Manolis Pagkalos

🎃Join us for LIVE Halloween Bash Master Class: ‘Healing, Dreams and Curses: Unveiling The Supernatural In Ancient Greece, led by Dr. Manolis Pagkalos.

🗓October 31st, 12:00 PM to 13:00 PM EDT


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#Halloween #AncientGreece #SASA

On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time.

The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!

Read the latest research published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies - including articles on Roman picture galleries; the reuse of antiquities; Tiberius’ words in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum; making gods real through choral dance…and more! academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

LOL.
Well, just some humans.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford (e.j.stafford@leeds.ac.uk)

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Join @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for this year's Halloween Bash. Many events for a week and a good place to support not only the Ancient Studies, but the Humanities and a diversity of voices from scholars worldwide!

🎃Check out the full lineup of FREE live streamed spooktacular events during our Halloween Bash Fundraiser 2025! Make sure not to miss your favorite topics and speakers!

🗓 October 25-31, 2025

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#Halloween #History

👻The rest of our Halloween Bash live events!

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Honoured to have been part of the 4th Balkan Studies Forum, held at Beijing Foreign Studies University (27-28/09/2025). A great insight on the Balkans' history, culture, and modern challenges. A big thank you to the organisers and see you again soon! #BalkanStudies #AcademicExchange #BFSU #2025

Recently, also: Review of (K.) MAWFORD and (E.) NTANOU (eds) Ancient Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 119). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2021, Pp. ix + 320, illus. €139.95. 9783110728712. JHS, 145. FirstView.

#AncientMemory

What We’re Reading Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Some news! My book, _Strike:Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ (currently $3.62 on Amazon, lol) is one of the best books of the year from @newyorker.com. Thx to all the friends, family, colleagues, and reviewers who helped make this book a collective effort about collective action.

Exciting event in Shanghai! The Academic Mixer and Thematic Group Meeting of the Social Sciences & Humanities Section hosted by Euraxess & the EU Delegation to China - mapping ideas, research, and future pathways. Kudos to all involved!

#Euraxess #EUChina #SSH #Humanities #Research #Networking

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

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Join our Virtual Conference Special Sessions for FREE!

🗓️Sunday, July 20th, 1:00 PM EDT

&

🗓️Monday, July 21st, 3:30 PM EDT

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#VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #Education

Book Recommendation List 2025 June 27, 2025: W. Scheidel’s What Is Ancient History? (2025) May 30, 2025: A.S. Burns, Infantry in Battle: 1733-1783 (2025) May 9, 2025: M. Livingston, Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King (2…

I have finally gone and updated the ACOUP Book Recommendation page to bring the list up to the present - it includes all of the books (~65 of them) recommended at the end of all of the Fireside chats (acoup.blog/book-recomme...)

Go read some books!

Free Talk
"V for Viking: TikTok, Viking Archaeology & the Far Right" -
Tomorrow 17.30 British Summer Time - sign up here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/

How’s that ‘institutional neutrality’ working out for y’all now?

We're searching for a VAP in Archaeology at Ohio University!

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Help Gazan students to complete their university degrees The war in Gaza has devastated the region’s higher education infrastructure. Several universities have been damaged or destroyed, forcing students to continue their studies online under extremely diff...

We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

📖 RSVP NOW - FREE Reading Group: “Roots of Healing – Medical Systems of Ancient India” with Shrangi Mishra!

🗓 Fridays @ 12pm ET - July 11, 18, 25

➡️ RSVP REQUIRED: saveancientstudies.org/event-details/3-week-sasa-reading-group-roots-of-healing-medical-systems-of-ancient-india

❗️Introducing our streaming partners for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference!

@kayleighhistory.bsky.social
@digital-hammurabi.bsky.social
@newclassicists.bsky.social
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@davidmiano.bsky.social
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Introducing our first Keynote Speaker for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference: Casey Kirkpatrick!

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Day 1, July 20th, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

#VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #OpeningTheAncientWorld #Education

✨Introducing our second Keynote Speaker for SASA’s 2025 Virtual Conference: Bronwen Wickkiser!

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🗓️Day 2, July 21st, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

#VirtualConference #AncientMedicine #OpeningTheAncientWorld #Education

"This is a Classicists List not a political one."

A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

Amazing, right?

Roman Coinage in Britain: An Online Course - The Classics Library Hellenic and Roman Societies online courses Dr Peter Guest Roman Coinage in Britain Wednesday 17, 24 September, 1, 8, 15 October, 6-7.30pm (UK time) Coinage was a defining feature of ancient Roman soc...

Roman Coinage in Britain: An Online Course

#AncientBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics #ClassicsBlueSky

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#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta