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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today I announce that teenage (& still current) me was a big fan of dubstep and its subgenres... 🎶 Currently prepping for AIMS 2026, where I explore antiquity receptions in electronic dance music, from stereotyped remixes to technologized futures where antiquity tries to reclaim humanity or fantasy.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The deadline has been extended! Submissions will be accepted until the 9th!

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

CfP! Do you have something to say about how antiquity has been presented and portrayed in pop culture and want your voice to be heard? Our Virtual Conference in November is your opportunity! Submit a 500 word abstract by August 3rd through this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Call for Proposals: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Send in your 500 word abstract by August 3rd! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/annual-meeti...

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Annual Conference 2026 Call for Proposals: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity …

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Well, I suppose this is a form of classical reception. @antiquitymedia.bsky.social

Build-a-Medusa-Bear, known as a "Lovable Legend."

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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Annual Conference 2026 Call for Proposals: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity …

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Event Announcement: Virtual Book Launch 🕐22 July 4pm EDT (NA), 9pm BST (UK) 23 July 6am AEST (AUS) The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in Comics and Film and Screening Roman Britain: Between Myth and History Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Classical Reception & Impact of Wonder Woman Book Launch!

Please fill in this form to register for the book launch for The Classical Reception & Impact of Wonder Woman with co-editors Amanda Potter, Natalie Swain, and Connie Skibinski. This will be held onl...

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Happening tomorrow: Check out our amazing panels and events, and sign up for this online conference with zero sign up fees!

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This weekend!! The AIMS May event. Register: antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/events/

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This weekend!! The AIMS May event. Register: antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/events/

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We're on instagram! Give us a follow: www.instagram.com/antiquity_me...

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Join #WMU History for a lecture by @metalclassicist.bsky.social and @drchristinah.bsky.social on Femme Métal: Medusa in Heavy Metal Music, exploring the reception of the Greek mythological figure of Medusa in modern music, especially heavy metal. WMU Dunbar Hall 2101, Mon, April 6th, Dunbar 2101.

Femme Metal: Medusa in Heavy Metal Music 4-6 at 4 PM, Dunbar 2101, by Dr. Swist and Dr. Hotalen.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If you're anywhere near Kalamazoo, join us tomorrow with @bretdevereaux.bsky.social to campus to discuss "The Appearance of Accuracy: The Perils of Historical Verisimilitude and the Public's Understanding of History." This is the 1st of 4 lectures for our dept this year on Public & Ancient History.

WMU History Poster (Dunbar Hall, Room 3423) for Dr. Bret Devereaux, The Appearance of Accuracy: The Perils of Historical Verisimilitude and the Public's Understanding of History."

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Join us for a great slate of events on Sat, Feb 28th, including a discussion of source databases, a microgame historical LARP following the Reacting #RTTP model about Roman matrons fighting for their rights, & a social hour! Register for free in advance. antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/events/

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AIMS Events Other than our annual conference, many of our committees have organised various events throughout the year. Some of these (such as the Pedagogy Potlucks and Works-in-Progress Workshops)…

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In new #classicalreception news, more casting has been confirmed for Chris #Nolan's #Odyssey, including Lupita Nyong'o taking up the mantle of Helen, (following in the footsteps of Galyn Gorg in Xena: Warrior Princess), Zendaya as the goddess Athena (a hat-tip to Bernal?), Elliot Page as Hermes?

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Reception Studies Meets the Resistance.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Excited by the new #Odyssey trailer? Submit for #AIMS' new winter virtual monthly conference series: we welcome proposals for papers, games, workshops, & more on any aspect of classical reception or media about the ancient Mediterranean! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2026-confere...

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Call for Proposals: AIMS 2026 Virtual Conference Series

Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for a new monthly conference series, running on the last weekend of every month from February through April 2026. The AIMS virtual conference serie…

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other. www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamestudies #gamingthepast

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Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network

Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Kate Cook on Hades 2, discussing Hades 2's use of more obscure mythical characters and expansion of the notion of what a goddess or god might look like.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The new Roman historical board game Aeterna (M. Wallace, 2025) is a simplification of ~1K yrs of history through the fortunes of 4 clans. It incentivizes historically accurate play, e.g. send citizens to conquer provinces to gain $ & stone to build buildings to quench urban unrest. #Ancientsky #AIMS

Each player's individual game board, with their buildings, citizens (no slaves, at least officially - a common but problematic erasure in historical game models), wheat, and stone, as well as provinces (not shown).

A closeup of the main gameboard, featuring the 7 hllls of Rome, each of which you can influence and build buildings into, as well as the leaders you can gain for each era. In this era, the Principate, the options are Trajan, Hadrian, Augustus, and Diocletian, each with different abilities. This also show the "unrest" track; if your piece, like green here, ends the game at the top of the unrest track, you automatically lose.

The full board, wtith all seven hills of Rome and an image of some of the players' individual gameboards.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

Iowa: Sen. Ernst
Maine: Sen. Collins
Missouri: Sen. Hawley
North Carolina: Sen. Tillis
Ohio: Sen. Husted
Utah: Sen. Curtis
West Virginia: Sen. Capito

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.

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Dr. Kira Jones, Halloween edition 🎃🦇👻 @flaviansophist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I think so. He did an interview for the @antiquitymedia.bsky.social conference, I want to say last year. I imagine it'll be up on the YouTube channel eventually if it isn't already.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Tonight's Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions featured a category dear to #AIMS: "Ancient Romans in the Movies"! While the contestants were confused by some 3X Stumpers, see how you do! For $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer. 1/6

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Dr Aimee Scott @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I rewatched the remake of Clash of the Titans today for the first time since I wrote about it for my thesis 4 years ago and wow, it sure hits different now. A short🧵 on how the new film compares ideologically to the old... 1/

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's Book Day! Amanda Potter and I ran an international virtual conference on #Xena: Warrior Princess in the early days of COVID, which eventually turned into a glorious edited volume! 1/4 www.bloomsbury.com/us/classical...

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Classical Receptions and Impact of Xena: Warrior Princess

Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess. Based…

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Theshira Pather @theshirapather.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It's been a privilege to participate in this year's AIMS conference! I have seen some really amazing presentations this week. The conference has run so smoothly thanks to the fantastic organizers 🙌🏾 #AIMS2024

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Up now at #AIMS2024, our youngest ever presenter, Nadia Cross, a 6th grader presenting with her father Nick Cross, on Ducktales' Storkules and the connections to Hercules! Classical reception is a family endeavor!

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is tremendously exciting news worth reposting even though a year old.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Up now: @theshirapather.bsky.social analyzing how Pat Barker's "Silence of the Girls" comments upon and reinterprets ancient narratives of sexual assault in light of modern views of rape in times of war.

Book Cover for the Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Up now: Vilma Losyte discussing the use of the Louvre's classical sculptures in modern French fashion campaigns, which pairs Black actresses & models with the classical marble sculptures. She notes the marketing campaign still focuses on 1 canon of beauty, rather than, e.g. the Portrait of Madeline.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@peregrinekiwi.bsky.social discussed the legacy and impact of the late great Jennell Jaquays's 1979 non-linear D&D module "The Caverns of Thracia" upon classical reception in TTRPGs, while Alexis Christansen explored the use and depiction of ancient ruins in AC: Odyssey.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Tanya Cook talks about how the Xenite fandom community has raised $30 million for charity and is very social-justice focused, serving as a precursor to many popular culture fandoms, especially those dominated by women & LGBTQ+ folks, and starticipants like Lucy Lawless. #Xena

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Join the Xena virtual book launch or, if you can't, get 20% off the book and all other classical reception texts in the Imagines series! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Book cover of Classical Receptions and Impact of Xena: Warrior Princess

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Welcome new followers! The Antiquity in Media Studies free online conference continues - right now with a panel on the boundaries of Rome in Roman movies, esp Britannia & North Africa. Katrina Knight discusses how women are often the "fundamental Other" in Roman Britain movies - dangerous & savage.

Katrina Knight: Unruly British women, the fundamental Other, with images of Etain (Centurion), Antedia (Britannia), Guinevere (King Arthur), and Boudica (Boudica 2023)

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

One really nice long-term advantage of online conferences is that questioners have a chance to really think about and fine-tune their questions and the moderator has the opportunity to balance questions among the participants in a panel more consciously and directly.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks! [Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten] Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Today's Antiquity in Media Studies panels include receptions of Homer, Sierra Schiano on why classicists should be teaching Percy Jackson and democratizing classical reception, and video games, including #Hades2! antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

Camp Half-Blood as depicted in the Disney+ TV Series of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

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Theshira Pather @theshirapather.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Very excited to be part of this year's AIMS conference! Brilliant start yesterday with some fascinating talks. I will be discussing Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls: using Homer's Briseis to discuss the suffering of modern women. Register antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Comments from folks who know more of the science here? @killgrove.bsky.social in particular?

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

While a work in progress, Aisha Dad is now discussing the Classics Gaming Collaborative and its ongoing database and pedagogical research: cas.uncg.edu/ncsv/classic... They are working together with Paizomen: paizomen.com antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

On now: Modern mass music and ancient Mediterranean culture as techne: @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social is speaking about the use of Swift's use of classical imagery in the video for "Karma" and rejection of her previous good-girl (White) image. antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/aims-confere...

Swift as Nemesis, Hades, Ice Spice as Aphrodite/Venus, and Swift as Charon rowing Ice Spice. Alicia Matz argues that this use of classical imagery aligns Swift with Black women artists who had already been invoking ancient Med. goddesses and women, like Beyonce and Lizzo.

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