October 8 2026 4:30PM BST = 11:30 AM EDT Online @ics.bsky.social Jessica L. Lamont @yale.edu Magic in Roman and Late Antique Corinth ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Deadline for this is coming up! Self-nominations are encouraged.

NASSCAL@nasscal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Grad students and early career scholars, nominate your work for the NASSCAL Sisters of Sinai prize for outstanding scholarship in Christian apocrypha. Nominations close Sept. 1. Details here: www.nasscal.com/the-sisters-...

There are just a few days left to apply to be a visiting scholar this year at Ohio State's Center for the Study of religion. This program is exclusively for colleagues who are not in tenure-track positions. For details, see religion.osu.edu/visiting-sch...

August 🤝 Sneaking Up On People

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

Extremely excited about the IG/TikTok content the Odyssey is giving us! Also thank you a million times to @archaeadne.bsky.social for sending me tiktoks because I simply cannot do that platform

Homer, of course, famously hated starting his narratives in the middle of things.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Matt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.

The CFP for Ohio State’s visiting scholar program at the Center for the Study of Religion is now available. This opportunity is specifically designed for non-tenure-track colleagues, including contingent and independent scholars. religion.osu.edu/visiting-sch...

Ohio State's Classics department is hiring a lecturer for 2026-27. If you know any recent PhDs or ABDs who might be interested in joining us, please send them our way! careers.insidehighered.com/job/3520575/...

Lecturer - Dept. of Classics - Columbus Campus job with The Ohio State University | 3520575

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I'm taking on a new service role, and I think it should be a lot of fun (maybe some work too)! religion.osu.edu/people

It remains bananas amazing that U Tennessee offers its summer language courses (incl. intensive 4-days-a-week Syriac w/ George Kiraz!) through the Marco Institute for free to UT students, staff, faculty, *and alumni*— and for only $500 for non-affiliates. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

I had to check the automated transcript of my myth class from yesterday. I'm amused that the AI consistently thought we were discussing a certain Lannister rather than a certain daughter of Helios. The class was entirely on the Odyssey, so the AI was incapable of picking up on context cues.

I have no words, and I refuse to screenshot the evil being posted online. Instead, a prayer that I think about a lot these days: "Again we pray for the protection of this holy church, this city and every city and land, from wrath, famine, pestilence, earthquake, flood, fire, sword...

I just taught this passage again a few weeks ago…

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 8mo ago

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Visiting AP in Classics and Religious Studies at Hamilton College: Religions of Late Antiquity with the ability to teach Greek and/or Latin and New Testament (in translation). Review of applications begins February 23, 2026.

“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.” www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Minnesota is home for me. I hate not being there and helping keep vulnerable members of the community safe. I have family + loved ones in the middle of it. My brother is in S Minneapolis. My first apartment was very close to where the 5-year-old was taken from school yesterday. These are my people.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

I'm looking for a Greek civ/history recommendation: What articles/blog posts do you like for thinking about the relevance and/or (mis)appropriations of ancient Greece for today? I'm looking for something to use in the last week of my Greek civ class this semester.

Does anyone have a VR program that they like for teaching ancient Greece? Maybe the Athenian acropolis, Delphi, or something like that? Now that I'm at a school with more resources, I'm hoping that I can make use of some fun stuff in my classes.

Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher! Image for visibility...

I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation." www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...

Megan Nutzman@megannutzman.bsky.social · last yr.

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

It's publication day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation"! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...

Megan Nutzman@megannutzman.bsky.social · last yr.

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

I won free tickets to an Ohio State football game at faculty orientation today. I should probably buy something red!

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

My former department lost 3 people in the last year alone: 2 tenured (including me) and 1 TT. There will be no TT or FT lecturer searches this year and no promise of any in future years. This is in addition to the 4 lines lost over the previous decade. I feel guilty about adding to these numbers.