Greg Woolf
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
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Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.

Gregory Duncan Woolf, is a British ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021, he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford, and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and Professor of Classics at the University of London. From January 2025 he assumed the role of Director at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. .. more

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Hi Debby, great to see you over here!
debscavator.bsky.social
Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.

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Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.

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hetanshah.bsky.social
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

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f you want something a bit more niche there's a famous burial monument at Igel, now on the borders of three EU countries. Its reliefs are a key source for the textile industry that flourished there in Roman times. www.eifel.info/en/pois/igel...
Column of Igel near Trier (UNESCO World Heritage Site) | Holidays in the Eifel
www.eifel.info

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So much to see! Love the Landesmuseum although I haven't been for years. Constantine's basilica (if a bit rebuilt), the amphitheatre, bridge, two sets of amazing baths...and of course the Porta Nigra as on your pic!

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There’s still the centennial of our World Cup win coming up in 2066
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Aug 15
In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard.

#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
A small model of a boat with oars, all made out of gold. It is set against a dark green background
echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
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here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social
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The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence as part of a new phase of the SHAPE the Future programme, which will seek to examine the progress made against the long-term societal impacts identif...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.
AAAWACStatement.pdf
drive.google.com

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So @profarlenehh.bsky.social & are now in the Blue Sky, fresh from an exciting meeting to develop our prison education programme bringing the skills, competencies and cultural literacy that encountering the ancient Greeks, Romans & their neighbours offers to some of our most marginalised citizens.

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Thank you for writing this.

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It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented.

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The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rules
open.substack.com

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chrishinchliff.bsky.social
My statement on today's news. 👇
hetanshah.bsky.social
‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’

FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!

www.ft.com/content/3162...
Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy
Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education
www.ft.com
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We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

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Working Classicists Awards 2025

TOMORROW

2pm (UK time)

Get ready to cheer on our winners! 👀
#WCA2025
Working Classicists Awards 2025
2pm Uk time
05/07/25

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Good to know that with the distractions of a rebellion on welfare reform out of the way, the UK prime minister can devote himself to his key role of commenting on pop festivals.

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I think Starmer would have to help out by making UK a bit friendlier to students from overseas and their families.