Classics/ancient history friends, is there anyone at USyd who could scan this for me plz? D'Agostino, B. (1974). "Il mondo periferico della Magna Grecia." In Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica, eds. B. D'Agostino, P. E. Arias, and G. Colonna, pp. 177-272. Rome: Biblioteca di Storia Patria.

Whenever people claim archaeology isn't inherently political, some questions to ask them: Who "owns" heritage? What gets protected and why? What stories are being told/preserved? Whom do those stories serve? Who gets to tell those stories? Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?

Just received my author copies for the north american version of my book! Pre-order here (release date 30th Sept): wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Now that we’ve signed on the dotted line I can tell you about this book that @isisnaucratis.bsky.social, Mathura Umachandran, Usama Ali Gad and I are working on… ‘Viva Palestina: Imagining Transhistorical Solidarity’, a corrective to history’s apathy, coming soon (iA) to a bookshelf near you! 🍉

I posted our whole synopsis over on Insta, but if I leave this here you’ll get the idea.

We are editing a book! ❤️🇵🇸✊

I was gifted the opportunity to spend a day with Patricia Hill Collins and other incredible wahine, Deborah-Adenike Shonibare, Eden Igwe, and Zahra Gueye. We recorded an ad lib podcast discussing activism, connectivity, and our journeys as WoC navigating academia. open.spotify.com/episode/3ERj...

Q - How do I get myself onto relevant ancient history lists?

Inviting all the classicists, archaeologists and historians who care about Palestinian colleagues/students/heritage to donate a little something to @gmandreou.bsky.social's fundraiser for Gazan students in archaeology and history: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/h...

It is WILD that there’s now been a threat of withholding jobs made by a highly known and well regarded scholar on the List, based on support for *discussing* the use of cultural heritage as a marker of ethnic cleansing mentioned in a UN report.

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Archaeologists, tag yourselves. 🤨

Tons of fabulous speakers including @sallymub.bsky.social, @opietasanimi.com, @mhanses.bsky.social, and @egarcmol.bsky.social!!!! Tag yourself if I missed you!!!!

Proud to share the panel that @koriannon.bsky.social and I put together for this years Celtic Classical Conference in Coimbra, entitled “Race, Gender, and Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World! Link to our preliminary schedule below: drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

Visit History in our Bones: Thinking together about Medieval Disability at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio or online!

Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own. www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...

April 30 hybrid Auckland (4pm NZ) Classics & Ancient History Seminar: Sally Mubarak (St Andrews), Dying is complicated: the aftermath of battle in early Italy. Zoom - email [email protected]

Now listening to Sally Mubarak (@sallymub.bsky.social) #ResDiff6 bsky.app/profile/opie...

A really interesting paper on Whitewashing the Samnite in #ResDiff6

I've been thinking about how to teach my students about historical bias in historical accounts and interpretations of them, and the concept of epistemicide with regard to conquered and colonized people. Sally's talk gave me some great ideas!

#ResDiff6 is go! You can still join us: resdifficiles.com/register/

Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺 First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Keynote: Sarah Derbew, “Africa in the (Classics) Classroom” #ResDiff6

- Jessica Cruz-Taylor and Tara Wells, “Breaking the Barriers: How PhD Program Structures Perpetuate Systemic Racism & Ableism” - Maya Chakravorty and Caitlin Mostoway Parker, “Then and Now: Pedagogies of Ancient and Modern Indigeneity in Classics” #ResDiff6

- Kyle Lewis Jordan (@horusofnekhen.bsky.social), “All Our Yesterdays: Why Classics / Ancient World Studies needs a Disability Paradigm” - Sydney Hertz, “A Plea for Performativity: a Study on ‘Grotesque’ Hellenistic Sculpture and Disabled Performance” #ResDiff6

- Holly Ranger (@themauvedesert.bsky.social), “The Wounded Attachments of Feminist Classical Receptions” - Sally Mubarak (@sallymub.bsky.social), “‘Whitewashing’ the Samnites: Roman Imperialism and the Modern Legacy of Empire” #ResDiff6

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

this meeting could have been a clay tablet

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“We are more than the sum of our differences…” Stepping this evening into @moudhy.bsky.social’s tender, moving & vivid history of ancient Mesopotamia—& how it still speaks to us. As a lover of cuneiform & Gilgamesh obsessive, this is *so* my jam. The book itself is also a spectacular object!

À propos of nothing: Here is an open-access primer on ancient & medieval Palestine feat. @moudhy.bsky.social @gmandreou.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @archaeologuest.bsky.social @stephenniem.bsky.social @nabalkattu.bsky.social @luxmea.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h52peyh

It is 2 weeks before publication day, but apparently copies can already be found in Germany!

Seeing a lot of new followers here recently, so say hello 👋. I write history books and fact check ancient history claims on my website Bad Ancient. I also have a newsletter full of interesting ancient history *things* that catch my attention while I'm researching: owenrees.substack.com

#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩

I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are. It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)

good morning to humanities professors trying to teach empathy in an increasingly cruel world, and only humanities professors. i hope your coffee is really good today.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Gorgeous piece by comrades 💜

fatigue, desensitisation, and normalisation are the frictions against solidarity work. a sincerely gentle and loving reminder to ease back into your activism and organising if you can. 🦋

Internally screaming with ALL the enormous emotions that my book made it onto this list @theguardian.com amp.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Classics at the University of Otago is now offering Ancient Greek and Latin by distance. These classes are open to anyone interested in studying the languages by distance. For further information or details about how to enrol as a non-Otago student, visit: otago.ac.nz/classics/lan...

For my PhD fieldwork: I'm looking for NGO or third sector workers who've had experience or with refugees or asylum seekers from Arab States in Scotland. Those here who have contacts in Scotland - please share, if you can!

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Thucydides: The cup of the Athenians being half full aroused fear in the Lacedaimonians that their cup was half empty, and compelled them to war.

Toitū te tiriti ✊🏼 For my fellow kiwis, say no to Seymour’s racist bill that aims to strip Māori of their rights and protections as Tangata whenua enshrined in law, and endangers land, waters and taonga. Make your submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

I made a Historical Archaeology (and adjacent historians in some cases) starter pack! This is a trickier niche group, because that term means different things in different places. This one has lots of room, so let me know if you'd like to be added! 🧪🏺 go.bsky.app/AWGszDA

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

I made an #Archaeology🏺#EDI starter pack but it needs a lot of adding to so please do feel free to make suggestions! go.bsky.app/UXHPGDn

Regular reminder of the Women* in Classics** list, if you want some amazing women to follow! And if you fit the description (see next post) let me know and I’ll add you on! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Important set of well-organised and freely available resources for medievalists and early modernists docs.google.com/spreadsheets...