Darrel Janzen
@dcjanzen.bsky.social
I research Roman literature and history (solitude, Environmental Humanities, social epistemology). Ancient Studies for all. he/him 🇨🇦
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Emergency zoom latin teacher needed to replace someone who has fallen ill. Anyone? 🏺
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Colleagues,
Due to a medical emergency for one of our colleagues, I am writing to ask if you know of anyone who might be able to take on a Latin 101 (MoWe 10:00AM - 11:15AM and Fr 10:00AM - 10:50AM) and Latin 201 (MoWe 8:30AM - 9:45AM) class on Zoom for the time that he is away.
We would be able to offer a stipend of $1500 for two weeks of class coverage, ideally starting Friday, 10/24, but later if need be. If the duration should be longer than two weeks, we could of course adjust this stipend.
Our colleague shares the following about his courses:
We are using the Oxford Latin Course, second edition.
In Latin 101, we are on Chapter 10 of Book I.
We are a bit behind in Latin 201. [...]I had to start at the beginning of Oxford Latin Course Book III in that class. We are now on Chapter 41 in that book.
Please let me know if you know of anyone who could take this on. We are, as I'm sure is evident, anxious to get someone in place as quickly as possible to minimize disruption for our students.
Thank you so much for considering,
Erin
Erin C. Tarver, Ph.D.
Chair, Humanities Division
Professor of Philosophy
Oxford College of Emory University
770-784-8369
e.c.tarver@emory.edu
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October 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Emergency zoom latin teacher needed to replace someone who has fallen ill. Anyone? 🏺
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In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.
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Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
Some fun with vocab teaching
October 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Some fun with vocab teaching
Pleased to say an article I wrote on Plautus and social epistemology is coming out about a month!
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October 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pleased to say an article I wrote on Plautus and social epistemology is coming out about a month!
www.steiner-verlag.de/Forgetting-a...
www.steiner-verlag.de/Forgetting-a...
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6th annual Erich S. Gruen Prize for best graduate student paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Deadline for submissions: September 30.
Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!
Deadline for submissions: September 30.
Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!
The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies
On behalf of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Erich S. Gruen Prize Committee invites all graduate students in North America to enter the sixth annual competition for the best graduate rese...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
6th annual Erich S. Gruen Prize for best graduate student paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Deadline for submissions: September 30.
Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!
Deadline for submissions: September 30.
Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!
Happy to see my review of an interesting book about the effects of distance on Roman power has come out in BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy to see my review of an interesting book about the effects of distance on Roman power has come out in BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
Michael Putnam has passed. A major figure in Latin poetry, especially due to his interpretation of the Aeneid. At Brown, he was wonderfully supportive of his students, myself as well as many fortunate others. sttl, Michael.
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Michael Putnam has passed. A major figure in Latin poetry, especially due to his interpretation of the Aeneid. At Brown, he was wonderfully supportive of his students, myself as well as many fortunate others. sttl, Michael.
Learning Latin with ChatGPT is gonna get a lot more people thinking "Romanes eunt domus" is correct www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEc...
Life of Brian - scene 4 - Romanes eunt domus
YouTube video by Leopoldo Drago
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August 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Learning Latin with ChatGPT is gonna get a lot more people thinking "Romanes eunt domus" is correct www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEc...
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The department at Chicago has a reputation as being one of the heavy hitters in the discipline in the US. This is... just... absolutely beyond words.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The department at Chicago has a reputation as being one of the heavy hitters in the discipline in the US. This is... just... absolutely beyond words.
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Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
I am so excited to read this!
Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE | Oxford Academic
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Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE
Abstract. This volume interrogates the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in stud
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July 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am so excited to read this!
My review of Rebecca Edwards' (excellent) new book on Tiberius and Augustus: www.sehepunkte.de/2025/07/4009...
SEHEPUNKTE - Rezension von: Tiberius and the Charisma of Augustus - Ausgabe 25 (2025), Nr. 7/8
Rezension über Rebecca Edwards: Tiberius and the Charisma of Augustus. The Principate Enshrined, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025, X + 241 S., ISBN 978-1-009-47667-6, GBP 90,00
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July 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My review of Rebecca Edwards' (excellent) new book on Tiberius and Augustus: www.sehepunkte.de/2025/07/4009...
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Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest!
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July 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest!
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Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist!
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
July 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist!
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
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Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30.
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Teaching Fellow in Roman History in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team
View details and apply for this Teaching Fellow in Roman History vacancy in Leicester.
An exciting new post has arisen for a Teaching Fellow in Roman History to join the University of Leicester...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30.
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....
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It's time for me to embarrass myself by putting this out there: if your college or university in the greater Los Angeles area needs an instructor for anything to do with music history or medieval studies, I'm available to teach this fall.
June 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's time for me to embarrass myself by putting this out there: if your college or university in the greater Los Angeles area needs an instructor for anything to do with music history or medieval studies, I'm available to teach this fall.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Do you know somebody exceptional teaching classics or promoting the study of yhe ancient world? Or promoting inclusion in classics? Nominate them for the Teaching Awards of the Classical Association! #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 #Classics classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do you know somebody exceptional teaching classics or promoting the study of yhe ancient world? Or promoting inclusion in classics? Nominate them for the Teaching Awards of the Classical Association! #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 #Classics classicalassociation.org/classical-as...
My slight tweak on the cats-as-Roman cursus honorum (course of honours) meme adapted for my Latin class, which is studying Nero's Rome.
February 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My slight tweak on the cats-as-Roman cursus honorum (course of honours) meme adapted for my Latin class, which is studying Nero's Rome.
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📣 Job alert!
The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Deadline: March 25th
Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...
The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Deadline: March 25th
Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...
Three-year Lecturer (Renewable) in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (UBC; Deadline March 25) - The Classical Association of Canada
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February 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
📣 Job alert!
The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Deadline: March 25th
Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...
The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Deadline: March 25th
Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...
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I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great.
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January 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great.
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