

Content and Trigger warnings... some perspectives from Classicists. I'm well aware this is a "hot" topic, and encourage cordial debate around a collection of pieces I commissioned for @cucdbulletin.bsky.social on the topic: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... @cucd.bsky.social

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

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Putting the situation at Cardiff into context. 💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social 👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …

Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

Please sign and share widely! After the devastating news about the planned cuts at Cardiff, the students have got the ball rolling to save their Ancient History programme. It is a very fine department: student numbers are strong, the staff team is fantastic. There is no rationale. chng.it/G5SMYxNbMQ

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Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

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📣 Information for anyone thinking of applying to be a REF panellist on the Classics subpanel (29) 🔔 We will be hosting a Q&A with former REF panel members TOMORROW - Wednesday 29 January- between 2-4pm. Details in the link: ics.sas.ac.uk/news/cucd-se...

CUCD Serving on the REF Panel

The REF2029 team has recently released details of how to apply to be part of the REF2029 assessment process.

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@ics.bsky.social is hosting or supporting several events in the next fortnight for UK Classicists. First up next Weds we are helping @cucd.bsky.social with an important briefing for anyone thinking of applying to serve on our @ref2029.bsky.social subpanel: ics.sas.ac.uk/news/cucd-se...

CUCD Serving on the REF Panel

The REF2029 team has recently released details of how to apply to be part of the REF2029 assessment process.

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UK classics friends, esp HoD, if you haven’t already cd you do this brief survey about what you call your degree courses and why? For Lilah Grace Canevaro and the network for working class classicists, to gather info. MS Forms link here: forms.office.com/e/SHf56D1DSj by 20th Jan 2025.

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‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics

Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education

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So much to think about after a stimulating day of talks and discussions at the UK subject meeting for classicists and ancient historians organised by @ics.bsky.social and @cucd.bsky.social. As I take over as Chair of CUCD, I am looking forward to many more such opportunities for collaboration …

UK Classics friends, especially Uk HE departments, please please find time to fill in the government’s curriculum consultation! We need a classics voice so we don’t get left out or left behind. Closes Nov 22. Sample/adaptable responses available here: cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/d...

DfE Curriculum & Assessment Review (closes 22 Nov 2024): Call for Evidence

Department for Education: Curriculum & Assessment Review Curriculum review responses from CUCD Deadline: 22 Nov 2024 Call for evidence: On behalf of Professor Helen Lovatt, Chair of CUCD Please…

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Worldwide classics colleagues, please fill in the SCS census! Information is power

Society for Classical Studies@scsclassics.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introducing the first annual SCS Census! This survey, developed by the SCS Data Committee, aims to provide a picture of the field of Classical Studies in 2024. The Census is open to anyone who identifies as connected to Classical Studies, in any way: classicalstudies.org/scs-news/int...

Workshop on classical reception pedagogy and material culture in a Scottish context. Pg bursaries available! events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/class...

Excellent response on an important report. Share widely and reflect. Including class in Edi is not whataboutery but a crucial aspect of intersectionality. Validating and encouraging people from all backgrounds is essential to keeping our disciplines alive. 1/2

Working Classicists@workingclassicists.bsky.social · 2y ago

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... t.co/50JxYDl79H

#I hope that the work done by the NWCC is an alarm loud enough to catch the attention of policy-makers from government to academia, from schools to outreach charities.” AncientBlueSky www.workingclassicists.com/post/a-respo...

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...

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Great work coming out of CUCD education grants: cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/o...

Objects and Experience: Engaging with the Shefton Collection in the 21st century

CUCD pedagogical grant report 2022-23 A programme of workshops for the Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre using Newcastle University’s Shefton Collection, June 2023 Organizers: Dr Sally Waite (sa...

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