Dr. Melissa Funke
@melissakafunke.bsky.social
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Classicist and lover of fragments. Winnipegger. she/hers
Merry Christmas to all, from a very excited 12 year-old, her tuckered pup, and a dad taking wrapping paper duty VERY SERIOUSLY.
13 days ago
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Kathleen Bachynski
23 days ago
âThese systems are fundamentally systems for repeatedly answering the question âwhat is the likely next wordâ and thatâs it,â said Emily Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington⊠âit is not based on reason or understanding or looking at information.â
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Peopling The Past
about 1 month ago
This weekâs
#PeoplingBlog
features the work of Uzma Z. Rizvi, whose project at MohenjoDaro in Pakistan highlights the ways in which archaeologists can engage in decolonial approaches in their use of legacy data through the framework of an archaeology of care:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/11/28/b...
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Winnipeg Free Press
about 1 month ago
The University of Winnipeg has terminated its president.
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U of W president removed
The University of Winnipeg has terminated its president.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/11/25/u-of-w-president-removed
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Lauryn Hill: amazing, incredible, I am filled with joy that I actually got to see her live. My 19 year-old self can't handle it.
about 2 months ago
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Happy Halloween/Game 6!
2 months ago
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Our friends from Egypt's Dispersed Heritage, along with Millennial 3al A5er and and the Horniman Museum and Gardens have written a đ„ post on the treatment of mummified remains for
@peoplingthepast.bsky.social
. Find it here (including the Arabic version):
peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...
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Blog #112: âWhat Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?â A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egyptâs Dispersed Heritag...
In this weekâs blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egyptâs Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways âŠ
https://peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/blog-112-what-should-you-do-when-you-encounter-one-of-our-egyptian-mummified-ancestors-a-12-point-manifesto-on-how-to-dal-with-egyptian-mummified-ancestral-remains-with-egypts-dispersed-heritage-proje/
2 months ago
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Happy Halloween,
#ClassicsBlueSky
! Check out this amazing jack o'lantern from a student. It's the deer from an early Ephesian coin!
2 months ago
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kate wehwalt forever
3 months ago
wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/uchicago-debt-humanities-phd-rubenstein/
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Peopling The Past
3 months ago
In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5
#PeoplingVideo
contributions across the years /thread đ§”đ
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Ben Miller
3 months ago
The names of all the children that are known, with many more likely buried under the rubble.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gazaâs list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israelâs offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead
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Hannah ÄulĂk-Baird
3 months ago
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of
#ResDiffJournal
guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a âGlobalizedâ World?"
resdifficiles.com/internationa...
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International Scholarship in a âGlobalizedâ World? CFP
At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, âInternationaâŠ
https://resdifficiles.com/international-scholarship-in-a-globalized-world-cfp/
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We're 5! (I can't believe it!) Many thanks to the wide variety of incredible scholars who have shared their time and expertise with us.
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4 months ago
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.)
4 months ago
Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology.
planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-...
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The Best of All Possible Methods
The Gold and Katz Defense of Philology
https://planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-all-possible-methods-6609f7e7c9b6
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Back on the ice for a fun pre-season skate with a bunch of my favorite young athletes! (Also loving the Greek myth crossover merch)
4 months ago
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Contractually obligated to share this post as a professor of Greek named Melissa
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5 months ago
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The Folklorama Llama has been sighted!
5 months ago
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Featuring
@uwluxproject.bsky.social
's design your own shabti sheets, soon to appear at the Egyptian Pavilion.
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5 months ago
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This was an incredible season to record. I would like to thank our season 4 guests for sharing their wisdom and making our fields better through their scholarship and advocacy. They demonstrate everyday that things do not need to go on as they always have.
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5 months ago
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Today we welcomed a new member into the family and Lola is POOPED.
5 months ago
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Heartbroken to read about the judge's remarks on the victim in the Hockey Canada trial. Regardless of the legal outcome, they are sure to put a chill on other sexual assault victims in the future.
6 months ago
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It's going to be a fun year teaching our new course and learning from my colleagues!
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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New University of Winnipeg project a crash course in classic and contemporary works
The University of Winnipeg is launching a first-of-its-kind course that will introduce undergraduate students to classics, religion and literary studies all at once. Four academics will co-teach Intro...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/07/20/new-u-of-w-project-a-crash-course-in-classic-and-contemporary-works
6 months ago
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Peopling The Past
6 months ago
In times of ongoing war, how can antiquities be protected from damage and looting? On todayâs
#PeoplingPodcast
, we are joined by Dr. Isber Sabrine, co-founder of Heritage for Peace, to talk about his work preserving cultural heritage in the midst of armed conflict
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/15/p...
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Peopling The Past
6 months ago
On todayâs
#PeoplingPodcast
, we are joined by
@zenakamash.bsky.social
to discuss her work with Iraqi communities and how she uses craftwork to bring the public together with cultural heritage and to foster wellbeing:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/08/p...
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Working Classicists
6 months ago
â WORKING CLASSICIST OF THE YEAR â Zena Kamash (@zenakamash.bsky.social) is this years' Working Classicist of the Year! Congratulations, Zena! đ
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Peopling The Past
6 months ago
Is it possible to re-envision the place of Greece and Rome in the ancient world overall? In todayâs new
#PeoplingPodcast
, we are joined by Dr. Mathura Umachandran to reimagine Classics through the lens of Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS) /1
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/01/p...
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This has huge monorail energy
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7 months ago
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The advantage of being a classicist is that sometimes you can just blast a few notes on the salpinx in your colleague's office if you want to.
7 months ago
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This episode should be particularly resonant for
#Manitoba
residents: building dams and moving communities. William digs down to the impact of hydropolitics and archaeology.
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7 months ago
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At the intersection of labour rights and archaeology. This is a very important conversation.
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7 months ago
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Just found out my little rural Manitoba hometown just had its first Pride march.
7 months ago
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I thoroughly enjoyed talking to
@hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social
about his brilliant work. And I may have fangirled about his own art too...
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7 months ago
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TENURED (It was long journey through the job market and contract positions, so I'd like to add that in this absolute gong show of a world, we need to do everything we can to create permanent, well supported academic positions.)
7 months ago
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Winnipeg friends, take a look at this list and help the thousands of evacuees in the city:
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7 months ago
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If you ever wondered how all that stuff ended up in places like the British Museum, Dan Hicks is here to tell you the unfiltered truth.
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7 months ago
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Peopling The Past
8 months ago
In this weekâs
#PeoplingPodcast
episode we are joined by Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney to discuss museum pedagogy, community engagement in exhibit development, and the display of Egyptian cultural heritage:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/20/s...
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Cheering for this guy first and foremost tonight. I know what it's like to lose a beloved dad suddenly and I hope he can carry through.
8 months ago
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Time to brag on my amazing students: these are the only undergraduate presenters at the
@cacscec.bsky.social
and they ate! Thoughtful, sharp, and passionate about how they contribute to our community. I am still glowing with pride.
8 months ago
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Loving the
@cacscec.bsky.social
annual meeting as usual, but adapting to sleeping in my own bed while attending a conference!
8 months ago
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Heba is one of my favorite scholars. Her work is full of wisdom and worth listening to in considering how our work on the ancient world relates to modern communities in those places.
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8 months ago
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This is 100% my issue with this kind of student cheating. It's more heartbreaking than anything else.
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8 months ago
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Roberta Mazza
8 months ago
I was dreaming of being a guest of
#PeoplingPodcast
@peoplingthepast.bsky.social
and then it finally happened! Follow them NOW đ„â€ïžđ
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Peopling The Past
8 months ago
New
#PeoplingPodcast
alert! Today, we are joined by
@robertamazza.bsky.social
to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to âFragments and Falsehoodsâ here:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
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Not just a little disturbed that a post with the hashtag "Academic Freedom" wouldn't post on the other place until I removed said hashtag.
8 months ago
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I live in this parking lot now
8 months ago
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Don't mind me: I left home to pick up my husband and kid from the Jets game before Perfetti tied it up. Now in a random parking lot sending my best possible vibes down the street.
#GoJetsGo
#OT
8 months ago
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I've been playing with
@winnipegtransit.bsky.social
's new routes and it seems that when the switch happens, my 2-minute walk to a bus stop has now been changed to a 10-minute+ walk no matter which combo of routes I take. I wonder how I'll feel about this in the dead of winter?
8 months ago
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Peopling The Past
8 months ago
The
#PeoplingPodcast
is BACK! Today, to kick off Season 4, we are joined by Katie Paul to discuss the role of Facebook in the illicit antiquities trade, and how the company has been complicit in the sale and destruction of cultural heritage. Listen here:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/04/29/p...
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Now that I am at last finished marking my Classical History term papers on election night, let me say I never want to teach a class so immediately relevant again. (Knowing I will straightaway)
8 months ago
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