Sunday, 26 November 2017

An Epic Week, in Several Senses

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    An epic week. Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule in Zimbabwe ended, an event headlined in NewsDay Zimbabwe as ‘Epic Fall of a Dictator’. ...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Manspreading Modern & Ancient

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I’ve been on a lot planes lately, and so am unusually sensitive to manspreading at the moment. This week I spoke at Policy Exchange, a W...
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Friday, 10 November 2017

Week of the Unaccountable Oligarchs

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A week where the full de-democratisation of Higher Education governance came sharply into focus for me after I watched the brilliant movie...
Thursday, 19 October 2017

Diary of a Peripatetic Classicist in Ulster & the Midwest

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A longer blog than usual after a week dashing between events in Belfast, Ohio and Philadelphia. A public discussion on Saturday of the v...
Sunday, 1 October 2017

Was Homer a Sicilian Woman?

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Butler MS--Cave near Trapani 'where the Cyclops lived' An invitation to speak at Trapani in north-west Sicily proved irresisti...
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Sunday, 24 September 2017

Medea and the Gender Realignment of Georgia

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Cutting Medea-themed Cake with Prof Darchia I’ve been Tbilisi to lecture on the most famous female Georgian of all time, Medea—sorcere...
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Sunday, 17 September 2017

Ancient Nomads, Modern Travellers

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Siberian Scythians' Self-Portrait, c. 400 BCE It has been Week of the Nomad. The new British Museum Scythians exhibition is revel...