Seth Bernard
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Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
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Friends, please share the attached CfP widely and consider submission: "Climate, landscape and human impact in Italy during the Etruscan period" (Pisa, May 25-27, 2026). Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here:
etrusco.dst.unipi.it
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Evan Jewell
3 months ago
The search for the next director of the Classical Summer School at the AAR, to start in 2027-28, is now open. Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!
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Open Positions
The American Academy in Rome is seeking candidates for Chief Operating Officer and Director of the American Academy in Rome Classical Summer School.
https://www.aarome.org/about/open-positions
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Hyperallergic
3 months ago
How much interaction did the Romans have with Ancient India? The discovery of graves for pet monkeys on the Egyptian coast suggest that some Romans, including soldiers, likely kept exotic pets in their households.
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Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
https://hyperallergic.com/pet-monkeys-were-popular-in-ancient-rome-burials-reveal/
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yes, Sarah, don’t overlook the monkey buried with its own pet kitten! Of everything
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
, Mantha, and I have edited for
#JRA
so far this year, this one is up there with my favorites—don’t sleep on the human skull from La Loma on
#FirstView
either. The Dec ‘25 issue is absolutely🔥
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Now out, the field report of the 2024 campaign at Falerii Novi!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON | Papers of the British School at Rome | Cambridge Core
THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON - Volume 93
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/papers-of-the-british-school-at-rome/article/falerii-novi-project-the-2024-season/679F49F26EB7EAC54432C1061FAED9A6?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
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Amazing! Check out the new 3 volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe, now out, best contributor reward to hit my desk in a v long time.
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Past and Present
3 months ago
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii" by
@profbernard.bsky.social
(@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf006
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Christopher Smith
4 months ago
Delighted to see Corinna Riva's outstandingly innovative essay on the 1st millennium BCE now published
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Multi-scalar Lenses on the Mediterranean in the First Millennium BC - Journal of Archaeological Research
In the current era of global approaches in archaeology and, more broadly, in the social and historical sciences, questions on the benefits, modes, and challenges of addressing multiple analytical scal...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-025-09210-3
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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology
4 months ago
📢 Did you know the the Journal of Roman Archaeology is flipping to
#OpenAccess
? All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more:
https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
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Greg Woolf
4 months ago
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology
@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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Cambridge University Press
https://view.updates.cambridge.org/?qs=85c24bbd776519df7adcf1c84aaf68478d3876649501f02c2683472bbca2eb0ca5dee3568f630d241e5251dd1657f8c369cbba24d7c087e4bfd63f0f205accbb0690033ad7502b025d1bb88b8b62a04c&fbclid=IwY2xjawOBqPJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeDDoHfV3KzdQuAiV3rOV0U-_dlZYN02_c8RLA36ghvoHBxwErgUzVPWPEGAE_aem_ePyxWS1St-0A1EXh-MqyxA
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Friends, please share the attached CfP widely and consider submission: "Climate, landscape and human impact in Italy during the Etruscan period" (Pisa, May 25-27, 2026). Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here:
etrusco.dst.unipi.it
5 months ago
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Happy to see my book reviewed in
@antiquity.ac.uk
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5 months ago
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Congratulations
@darcytuttle.bsky.social
on a superb study of a critical Roman monument!
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6 months ago
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We're happy to announce the latest volume of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
#JRA
now out in print and online!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest volume | Journal of Roman Archaeology | Cambridge Core
Journal of Roman Archaeology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/latest-issue#
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Michael J. Taylor
8 months ago
Summer Beach Read #2:
@profbernard.bsky.social
's *Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy.* Fascinating survey of the material evidence for how Italians conceptualized their past, and how those conceptualizations changed alongside the development of urban states.
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New collaborative OA publication on the state of early Roman coinage studies
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Money and Mid-Republican Rome | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Money and Mid-Republican Rome
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/money-and-midrepublican-rome/893B9EB4B89611A251CC3FAF2FD6B542
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Hyperallergic
10 months ago
How did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence? A new study argues that this was largely due to the labor of enslaved people, who were indispensable to the city’s growth until its demise in 79 CE.
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New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
https://hyperallergic.com/1007696/new-research-shows-slaverys-outsized-role-in-pompeiis-economy/
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@sarahebond.bsky.social
writes about my new
@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
paper on
#Pompeii
slavery and inequality for
@hyperallergic.com
, great to see the study catching notice!
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New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
https://hyperallergic.com/1007696/new-research-shows-slaverys-outsized-role-in-pompeiis-economy/
10 months ago
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Thanks, Sarah!
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10 months ago
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Rarely post here, but check out my new, highly ambitious study of slavery and the Roman economy!
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@carlosfnorena.bsky.social
are you writing for #ESPN these days?
over 2 years ago
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So has anyone else been finding powerpoint's AI design generator a bit problematic?
over 2 years ago
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Carlos Noreña
over 2 years ago
Announcing the 2023-2024 SATHER LECTURES at UC Berkeley THE POETRY OF BEING AND THE PROSE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto Lecture 1: "The Poetry of Being" Today, 7:00 PM 315 Wheeler Hall [I believe these will be recorded/uploaded]
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Toronto people, come get a signed copy of my book at the Arch Centre on Friday! Unless of course you’re otherwise chronologically engaged.
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The Drususstein, on a beautiful blue day. The massive concrete core once clad in marble, set up to commemorate Drusus’ death by his troops in the #Roman city of his founding, Mogantiacum (Mainz)
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Looking forward to some sleuthing in Mainz on Monday! Tune in to find out whodunnit!
over 2 years ago
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First post on blue sky to say my new book is here!
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