I understand calling for individualized responses or even mass resistance to AI in academia. It's important to do what we can individually. But if unionization isn't part of the conversation, then we're not giving ourselves the best chance to win. Unions are the best institutions to help control AI

The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE) The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.

The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...

any and all advice for writing a conclusion for a dissertation would be welcome rn

Cross section of Snicker's bar with multiple heads of Sokrates photoshopped around peanuts.

As we enter October, your yearly reminder to always check your youth's candy for corrupting Greek philosophers.

I haven't been on here in a while, partly because I've been leisure reading. I finally finished Wretched of the Earth, also read Zorba the Greek and Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing, currently on The Seven Storey Mountain and selections of Dom Helder Camara's writings.

‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel expl...

It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov.
#ResDiffJournal

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So excited to be working on this with everyone. Please feel free to reach out 💫

Mary Louise Gill:

My father liked the mystical side of Plato and Spinoza’s demonstrative method. On his deathbed...I gave him a bound copy of my dissertation dedicated to him. My father's last words to me: 'You should go back to Plato.'

www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/mary-louisg...

I guess I was so absorbed by Callimachus' Hymn to the Bath of Athena that I didn't notice the earthquake?

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New issue of Phronesis Vo. 69, No. 1 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... #ancientsky #philsky

Students Decipher 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scrolls

Read how NEH-supported AI technologies at Univ of Kentucky are helping to crack one of archaeology’s most famous mysteries:

www.neh.gov/news/student...

Researchers use ancient DNA to map migration during the Roman Empire The team led by Stanford Medicine analyzed thousands of genomes, including those newly sequenced from 204 skeletons, to gain insight into how and where people moved during the Roman Empire.

"It showed just how diverse many areas of the Roman Empire were: At least 8% of individuals included in the study did not originally come from the area of Europe, Africa or Asia in which they were buried."

med.stanford.edu/new...

I'm trying to work on Latin prose comp while my pilot brother's talking to me about his upcoming work trip to Honolulu, and all I can think is quo usque tandem abutere patientia nostra

Image of digitally unscrolled papyrus from Herculaneum.

BIG Herculaneum Papyrus news today!

Several of the prize winners in the Vesuvius Challenge formed a super collaboration, and have built a tool that made 5% of the scroll readable!!

The challenge uses CT scanning, and other imaging to virtually unroll and read a charred papyrus without damage. (1)

Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy Did you know that Plato, one of the most prominent thinkers in history, thought there may be a perfect world that exists outside of our senses?

Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy

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www.thecollector.com/plato-comple...

Statement from President Joe Biden on Early Student Debt Cancellation for Borrowers Enrolled in SAVE... From Day One of my Administration, I vowed to fix the student loan system and make sure higher education is a pathway to the middle class – not a barrier to opportunity. Already, my Administration h...

The Biden Administration has made SAVE retroactive for 10 years, meaning that anyone who took out less than $12k of student loans and has been repaying for 10 years IMMEDIATELY has rest of their students loans cancelled. Community college students will receive most of this relief.

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Talking to Greg Sadler about my experiences as an academic editor, author, and reviewer, and the general state of academic publishing. An enjoyable conversation which I hope you will enjoy too!

Res Difficiles, The Journal Since 2020, the Res Difficiles conference series has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status and beyond. An outgrowth of this conference series, Res Difficiles, The Journal—an imprint of Ancient History Bulletin, a Green Open Access Journal—invites submissions from individuals, pairs, or groups, addressing “difficult things” within the discipline of Classics and related fields. Res Difficiles, The Journal seeks to publish the “traditional” argumentative forms of inquiry standard to the discipline, but also reflections upon pedagogical concerns as well as contributions of a creative, personal, or experimental nature, including interviews. In addition to individual submissions, we welcome pitches for guest-edited special issues.

It is my pleasure to announce "Res Difficiles, The Journal," an imprint of Ancient History Bulletin, a Green Open Access Journal, co-founded and co-edited by myself and Joseph Romero.

resdifficiles.com

Logeion iOS app update! New dictionaries on your iPhone!

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Dear colleagues, if you have a paper to publish that relates to Latin and the Roman period lato sensu, don't hesitate to send it to the journal Latomus. It's a peer-reviewed journal which works *much faster* than many.

We're ending 2023 on a provocative note, with this look at the philosophical aspects of Critical Race Theory:

#philsky #crt

www.historyofphilosophy.net/critical-rac...

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Meet fourth year student Patricia Y. Hatcher-- not only a PhD student but also a Program Social Media Fellow with the GC Digital Initiatives.

My first book offers a history of classical Greece through the region of Ionia on the coast of Asia Minor and argues that we need to understand this period in how such regions negotiated their position relative to the mosaic of imperial systems.

press.umich.edu/Books/A/Accu...

Other great resources in NYC available to GC Classics Graduate Students: the New York Classical Club!! In their own words: They are a "registered non-profit charity founded over 100 years ago to promote the study of classical antiquity in the New York area..."

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[Unbelievably excited to announce]

A two-year postdoctoral appointment in LABOR HISTORY, 1500-Present.

Brown University, Department of History

Applications due 2/15/24

Women philosophers in antiquity - ABC listen If you don't know much about women philosophers in the ancient Graeco-Roman world, you have a good excuse. They're known to have existed, but hardly any of their works have survived, and historical a...

#radio (rebroadcast) Women philosophers in antiquity - Dawn LaValle Norman (ACU) with David Rutledge on The Philosopher's Zone (ABC) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) is offering 3 two-year postdoctoral positions in analytic philosophy. 
The gross salary is €36.000 per annum. 
The deadline 31 January 2024, at midnight (CET).  
For further details, please follow this link.
www.ub.edu/biap/2023/12...

Ableism: An Ancient Prejudice? In 2017 a new musical about the life of Louis Braille, The Braille Legacy, opened in London. The show was widely criticised for its flagrant inaccessibility: of the 90 performances, only two were Audi...

Hello again BlueSky. 👋🏻 I haven’t mentioned I had another book out this year, my first monograph. It’s about narrative ableism and how reframing our relationship with the classical might help us end it. A blog post on it came out today if you want to find out more: t.co/kGXQWdbykA

Aristotle in Pieces: A Medieval Manuscript's Journey from Italy to Pasadena | The Huntington Book historian Lisa Fagin Davis traces the journey of three pieces of a medieval manuscript written by Aristotle from thirteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century America, and The Huntington.

Very excited to be delivering the 2024 Zeidberg Lecture in the History of the Book at The Huntington Library on Feb. 14! Join me in Pasadena for "Aristotle in Pieces: A Medieval Manuscript's Journey from Italy to Pasadena": huntington.org/event/aristo...

Me: How often do you think of the Roman Empire?
My brother: I think of Cacio e Pepe a lot?