Tomb of a metic woman from Piraeus.| Classics at the Intersections
Yes, I included this meme in the article.| Classics at the Intersections
People on Twitter and Facebook and other social media have been making lists of accomplishments, posting pictures, and generally thinking about the differences in their lives between 2009/10 and 2019/20. I actually started this blog a decade ago, but didn't really use it until 2017 (though I did post a few things in 2009 and 2012). It's been a pretty remarkable decade, though. Not just for me personally, but for the discipline of classics. We have seen some major shifts in scholarship, teachi...| Classics at the Intersections
This is the final of three lectures I gave between July 9-13, 2019 as the Onassis Lecturerat the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". The first lecture (on identities in the ancient Greek world) has been posted previously here. The second lecture (on Athenian anti-immigrant policies and ideas) has been posted previously here.| Classics at the Intersections
This is the second of three lectures I gave between July 9-13, 2019 as the Onassis Lecturerat the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". The first lecture has been posted previously here.| Classics at the Intersections
Over then next few weeks, I will be posting up the text and images from a series of lectured I gave between July 9-13, 2019 at the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". I was invited as the Onassis Lecturer to give a three lecture series on the theme. The lectures focus on ancient Greece and move from a general overview of identity in the Greek world (e pluribus plures), then to a deep dive looking at Athenian rejection of broader id...| Classics at the Intersections
According to this chart, I am Roman and I plan on applying for an Italian passport now. As some readers of this blog know, I am curren...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
There are a lot of people who talk about student loans who actually know nothing about them -- even people who work for the Dept of Education that oversees them. They know nothing about them because they don't live with them and the arcane processes that the government and private servicers and lenders have developed to keep people who took those loans out in perpetual debt. I thought I would shed some light on what it is like to live with student loan debt for decades even though you should ...| Classics at the Intersections
I've read a few things in the last week or so that have me thinking, specifically while I do some painting and woodwork in the house and my mind is free to wander. What I've been thinking about is how power structures get naturalized and how we (in the general sense) fight or argue to keep those structures in place without recognizing (willfully or in blissful ignorance) that these things are not in nature or of nature but naturalized as such. One of these things is the divisional structures...| Classics at the Intersections
Some days I don't work. | Classics at the Intersections
[note:there are a few sentences in here that are a little harsh. I am not going to change them because they are already out there and editing them now would be disingenuous. But, I do want to acknowledge the hard work of the SCS staff (tiny) and many of the people on comms who are working for change. It really is not about individuals, but a long standing blind spot that has led in some ways to, as one person put it “1980s solutions to 2020 problems”. More people have read this than I ant...| Classics at the Intersections
Not that anyone asked, but I have feelings. Confused ones, some not particularly generous ones, some overwhelming in their fragility, some close to joyous, but tinged with sadness. Feelings abound and have been abounding for some time all around this one part of my life. i.e. I'm not sure how to feel these days about being part of the discipline variously called "classics", "ancient Mediterranean studies", "ancient studies", "ancient Greek and Roman studies", etc. It has nothing to do with th...| Classics at the Intersections
I was asked to give opening remarks for the evening General Assembly on Day 2 of the Ohio Junior Classical League convention on March 6, 2021. Here is the text. There are many links I could add, but since it was an oral presentation, there are no citations. Apologies!| Classics at the Intersections
By Rebecca Kennedy and Maximus Planudes| Classics at the Intersections
By Rebecca Kennedy and Maximus Planudes| Classics at the Intersections
By Rebecca Kennedy and Maximus Planudes| Classics at the Intersections
Over the last week, I have been involved in a couple of discussions on Twitter and email where (I must admit it, although I know it will shock my regular audience) I was arguing about institutional power structures. In both cases, people seemed to want to deflect the discussions from the level of institutions to individuals. In one case, it was suggested that I was not using my power enough/correctly? and anyway, as a person with “power,” I could not critique institutional structures. In ...| Classics at the Intersections
By Rebecca Kennedy (RFK) and Maximus Planudes (MP) “The intellectual seeks to be attuned to the multivalent meanings of silence, to the name...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
As some of you may be aware, I have not been blogging now for about 7 months and have only written a few posts even in the last year. I can...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
A few months ago, I finished a chapter for an edited volume on the concept of foreignness in antiquity on the Athenian system of metoikia as...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
Just last week, I finished a chapter for an edited volume on history and authority that, although good, may never get published. I say this...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
A couple of years ago, I gave a talk that was the seed of a book I am now in the process of finishing up discussing whether or not we can ta...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
Bust of Aspasia. We have a few copies likely made from an original placed on the Acropolis as a dedication. Every time I see someone post, ...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
by Jackie Murray and Rebecca Futo Kennedy Dr. Jackie Murray and I recently wrote a short piece for ESPN’s The Undefeated reflecting on the...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
I tried not to read this last one. They have all been so bad and I am aware that anything about "Classics" published in the National Review ...| rfkclassics.blogspot.com
