i had no idea, and this is really deplorable of nolan (from the excellent @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social review in LRB)
Sam Barber
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Smith College/UMass Amherst | Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
It looks great. rich, textured. on the brain it is very smooth
Nolan has adapted the stories The Odyssey is based on more than he’s adopted the text itself. There’s a smoothing out of the text‘s complication that inevitably unwinds it a little. It’s also a puzzle box movie where whats in the box is Trauma, but the Trauma of learning where you are in history.
*whispers* hey, if you're a grad-level educator of conscience, you should probably warn PhD students off of coming here at this point and offer to help them make favorable contacts in other of the many excellent international universities if you're invested in their success
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w agoThe most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this
Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w agoPlease blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
remember how in the mid-2000s video games had that weird yellow lighting filter and beige color grading? well that's just the weather now www.nbcboston.com/news/local/a...
Smoky skies prompting air quality concerns in Massachusetts
Canada wildfire smoke is making New England skies hazy and air quality a concern in Massachusetts. Officials urge sensitive groups to stay on alert.
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The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.
‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Italy has placed one of the best surviving works of Etruscan art on public display after bringing the famous François Tomb frescoes into state ownership. The painted panels, created between 340 and 320 BCE, now... More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/ital...
Italy returns 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public after more than a century | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Italy returns the 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public, placing a masterpiece of Etruscan art on display in Rome.
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taco bell only gives you diarrhea if it can sense you are not pure of heart
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3w agotaco bell catching strays from the explosive diarrhea conversation is evidence of our intellectual decay send tweet
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
From one of the Arabic lit listserves. Because why would anybody need or want to learn about Arabic or Islam right now? (To say nothing of the not “right now” reasons…) Petition to stop huge humanities cuts at Exeter: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
the discourse app is dying and the sports app is struggling to be born
Yes, it's a foul and so per the rules it's no goal and a free kick back in the Egyptian half - fine. But did the referee make a "clear and obvious error" for VAR to intervene? What was "clear and obvious" about it?
enjoy it while you can Brits because under woke 2 Wonderwall will be a violation of international law
Or maybe to the tune of Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab': they tried to give Flo a red card, Trump said: no, no, no
Give it a round of 'if it wasn't for our grandads you'd be Krauts' in the Belgium game and complete your destiny, lads.
This really is a vintage World Cup: terrific football, ties - you bet! - and now: a dazzlingly dodgy decision for the hosts. The US now only needs to master 'chants that are not boringly literal' to become a footballing nation.
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
Essays in Long Late Antiquity Vol. 1, No. 1 (2026) ! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/1/1 #openaccess @livunipress.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social @calthalas.bsky.social @barber-samj.bsky.social @emuehlbe.bsky.social @medievalchina.bsky.social @ebermichael.bsky.social
Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1
This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...
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