Friday Varia and Quick Hits

There’s snow on the ground and days are getting shorter and shorter, but it’s also so close to the end of the semester, I can almost taste it. So wintertime giveth some research and writing time, but also taketh away daylight.

It feels like everything slows down in the wintertime. My sports calendar for the weekend looks lazy: some late season college football, the F1 guys in Saudi Arabia, and I’ll likely watch my Sixers on TV tonight. Australian Test cricket starts in about a week and the rhythm of that sport will dictate our holiday ritual and the sight of the grassy pitches under the warm Australian sky will remind us that longer, warmer days will return!

This weekend, I’ll keep slogging away on my to do list which continues to grow faster than I can cross things off. Hopefully, I’ll push two books along in the production process (and maybe a third) and continue to catch up on reading and syllabus writing for next semester. All of this is fun stuff, but sometimes, like an all you can drink scotch bar, you wish there wasn’t so much good stuff at once.

In the spirit of that sentiment, here’s some quick hits and varia:

• As always, there’s a new Pasts Imperfect. 

• Morag Kersel’s ASOR Plenary.

• Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity Conference.

• Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Virtual Opening.

• Apuleius.

• The Holy Family in Egypt.

• Athens’s Apartment Block Phenomenon.

• What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood.

• Docents at the Art Institute.

• MFRobots.

• The Improbable Rise Of The Co-Axial Escapement.

• What I’m reading: Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. (2019)

• What I’m listening to: William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops I. 

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