This past week The University of Adelaide hosted the 19th AMPHORAE Conference. A huge congratulations to all presenters for their excellent papers! This week also included a tour of our Art Gallery and a Zine Workshop! A truly remarkable week filled with conversation, networking and fun 🏛️🏺💛

A little boost for the day: 1,500 reads of my book on the Peripatetics reached www.researchgate.net/profile/Han-... via @researchgate

Please don’t forget that the call for papers for the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference is open until the end of the month! The only way we get better subject organisations that represent us (and are pro-🇵🇸) is by putting our energy into them… Read more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Registrations are still open for AMPHORAE XIX at The University if Adelaide this year! Program to be announced soon. amphorae-conference.weebly.com

Sarah Pomeroy built her career writing about ancient women who lived in the E Med, W Asia + Egypt. Her investment in Whiteness and Orientalism, which mimicks Trumpian fascist talking points, epitomizes everything that is rotten in Classics. Same for the other Zios tantruming on the list.

I’ve literally never been more excited for anything in my life than I am for Tales of the Shire

#CFP AMPHORAE XIX 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) - hybrid from Adelaide, South Australia - August 25-29, 2025 - www.amphorae-conference.com Due by May 31

Extended deadline for #AMPHORAE XIX in Adelaide, South Australia & online - #CFP now closing June 8th - see amphorae-conference.weebly.com

The Roman army and DEI: "Racism is, and ever was, for losers" www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...

Registrations for AMPHORAE are now open!! You can register via our website amphorae-conference.weebly.com And while you’re here… the CFP deadline is 31st May! Get those abstracts in! 🏛️📜

Okay, why does this book matter? We held a conference in Melbourne in 2023, believing democratic-decay scholarship needs to pay attention to Rome, the only old democracy to fall from internal causes. I don’t need to say why that matters now. We want to bring #ancientbluesky and #polisci together. 🧵

Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

REMINDER!!! 🚨🔔 AMPHORAE XIX will be held at the University of Adelaide from 25th - 29th August. CFP is still open until the end of May! Send your abstracts in via our website amphorae-conference.weebly.com

This. In ‘Immaculate Forms’ I wrote about breast tissue of those assigned male at birth - men can get breast cancer too - and using hormones so trans women can breastfeed. Bodies are far less fixed than we may think

Our edited volume “How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond” has a Google Books page and will soon appear (in Open Access). You can see the first hundred pages here. It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1 books.google.com.au/books?id=LRB...

AMPHORAE XIX is coming! The 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) will run hybrid in Adelaide Aug 25-29, 2025 - amphorae-conference.weebly.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by 31st May #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientWorldStudies

🎉 NEW ARTICLE! 🎉 http://www.workingcl... Dr. Christina Hotalen (drchristinah.bsky.social) was not best pleased with Gladiator II. In this article she takes a look at the flaws, foibles, and faux pas in the film, examining its potential as an ideologically-driven story that panders to the right.

The zoom link for our meeting of the Australasian Ovidian Society has been sent out! Want to get on the list? Send me a message! #Ovid #classics #ancientworldstudies

💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility

My very first academic publication has just come out! See my entry for EF Benson’s ‘David Blaize’ on Our Mythical Childhood here: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/myth-survey/...

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

Sharing with alt-text. This is the final message of 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat. Israeli forces killed Shabat in a targeted airstrike on Monday. "Do not stop speaking about Gaza," he wrote. "Keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

Please join the Australasian Ovidian Society (AOS) for our first online meeting on Monday 7th April 2025!   Meeting via Zoom at 2pm AEST/ 4pm NZT.   We look forward to meeting each other & briefly sharing our ongoing research projects & other WIP DM me to get on the mailing list

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

More work from @gemmaneall.bsky.social South aus rep 💪

Adelaide will be hosting The 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) for 2025! Hybrid Mode, Adelaide Aug 25-29. www.amphorae-conference.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by 31st May #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientWorldStudies

AMPHORAE XIX is coming! The 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) will run hybrid in Adelaide Aug 25-29, 2025 - www.amphorae-conference.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by 31st May #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientWorldStudies

If there’s one thing I can do it’s make a bunch of niche South Australian references and I think that’s very funny of me. Is there a series of SA Amphorae niche bits? Maybe…

#CFP AMPHORAE XIX 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) - hybrid from Adelaide, South Australia - August 25-29, 2025 - www.amphorae-conference.com Due by May 31

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

AWAWS Adelaide has an afternoon tea this Sat 8th March for International Women's Day! ⏰ 2pm 📍 Napier 210, University of Adelaide ➡ Streaming Bettany Hughes interview from Writers Week about her new book titled 'The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' Register: events.humanitix.com/internationa...

Okay, this is a rather vague question. There is/has been what I think of as an "Oxford understanding" of how politics works, especially among its historians. I see it particularly in Peter Brunt's account of the Fall of the Roman Republic, but it's more widespread. Has anyone written on this?

So maybe you wanna know the best ways to bump off a king? Lots of historical examples in my book Mortal Monarchs and it’s 99p on kindle. 👑⚰️🗡️💀 shorturl.at/gzKr9

Can anyone recommend scholarship on early Christian/late antique medical texts? If they happen to include women’s reproductive health that would be great too!

First online meeting of Australasian Ovidian Society (AOS) - Monday 7th April 2025 - Zoom - 2pm AEST/ 4pm NZT. Mailing list: email Simona Martorana ([email protected]), Gemma Neall ([email protected]) and Shona Edwards ([email protected]) #Ovid #AOS

This was a thought provoking and meaningful post. I personally find it rare to find someone explain the way I, a woman, feel in academia so accurately and poignantly.

Here is a treat for you, gorgon lovers! The Medusa documentary I released with History Hit last year can now be watched for FREE on their YouTube channel! I hope you like it… 📺🐍 youtu.be/egNJXvg811g

WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women’s Colonial Experiences February 28, 2025 Full conference info available here! www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-...

Don’t forget we’re meeting online for our usual monthly CAWS seminar this afternoon 🥳 The brilliant @adnanhusain.bsky.social will be joining us - get in touch if you’d like the link and don’t have it yet!

A reminder if you are in Adelaide join #AWAWS for drinks on Monday 17th Feb 5pm onwards! Non-members and those who are AWAWS-curious are welcome

Calling researchers in Queer & Trans Histories ⚧️🌈 This #LGBTplusHM25 we want your proposals for our new series. Ed. by the UK’s first permanently endowed professor in LGBTQ+ History, Matt Cook, @psimonetto.bsky.social & Jennifer V Evans. Find more info here: https://buff.ly/4hoB1lo

The Adelaide chapter of #AWAWS (Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies) is hosting a post-ASCS drinks event in Feb, find us on Monday 17th Feb from 5pm onwards at the Elephant British Pub! Keen to hear what events our members would like us to organise for 2025

Everyone please cross your fingers 🤞🏻that the bullies of the Classicists listserv have got better things to do than be dramatic today because we’ve just circulated this with details of our next CAWS / EO event: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i... Please come and please share! 🇵🇸🥰

For my last day in Canberra I visited the Australian National Museum and had a wonderful time at the Pompeii Exhibition! What an excellent way to conclude #ASCS46 #ASCS2025

Petition: Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ ✍️ www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

Hello Canberra #ASCS46 #ASCS2025

There are TWO #Ovid panels at this year's #ASCS46 don't miss us on Monday after lunch and on Tuesday first thing! ☆Ovidian Legacies: Receptions, Revisions and Reflections - Mon 3rd Feb 1.30pm-3pm & ☆Performing the Feminine: Gender Trouble in Ovid's Poetry - Tues 4th Feb 9am-10.30am