Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a surreal first Friday of Spring Break as efforts to contain the coronavirus has suspended face-to-face teaching for the two weeks after spring break and most major sporting events canceled (except the Australia – New Zealand one-day series and NASCAR).

With a global health crisis looming, it seems almost irresponsible to blog about anything other than coronavirus right now. At the same time, the world keeps on turning (some how) and 

• Take your scholarship public.

• Reflections from Sylvie Dumont, author of Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora.

• This isn’t happening.

• Fewer World Leaders, And More Good Neighbors

• Pandemic Pedagogy

• Sudden Distance: Teaching Writing Online. 

• Some tips on making a podcast and going online in a hurry.

• No church for you.

• I’ve been enamored with Jesse Stommel’s work lately:

What if we didn’t grade?

An Urgency of Teachers.

Disrupting the Digital Humanities.

• Women watch collectors.

• All the new watches.

• What I’m reading: John Sayles, Yellow Earth. (2020) 

• What I’m listening to: Steven Malkmus, Traditional Techniques.