I've not had time till now to share the speech I gave about 'the vulnerability of public engagement' when I received the Oikos Impact and Outreach award 2025.
It's a very personal speech about the future of classics & academia, the contents of which I genuinely believe in www.rug.nl/research/res...
07.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zeus in The White House
Nu voor de Nederlandstaligen: mijn blogpost 'Zeus in The White House', op Hic&Nunc. 'AI & Trump: het blijkt een goed huwelijk te zijn, ook voor z'n fans. Evelien Bracke dook in de krochten van het internet en stootte daar op bijzondere Trumpbeelden. Dat is méér dan onschuldig tijdverdrijf:
02.06.2025 19:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BLOG: Zeus in the White House: The American presidency as tv series
Google “Trump and Zeus” and you’ll be busy for a while. On websites where you can instruct AI to generate images, there’s a whole trend of images depicting Donald Trump as Zeus. On one site, a user ty...
My new blogpost about 'Zeus in the White House: the American presidency as tv series' discusses how AI-generated images of President #Trump as #Zeus contribute to the MAGA multiverse created by Trump and his supporters, which we're all watching live...
26.05.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
VRT MAX
Zo'n leuk gesprek met Bruno Wyndaele voor het Radio 1-programma Voorproevers over mijn boek 'Leidraad door het labyrint'. We hadden het over de Trojaanse oorlog en andere verhalen die ik in mijn boek bespreek. Je kan het interview nu al op VRT max beluisteren:
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/podca...
21.05.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Een bloedende antieke robot: Talos en menselijkheid in oorlogstijden
Leidraad door het labyrint. De macht van klassieke mythen in onzekere tijden: zo heet het boek van Evelien Bracke waaruit we hier een fragment mogen voorpubliceren. Het is, geloof ons, een wonderlijk ...
In a few weeks' time my Dutch book 'Guide through the labyrinth: the power of classical myths in uncertain times' is out, on the ways ancient myths inform modern debates about climate change, geopolitical instability, activism & hope. Here's a teaser about Talos and AI! (English book out late 2025)
29.03.2025 11:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
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Assistant Prof. of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
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Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him. Professor!
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Professor of Classics at Nottingham, writing, cats, brass banding, flowers. Power of Sadness, Latin Epic, Argonauts crossing. She/they. Legally blind
Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and the Ancient World in video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
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Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Classicist, reception and theatre person
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Classicist in Ghent, Belgium, working on Late Antique and Byzantine receptions of Greek novels and theories of ancient fiction. Novels, bass guitar, 90s music, coffee.
Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Classicist and Roman Historian at University of Leicester; mum to a toddler and two whippets.
