As we mourn the great Averil Cameron, I point you to her autobiographical talk from 2017: on being working class and female in Ancient History wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

Pasts Imperfect (2.5.26) This week, medievalist and historian of race Cord J. Whitaker discusses the National Park Service's removal of an exhibit on American slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. T...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Medievalist & historian of race @profcwhit.bsky.social discusses NPS' removal of plaques documenting slavery in Philly 🔔 Then, the ceramics of Roberto Lugo, a new DH project on the artifacts of refugees, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more

Diogenes The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy o...

Wanted to note that next week's Pasts Imperfect is focused on philosophy—with a lot of Plato and Diogenes for good measure. The brilliant Dr. @ingerkuin.bsky.social will be writing for us, so remember to sign up for PI here: pasts-imperfect.ghost.io & read her new book. It is a barrel full of fun. 🛢️

Macte!

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Mind Reading and Stolen Wits: The Encounter of Diomedes and Glaukos in Iliad 6 One of the most iconic scenes of the Iliad is the exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in book 6. This scene comes in the middle of book 6, in part as a delaying technique while Hektor travels int…

"there is a reading of Glaukos’ use of Bellerophon’s narrative that shows it works similarly to Odysseus’ lies: he weaponizes a story...that allows him to avoid fighting the most dangerous person on the battlefield."

sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/12/06/m...

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Just out!

As @sarahsemple.bsky.social says, '544 pages and 190 images of pure sculptural joy!'

A fantastic cast list and a tremendous achievement @ascorpus.bsky.social.

boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.

capitalbnews.org/snap-crisis-...

Calling all teachers and professors of Classics, history, mythology, etc. please join us in VA next June!! We’d love to learn and hear from you, especially if you are from the VA area!
www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institut...

Fannie Lou Hamer addressing the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. (United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)

Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes:

“Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?”

inthesetimes.com/article/i-qu...

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

behold, a woman

Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.”

Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

Faith Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Immigration Raids at Houses of Worship | Common Dreams Religious organizations sue DHS over policy targeting parishioners at houses of worship. Lawsuit alleges violation of First Amendment rights.

"A large coalition of religious organizations is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for what it describes as a policy that has intimidated their parishioners through the 'threat of surveillance, interrogation, or arrest' at houses of worship."
#USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies at 97 In song, he brilliantly skewered clichés about romance, patriotism and small-town life.

RIP Tom Lehrer, musical master of satirical and "blithely subversive" wordplay - the Post's term. I'm sure my dad's love of Lehrer and my multiple listenings to his records helped embed a love of language and a skepticism toward authority in my young self. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?

This is also something the Nazi regime started doing in their first few years.

Exactly this

Ghislaine Maxwell engaged in 'significant pattern of dishonest conduct,' DOJ said in 2022 Ghislaine Maxwell engaged in a "significant pattern of dishonest conduct," federal prosecutors said in a 2022 sentencing memo.

The regimes media stooges are working to recast Maxwell as the victim in the Epstein files.

We can’t forget this lying lowlife was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity & conspiracy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ghi...

A view into the tomb, showing various pottery vessels

A view into the tomb, in the background archaeologists at work

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization. 

news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

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Journalists should *always* be prepared when interviewing a politician who "refuses to deal in hypotheticals" to respond with examples of when the politician previously dealt in hypotheticals.

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

Also let’s note that JD Vance has the kind of Christian who thinks you should apologize for saying “bullshit” but not for lying about a group of immigrants stealing and eating pets in order to fan the flames of immigrant-hate.

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