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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!
https://www.wccclassics.org/events
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ooh, the Helen of Ovid's Heroides could be interesting. (I usually pick the Briseis and Penelope letters, not Helen, but comparing them all could work well!) I also have an assignment comparing translations of Helen's speech in the Odyssey, that I'm happy to share with anyone interested!
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hahahaha, what about this? www.instagram.com/reel/Da3X0Lb...
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In class? Or, like, with student groups? What texts do you want to look at? So many options here!
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My current ideas include a cornhole-like carnival game I'm calling "pin the eye on the Cyclops" which involves throwing chopsticks through a hole in a cardboard cutout. Should work for tabling-style events?
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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
Hill describes the kylix: "woman wearing a loin-band (perizoma) proper to members of a Satyric chorus... This loin-band--indispensable to the mimic satyrs of the theater, to support equine tails and leathern phalloi--would of course be superfluous, and presumably obnoxious, to genuine silens." LOL
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For anyone following along, looks like B.H. Hill (AJA, 1931) mentions the only parallel he knows about, a Pyrrhic dancer on a bell-krater by the Kiev painter, whom he says "wears an embroidered loin-band with phallos." So it looks like I've got to find that one!
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Object in ASCSA database here (h/t to @archaeadne.bsky.social for finding it): ascsa.net/id/corinth/o...
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Corinth Object CP 885 - ASCSA.net
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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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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
So there's clearly something about slavery and class tied up in Roman thought about masturbation ('only poor men masturbate, rich men have enslaved people (or people they've otherwise dominated) to satiate them' seems in keeping with standard Roman social/sexual mores).
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Not a whole lot in Roman lit (afaik), but Martial says something revealing in 2.43: critiquing a rich guy, he literally calls his own hand a poor man's slave ('instead of Ganymede, my hand helps me,' 2.43.14), in contrast to the rich guy, who has a whole crowd competing to be his "Trojan cinaedus."
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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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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Me and @apistone.bsky.social will be there! We're leading a roundtable/brainstorming session on pedagogical communities of practice, and it's going to be fun!
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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 · 07/04/2026
Thank you! It looks like stickers can be made & shipped in the US! Which I think solves my problem!!!
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I know Flaroh is UK-based; do you have any idea if shopping at her Redbubble shop would incur tariffs?
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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
Just to reshare the gift link someone shared downthread, for those interested in reading the whole thing: bsky.app/profile/tds....
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The discussion of rape in the article is also facile (perhaps dangerously so, if it actually reflects the scholarship coming out of this project) and ignores obvious evidence that would complicate it and add essential nuance. So I guess I now have a new topic to write on. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
That said, Boddice's desire here to disrupt empathy or whatever is bizarre. Understanding others' emotions is the whole project!?! It's nonsensical. (Imho, this whole framing, redefining humanity or relationships or whatever, is a symptom of humanities making big-tech-style claims to secure grants.)
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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Defamiliarizing and dehumanizing are not the same thing. People don't have to be exactly like us for us to see them as people. Indeed, I'd say that insisting on human universals, rather than embracing & attempting to understand the diversity of human experiences, is far more aligned with fascism.
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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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