Eco Classical Caucus
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Account run by James Taylor (Colby College). ECC run with Sarah Herbert (University of Virginia). Join at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp_sxm-4SVtpQBYq-fxuBJcxv89LhG1cHvfLqbOhLn2-rsyg/viewform?usp=send_form
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A recent study from Miles Richardson highlights how human relationships with nature have changed over the last 200 years. By evaluating nature words in publications, Richardson found that our connection to nature has declined by more than 60% since 1800. doi.org/10.3390/earth6030082
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A recent study from Miles Richardson highlights how human relationships with nature have changed over the last 200 years. By evaluating nature words in publications, Richardson found that our connection to nature has declined by more than 60% since 1800. doi.org/10.3390/earth6030082
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‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines
Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The Pompeii Archaeological Park has recreated an ancient perfume garden—right down to its antique roses.
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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A 2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Garden Springs Back to Life
Pompeii Archaeological Park has unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules , freshly planted with violets, ruscus plants, and antique roses.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The Pompeii Archaeological Park has recreated an ancient perfume garden—right down to its antique roses.
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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New issue of Arethusa Vol. 58, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55020 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Animals Under Empire
June 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
New issue of Arethusa Vol. 58, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55020 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Animals Under Empire
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Please submit a proposal for the 2025 Symposium Cumanum! Information as to how to do this below. Please share and spread the word! You all need to spend 3-4 days in Italy, right?
December 8, 2023 at 8:50 PM
Please submit a proposal for the 2025 Symposium Cumanum! Information as to how to do this below. Please share and spread the word! You all need to spend 3-4 days in Italy, right?
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Register now for the ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ symposium, hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science, happening Friday 01 Dec 2023!
Check out the programme and get your thickets to the free, one-day online symposium focussed at #PGR students and #ECR here: shorturl.at/byV57
Check out the programme and get your thickets to the free, one-day online symposium focussed at #PGR students and #ECR here: shorturl.at/byV57
‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ BSLS Winter Symposium 2023
‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ is a free, one-day, online symposium hosted by the British Society of Literature and Science.
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November 20, 2023 at 7:59 AM
Register now for the ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ symposium, hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science, happening Friday 01 Dec 2023!
Check out the programme and get your thickets to the free, one-day online symposium focussed at #PGR students and #ECR here: shorturl.at/byV57
Check out the programme and get your thickets to the free, one-day online symposium focussed at #PGR students and #ECR here: shorturl.at/byV57
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"Environmental History of Antiquity (3000 BC – 800 CE[!!!!!]) across Western Eurasia and North Africa. This appointment calls for interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and teaching that bridges Classical and Environmental Studies."
New position in environmental history of antiquity at Tufts apply.interfolio.com/133781
October 5, 2023 at 4:17 PM
"Environmental History of Antiquity (3000 BC – 800 CE[!!!!!]) across Western Eurasia and North Africa. This appointment calls for interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and teaching that bridges Classical and Environmental Studies."
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CfP Dark Green Spiritualities and Ideas of the Nature Sacred in European societies since the 18th century, IEG Mainz, 25-27 April 2024. Deadline for abstracts 15 Oct 2023, tinyurl.com/2dzn8yuu 🦤
October 2, 2023 at 5:55 AM
CfP Dark Green Spiritualities and Ideas of the Nature Sacred in European societies since the 18th century, IEG Mainz, 25-27 April 2024. Deadline for abstracts 15 Oct 2023, tinyurl.com/2dzn8yuu 🦤
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CFP via Matthew Edney on Mastodon: The Journal of Historical Geography editors invite you to submit a proposal for [...] the virtual special issue “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea” guest edited by Federico Ferretti: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
Call for papers - Journal of Historical Geography | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Journal of Historical Geography at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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September 28, 2023 at 4:51 PM
CFP via Matthew Edney on Mastodon: The Journal of Historical Geography editors invite you to submit a proposal for [...] the virtual special issue “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea” guest edited by Federico Ferretti: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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If you want regular information on environmental conferences, talks, publications, etc. in ancient studies, you can sign up for our email digest which we send out on the first of each month here: forms.gle/xmNqqR74Av7j... You can also message us with anything that you would like to publicize!
September 19, 2023 at 8:39 PM
If you want regular information on environmental conferences, talks, publications, etc. in ancient studies, you can sign up for our email digest which we send out on the first of each month here: forms.gle/xmNqqR74Av7j... You can also message us with anything that you would like to publicize!
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“If there is indeed a movement toward hiring purely with teaching classes in mind, that tendency would also explain the relative (and absolute) dearth of jobs for premodernists”
This assumption doesn’t fly w me. Our premodern classes (medieval world, Islamic civ, East Asian civ, Roman world) fill.
This assumption doesn’t fly w me. Our premodern classes (medieval world, Islamic civ, East Asian civ, Roman world) fill.
The AHA's annual job report is out and it is bleak: t.co/EaCAGGLhXh
The total job numbers confirm that there's no change in trajectory we've been on; we're still hiring at a rate which will see us lose 30-40% of the discipline over the next decade or two.
The total job numbers confirm that there's no change in trajectory we've been on; we're still hiring at a rate which will see us lose 30-40% of the discipline over the next decade or two.
The 2023 AHA Academic Jobs Report
While the number of academic job listings for historians continues to be stable, there has been a decrease in tenured or tenure-track positions.
t.co
September 14, 2023 at 9:10 PM
“If there is indeed a movement toward hiring purely with teaching classes in mind, that tendency would also explain the relative (and absolute) dearth of jobs for premodernists”
This assumption doesn’t fly w me. Our premodern classes (medieval world, Islamic civ, East Asian civ, Roman world) fill.
This assumption doesn’t fly w me. Our premodern classes (medieval world, Islamic civ, East Asian civ, Roman world) fill.
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This is a really good listen if you’re interested in contemporary archaeology, the Anthropocene or similar
Seriously... - Lego Overboard - BBC Sounds
Five million pieces of Lego are washed overboard. Meet the beachcombers looking for them.
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September 19, 2023 at 8:12 PM
This is a really good listen if you’re interested in contemporary archaeology, the Anthropocene or similar
If you want regular information on environmental conferences, talks, publications, etc. in ancient studies, you can sign up for our email digest which we send out on the first of each month here: forms.gle/xmNqqR74Av7j... You can also message us with anything that you would like to publicize!
September 19, 2023 at 8:39 PM
If you want regular information on environmental conferences, talks, publications, etc. in ancient studies, you can sign up for our email digest which we send out on the first of each month here: forms.gle/xmNqqR74Av7j... You can also message us with anything that you would like to publicize!