قد تهمّ هذه الفرصة الزميلات والزملاء من مصر أو من مختلف الدول العربية. يُرجى الاطلاع على الرابط للاطّلاع على تفاصيل الدعوة باللغة العربية. May be of interest to any Egyptian or Arab colleagues. Please see :the link for the call in Arabic:

Museum Education Roundtable@museumedrt.bsky.social · 20h ago

Call for Papers! Guest edited by Dr. Nevine Nizar Zakaria, this special issue will examine museum education across Arabic-speaking countries and Arab diasporic communities. Deadline: Nov 15, 2026 Read more (in English and Arabic) and submit online: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

I would also add that decades of having to argue the (economic) “value” against managerial forces who are disinterested in argument has fundamentally diminished the creative capacities of our disciplines

Rine Vieth@rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

"It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow University, requesting my help translating an Arabic text for his students to accompany their study of Wrong Norma, a 2024 work by Anne Carson." arablit.org/2025/02/10/t...

Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision

Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision By Alaa Alqaisi It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow University, …

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Sappho, Anne Carson, Kiki Loveday, Jody Valentine ancienthistorybulletin.org/wp-content/u...

I would like the classicists clamoring to say something about Nolan's Odyssey to have a public opinion about this

Professor Nutella@jpnudell.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Overlooking the Acropolis" is in all the headlines, but there's a more interesting spatial discussion at work here. He's speaking from the Pnyx, but from a spot and orientation such that he can have the Acropolis so large it looks like a green screen projection. www.bbc.com/news/article...

this is amazing. I’ve been reading Stuart Hall chronologically and my constant thought is regret that I didn’t have any exposure growing up in Scotland, although I know why. it would’ve helped me make sense of a lot of things

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d ago

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

another anniversary of genocide, another time I share this piece about how we, as parents, failed our babies in Palestine, continue to fail their parents. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

my heart is full in anticipation of "A mouth full of stars: Audre Lorde, Black Feminisms, and Classics" next week (16th Oct) at the University of New Hampshire - a workshop of papers and poetry organized by Elke Nash, with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Carl Phillips cola.unh.edu/about/calend...

We here!

Stefan Ouma@econgeo.bsky.social · last wk.

The new issue of Feminist Africa is out feministafrica.net As usual, a great issue! Together with Christine Vogt-William, I embarked on a cartographic conversation on @demonicgrounds.bsky.social "Dear Science..", follwing a keynote at a 2023 Conference in Bayreuth. feministafrica.net/2026/10/02/a...

losing Fred this summer was devastating. I really thought that we’d be colleagues across town for years to come dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

In Memoriam: Frederic Clark, classicist who investigated how we divide up time itself

Clark focused on how we came to define historical eras, as well as forgeries and frauds, as part of his research on the afterlife of classical antiquity.

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It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

Res Diff 3.1 (2026)

Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…

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I really appreciate as always that this is open access. I didn't pursue a graduate degree in classics so Res Diff is a lovely way to keep up with scholarship. :)

What a great issue! Looking forward to reading it!

Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 2w ago

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

Res Diff 3.1 (2026)

Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…

resdifficiles.com

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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news from the Res Diff team resdifficiles.com/editorial-no...

editorial note: the future of difficulty

Norma Wong’s When No Thing Works (2024) is a piece of writing which I find myself returning to over and over again. The text simply, directly, and lyrically addresses the fact that systems collapse…

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research breakthroughs are still possible

Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ladies and gentletheys, I have today discovered the answer to this question! Green. The outfit is green.

Why is UCLA (admin) LIKE THIS? The week before the fall quarter starts, we got told that all computers will be disappearing from classrooms. Especially frustrating for those faculty who don’t have a UCLA-supplied device. Thanks to @ucaft.bsky.social for pushing back. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UC-AFT: Computer Removal/BYOD Survey

It has come to UC-AFT’s attention that the University has begun the transition to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model for computer access in classrooms, and has already removed computers from several...

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Confusion everywhere in the land... Writers writing seemingly unaware of the moment we are in.

Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment is taking place September 28–30 at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center. www.getty.edu/calendar/bla...

The Black Built Environment | Getty Events

Conference at UCLA on the historicity of the Black built environment, both physical and imagined, and its relationship to photography, architecture, urban planning, and visual culture

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Danez Smith, “Dear Time.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Mathias Hanses' "Black Cicero: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" comes out next month, but looks like a preview is available now on google books 👀 books.google.com/books?id=zQQ...

UK’s “class not race” is a deadly lie

Yes. They hounded him to death. Days and days of breathless undoing. Damn them all.

Horrible, horrible situation. I'm so sad on so many levels for so many people, so many colleagues who don't deserve what they've been put through, what they're going to be put through. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

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Proofs day forمدرسة غزة للبلاغة والفلسفة : مختارات من كتابات روادها في آواخر العصور القديمة! (The Arabic translation of A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity)

run don’t walk to read my UCLA colleague Kelly Nguyen’s new book!! academic.oup.com/book/63209

Critical Classicality in Vietnam and the Diaspora

Abstract. This is the first book to study Vietnamese classicisms. Drawing on decolonial theory, critical refugee studies, and queer of color critique, Nguy

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🚨🐦🔎NEW: Princeton hires archaeologist who digs next to Israeli torture camp. Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison: open.substack.com/pub/sparrows...

Princeton hires archaeologist who digs next to Israeli torture camp

Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison

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another great has moved from this plane. one of my favorites of the many gifts Betye Saar gave us. Betye Saar, Black Girl's Window, 1969.