📢 New SCS Blog Post
Vanessa Stovall on the staging of *Tantalids*, a composite play drawn from Aeschylus' *Agamemnon* and Seneca's *Thyestes* (how can you not be interested in THAT).
Performed at the SCS: Thurs. Jan. 8, 7:30-9:30 PM, Yosemite Ballroom (including a talkback with cast and crew).
If there are problems with this meta-analysis, I would love to read a long-form exploration of the problems, or—even better!—an alternative analysis reaching different conclusions. That’s how we get closer to the truth.
Paul Klee
The Bounds of the Intellect, 1927
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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They bring us together, support families & give every child a fair shot.
That’s why we’re showing up—for our communities, for our children on April 5.
Together, we can #ProtectOurKids by saying: #HandsOff www.mobilize.us/handsoff
There is still the possibility of a veto, so we can hold out hope for a few more days. (Thanks to gerrymandering, the OH state legislature is considerably more conservative than the populace as a whole, meaning the Governor faces more pressure from protests.)
Not a great time to be looking for DH jobs but add me to the list of people looking for work. I’m also available for Python / Django development more generally.
Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.
Great to have Diogenes 4.7.1! Many thanks to Peter Heslin. Mac OS Sequoia victims are now slightly better off than they were with version 4.6. Download here: d.iogen.es/d/download.h...
I’d want to see that!
After 6 months of work, 4 VCRs, and an official translation, I am pleased to share my RF rip of Yukio Ninagawa's staging of Euripides's Medea, a tape which has never been transferred. archive.org/details/ojo....
Well done! Excited to celebrate!
A lot has happened in DH at Tufts and the DH MA has become very exciting.
Thanks! It’s a musical analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone, published last January in Arethusa: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Taken out of context, this seems super florid…. I swear that all these descriptive adjectives are doing serious work, pulling together the motifs I traced across the play!
LAST SENTENCE of your last article/chapter:
Yet he, too, would end up precisely where he began: through the flickering flames of his pyre, we might imagine, Heracles could ascend to become part of the shimmering night—the heavenly realm that is both his origin point and his final destination.
Classicist Mac users: This is relevant for Diogenes users who have made the jump to Sequoia.
I’ve been on the ground since 2013, and you can definitely count me among the very burnt. It makes me even more attached to the progress I’ve fought for and now implemented. I’ll think about writing something up.
I’d be happy to chat. I suppose I could think about writing something up at some point, if you think people would find it useful.
I definitely don’t blame folks for having reservations. I figure since I am in a position to provide some info on what has changed, I ought to offer it here. It has been a laborious process for those involved, and I’d hate to see it be for nothing. As for the ACL and NLE, I’m not sure what’s up.
Please keep in mind that this was written in 2019. Organizations can change in response to criticism (both external and internal), and the changes at Paideia’s Greece program have been HUGE in terms of both staff and policies. This isn’t the same organization that it was in 2019.
Please keep in mind that organizations are made up of many people, and the most ardent criticisms often come from within. I now run Paideia’s Greece program, which otherwise has all new staff and firm DEI policies. If the program has issues, they are new ones (and I’d love to know about them).
Please keep in mind that this was written five years ago and that organizations can change in response to criticism, which is a good thing. Paideia has undergone a massive overhaul in personnel, and the current staff have worked hard on policies to prevent the return of past wrongs.
I work in one of these Midwestern history departments, which used to train _hundreds of high school history teachers every year_ and this year will graduate barely a dozen, in large part because we now have 1/2 the faculty we did 20 years ago and only one person specializing in history education.
🚨 SCS Task Force Report on the Future of the Annual Meeting now available 🚨
SCS members: please do read this carefully. There is a LOT on the table here. The SCS will be canvassing views on all of this (exactly when/how TBD); make sure to respond!
University of Cincinnati Classics is still accepting applications as well, for both PhD and (paid) MA.
A stat sheet that reads THE SPORTULA est. 2018. Microgrants for Classics Studnets. Approx. $257,338.97 raised since 2018. $23,547.99 raised this year alone. How are funds used? Tuition 18%, Conferences/research 6%, books 17.3%, living expenses 52%. 150 grants filled in 2023. Monthly donations $1700, avg. monthly requests $5000. Average amount requested: $256.32. Backlog of 80 requests. Who do we fund? Mostly undergraduates and graduate students, a few postdocs and contingent faculty, independent researchers.
Some Sportula stats for #AIASCS #AIASCS2024! This year, we raised and gave away over $23k, but we still have a backlog of 80(!) requests for #microgrants from #Classics students. More than half of our funds go towards covering basic living expenses. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky
I’d love to be a fly on the wall at this conversation. I’ve been trying something similar for intonation patterns in Euripides.
I’ll be there! Let’s get lunch or something.
