Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Today, I’m bracing for about 8 hours of meetings and woke up to encounter a dusting of snow. That being said, the UND Writers Conference has been great fun, the UNDlers won their ice hockeying contest last night, and I managed to botch only a little bit of a top secret project.

• Pettegew on the Isthmus of Corinth.

• Open source data the illegal antiquities trade from Cyprus.

• Studies in Late Antiquity.

• Changing attitudes in Turkey toward Byzantine monuments.

• Ancient writing.

• Tim Ingold on Ethnography.

• Historians on the Future.

• Intersection Journal is relaunching and offering a free guide to photography.

• The strange tale of Academic Batgirl.

• The winners of the Smithsonian Photography contest.

• Sam Hinkie’s epic resignation letter.

• The archaeology of a preschoolers pocket.

• Middle Eastern Disco from the Golden Age of Middle Eastern Disco (of course).

• What I’m reading: E.C. Dodd, Byzantine Silver Stamps. Washington, DC, 1961.

• What I’m listening to: Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing; Hackamore Brick, One Kiss Leads to Another.