If you're a student in #Durham and feeling overwhelmed by the impact of COVID-19 Talking Changes can help. Watch this short video and find out more at talkingchanges.org.uk Durham University Durham SU @DurhamWellbeing

This Wednesday (28/10/20) sees the first Work in Progress Seminar of Michaelmas Term 2020. Our speaker is Edmund Thomas. The talk starts at 1:00 p.m. Contact Dr Zara Chadha in the Department for the Zoom link. ALL WELCOME!

Many many congratulations to our wonderful Classics PGRs@Durham Simona @Simo_Martorana who does such wonderful work and is an important part of our Classics community 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🌠🌠🌟

Wonderful to see this video of our very talented former Classics PGRs@Durham student and Classics for All Classics for All North colleague Dr Eris Williams-Reed who is now Department of Classics & Ancient History, Warwick!

Today!

This week! Do join us 😊

This week! All welcome!

A reminder about this week's seminar 👇 All welcome, from Newcastle & elsewhere! Just email [email protected] if you would like the Zoom details to join us.

I tutor with CTI and would be happy to answer any questions. I work with my student for an hour a week and just that small amount of time really makes a difference. This is a concrete way that we can all help address educational inequality. #volunteering #tutoring #education

Go @Simo_Martorana our fab Classics PGRs@Durham!

Believe it or not, but this is some of our wonderful PhD student Dr Joe Watson’s less taboo work... 😉

Please share with your doctoral researchers who may be doubling up as Graduate Teaching Assistants - we want to know how they are doing this year!!! (and they can win some vouchers to help with Christmas shopping!) york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N… #AcademicTwitter Academic Chatter™

If you study or studied with us Durham Classics and Ancient History, and if you’d like to be celebrated for your achievements, hobby, or job (who doesn’t?!😉), please do have a look at the Department’s tweets below!

Congratulations to recent Classics PGRs@Durham Dr Julia Tomas on the publication of her first review for BMCR You can read it here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.12.0…

People are so generous but if we all give a little, what a difference we might be able to make. Can you help? All donations welcome, however small.

Delighted to see that the wonderful 'Certamen' volume by our former Durham Classics and Ancient History Classics PGRs@Durham @DrPaolaBassino (Classical Studies@University of Winchester) is now out in paperback at De Gruyter Classics ➡️ Bluesky / Facebook Congratulations, Paola!

Just in time for Christmas, we can announce & share this excellent news. The first of our two full time open-ended jobs has been advertised. We're looking to hire an Ancient Greek Historian; an interest in the Ancient Near East is also welcome. Please apply and please retweet!

And here is the second of our jobs. Please apply or retweet. We would welcome expressions of interest or applications from suitably qualified individuals, and we are alresady looking forward to getting to know our new colleagues in 2021!

UK leaving Erasmus is bad for education & economy: British students will lose chance to study abroad, & EU students won’t study here - & so many come back to us for MA or PhD after Erasmus independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…