Le Droit donne la parole au département sur la re-suspension. « On a un rayonnement, une visibilité » - Geoffrey Greatrex sur l'importance du programme pour la communauté Lisez et partagez. buff.ly/AAHyvK2 #SOSÉtudesAnciennesUO #ONfr #DroitsLinguistiques #uOttawa @ledroit.com

À l’U d’O, le seul programme d’études anciennes en français vacille encore

Le programme d’études en Antiquité grecque et romaine est de nouveau suspendu à l’Université d’Ottawa. Faute d’un nombre d’inscriptions suffisant pour la rentrée 2026, le baccalauréat spécialisé —…

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Rest in power, JJ — such a visible and powerful figure in the struggle for equality, especially during my tender years growing up in the Detroit suburbs.

Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Ridiculous. Anodyne statement, recorded over a year ago, and trotted out for chilling effect. This sets terrible precedent – for NC State, the UNC System, and higher ed generally.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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I came to SCS simply to help run logistics for the annual CAMP production. Because of some unexpected logistical rearrangements, however, I'm now acting in this year's production of TANTALIDS: TAKE II, under the direction of the creative dynamo, Vanessa Stovall @theoctopiehole.bsky.social

Hello to everyone inSan Francisco for AIA/SCS 2026! Hope to catch you all in and around the conference.

Classicists! It's just over a week until the annual AIA/SCS meeting, this time in San Francisco, and that means preparations are gearing up for the annual CAMP production. This year, CAMP is proud — and incredibly excited — to present "Tantalids: take ii," under the direction of Vanessa Stovall!

It's official! UNC Classics is hiring for the Paddison Professor of Latin: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/306...

The argument Musk is making here resembles that published in a peer reviewed journal by a PhD who has given interviews to notorious white supremacist publications. It's so bad the journal published a rebuttal in the same issue. I wrote about it for Pharos: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2020/10/30/p...

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

This is, obviously, not the most pressing economic/social issue of April 2025. The pay of academic staff and non-tenure faculty remains the a higher moral imperative. Still, for those of us fortunate enough to have T-T/tenured posts, it is worth keeping dwindling pay in mind...

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"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

At the AIA/SCS in Philly and looking for something exciting, new, artistic, tonight? Come to the CAMP performance of Ellen McLaughlin's Conversations at the Return of Spring tonight (Friday, 1/3) at 8:00pm in Independence 3! No tickets required; seating is limited.

This week I've been playing up the spectacle/gladiatorial angle (which pertains to my teaching and, more tangentially, research), but do check out this thread by the wonderful @bretdevereaux.bsky.social on the political/personal representation of the Severans.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm struck by how much of the Gladiator II academic commentary is focused on gladiators and the Colosseum. I mean, that makes sense for historians who focus on that sort of thing but...having seen the movie...the wildest parts of the historical presentation are not the gladiator bits.

Only one more day until Gladiator II (and, this high-school theater kid is glad to note, Wicked!) hits the big screen across the US.

With only three days until the theatrical release of Gladiator II, I thought I'd turn to three different Roman items, each aimed at a different class of consumer, that reflected the broad appeal of combats in the arena, known to the Romans as "munera."

In the buildup to the North American widespread release of Gladiator II this week, I'm sharing some favorite pieces from the "Athletics in the ancient Greek and Roman Worlds" class I teach at UNC.

Although you can't tell from the way I am serving "serious author face" in the photo, I was honored and deeply humbled to have my first book, Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama, profiled in this week's edition of UNC Research Stories.

Unmasking Ugliness - UNC Research Stories

Al Duncan has spent the last 15 years exploring why humans are drawn to the unpleasant and uncomfortable aspects of life.

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Is this the moment BlueSky achieves critical momentum? Let's make it happen! LMK some accounts to follow

a lego statue of a man pushing a large ball with a shovel

Alt: A moving Lego statue of a man (Sisyphus) pushing a large ball in a repetitive, futile motion

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Folks at UNC, please let any undergraduates know about this summer session II (6/24–7/30) course taught both online and in-person by talented Classics graduate student, Anna Balaguer!

The Spring 2024 issue of TAPA, Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular co-edited by Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Patrice Rankine, is now available online through Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52400

Disturbingly on the nose, like when advertisements on your cell phone can only be explained by digital eavesdropping...

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all classes for an indeterminate length of time while I work on doing my job. I realiz...

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I’m quite pleased about this news too

Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 3y ago

The news is finally public: "@josephinequinn.bsky.social will join the Cambridge Classics Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient History in the University." (It's Moses Finley's old chair, and it is fantastic news, obvs.)

My better half isn't on the socials, but I'm so excited that I can't help sharing that today's the publication day for A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of An African Church. msupress.org/978161186484...

A Prophet of the People

In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first m...

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The hand of a lost bronze statue of a pugil (a pugilist/boxer), wrapped in a caestus - a glove made of leather and wicker. Found in the Roman theatre of Verona. Dating 1st c. AD. Pugilatus (boxing) was very popular in Roman times. On display at Museo Archeologico Teatro Romano 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Delighted to announce our second workshop in our @SASNews Fellowship series looking at Ancient ‘Aithiopian’ Voices & Modern Ethiopian-Eritrean diaspora communities. AncientBlueSky Book here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/explo...

Excited for this year's colab on Euripides' Alcestis with Michael Vazquez (@mvazquez.bsky.social), Kari Lindquist, and other ultra-talented and inspiring individuals parrcenter.unc.edu/alcestis/ Alcestis is a peculiar play, and one that is peculiarly timely in 2024. Please spread the word!

Prof. Houston was unfailingly kind to me, and I think this obituary captures his personality well. classics.unc.edu/2024/01/30/i...

Some more Latin Connections! Let me know if you like them and how you did! 🏺 AncientBluesky connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-NpFWrJ...

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the Connections New York Times daily game

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One of our most popular podcast conversations was with @armanddangour.bsky.social about the challenges of reconstructing ancient Greek music. 🎧 ideasroadshow.com/armand-dango... You can listen on the Ideas Roadshow app (free) or on NBN. 🗃️🏺#EduSky AncientBlueSky ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics

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Reimagining The Classical World is a wide-ranging conversation with University of Oxford classicist and musician Armand D’Angour about the challenges of reconstructing ancient Greek music, what the�...

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