It was winter #graduation for @lans_unibirmingham Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences students today in #Birmingham. Graduates majoring in philosophy, sustainability, and intercalating in medical humanities were receiving degrees. Marvellous joy and excitement on campus 🤗🤩🎉 these pix are very much the calm before the ceremony ✨ #LibArtSci

Sharing here a really good introduction (put together by two of my #LibArtSci team at the University of Birmingham) to #Entrepreneurial #Education in the context of Reflective Graduate Attributes and our #interdisciplinary agenda. It sounds dry, but the transformational impact on our students' capabilities and confidence has been incredibly rewarding https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/hefi/news/2022/11/using-entrepreneurial-education-to-develop-reflective-graduate-attributes.aspx @academicchatter @interdisciplinarity

@JClarkPowers @interdisciplinarity @communications @sociology @linguistics @politicalscience JTL’s work is fascinating. We’ve engaged with it in some depth in our #Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning group @ Birmingham which is led by Liberal Arts and Sciences colleagues 🤗 #LibArtSci

Shoutout to @frankendodo for a fantastic #lansLab paper on #interdisciplinarity from an insect’s point of view (more or less!). Stimulated a great debate on the ongoing q of what and where and whose “disciplines” are, and their “placiality”. I had to dash away to get to another great paper (Federico Santangelo on what “non-political class” means for studying the Augustan “revolution”). So it was a brilliant back-to-back end to the day. #academia #research #antiquidons #Rome #LibArtSci

@frankendodo What I mean is, the looking glass both reflects back to us our own practice and selfhood as disciplinarians, but it is also a portal to ways in which that identity metamorphoses into askew, other, and complex perspectives when viewed from “beyond” our comfort zones, and *through* that looking glass from its norms and epistemes. I hope that long Q makes sense? And great to meet you earlier! #LibArtSci

Lots to delight in today, blue skies, very engaged, passionate, hopeful people at our #LibArtSci Birmingham Open Day events on campus. But I really hoped to do a couple of hours #AcWri this evening. Didn’t happen. I drank a Meantime and wrote off the writing plan 😮‍💨

It was a miracle I got to my 17:00 class without shambling into a puddle (or wall), but once there the vibe from our first years was so dynamic the two hours flew. This group are working on social-challenge problems and they’re self directed. I just nudge and poke occasionally. Smoking, anti-depressants, and educational attainment are under multidisciplinary lenses this semester #LibArtSci.

I ought to do #introductions again having moved “instance”: much of my time/energy revolves around being Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, which I reflect using #LibArtSci. #Classics & #AncMed research is squeezed *a lot*, but still circles the Roman Republican polymath M. Terentius Varro, see #VarroVerse. I’m thinking more again about enviro-landscape tropes in (Roman) antiquity, & their sensory aspects, see #sensoRoma (when I start that thread). So #histodons and #LitStudies are also my people.