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Dr. Ellen Lee

@ellenleephd.bsky.social
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Feminist, queer, & cognitive approaches to ancient lit + equity pedagogy in language classrooms. UMich PhD, UTexas BA. USW Steelworker. (she/ista) FirstGen

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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
TODAY! Join me and @apistone.bsky.social to talk about how universal design can increase student agency and accessibility in your classes!
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Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happening TOMORROW! with @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy Just the thing to get the "oh my god, the semester is almost here" season off on the right foot! www.wccclassics.org/events/beyon...
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Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
You may be familiar with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, a set of principles designed to give all students an equal opportunity to learn and develop learner agency. However, many of...
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Annnnd we're back! @apistone.bsky.social and I are leading another couple of pedagogy workshops for the WCC to kick off Fall chaos, I mean, course planning season! Join us for this Teaching Idea Exchange TODAY!
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you’d like to donate & support CAMWS’ Dr. Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics, you can do so here: “This $500 annual award recognizes an undergraduate student who demonstrates outstanding work in both Classics and a STEM…” 👏
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Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Part two of our back to school pedagogy offerings, Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy on August 11 at 1pm ET. Join @apistone.bsky.social and @ellenleephd.bsky.social for more advanced conversations around accessibility & UDL www.wccclassics.org/events
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WCC Pedagogy Workshop: Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy
Tuesday August 11, 10am PT / 1:00 pm ET 

You may be familiar with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, a set of principles designed to give all students an equal opportunity to learn and develop learner agency.

This workshop offers participants an opportunity to review the basic UDL framework with other educators, but it also aims to go beyond an introductory level and provide a space for participants to have more advanced conversations about accessibility and learner agency.

Facilitated by Dr. Ellen Cole Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone 
Register now!
https://www.wccclassics.org/events
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Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ANNOUNCING Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Idea Exchange @apistone.bsky.social & @ellenleephd.bsky.social 1 pm ET, Aug. 7th Join a community of pedagogy practitioners for a teaching idea exchange workshop as we refresh and prepare for the new school year! Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events
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WCC Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Idea Exchange
Friday August 7, 10am PT / 1:00 pm ET 
Do you have an in-class activity that always works to get students talking? A tried-and-true strategy for helping students learn vocabulary? An assignment that you actually look forward to grading? Or do you want to learn about others’ excellent pedagogical ideas? 

Join a community of pedagogy practitioners for a teaching idea exchange workshop, as we prepare to refresh our teaching for the new school year! 

Facilitated by Dr. Ellen Cole Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone 
Register now!
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have now seen The Film (and read The Review) and I have Opinions! But my first question for #Classics folks on here: obviously, we've got to milk this for all it is worth! What #Odyssey content are you planning to engage students this Fall?
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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Exciting things happening here!!! Our inaugural essay for Rhea Receptions is up, discussing how to engage students with ancient myth via 'book club' by Dr. Stephanie Kimmey! Receptions is a limited summer run of essays exploring the ancient world today and written for a general audience. Read on👇
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Teaching with Book Club
Stephanie Kimmey. Weber State University. stephaniekimmey1@weber.edu The book, especially the physical format, is in its Wish List era. TBR (to be read) lists and independent bookstores are seeing …
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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You ever have an idea that sticks in your head and won’t leave until it’s complete? Well, that was me and my idea for a Latin reader based on the Roman values listed on the AP syllabus. So here it is: an anthology of Latin exempla, free to use and enjoy! magisterconway.blogspot.com/2026/07/more...
Cover of book: "Mōrēs Rōmānī: An Anthology of Exempla in Latin Prose: with notes by Dan Conway." Cover image is a marble sculpture of a wrinkled Roman man in profile.
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey #Classics folks! A former student asked me about this red-figure cup featuring a seated Dionysus and a dancing maenad wearing "satyr breeches." I can't think of other examples of women dressed as satyrs, so it seems super interesting! Anybody know of other examples (or scholarship I should rec)?
Attic red-figure stemless kylix cup, with interior depicting a seated Dionysus and (quoting the database description) "before him a dancing maenad, satyr (?). Maenad wears satyr breeches. Dionysos seated on klismos, himation loosely draped about legs. Garlanded with laurel, holds thyrsos in right hand. Surrounding border of stopped maeanders interspersed with dotted checker."
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Benjamin Andrew @benfictional.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Penn State faculty vote yes to unionize! ✊ www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...
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We Won!!!
Thousands of Penn State Faculty Vote to Join SEIU Local 668.
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CripAntiquity @cripantiquity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This past weekend, CripAntiquity board members Alicia Matz (Co-Chair) and Tori Lee (Secretary) hosted a workshop at the 9th Quadrennial Feminism & Classics conference, hosted by the University of Cincinnati. (1/)
Alicia Matz (in a blue shirt with flowers with a grey cardigan over it) and Tori Lee (in a red shirt with a pattern on it) standing in front of a window, smiling.
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So excited to hear about this new edition of Catullus from the inimitable @magistracohen.bsky.social!
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Dr. Alicia Matz @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Who all is going to be at FemClas this week?
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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I have SO MANY thoughts about these schools and the broader movement and gave a paper about them at a conference last month. Overall, this isn't an awful article but I do have an issue with the credulous parroting of this "apolitical" line www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
This teaching method, backed by conservatives, is on the rise
Classical schools focus on Western content and American ideals. “We are going to honor the creation of our flag. We are going to honor George Washington,” one principal said.

Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EDTThe model at the Florida school, known as classical education, emphasizes Western history and literature, and draws on teaching methods from ancient Greece and Rome. The approach has found new popularity among families who say the methods offer more rigor than schools that have relaxed their grading policies or use screens for much of their teaching. And, supporters argue, the Eurocentric content is more proven than evolving modern teachings.

While the model is apolitical, it is also being pushed by conservatives, who say it celebrates American ideals and Western thought. Classical education’s newfound popularity comes as the Trump administration seeks to promote patriotism and frames criticism of the darker chapters of U.S. history as un-American. The president is also attempting to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from schools, governments and workplaces.Critics of the classical approach, including some education experts, say the schools can be a Trojan horse for conservative ideology and promote a myopic worldview — undermining efforts to expand curriculums to better reflect the experiences of all students in public K-12 schools, the majority of whom are not White.

Of the 895 classical schools in the United States, one-third opened or adopted the model between 2020 and 2024, according to a database published by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. The vast majority of the schools are private and Christian, but a growing number are public charter schools, which are independently operated and taxpayer-funded.

Defending the model, Wheeler said students receive “a very wide view of the world and our country.” The classic European teaching methods that the school uses — seminars, memorization and recitation, character development — mold children into critical thinkers who can reason and communicate effectively, according to Wheeler. They study texts knownMore than 2,700 children attend Pineapple Cove’s three campuses in Brevard County in central Florida. Like many classical schools in the U.S., it has ties to Hillsdale College, a small, conservative Christian school in Michigan that has partnered with the Trump administration. It’s known for promoting “patriotic education,” and in 2021 published a K-12 history curriculum that teaches that “America is an exceptionally good country,” echoing rhetoric from President Donald Trump.

Wheeler, however, said Hillsdale’s work at Pineapple Cove has been nonpartisan. The college provides curriculum and other supports to classical K-12 schools.

Every classical school is different, but they are bound by a focus on cultivating virtues and teaching the liberal arts of grammar, logic and rhetoric — or effective communication. Children study American and Western European literature written between the 8th and mid-20th centuries, mostly by White men, including Homer, William Shakespeare and John Steinbeck. Pineapple Cove students also read the memoir of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and school staff say they think there is sufficient exposure to different perspectives.
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hey #AncientSky, I need to replenish our departmental supply of ancient world-themed stickers before graduation festivities later this month, but, in this new age of tariffs & AI slop, I need help! Where can I buy cool classics stickers designed by a human & without exorbitant hidden fees?
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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thread: This semester at Texas Tech, our new chancellor has required a portal to be created through which a form must be submitted for every course. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...
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Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching
Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ICYMI: Katharine Huemoeller's _The Child Follows the Womb_ comes out today! This book is a game-changer for our understanding of enslaved women's reproductive labor in the Roman world yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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The Child Follows the Womb
A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome’s most significant legacies is a legal framework for...
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
hell yes Steve Mellon & co. I could not sign this fast enough. LFG!! I'm pledging to support post-Block journalism in Pittsburgh. Whether that's new ownership at the PG, or a Pittsburgh Union Progress revival, or something else, I'm here for it. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledgi...
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Pledging to support Pittsburgh journalism beyond the Blocks
I think workers should be treated with dignity and respect. I know Pittsburgh deserves quality journalism. That's why I'm joining members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and signing this pledge t...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...
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Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26)
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within t...
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
New year, new Rhea! Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I'm seeing some good critiques of this (and, as a scholar of ancient emotion, I have plenty to offer myself!), but I have to say: the claim that human emotional experiences are based in diverse cultural norms does NOT imply that people who experience emotions differently than we do are less human.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
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aclclassics.bsky.social @aclclassics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Join us in Williamsburg, VA for the 79th ACL Institute! Hosted by W&M Classics, with in-person + virtual sessions. Date for proposals: Pre-Institute workshops due Dec 15, 2025; Institute sessions due Jan 11, 2026. Details + links: www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institute/A…
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🚨 PSA for classics folks: a new volume, Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian World (which features a contribution from my amazing colleague SB Breitenfeld), is now available open-access here! irfrome.org/publication/...
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AIRF Vol. 53 Ancient rape cultures: sexual violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian world
Edited by Elina Pyy Rome, 2025.
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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Included is a state-of-the-field piece about disability in antiquity (open access), which I co-wrote with @horusofnekhen.bsky.social and @tibg1312.bsky.social. See where we're at with this subfield!
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 31/10/2025
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
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Classics and Africa CFP
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, …
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Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit! www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources (Committee on Translations) | Society for Classical Studies
Call for Abstracts: The Indirect Method: Translations as SourcesTranslation Panel, annual SCS meeting in Philadelphia, 2027Proposed by: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical AuthorsOrganizers: Sc...
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Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...
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Symposium Vesuvianum 2026 - The Vergilian Society
Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience Villa Vergiliana, Cumae (October 7 – 11, 2026) Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio Universi...
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United Steelworkers @uswmetallos.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Congratulations to Vice President Roxanne Brown who has been elected as our next international president! “I am beyond humbled & honored to serve as the USW’s next president," said Brown. Read more at: usw.ca/new-usw-leaders-prepare-to-take-office/
A close up of a person with short dark hair and glasses is seen speaking into a microphone. Text reads, "Congratulations! Roxanne Brown, Incoming USW International President-Elect"
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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Heads up, UIUC Classics is accepting applications for MAT and MA/PhD programs for fall 2026. All resident grads are supported by full tuition waivers and a combo of fellowships TAships, and RAships. For any questions, Dan Leon (dleon@illinois.edu) is our fearless DGS and I'll link our website below.
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jackiemurr.bsky.social @jackiemurr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Coming Soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
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New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages
[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.]   I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North …
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My review of @sarahebond.bsky.social's latest book, Strike, just came out in the Classical Journal! It was a pleasure to read and review and I really hope everyone will check it out!
CJ-Online -- 2025.09.02

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. By SARAH E. BOND. Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 272. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-27314-4.



Reviewed by Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University (pistone@gonzaga.edu)

 



Bond offers a compelling historical account and a provocative claim: the histories we tell about labor organizing ought to start earlier than the medieval guild system or the industrial revolution. Her argument is persuasive and she effectively balances careful historical analysis with invitations to draw connections between ancient and modern labor, a theme well served by her strategic use of modern terminology. For example, Bond’s decision to describe manual laborers as “essential workers” (37) is at once jarring in its apparent anachronism and also very effective at prompting the reader to consider parallels between ancient craftspeople and modern workers during the COVID-19 crisis. With Strike, Bond carries the banner for unapologetically political scholarly analysis. In a way, critical engagement with this book—a book which will inevitably receive criticism in some circles for politicizing ancient history (horribile dictu!)—forces the reader to grapple with whether apolitical history is possible, particularly on topics like labor and collective action.

A great strength of this work is Bond’s transparency about the methodological challenges of a history like this: the dearth of sources and elite biases in the sources that do survive. Bond is transparent and regularly returns to the question of how to deal with scant and fragmentary sources. Further questions arise with mythohistorical sources and determining what we can learn about material realities from legends about an imagined past. Rather than debate the historicity of, say, Livy’s account of the Struggle of the Orders, she instead highlights how we can excavate Livy for a sense of what Romans might have considered the “imaginable types of popular resistance and collective action” (22). Ultimately, articulating and expanding “the imaginable” is precisely the role that Strike plays more generally, asking us to reconsider how we interpret ancient sources and to cultivate more capacious historical imaginations. Scholars of the ancient world will know that we constantly imagine what the past might look like when we connect the dots of incomplete sources. Often, contemporary political circumstances narrow our sense of the possible or we unconsciously replicate the lines of inquiry found in the scholarship that shaped us. What Bond offers in this work is a welcome invitation to dream a little bigger.



To be clear, she also offers a detailed examination of Roman history through the lens of labor, and it would be an injustice to her to elide the thorough yet accessible scholarship just because this reviewer wants to wax poetic about historical imaginations. Strike is organized into seven chapters (plus an introduction and conclusion) that are mostly chronological in their treatment of Roman history, though each period is also approached through thematic lenses. The first chapter deals with early Roman history and offers a reading of stories found in sources like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus that is attentive to class conflict. Chapter Two looks at the Late Re…Chapter Three, on the fall of the Republic, takes freedom of assembly as its theme. We see how elite anxieties and suspicions about large assemblies are balanced against the realization (most notably, by Caesar) that large groups of lower-class people could also be an effective source of power. Chapter Four develops these themes, looking at how Augustus co-opted and promoted associations that benefited him, even as associations of entertainers and religious groups found themselves in more tenuous positions across the Empire.



Chapter Five, about the Imperial Period, focuses on the ongoing power negotiations between workers and the state, particularly in Asia Minor where associations often flourished and work stoppages among coloni were frequent. Chapter Six focuses on Late Antiquity, the rising problem of compulsory labor, and an increase in surveillance, all done under the guise of “anticorruption.” I found that some of her interpretations, including the effect of reforms around coinage, lacked the evidence to be completely persuasive, but her speculations raise interesting questions about the evidence that does exist. Finally, as an avid sports fan, I devoured the final chapter’s analysis of athletic factions and the role the arena and spectacles play in mediating social and political relationships.



Space precludes thorough treatment of all the themes of this book. Bond offers an accessible survey of Roman history that decenters the upper classes and instead looks for the experience of both free and enslaved labor within the changing political landscape of the Roman Empire. I see so much potential to use this book in a classroom context, where it would serve as a helpful tool for introducing source criticism, historiography, methodologies for engaging with fragmentary sources, and the uses and limits of comparisons between the ancient and modern world. The open, readable style makes this book suitable for advanced high school students, classics majors and non…
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New post on Humanist! Do I think fondly on (or even remember) oral exams in grad school? No. But do I want to experiment with them now, especially after reading more literature about how to use them to engage students in deep learning? Yes. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky
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Going old school with oral exams
Oral exams have been proposed as a solution to AI-assisted plagiarism. Adding that interpersonal dimension of oral communication can result in more durable learning and a greater feeling of satisfacti...
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Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Was (or is) your campus experience one of conforming to norms, or challenging them? @publicsource.org wants your take on academic freedom for potential inclusion in our new series "Gagging Academia" www.publicsource.org/academic-fre...
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What has Academic Freedom meant to you?
Share your input on academic freedom in higher ed — the freedom to research, publish and discuss relevant issues without censorship.
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A heads up that many many academic books are on this list! Find out if yours is here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
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Funded MAs and More
Additions and Corrections Welcome esp. for Fall 2025 applications! How to use this list. The organizational principles is application closing date. I have grouped by month–the later in the cycle th…
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
YESSS
AI policy for Speculum:
The use of generative AI to write any part of an article’s text or notes or to generate ideas is strictly prohibited.
AI cannot be considered an author of submitted works, as AI tools cannot take ethical or legal responsibility for their output or enter into legal agreements.
If prohibited AI use is discovered even after an article has been accepted, the article will not be published and the offense will be treated as plagiarism.
Authors must fully disclose and cite their use of any content created by AI tools in their manuscripts at the time of submission. This includes data, images, figures, or any other type of content.
Authors must accept full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and citation of content created using generative AI systems, including factual and citation accuracy. 
Software that assists with grammar, spelling, or translation of your own words is not considered generative AI and doesn’t require disclosure.
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 30/08/2025
yesterday @eosafricana.bsky.social sent out their notice for Eos WRITES, which is a really great opportunity to work on writing, give feedback, and build community. here’s their link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are writing to invite you to the first iteration of Eos WRITES. 

WRITES is a workshopping series designed to help members support each other's writing. After creating groups of up to 5 society members, we will make introductions, then provide some helpful guidelines for scheduling 2 hour long workshopping sessions and creating a supportive environment. For the academic year, all 5 members of each group will act as both readers and writers, sharing their work and soliciting feedback.

Please send us your expression of interest by submitting this form by Monday, September 8, 2025.

With all best wishes for the new academic year,

The Eos Executive Committee
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
People of the Boston area! If you're around Tufts on September 24, I'd love to see you come out to this talk, which will be open to the public.
Poster for a talk called: "The AI Heist: How the Tech Industry Exploits the History of Art & what we can do to stop it." 

Wednesday I September 24 I 4:15pm I Tisch 316 

Abstract: Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial
technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will
enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises are
not supported by the reality of what computer vision--the branch of AI most relevant to the
history of art--can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so
quick to take up these firms' offers?

This talk responds to this question by providing an introduction to computer vision's origins in
military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative
micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. However, the main focus of this
talk is not what computer vision does. Rather, I consider the culture of the AI industry, its main
objectives, and the dangerous vision for the future that it promises--and whether those
promises are credible or even in good faith. This vision for the future has relied on an exploitation
of history, and art history in particular, and I argue that it is our responsibility as art historians to
be knowledgeable about the forms this exploitation takes. I conclude with suggestions about
what we can do to protect the subjects and practitioners of our discipline, as well as education
in the humanities more broadly, against this incursion. I do not intend an intransigent rejection of
a given technology; rather this talk articulates a challenge that is grounded in knowledge of the
historical origins and corporate practices of the AI industry today
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
WHAT!?! I honestly cannot wait to read this!!!
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