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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 2h

Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...

Classical Summer School

This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...

www.aarome.org

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 4h

He also has a second piece on the topic that will hopefully be appearing fairly soon.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 4h

I can't find that workshop on their schedule page. Do you have a more direct link?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 1d

Fuller disclosure: mine took way more than a week.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 1d

Sumerian (but for metrological standardization across the ages).

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 6d

Humanities where the cool jobs at

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

This (Classics prof.; former Army officer) may be relevant to your interests @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

Post Halloween experimental archaeology

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

Post Halloween experimental archaeology

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

How long are the individual tomatoes?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

Presumably his escape route is to declare everything he doesn’t care for “deconstruction”?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know the podcast, but perhaps of interest?

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 8d

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 8d

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

A reasonable position.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

Yes?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 12d

I can't say "always," but I have definitely done it.

Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 13d

CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

Symposium Vesuvianum 2026 - The Vergilian Society

Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience Villa Vergiliana, Cumae (October 7 – 11, 2026) Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio Universi...

www.vergiliansociety.org

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20d

CB knows this already, but I want to point out that Texas is operating normally this year.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 21d

Including a chapter of mine I wrote in large part for the last footnote: "Dissent in Terminello v. Chicago, 337 US 37 (1949)."

Michael Sevel @michaelsevel.bsky.social · 21d

Very pleased that my book The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome, co-edited with colleagues in classical studies, and for which I contributed the opening chapter, will be published this week by Oxford. A splendid interdisciplinary endeavor.

academic.oup.com/book/61402

The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome

Abstract. This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of power—and the

academic.oup.com

Michael Sevel @michaelsevel.bsky.social · 21d

Very pleased that my book The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome, co-edited with colleagues in classical studies, and for which I contributed the opening chapter, will be published this week by Oxford. A splendid interdisciplinary endeavor.

academic.oup.com/book/61402

The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome

Abstract. This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of power—and the

academic.oup.com

Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 22d

My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.

Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 24d

Interesting! I have no idea, but I think mine do work more or less that way.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 26d

✋

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 27d

My on-going thanks to an anonymous donor in memory of Lucy Shoe Meritt.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 27d

Christmas came before Halloween!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · Oct 12

I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · Oct 12

!!Qui volet!!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · Oct 11

This is very interesting to me from a differences-between-disciplines point of view. I can't imagine these numbers (either the y-axis or the # of data points) in language or historical fields. And I would have guessed (wrongly) that she is a hard scientist.

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