The Sophus Helle translation is great!

Kαλές γιορτές! Joyeuses fêtes! Happy holidays!

A freshman seminar on Joan of Arc and the art of storymaking. It was a fun class and was, in retrospect, fairly foundational to me as an academic writer but now it's the experience that I try to channel the most whenever I teach about the politics of producing narratives about antiquity

If you're in Athens on December 16th, please join us for the last ATLAS Seminar of 2024!

Finally we can clear Ea-nāṣir’s name thanks to this incredible thread by @aandeloucas.bsky.social

A meme depicting one night in amour standing over and about to hit with a folding chair a second, similarly clad, knight who is on hands and knees on the ground. The standing knight is labeled "Me in August." The knight on the ground is labeled "Me in November." The folding chair is labeled "My own syllabi."

It's about that time of year again....

Join a faculty writing group! As a contingent person, this has been the only reason I have been a productive writer and researcher over the past few years, while also being a good way to quickly build community on a new campus (outside of my department)

Re-Opening The BTC Microgrants We are excited to announce a refreshed workflow for the BTC Microgrants. After clearing our backlog, we have developed a new system to ensure the program runs smoothly and effectively. 1. Monthly Appl...

The Black Trowel Microgrants are back! Funded through a collective, these are meant to "erode ... barriers to make them more permeable for the next generation of archaeologists."

A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...

ho HO what’s this? sorry boys i’m gonna be a minute. there’s a Plaque over here

Some examples of academic gatekeeping:
1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count”
2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding
3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people
4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies
5) defaulting to blind peer review

when you design your syllabi, remember that the point of education is to get students to engage with something so weird that they never stop thinking about it for the rest of their lives

I am deliberately taking the below out of context (the context is fascinating, but not what I want to talk about.)

This sentiment: 'that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it' (derogatory) is why I wrote A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and not the book-of-my-postdoc.

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A book with a white ground image of a seated woman receiving a helmet from a returning warrior who stands in front of her. Above this is the book’s title: Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy.

Im ALL CAPS excited to tell everyone on here to go and read my super smart colleague’s new book. It’s an innovative look at how trauma theory can reveal new stories Greek tragedy. It’s certain to be a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in ancient drama or anyone interested in trauma theory.

It's written for a popular audience, so it's very accessible. And it's the sort of slightly (well, very) ghoulish subject matter that's a great hook for students!

Would Megan Rosenbloom's Dark Archives fit the brief?

Here are two things I want people with permanent jobs to know about being a precarious academic:
1. I have never had pay rise.
2. I lose money to work at present.

Neither of these are uncommon.

I routinely split my infinitives with spiteful deliberation, thanks to a professor my freshman year of college who would threaten to fail papers with such grammatical errors, regardless of content

Happy to announce that my early pandemic passion project of trying to figure out why the Dorian invasion still keeps cropping up in archaeological publications is, at long last, finally out in the world! (though, unfortunately, not OA at this time) archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...

A Profession, If You Can Keep It Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

This is the only thing I "wrote" in 2023, because my job isn't about single-author writing anymore. But I wrote it and then presented it and then published it for a field that also isn't my job anymore. Everyone agreed with it. Nothing changed. contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...

Articolo:Il guerriero di Creta: riemergono elmo e scudo dallo scavo di Festos I ricercatori cafoscarini, dell’équipe della professoressa Ilaria Caloi, hanno riportato alla luce nello scavo archeologico di Festòs, nell’isola greca di Creta, l’armatura di un guerrier...

The Italian team working at Phaistos found some Bronze armor (8th-7th c. BCE) in a non-funerary context: www.unive.it/pag/14024/?t...

Notable Sandwiches #75: Grilled Cheese On the joy of a small and perfect thing

I wrote a column about grilled cheese sandwiches, which, to me, are small and perfect things

And the encounter with joy this entails

And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...