Katherine Harloe
Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeREF 2029 publishes updates and resumes criteria setting following pause All updates are now live on our website: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...
- Over at @ics.bsky.social we are on the hunt for a Lecturer in Classical Studies (Research, Training and Partnerships). This is an open-ended, open-field T&R lectureship. Please pass on the word - and consider applying if you would like to come and work with us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThis week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
- The joy of finally finding out that the location shoot you accidentally interrupted by taking a little-used exit while leaving work a year or so ago was new ITV series, The Hack. Senate House in a starring role as so often.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeDelighted to see Cynthia Johnston featuring in this wonderful piece from the Lancashire Telegraph about the exhibition she has co-curated at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery! www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2548328...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThe four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...
- A temporary change in the ICS this year... I am delighted that the School of Advanced Study has granted me 10 months of research leave, and over the moon that @kathryntempest.bsky.social agreed to step in as Acting Director for that period. The Institute will be in very good hands!
- The ICS is delighted to welcome Dr Kathryn Tempest who joins as Acting Director from 1 September. A long-time friend of the ICS, Kathryn joins on secondment from the University of Leicester, where she lectures on Roman History. You can learn more about Kathryn's work here: shorturl.at/N0NkI
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe'Overall, top universities have placed 14,190 students since results day – 14.9 per cent more than they did by the same point last year. And lower-tariff institutions have accepted 16,650 students in this period – 12.2 per cent below 2023 and the lowest number on record.' 3/3
- Sorting out bits of @ics.bsky.social archive and thinking about what has changed (and what hasn't) since 2003.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeChristopher Rowe (1944-2025) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2025/07/28/c...
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe'The Department for Education has also made the possibility of a higher education institution “exiting the market” one of the “top tier risks” facing the education sector. An annual report published on 17 July said the risk rating had been “escalated” to “critical – very likely” in 2024-25.' 3/3
- Just the best news - congratulations @clairelanghamer.bsky.social FBA! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/clai... @ihr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeInterested in learning Latin? Our 5-day online course for beginners is open for registrations! Develop the ability and confidence to navigate a range of early modern primary sources in Latin from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/begin...
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe'Stormzy has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge for his work helping black students get into higher education.' '56 undergraduates have benefited from full tuition and maintenance support, backed by his #Merky Foundation and HSBC UK.' Kudos for walking the walk.
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I like this piece by @tedunderwood.me a lot. rdcu.be/etk07 - Reposted by Katherine HarloeContractors say they believe a cast iron pipe has cracked but that there were no records showing the route of the pipe. After two hours the shutoff valve has been located and water levels are subsiding.
- Hadn't heard this news, and I am so sorry to hear it now. I didn't know him, but certainly knew and admired his scholarship, right up to 'Race is Everything' and the latest work on the 'Image of the Black' series. What a loss.
- ‘A revolutionary flame burned bright within him, steady, clear, a beacon for many of us’ – Luke Syson pays tribute to the art historian David Bindman (1940–2025), who did so much to illuminate 18th- and early 19th-century art buff.ly/OOpNrx1
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeIf you're involved in your unit's or university's REF2029 submission, you'll be interested in Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding (CKU) policy guidance, released today: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeREF 2029 policy release: We’re pleased to share the guidance for the Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding element and the updated Code of Practice guidance. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop... #REF2029
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeEarthquake damages part of Pompeii site in southern Italy | Reuters www.reuters.com/business/env...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThis looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social
- Went to see The Return yesterday. I thought it was great. Always maintained that the second half of The Odyssey is better than the first.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThe NEH hammer has come down on the group project led by Cliff Ando to produce a new edition of Roman Statutes. Most of the team is composed of established scholars in secure jobs, but the funding was also supporting a full-time postdoctoral fellow whose work is *essential* for the project. 1/2
- It's Mother's Day tomorrow in the UK (because ours coincides with Mothering Sunday). So here's a picture of me with my mother and my much-missed grandmother, Pearl, happy spending time together in St Lucia around 1994.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeCome and do a PhD on Roman History or Latin at @uorclassics.bsky.social - we arguably the nicest Romanists and Latinists of any UK department (according to me) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ960/t...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThe UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship has reopened for applications - deadline: 30 April 2025! 📣 This scholarship supports BAME postgraduate research students at UCL, covering full tuition fees and providing a maintenance stipend for up to 3 years ✨ 👉 Find out more and apply: shorturl.at/uCHqO
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe📢 The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation offers full scholarships (tuition + maintenance) for Black undergraduate students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This year, a scholarship is available for students at several UK universities, inc SOAS, Univ. of Lon. #BlackSky 🔗 cowriescholarshipfoundation.org
- Reposted by Katherine HarloePlease 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...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeAn important new book from Jude Browne: Political Responsibility and Tech Governance (Cambridge UP, 2025) bit.ly/49OXSTc
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeReally pleased to announce this final piece of work with @jwbaker.bsky.social for @beyondnotables.bsky.social : five data essays w/ interactive #dataviz, exploring the BN wikibase of 900+ women working in archaeology, history and heritage 1870-1950. beyond-notability.github.io/beyond-notab...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeREF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeIn the UK, university and regional museums are speeding up their returns of looted objects, while the law prevents national museums like the British Museum and V&A doing so. Tristram Hunt calls for an end to an unsatisfactory state of affairs.
- This is going to be fantastic and I hope to see many friends and colleagues there.
- CONFERENCE Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE-1000 AD 9th International Conference IMAGINES 19-21 March, Senate House HIGHLIGHT: Workshop by Harriet Vine of Tatty Devine @tattydevine.bsky.social Full programme and registration (free and open to all): bit.ly/436L7TR
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeReally happy to see AV2025 open! CAS is a small operation, and it's a lot of admin on top of my other jobs: there's always a bit of stress getting the moving parts together. This is always offset, though, by getting to work with amazing tutors, and seeing students enjoy our courses.
- ANCIENT VOICES 2025 REGISTRATION OPEN! We are thrilled to announce the opening of our AV2025 Summer programme. This is being timed to run slightly earlier, so as not to clash directly with the Classical Association Conference in St Andrews. Info here: shorturl.at/GJJvI
- Not only did I see several patches of crocuses while cycling around Oxford this morning, but I am also now aboard 'Shania Train' to London. Friday is off to a good start. www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/06/nick...
- Oh yes, that's me! (Not in the picture but giving the paper, obviously.)
- Looking forward to @katherineharloe.bsky.social talking about Goethe's Winckelmann at the London Paris Romanticism Seminar at Senate House, University of London on Friday @ies-sas.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeThis spring, I'm setting out to explore forgotten, fantastic tales of lives and loves transformed in northern lands. Northering traces a twisting path through a mythic north that’s stranger than we think … At @porticolibrary.bsky.social on Thursday 27 March www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
- I always look out for the flowering of this little hellebore as one of the first signs in our garden that spring is on its way. This year, slugs and snails have clearly been at it. But it's still here. ☺️
- One of the joys of working at @ics.bsky.social is finding out about what we have in @joliheroics.bsky.social. Yesterday our librarians showed me A E Housman's personal, annotated copy of Lewis & Short, the travel diary and photos of an as-yet-unidentified woman traveller to Athens in 1902, and
- a copy of F A Wolf's Iliad once owned by Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia.
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23. The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4
- This @ics.bsky.social seminar next week with curatorial colleagues at the British Museum has proved so popular that we have moved it to a bigger room! Filling up fast though, so if you would like to come and participate, please do pre-register on the ICS website.
- It is followed by the latest in our new seminar series, Revisiting the Ancient World at the British Museum, convened in collaboration with curatorial colleagues at BM Greece and Rome to support their work on redisplay and reinterpretation of the permanent galleries: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/revis...
- @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...
- Though if you are more into doing research than assessing it, you may prefer to attend our training event on Researching and Collaborating with the British International Research Institutes: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/resea...
- The following Weds (5 Feb), we'll be hosting a panel discussion of the UK Class in Classics Report - one year on, with @cucdequality.bsky.social and the Network for Working-Class Classicists: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/uk-cl...
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View full threadThe Museum seminar is in-person, but all the others are online. All are open to anyone who wishes to attend. Please register in advance on the ICS website. We look forward to seeing you there!
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- Current mood: youtu.be/NYrDrFYntCk?...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeOxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe@lizgloyn.bsky.social @zenakamash.bsky.social, Lee Dibben and I have published an account of Phase 1 of our MINOTAUR project on @wonkhe.bsky.social today. It's work that we are very proud of; the project is now in its Phase 2, also thanks to support by @cucd.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/asking...
- Ooh I definitely want to go to this!
- @drmaimusie.bsky.social is an excellent friend. Full stop.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeWe should be talking more about what's happening at the British Museum. See my new blog mikepitts.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/b...
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe‘At a workshop on AI and religion, someone observed that most AI was being developed with the primary purpose of selling advertising: “But what could AI be like if it was stewarded by the Dalai Lama?”’ @mgzimeta.bsky.social meets an android monk, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeGlad to see the cuts to the Latin Excellence program getting some higher profile coverage. Could this have anything to do with the excellent letter from colleagues that appeared in the Guardian a few days ago?
- Worth a read on goings-on in academic journal publishing.
- My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
- Reposted by Katherine Harloe#HistoryLab+, @ihr.bsky.social's network for #ECRs, is recruiting! Calling #Skystorians from any Humanities discipline keen to support their peers & develop their own skills & professional connections ...&, of course, to join a committee of AMAZING people! 👉🧵& tinyurl.com/53twjemw for details!
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeHave written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk. It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
- All are welcome at Melissa Lane's lecture in @ics.bsky.social on 20 January. Further details and registration link here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sheil...
- Congratulations to our new visiting fellow, Melissa Lane, on winning the Journal of the History of Philosophy 2024 Book Prize! ics.sas.ac.uk/news/prize-v... We look forward to your time at ICS & your Sheila Kassman Memorial Lecture on 20 January! @princetonupress.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky #philsky
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeSo 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 …
- I mean, it's that time of year again, again.
- A reminder to UK #Classics postholders that CUCD and ICS are collaborating on an in-person subject meeting in Senate House on Monday: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/uk-su... to discuss issues of common concern. We have rejigged the timetable a little to include recent and imminent #REF2029 announcements.
- The #ref2029 open access policy has been published today, and it is considerably more modest (and manageable) than first envisaged. Worth reading if your publications are likely to be subject to REF assessment in this cycle.
- REF 2029 Open Access Policy and Consultation and Engagement summary published 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202... #ref2029
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeYoung Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeI’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
- zenodo.org/records/1118... This article is important to read if you want to understand more about why so many learned societies are struggling at present, with effects on their charitable activities such as grant giving and other forms of research support.
- Reposted by Katherine HarloeAbsolutely *thrilled* to advertise a fully funded PhD studentship WITH stipend thanks to generous London Arts & Humanities AHRC funding! 🎉 🏺 🗃️ You’ll be based at @ics.bsky.social in partnership w/ @bsrome.bsky.social researching the surrounding funerary landscape of Falerii Novi
- My workplace has got its Christmas decs up scandalously early.
