I’ve assigned a common place book for the first time and so far I really love it! I’m really getting to see students THINK with each text and make fun connections!

What a great issue! Looking forward to reading it!

Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 3w 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...

A good thread about absolutely infuriating realities

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 3w ago

While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.

Home for the next year! The office comes with a nice big jangly ring of keys like I’m a 19th century housekeeper making sure the tea and silver is safe and sound

Come hang out in Sackville with me!

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lecturer - Department of Classics / Mount Allison University | Eluta.ca www.eluta.ca/spl/lecturer...

I know everyone is sick of Odyssey discourse but it’s pretty exciting to sit down at a cafe and hear people at the next table over having a thoughtful conversation about Homer and adaptation!

Just absolutely devastating. We spoke to her TA today who said she was a poet and knew all about hurricanes.

Them@them.us · 5mo ago

Slain Trans UW Student Identified as Juniper Blessing: “The Most Amazing Human Being”

Approximately a year out from snake fight!

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 5mo ago

Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be the Crake Doctoral Fellow at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick next year! I’m looking forward to getting to know the Maritimes!

Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.

Not to distract from no kings, but has anyone else noticed that the OCD online no longer seems to have the abbreviations available? Are they actually still available somewhere and if so where? I use that list almost daily and suddenly my bookmarked link stopped working 2-3 days ago

Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa is the ONLY program in Ontario where students can study Ancient Greek and Latin in French. The university just resuspended it. #SOSClassicsUO #ONfr #uOttawa buff.ly/UtgW0vq

I propose that in classics we have the Eumenides perform this role

Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕 Based on a painting of Yael by Artemisia Gentileschi

There should be an opt-in program where if you’ve checked out a lot of the same books as another user in the last year the library can put you in touch. In other words, who else at my institution is reading about frigidity and has all the books?

There are lots of things going on in the world right now but please also go and sign this and email the powers that be at U Calgary to save their Classics and Medieval studies program! A number of Canadian departments have reversed attempted closures so it is worthwhile

CAC - SCÉC@cacscec.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sign the petition! www.change.org/Save_Classic...

The Early Modern Asexualities conference starts tomorrow! It’s fully hybrid and free to register! I’ll be talking about asexual gender in Arthur Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Jan 7 Registration link: crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

This is a great time to break out my only Corpus Tibullianum meme

University of Ottawa reopens admissions to Greek and Roman program | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

U of O reopens admissions to Greek and Roman program | CBC News

The University of Ottawa says it has resumed accepting applications to its honours program in Greek and Roman studies, reversing an earlier decision.

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It’s that time of year! If you identify as somewhere on the ace and/or aro spectrum go take the Ace Community Survey! It’s a really important source of information on the ace/aro communities and I’ve been grateful to be able to use their data in my work. acecommunitysurvey.org

The Ace Community Survey

An annual survey by and for the ace community

acecommunitysurvey.org

Does anyone know of examples of Roman (or generally ancient Mediterranean) slotted spoons? Surely they existed, but I’m having trouble finding an example

Join Rachel Lesser, @juliamperroni.bsky.social, and myself tomorrow at 12EDT for the 3rd session of the LCC summer reading group! We will be reading some of Mark Rifkin’s Beyond Settler Time. Sign up here for the zoom link:

LCC Queer Theory Reading Group: Meeting 3 Sign-Up

Please fill out this form if you plan to attend the third LCC Queer Theory Reading Group meeting on Thursday, July 31, 12:00–1:30pm EDT. For this meeting, we will read and discuss Chapter 1, "Indigeno...

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Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

Off to CAMWS! Please join me at the Queer Theory and Classics workshop I’ve coorganized with the wonderful Ky Merkley, Chiara Graf, and @juliamperroni.bsky.social

It’s not a big step from “we are withholding money for lifesaving research and treatment in order to protect Jews/punish those who threaten Jews” to “angry at the deaths caused as a result? It’s the Jews’ fault.”

Making a passing reference to Ken dolls in my dissertation requires rewatching all of Barbie (2023), right?

So nice to get to attend CAPN/CACW at UBC! I especially enjoyed the staged reading of Thomas Heywood’s The Golden Age which is a truly wild and extremely ace and gay play!

Always fascinated by minor Roman deities- there was one called Viriplaca who apparently offered marriage counseling at her shrine on the Palatine

Now is when Canada should invest heavily in its university system. Not just STEM. We could be a leader in the Social Sciences and Humanities and become a robust research global leader.