Dr Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral
@drflaviavamaral.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. Podcaster. Always with a poem, an epigram or an inscription at hand. Cats, Olympics, Coffee, Soccer. 🇧🇷🇨🇦
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The CAC is accepting applications from members for the Mark Golden Book Award.
Applications are due December 15th. See our website for full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/gold...
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Applications are due December 15th. See our website for full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/gold...
#AncientBlueSky
The Mark Golden Book Award/ Le Prix du Livre Mark Golden (Deadline December 15) - The Classical Association of Canada
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November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The CAC is accepting applications from members for the Mark Golden Book Award.
Applications are due December 15th. See our website for full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/gold...
#AncientBlueSky
Applications are due December 15th. See our website for full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/gold...
#AncientBlueSky
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The Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference committee of the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia is issuing a call for papers for their conference on “Bodies and Embodiment.”
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CFP: Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia (Deadline December 15) - The Classical Association of Ca...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference committee of the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia is issuing a call for papers for their conference on “Bodies and Embodiment.”
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/aigs...
#AncientBlueSky
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#AncientBlueSky
Come check our CFP and consider submitting an abstract!
Check our CFP!
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
We're happy to announce that the website and calls for papers for our annual conference in May are live!
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Come check our CFP and consider submitting an abstract!
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Check our CFP!
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
We're happy to announce that the website and calls for papers for our annual conference in May are live!
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
www.cac-scec.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Check our CFP!
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
The Women’s Network / Réseau des Femmes of the CAC / SCÉC invites submissions for their 2026 panel Ancient Masculinities, which aims to foster critically informed work on the construction, contestation, and performance of manliness, broadly conceived, in antiquity.
Check our CFP!
We're happy to announce that the website and calls for papers for our annual conference in May are live!
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
The conference will be held at Queen's University, May 5th-7th 2026.
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpa...
www.cac-scec.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Check our CFP!
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The Department of Classics at Mount Allison University invites applications for the 2026 season of the Torre Mordillo Archaeological Field School in Calabria, Italy.
Read more at our website!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/torr...
Read more at our website!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/torr...
Call for Participation – Torre Mordillo Archaeological Field School 2026 (Deadline December 5) - The Classical Association of Canada
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November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Department of Classics at Mount Allison University invites applications for the 2026 season of the Torre Mordillo Archaeological Field School in Calabria, Italy.
Read more at our website!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/torr...
Read more at our website!
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/torr...
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As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.
It is great to see the work of colleagues in Canada and Africa expanding with this CFP.
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
Classics and Africa CFP
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, …
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October 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It is great to see the work of colleagues in Canada and Africa expanding with this CFP.
"The once-reliable routes for circulating research, spotting emerging trends, and connecting across disciplines are slowing down. Without shared spaces, visibility risks becoming uneven, with early-career and underrepresented scholars most likely to lose out."
"The digital landscape for academics is fragmented, tiring, and uncertain.... Email, newsletters, peer networks, and ‘in real life’ events are reclaiming space once ceded to social media."
Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g...
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The once-reliable routes for circulating research, spotting emerging trends, and connecting across disciplines are slowing down. Without shared spaces, visibility risks becoming uneven, with early-career and underrepresented scholars most likely to lose out."
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🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
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co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
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Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Let's show our support!
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Let's show our support!
I am eternally grateful for my time teaching at YorkU and the warmth of faculty and students in Classics and Classical Studies.
Please consider sending your support to our colleagues and students!
Please consider sending your support to our colleagues and students!
York University recently announced that admissions to the Classics and Classical Studies programs have been suspended for Fall 2025. Classical Studies colleagues and students at York would be grateful for letters of support.
How you can help: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/supp...
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How you can help: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/supp...
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Urgent: Letters of Support for Classics and Classical Studies at York University! - The Classical Association of Canada
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February 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I am eternally grateful for my time teaching at YorkU and the warmth of faculty and students in Classics and Classical Studies.
Please consider sending your support to our colleagues and students!
Please consider sending your support to our colleagues and students!
I would spend all my funding here! Amazing!
Today is International Lego Classicism Day! 🎉 #ILCD25 #ILCD2025
And I was thinking...
Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a bookshop where you could buy all the books that have been lost?
So I built one.😂
Check out the website for all my Lego lost books...
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And I was thinking...
Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a bookshop where you could buy all the books that have been lost?
So I built one.😂
Check out the website for all my Lego lost books...
classicalstudies.support/classics-and...
International Lego Classicism Day 2025!
It’s that time of year again, when classicists, historians, archaeologists and others do silly things with Lego to celebrate the ancient world! I’m thrilled to be joining the ILCD Panth…
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February 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I would spend all my funding here! Amazing!
This is happy me last Saturday before watching "I'm still here" (Ainda Estou Aqui) and leaving in tears. This movie comes as a reminder that what we see in the the news about many nations (including mine) taking a very dark road towards autoritarianism ends bad.
Ditadura nunca mais! 👊
Ditadura nunca mais! 👊
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is happy me last Saturday before watching "I'm still here" (Ainda Estou Aqui) and leaving in tears. This movie comes as a reminder that what we see in the the news about many nations (including mine) taking a very dark road towards autoritarianism ends bad.
Ditadura nunca mais! 👊
Ditadura nunca mais! 👊
We are hosting the CAC annual conference next May. Send your abstract until Jan 15. Details below!
We’re hosting Canada’s largest conference devoted to the study of Ancient Greece and Rome in Winnipeg in May, 2025! The call for papers is out and may be found on our conference website: www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/cac... 1/4
Classical Association of Canada 2025 Annual Conference
| Classics
| The University of Winnipeg
www.uwinnipeg.ca
December 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM
We are hosting the CAC annual conference next May. Send your abstract until Jan 15. Details below!
Next Friday!
RIEH - RED Iberoamericana de Estudios Helenísticos
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
December 7, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Next Friday!
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RIEH - RED Iberoamericana de Estudios Helenísticos
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
November 28, 2024 at 5:59 PM
RIEH - RED Iberoamericana de Estudios Helenísticos
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
So much looking forward to learning more about the greatest invention of all times!
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 AM
So much looking forward to learning more about the greatest invention of all times!
RIEH - RED Iberoamericana de Estudios Helenísticos
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
November 28, 2024 at 5:59 PM
RIEH - RED Iberoamericana de Estudios Helenísticos
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
New collab with researchers from Latin America and beyond (Spanish and Portuguese speakers)!
If you wish to attend the event or jointhis network of researchers, DM me.
One more cool thing about 2024: my first visitor (and now co-supervisee) at @uwinnipeg.bsky.social .
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November 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
One more cool thing about 2024: my first visitor (and now co-supervisee) at @uwinnipeg.bsky.social .
news.uwinnipeg.ca/ekphrasis-an...
news.uwinnipeg.ca/ekphrasis-an...
Check this out! Making Melissa's words mine: I loved this piece by my colleague Melanie Racette-Cambell. Looking forward to watching the movie soon!
If you are looking for a quick but smart read on #GladiatorII, check out my colleague Melanie Racette-Campbell's oped in @nytimes.com on the often internally conflicted Roman view of masculinity: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/o...
Opinion | Gladiator Movies Don’t Tell the Real Story About Rome and Masculinity
Forget the movies. Roman ideals of masculinity went far beyond what gladiators could achieve.
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November 24, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Check this out! Making Melissa's words mine: I loved this piece by my colleague Melanie Racette-Cambell. Looking forward to watching the movie soon!
Come to the CAC at our university!
We’re hosting Canada’s largest conference devoted to the study of Ancient Greece and Rome in Winnipeg in May, 2025! The call for papers is out and may be found on our conference website: www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/cac... 1/4
Classical Association of Canada 2025 Annual Conference
| Classics
| The University of Winnipeg
www.uwinnipeg.ca
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Come to the CAC at our university!
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Our next New Directions in Classics talk is coming up this Friday, Nov. 22 at 4PM at the U of Winnipeg. It's Dr. Paul Monaghan with "The Complete Eradication of the Live Actor from the Tragic Stage."
November 18, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Our next New Directions in Classics talk is coming up this Friday, Nov. 22 at 4PM at the U of Winnipeg. It's Dr. Paul Monaghan with "The Complete Eradication of the Live Actor from the Tragic Stage."
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Hiring at UWinnipeg has been frozen amid a $5 million budget shortfall. New restrictions on international students are mostly to blame but govts encouraged this approach to balancing budgets. #Manitoba needs to fill this gap and get back to funding universities properly.,
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U of W forced to implement hiring freeze after international student cap sinks revenues | CBC News
Faculty members at the University of Winnipeg may have to rewrite their plans for the winter semester, as budgetary constraints stemming from a federal cap on international student enrolment may halt the hiring of teaching and research assistants.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Hiring at UWinnipeg has been frozen amid a $5 million budget shortfall. New restrictions on international students are mostly to blame but govts encouraged this approach to balancing budgets. #Manitoba needs to fill this gap and get back to funding universities properly.,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
On this day 5 years ago I landed in Toronto. Little did I know what I would go through, but here I am 💪.
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
On this day 5 years ago I landed in Toronto. Little did I know what I would go through, but here I am 💪.