Katharine Shields

some products of a practical session in the MakerSpace @SASNews last week with my @kingsclassics Hittite language 1 students, who made great progress with their scribal training and copied out sentences from the annals of Muršili for each other to read!

ordered a spare copy of van den Hout’s Elements of Hittite ready to teach Hittite language @kingsclassics for the first time this year… CUP seem to think I should be doing Linear B instead?

What an amazing day! Thanks to @krshields1 for concocting the workshop and to @instclasstudies for supporting it. It was refreshing to meet like-minded colleagues to discuss strategies to promote the teaching of languages such as Middle Egyptian at UK HE institutions

Looking forward to sharing my experience with Egyptian at the Teaching Less-Commonly Taught Languages workshop this afternoon! sas.ac.uk/events/teachin…

Have you ever wanted to dive into the world of Wikipedia editing? 🌊 Today's #ResearchSpotlight by Victoria Leonard, @annapjudson, and Katharine Shields is a great place to start! Read it now: buff.ly/3ySQA3r

#Anatolian Languages and Linguistics Summer School: #Oxford, 18-22 June 2024 Courses: writing systems, Lydian, Hittite texts, Anatolian linguistics. Instructors: A. Payne, I. Yakubovich, T. van den Hout, H.C. Melchert More info and registration here: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/anatolia…

'Totally and utterly bereft' — the devastating impact of the British Library cyber attack My article on the BL hack and why writers need it back.. Thanks to @holland_tom @Tracy_Chevalier @edithmayhall @catbateson A.N. Wilson and others for speaking standard.co.uk/lifestyle/brit…

Ahir va morir J. D. Hawkins, un gegant dels estudis anatòlics. Editor del corpus d'insripcions lúviques jeroglífiques, un monument impressionant des del punt de vista epigràfic, lingüístic, històric i arqueològic. És una grandíssima pèrdua per als nostres estudis.

A spectacular new discovery at Hattusa! It's not every day you find a new language... ✍️🤔 uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/pres…

New Indo-European Language Discovered at Boğazköy-Hattusha uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-ev…

Thanks to all those who held the line during the strikes & the MAB. It’s our collective action and determination that allowed us to solve our local dispute for fair pay, equality, and a voice at work! #ucuRISING

New article! Wikipedia in Classics Education. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2023/09/… with huge thanks to @annapjudson @tigerlilyrocks @womeninclassics @krshields1 @archaeoctopus @Vicky_Austen @emcandre @FordeVidal @noschlager @lucyajmmoore #WCCWiki

Join us on Tues 20th June 12.00-14.00 BST for this month's #WCCWiki We will be editing for Pride LGBTQ+ Month in June!🌈No need to have any previous experience; we will provide training. DM us for joining details, or email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com

📢 Join us on Mon 22 May, 13.00-15.00 BST for this month's #WCCWiki editing session to improve the visibility of women & non-binary classicists on #Wikipedia. We are meeting on Zoom; for the link DM us or email! Everyone is welcome, with lots or no experience in editing!

Had a punt down the river Cam, rode the ferris wheel, visited Eagle pub famously linked to Watson & Crick's discovery of DNA And discussed how @Wikipedia and universities, both inside & outside the curriculum, are a match made in heaven #OpenKnowledge #OpenPedagogy #DigitalSkills

Thanks to @annapjudson @krshields1 @tigerlilyrocks for having me at @CA_2023 conference this weekend @Cambridge_Uni & celebrating 120 years of the Classical Association Lovely to meet Wikipedia educators doing such fab #openknowledge work and to share what we've up to... and why!

Thanks for (virtually) having me #CA2023 - great to hear about so many different uses of Wikipedia and WikiEdu 🤩 happy to answer any additional Qs if anyone wants to follow up via email!

Speakers include Ewan McAndrew (Univ of Edinburgh), Juliana Bastos Marques (Federal Univ of the State of Rio de Janeiro), Victoria Austen (Carleton College), Chelsea Gardner (Acadia Univ), Nadege Forde (Sankofa Project), and Lucy Moore (Univ of York &Leeds Museums and Galleries).

Join us on 23 April 1:30-3:30 #CA2023 University of Cambridge, Room G.19 for #WCCWiki Roundtable: Teaching Classics with Wikipedia, organised for @WCC by Katharine Shields, Anna Judson, and Victoria Leonard. classics.cam.ac.uk/files/ca_confe…