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EIDOLON

·Dec 2, 2020

Eidolon Is Dead. Long Live Eidolon.

Within minutes of the news of Eidolon’s demise, social media flooded with testimony to the life it breathed into classics. Who could have imagined that in five short years, this scrappy, upstart, woman-led magazine could revolutionize a field that for centuries has been a byword for conservatism? Eidolon amplified voices…

Classics

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Eidolon Is Dead. Long Live Eidolon.
Eidolon Is Dead. Long Live Eidolon.
Classics

3 min read


Oct 2, 2020

Adventures in Applied Classics

A flash Fall 2020 speaker series “at” UW-Madison How and to what ends does classical antiquity remain relevant today? How have racism, sexism, and Eurocentrism shaped its study and perceptions? …

Classics

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Adventures in Applied Classics
Adventures in Applied Classics
Classics

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EIDOLON

·May 14, 2020

Don’t Panic

About the Future of Classics and Humanistic Higher Ed — This is the first of a two-part transcript of a conversation with Joy Connolly and Joseph Howley. Check out Part II for professional advice and resources for classics grad students. On April 23, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Joseph Howley, Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University, convened a…

Classics

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Don’t Panic
Don’t Panic
Classics

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EIDOLON

·May 14, 2020

Speaking with Joy Connolly

As We Face Changing Jobs and Markets — This is the second of a two-part conversation with Joy Connolly and Joseph Howley during a special April 23 session of the Columbia University Graduate Research Colloquium convened in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Read the first part for introductions and big-picture thoughts on the future of higher ed. Joseph…

Classics

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Speaking with Joy Connolly
Speaking with Joy Connolly
Classics

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EIDOLON

·May 7, 2020

What Are You Going to Do with That Classics Degree?

John Tully on Alt-Ac Careers and Program Redesign — Today marks eminent historian Erich Gruen’s 85th birthday, and the inauguration of the Society for Classical Studies’ first annual Gruen Prize for graduate research on cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. (Submissions are due October 9, and a matching gift will double donations toward the prize endowment.) Like his myriad…

Classics

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What Are You Going to Do with That Classics Degree?
What Are You Going to Do with That Classics Degree?
Classics

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idle musings

·May 1, 2020

Not as Easy as ABC

A Classical Lexicon of What’s Getting Us Through this Pandemic — April is over, and I see no lilacs in this dead land. My state university is off to a running start with slashing budgets. Mandatory furloughs — grad students are thankfully exempted — will mean more work for less pay in the months to come. Halfway through our department’s online…

Classics

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Not as Easy as ABC
Not as Easy as ABC
Classics

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EIDOLON

·Apr 30, 2020

Tending Our Field and Our Future

Classics’ New COVID-19 Relief Fund — “Together, apart.” This phrase is like a seesaw. Which word will tip the balance today? In glass-half-full moods, I tell myself this pandemic could recalibrate our selves and our societies. …

Higher Education

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Tending Our Field and Our Future
Tending Our Field and Our Future
Higher Education

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EIDOLON

·Apr 23, 2020

We Used to Count Ourselves Kings of Infinite Space

Animals, the Environment, and the Limits of Empathy — On a honeymoon safari in Tanzania two years ago, as my husband slept off a cold he caught on the plane, I spent fireside nights listening to lions roar and reading Out of Africa. This “lyrical meditation” by the Danish author Karen Blixen, writing under the name Isak Dinesen, looks…

Coronavirus

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We Used to Count Ourselves Kings of Infinite Space
We Used to Count Ourselves Kings of Infinite Space
Coronavirus

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EIDOLON

·Apr 13, 2020

Classics after Coronavirus

Prophesying the Future of Our Field — As the earth reawakens outside our closed doors and we livestream springtime rites of renewal, many of us are wondering: what will remain of Classics, what will we resurrect, when this plague recedes? In the beginning, Ovid says, there was chaos. Then god and a better nature put the elements…

Coronavirus

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Classics after Coronavirus
Classics after Coronavirus
Coronavirus

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EIDOLON

·Apr 6, 2020

Not with a Bang but with a Whimper?

Finishing a Classics PhD During the Pandemic — As COVID-19 deaths rise and our lockdowns wear on, many of us are anxiously wondering what our worlds will look like post-coronavirus. But not all of us interact regularly with the graduate students who are the future of classics. …

Classics

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Not with a Bang but with a Whimper?
Not with a Bang but with a Whimper?
Classics

19 min read

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