Thinking about the various scandals in academia regarding data fraud and broken peer review. First, I’m incredibly grateful for the network of friends and colleagues who read my work, improve it, and save me from errors. A good editor is an amazing gift.

Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...

A first: I autographed a book, its owner eventually put it back in circulation :), a student bought it as a used copy ... and I autographed it again. The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of life.

Yes. Progressive voices trained in antiquity have been talking about this for *years* and *years*. There are unfortunately still folks in Classics that will jump on any bandwagon that gives Classics as a field more attention in the hopes of helping “save” Classics +

Jen@cassiciacum.bsky.social · 3y ago

And it’s why part of the far right attack on higher Ed is focused on keeping the mythology intact even as professional Classics scholars work to deconstruct the myths. See the obsession with the “liberal classical education” and nonsense about Odysseus as a hero for our times.

If anyone already has a hard copy of Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVII and wants to scan me a few pages, let me know... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oxyrhynch...

And here’s the schedule of speakers: uclaclassicsgradconference.wordpress.com/2023-confere...

Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 3y ago

I am so looking forward to the UCLA Classics Grad Student Conference this year: "Knowing and Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship in the Ancient Mediterranean." September 29-30th, with keynote by @kataplexis.bsky.social. Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great review of S. Derbew's UNTANGLING BLACKNESS IN GREEK ANTIQUITY by @opietasanimi.bsky.social!! Just ordered a copy for our library. 📚 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.09...

First post on blue sky to say my new book is here!

Looking forward to some sleuthing in Mainz on Monday! Tune in to find out whodunnit!

@profbernard.bsky.social has left the empire for the blue blue skies! welcome him and get a hold of his latest:

Today's reading: Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707145...

Interesting new article by Jessica Clark on the very curious affair of Publius Salonius in 342 BC in *Classical World*: muse.jhu.edu/article/905241

I have a new publication out! My chapter on automata, cyborgs & hybrids is now available in Maria Geromelou & George Kazantzidis’ brilliant book Body & Machine in Classical Antiquity from CUP! The proceedings of an amazing conference in Cyprus in 2018 🤖🦾🦿

πάθει μάθος / I am made to watch this movie almost on the daily:

New candidate for most entertaining (?) footnote in a Loeb:

It's department newsletter official (TM), so I'm excited to share that Duke Classical Studies has started a Bridge-to-the-PhD-Fellowship for students from underserved populations who want to pursue PhD level work but who need more language training. classicalstudies.duke.edu/.../duke-has...

Please read this, from Alexis Pauline Gumbs. "The sinking ship is no longer a metaphor. The broken heart is no longer a metaphor. Who needs a metaphor in times as hot and blunt as ours? Let’s make it plain." https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/

Heat is Not a Metaphor

As the hottest summer on record draws to a close, how do we make sense of the images of a climate in crisis?

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Since they don't have an account here yet: The Sportula still exists! This month, they only had enough funds to fill 6 microgrants, & the backlog of emergency requests is more than double that. Any donation helps: Venmo @sportula or join Patreon:

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This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.

I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart.

The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.

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Come to me over snail mail, my (approx.) 25 quid...

Great department, great people

Dominic Machado@dominicmachado.bsky.social · 3y ago

Exciting news - the Classics Department at Holy Cross is running a search for a TT Assistant Professor who specializes in ancient Mediterranean cultures and languages beyond Greece and Rome, beginning Fall 2024. Ad below, please share widely: https://apply.interfolio.com/130024

Important numbers here: "crises in the humanities" are created top down. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/15/does-humanities-research-matter-anymore-opinion

Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)

The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.

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Likewise happy to chat (as former juror and recent Resident); drop me a message if you're curious or have questions.

Excited to announce that the Introduction to our long ongoing open-access volume "Displacement & the Humanities" has now been published @Humanities_MDPI --a dialogic retrospective w/ E. Isayev @MarciaSchenck & Gerawork Teferra Gizaw https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/4/81

Gimme that classical reception Empire State

Gnomologium Vaticanum shade-skeets Liverpool Classics listserv:

Joel@sentantiq.bsky.social · 3y ago

from the gnomologium vaticanum “Heraclitus said “people are terrible judges of the truth” <῾Ο> αὐτὸς εἶπεν· „ἄνθρωποι κακοὶ ἀληθινῶν ἀντίδικοι”

I can't wait to read this, but in the meantime, I'm organizing a Critical Ancient World Studies reading group, zooming once a month to discuss each other's papers (and soon to discuss this book!) and move this forward. If you're interested, let me know: you don't have to present a paper to attend.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta@platanoclassics.bsky.social · 3y ago

Coming out in December: Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics. Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward put together a dream team! https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-World-Studies-The-Case-for-Forgetting-Classics/Umachandran-Ward/p/book/9781032120119#

in case you haven’t seen it yet: there’s an open letter to the Pulitzer Prizes for literature, asking that they change the prizes’ citizenship rules 🌱 please share if you’d like https://lithub.com/dear-pulitzer-prizes-its-time-to-recognize-literature-by-noncitizens/

Dear Pulitzer Prizes: It’s Time to Recognize Literature by Noncitizens

Dear Pulitzer Prizes for Literature: We, the undersigned, are readers and lovers of literature, undocumented writers, first- and second-generation immigrants, Native and Black writers, past winners…

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