Greta Hawes

On August 29 at 6.00pm AEST, Dr. Andrew Burnett (Royal Numismatic Society) asks why the region of Lycia in south-western Asia Minor abandoned its local coinage for the imperial currency system of the western Roman Empire. On September 23 at 6:00 PM AEST, Dr. Clare Rowan (University of Warwick) will deliver a lecture for students and teachers studying Agrippina the Younger at high school (though all are warmly invited to attend). On October 23 at 6.00pm AEDT, Dr. Sam Moorhead will discuss the imperial coinage minted for Carausius and Allectus, two breakaway emperors in Roman Britain. On November 21 at 6:00 PM AEDT, Dr. Philippa Walton (University of Leicester) will discuss a remarkable assemblage of 1,444 Roman coins recovered over three decades by two divers from the River Tees at Piercebridge, northern England. Feel free to share the program attached with students or colleagues interested in the study of ancient coins: students, researchers, curators and collectors are welcome and encouraged to join NUMISMA. A selection of past lectures can be viewed on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/videos). We look forward to seeing you on August 29. To receive a registration link please contact Dr Charlotte Mann (charlotte.mann@students.mq.edu.au)

for the numismatically inclined, this term's ACANS Numismatics talks, including one by yours truly aimed at teachers in high school classrooms teaching Agrippina the Younger. Times are given in Australian time, but recordings of the series are also available at www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/vid...

Ouch! Much in need of a healing well then.

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint
29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link)
Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo)

https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Historic England Talk - Links This page covers all the links I talked about in my HE conference paper online

The awesome Dan Pett's talk for Historic England on digital innovation in heritage is here museologi.st/talks/he-lin... featuring work for The British Museum, The Portable Antiquities Scheme, The Fitzwilliam Museum, etc. Nearly all the resources he discusses are open source, reproducible & low cost

ISAW Seeks New Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator ISAW is seeking a new Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. The recommended deadline for applications is July 15th, 2025.

isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-se...

“You’ve got people who’ve worked their entire lives in these disciplines, and then that knowledge is lost, which is why I think these decisions are so incredibly damaging and shortsighted.” -NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social

Read more: nteu.info/guardianmq

#jobAlert! Collection Curator (full-time, 4 years) at the Powerhouse Castle Hill: https://iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collection-curator-526330 #GLAM #museums

A screenshot of a CFP, message me for details!

A screenshot of a CFP, message me for details!

Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!

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‪“I remember the raw, aching desire to live life again, the pain of losing yet another day, and the effort it took not to be pulled under by the sadness.”‬

‪ #PwLC‬ #LongCovid #PwME

In sport, rest is rightly understood as fundamental to recovery. But in medicine, rest is too often dismissed or overlooked as a legitimate, evidence-based response. In society, prolonged rest is rarely granted the respect it deserves. In a culture obsessed with productivity and achievement, choosing to rest is one of the most proactive and courageous acts a person can make. This cultural dismissal of rest is especially harmful to people with ME or Long Covid, who must often rest for prolonged or indefinite periods. They face not only the impact of their condition, but also repeatedly justifying their need to adapt. Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.

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"The importance of understanding rest: How my experience of rest as an athlete clashed with my experience of rest as a patient"

www.thereforme.uk/p/the-import...

#MEcfs #LongCovid

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

My hot take is that Pausanias’ book is funner than Pausanias himself. I suspect the man himself was a bit of a bore. Left to his own devices he just starts digressing at length about the quality of water in different places.

Want to work with the WHG team? The Institute for Spatial History Innovation @ Pitt is hiring a full-time Research Associate to be the Digital Data Specialist & Managing Editor of World Historical Gazetteer!

Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki

@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk

Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) — MYTHLAB Greta Hawes describes work in MANTO to captured distinctions between different kinds of evidence for Greek myth found in different kinds of sources.

www.manto-myth.org/blog/things-...

Thoughts on times when it’s just sources all the way down

A humorous illustration styled like ancient Greek pottery art. On the left, the hero Theseus holds a sword in one hand and a ball of thread in the other, trailing the thread behind him. On the right, the Minotaur is knitting with the thread instead of being menacing. The scene is framed with traditional Greek geometric patterns in red on a black background.

Good one 😆

Between Gods and Mortals: Tracing the Expression of Ancient Greek Myths Through Artefacts and Data — MYTHLAB Victor Russo describes his experience as a PACE intern in adding bronze shieldbands and coins adorned with mythical narratives into MANTO

www.manto-myth.org/blog/between...

This is the final week to submit an abstract to Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA2025)!

Website: dha25.org
Theme: 'Digital Archipelagos'
2-5 December
The Australian National University
Canberra (Ngambri)

Abstracts due: Friday 6th June (11.55pm AoE)
ECR Bursaries: dha25.org/info/bursari...

I was going to say ”not all heroes wear capes”. But honestly, maybe @dieworkwear.bsky.social does?

Digital projects reviews: The importance of digital resources for studying and teaching the ancient world « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog Last year, the editors of Classical Review announced that we would begin reviewing digital projects. This move recognises both the importance of digital resources for how we study and teach the ancien...

Classical Review is now reviewing digital projects as well as books - my thoughts on the transition

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

This is looking exciting! Mapping mythic history over time, a collaboration with Furman colleagues including @geophilologist.bsky.social

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New issue of The Classical Review Vol. 75, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeup.bsky.social @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social @simelius.bsky.social

RACING THE CLASSICS Racing the Classics began as a conference series. The summer seminar takes up the mantle of that series by inviting fellows to gather in-person for intensive, sustained conversation.

Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com

Time to shake up Australia's university sector - The Australia Institute Australia's bloated universities are plagued with scandal and struggling under the weight of their own poor governance and financial mismanagement.

Australia’s bloated universities are plagued with scandal and struggling under the weight of their own poor governance and financial mismanagement.

A new paper by The Australia Institute concludes it’s time for a major shake-up in the way they are run.

MANTO x LIMC — MYTHLAB Greta Hawes describes recent work in aligning entities across datasets related to mythic people, and makes available the current alignments MANTO holds to LIMC and Wikidata.

The enormous volumes of LIMC are so valuable to the study of Greek myth. Over the past few years some of this legacy data has been migrating online. Digital LIMC now has URIs for mythic people - many now aligned to MANTO. #LOD 🏺 www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x...

Teaching Awards - The Classical Association Each year, the CA is proud to award prizes of £500 to individuals or school/college-based projects whose work is felt to have had a significant and positive impact on the teaching of Classics in the U...

As I don't think the Classical Association (UK) are on here yet, here's a nod that nominations for the CA Teaching Awards are open up to 2nd May. All the details are on the website, including the nomination link.

Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy!

Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

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MANTO x DAD — MYTHLAB Greta Hawes describes a PACE internship that will add the Gdańsk Decorated Armour Database’s corpus of shieldbands decorated with mythic scenes to MANTO

www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x...

Shieldbands! With stories on them

As a Kiwi, I can say we’re pretty relaxed about however you want to pronounce things, and typically too culturally insecure about our own accents to correct even preschoolers