Aimee Turner

Looking for something to do on a Wednesday night? Did you enjoy the Odyssey? Come along to the City Library and learn more about the inspiration for the film with the La Trobe Classics in the City series! www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/la-trobe-cla...

Want to learn more about the world of the Odyessey and Gladiator? Come along to the La Trobe Open Day to find out about the Classics major! #LaTrobeUniversity #openday

Compiling a list of films and comic books to explore from the first day of #ASCS47. Perfect first day of my new job as Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History at La Trobe Uni.

Solidarity to all affected. The destruction of a fantastic department 💔

A friend of mine is currently hanging out in Venice, and dragging her visiting friends and relatives to all the museums. @ouroboros81.bsky.social has shared her tips with us for Arke: webarke.com/2025/04/12/n...

The AWAWS Reading Group is getting started again for 2025. Our first meeting is the 20th March, 6pm (AEDT). We will be discussing Gender, Representation and Bias in Classics online. You can join AWAWS and sign up to our reading group here (www.awaws.org/become-a-mem...) #AncientWorld #Classics

First online meeting of Australasian Ovidian Society (AOS) - Monday 7th April 2025 - Zoom - 2pm AEST/ 4pm NZT. Mailing list: email Simona Martorana (simona.martorana@anu.edu.au), Gemma Neall (gemma.neall@outlook.com) and Shona Edwards (shona.edwards@adelaide.edu.au) #Ovid #AOS

Following up from this to my academic peers, what new approaches to assessment have you tried?

Have you been impacted by Vikings? Have they raided your social media, laid waste to your popular culture? The Great Viking Survey is here for you! University of Oslo is exploring modern perceptions of Vikings. This survey will take 15-20 minutes. nettskjema.no/a/viking#/pa...

The final Arke blog post for the year is more serious than we've done in the past - I talk about GenAI and assessment in higher education - you can find it here: webarke.com/2024/12/05/g...

I've been doing a lot of work with academics at Federation University about adapting to AI, and I'm eager to see what my fellow classicists are doing in this space. If you are using GenAI in your ancient world teaching, this your chance to shine! edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/gener...

My review has been published, and @resaustrales.bsky.social is already all over it.

Virtual Postgraduate Open Day - Cambridge Uni Faculty of Classics - November 23 - prospective MPhil/PhD students - Zoom - book by Nov 18 shorturl.at/eTjtR

A colleague at Macquarie University has shared their tips for PowerPoint - you can read them here: webarke.com/2024/06/26/c... #Classics

New issue of Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association Vol. 19, No. 2 (2023) search.informit.org/toc/jaema/19/2

I've been discussing the impact of AI on higher education assessment with my colleagues. You can hear what we think here: www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-ri...

"the humanities aren’t just something you talk about in a classroom, but are our core tools when the human societies that created and preserved them are under attack. Like right now." bit.ly/3VD9AMT

Last month, the Australasian Society for Classical Studies met in Melbourne for their annual conference. Here are the reflections from some of the attendees on what is happening in Classics in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. webarke.com/2024/03/29/a...

The online #NUMISMA seminar schedule for semester one (from ACANS/Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies at Macquarie). Zoom - email charlotte.mann@students.mq.edu.au for link.

Hi all - I'm looking to touch base with a PhD student or ECR who works on archaeology/ epigraphy in south Etruria for an ongoing project. If you know of anyone who fits this bill, please let me know! 🏺ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics AncientBluesky 🏛️

#radio Summer: 💕 Love from ancient to modern times - ABC's God Forbid - ABC Australia - James Carleton talks with Dr Jennifer Pinkerton, Prof Alastair Blanshard (UQ) & Rami Sivan www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (rebroadcast from 2023)

Any Ovidians here, this sounds like a great opportunity...

We've put together a list of gifts for Classicists. What would you add? webarke.com/2023/12/09/c... 🏺 ClassicsBlusky AntiquityBluesky

Please share this CFP for what looks to be an exciting, interdisciplinary graduate/ECR conference at SUNY Buffalo next Spring. Honored to be one of the keynotes. #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

The call for abstracts for the Society for Late Antiquity panel I'm organizing at the 2025 AIA-SCS meeting in Philadelphia, "Modern & Popular Receptions of Late Antiquity," has been recently posted to the SCS website. Please help me spread the word! AncientBluesky ByzantineBluesky

Emerging from the sea of marking for a breath and realising the world has gotten worse, somehow. Back to marking I go...

Nov 1 hybrid Adelaide (Bragg Lecture Theatre, 8pm) Astronomical Society of South Australia: Brenan Dew, From Ancient Egypt to the Stars www.facebook.com/events/10191... Youtube: www.youtube.com/astronomysa FB live www.facebook.com/astronomysa

Nov 3 Melbourne (3pm, Arts West 156) Panel discussion on the future of Classics and Archaeology (and the wider Humanities) as disciplines worldwide in the next 30 years (with Prof Glenn Most) classicsvic.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/t...

Continuing the story - introduce yourself with some jobs you've had that don't include what you do now: - Pizza delivery driver - Telstra complaints department - Telemarketer - High school teacher - Learning Skills Advisor