Friday Varia and Quick Hits

There’s a calm before the storm between the end of the semester and the beginning of grading. This weekend it will be filled with reading approximately 400 grant application (actually, like 35 of them) and recovering from a pair of stirring Ashes test matches.

But first, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota will team up with the College of Arts and Sciences Aha! Lecture Series and North Dakota Quarterly to host Micah Bloom (Minot State) and Thora Brylowe (University of Colorado-Boulder) this afternoon along with Sheila Liming (UND) and David Haeselin (UND) at an event celebrating the release of Bloom’s Codex. If you’re not from these-here parts, we got you covered. The event will be recorded and we’ll release it next week.

If you’re just not that into books or whatever, then here are some quick hits and varia:

• Comparing UK and US archaeology degrees.

• Weaponized Antiquities.

• The Louvre in Abu Dhabi.

• Et in Arcadia Ego: #MeToo in Classics.

• The Mountza.

• Change and Resilience on Mediterranean Islands in Antiquity.

• Download or Buy Ryan Stander’s Wayside Sacraments.

• Symphony of Broken Instruments.

• Orange Sky project, Australia.

• Pantone’s Color of the Year.

• Thomas the Tank Engine does Ken Block.

• Road signs suck.

• Some cool stuff from Rehoboth Beach. 

• What I’m reading: Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2015).

• What I’m listening to: Wilco, Being There.