Tarik

Zs: Nikephoros 31 (2025)

https://www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z6ann-157390

Wolfgang Decker (Köln),
James G. Howie (Edinburgh),
Peter Mauritsch (Graz),
Werner Petermandl (Graz),
Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck),
Christoph Ulf (Innsbruck),
Ingomar Weiler (Graz): Nikephoros. Zeitschrift für Sport …

Job: 0,5 Wiss. Hilfskraft (m/w/d) "Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik" (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, München)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-157507

München, , Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Bewerbungsschluss: 09.10.2025

Thanks a lot! And yes, better choice than just Nike I guess

Left: Cover of the Journal „Nikephoros - Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum“, vol. 31 (2025). Right: first page of the paper „Platons Bewegungspädagogik: Körperlichkeit, Bewegung und Sport vor dem Hintergrund einer Dekonstruktion des σῶμα-ψυχή-Dualismus“ by Tarik Orliczek

Happy to share some thoughts on #plato, the body and #physicaleducation in this year‘s issue of Nikephoros.

(Learned so much from this journal and still can hardly believe that some of my own reseach has now been published in it…)

🏺 #classicsbluesky #skystorians #physicalactivity

Reinstalling the Enthroned Washington by Greenough doesn‘t seem to be so cringe as it used to be…

Reception is also linked to narratives of self-positioning. Now carefully read the „policy“ (sec. 2a) and the definition of so-called „classical architecture“ (sec. 3c)…

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Just found out that Coldplay actually is a rather ambitious interdisciplinary research project led by an ancient historian

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)

„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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Society for cathedral builders (call for pillars)

Comparative religion studies (call for prayers)
Plato conference (call for ideas)
Postmodernism journal (call for fragments)

📌

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

CFP: Transatlantic Sporting Encounters

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156629

Leipzig, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Olaf Stieglitz / Parker Billinghurst / Peter Hintz, Institute for American Studies, Universität Leipzig, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Antike Athleten (3) – Siegerinnen | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG Lange war sich die Wissenschaft sicher, „dass das olympische Fest ausschließlich eine Sache von Manns­leuten war, und dass man die Weiber davon drako­nisch fernhielt“ (so der bedeu­ten­de Kultur­histo...

Eigentlich war Frauen der Besuch der Olympischen Spiele im antiken Griechenland verboten. Wie der spartanischen Prinzessin Kyniska dennoch ein olympischer Triumph gelang, darum geht es in einer neuen Ausgabe von „Zeitlupe“. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/zeitlupe_ant...

Konf: KÖRPER : KULT(UR) : ATHLETIK : IDEAL - Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf athletische Körper zwischen Antike und Gegenwart

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156266

Graz, 25.09.2025-26.09.2025, Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften, Sport und Gesundheit / Institut für Antike, …

Programme and registration here: antike-koerper-2025.uni-graz.at/de/

🏺 🗃️ 🏛️ #weworkfortomorrow

Salmon coloured conference poster shows the torso of the Diadoumenos statue, the dates of the conference (September 25 and 26 2025), place (Aigner-Rollett-Allee 39, 8010 Graz), the organizing departments (sports science and antiquity) of the university of Graz, and the title (Body, Culture, Athletics, Ideal). Poster in German, designed by Claudia Traub, conference sponsored by University of Graz, and the State of Styria.

Holding a conference on #ancientsports, body ideals and their #reception, September 25 and 26, 2025 @uni-graz.at
Looking forward to your participation!

📷: C. Traub

Under the aegis of #ÖSG and #Nikephoros

#ancientbluesky #skystorians #history #sportscience #physicalactivity #receptionstudies 🏺 🗃️ 🏛️

I read that I read nothing.

Would love to be added.🌞 Currently working on the reception and formation of (allegedly) ancient bodily archetypes in modern PE contexts.

At an #ancientgreek food festival:

“Anyone want some π? Fresh veggie π!“
“Mate, we only have left the one with λ.“
“Ω, I‘d actually like to η piece of that!“
“We β sell this stuff — market shares are χ today!“
“Ϝ.“

#ancientbluesky 🏺 #classicalstudiesmemes @csmfht.bsky.social

Sign up tonight by 6pm to make sure you're registered for our next seminar tomorrow that sees Neomi Steuerwald of @unibe.ch present her work on Equestrian Sport as a Symbol of Power & Exclusion in the Victorian Era

Please register via this link by 6PM TODAY : www.history.ac.uk/events/leisu...

'The art of memory relies, most fundamentally, not on a stable system of placves, but on a stable system of places in the body.'

Paul Connerton (2003) 'Memory and the Body's Toporaphy'

I have the pleasure of speaking about teaching ancient #sportshistory as part of the #ÖSG webinar series on 04 June 2025, 6 pm. Participation is free btw, the talk in German though.

Registration: lets-meet.org/reg/a89b0cff...

#unigraz #sportscience #physicalactivity #didactics #ancientbluesky 🗃️🏺

Yes! Finished it exactly one week ago today🤓

Orliczek, M. T. (2024). Antike Startanlagen. Wie stand es um die Chancengleichheit in den antiken Laufdisziplinen? sportpädagogik, 48(3+4), 36–42.

Picture of the ancient stadium of Nemea during the Modern Nemean Games in 2024. It shows the starting line with a reconstruction of an ancient starting mechanism, called Hysplex.

Close-up of the ancient starting mechanism in Nemea

Portable Version of the Nemean Hysplex

Reconstruction of the Nemean Hysplex and a portable version built during a university seminar on experimental #sportshistory

#nemea #modernnemeangames #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky🏺

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it.

Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You.

Done.

AI/ChatGPT generated picture of a sports historian (categories: male, white, able-bodied) who sits in a study filled with historical sports memorabilia. He is wearing glasses, a white shirt, tie and a dark grey knitted jumper. He gazes intently through a magnifying glass at (or slightly over) an old newspaper lying on a wooden desk. Around him are numerous books, trophies, a basketball, an old tennis racket, a typewriter and framed black and white photographs of athletes on the wall. There is a laptop with a cup sitting on it, so that it seems like he rather uses the typewriter. The light falls through a large window, which illuminates the room.

Try asking #ChatGPT to generate a picture of a 'sports historian'. You’ll probably get one of three results:

1. looks unintentionally funny
2. overload of problematic 'isms' and categorical assumptions
3. both at once.

#AIgenerated #sportshistory #history #digitalhumanities

Bernard of Chartres: “We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Plato: “Can’t see no giants here. Just kids.”

ὦ Σόλων, Σόλων, Ἕλληνες ἀεὶ παῖδές ἐστε, γέρων δὲ Ἕλλην οὐκ ἔστιν. νέοι ἐστέ τὰς ψυχὰς πάντες. — #plato Tim.22b

#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #timaeus #newton