Tobias Fulton 🔱

MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD!!! Make sure to go to the beaches!! And the ottoman fort! And the Turkish baths!

The Ancient Societies and Ancient Artefacts Conference. Date: Sunday June 8, 2025 from 10-5pm Location: Macquarie University Arts Precinct, Building C, Room 122 (25 Wally’s Walk. This conference explores the role of material culture in teaching all aspects of ancient societies. It is concerned with teaching in secondary schools and in universities. Among its themes are: 1. Teaching HSC ancient history with artefacts 2. The use of museum collections 3. Bringing ancient artefacts and replicas of ancient objects into schools 4. Using ancient coins 5. The use of 3D videos and the printing of replicas Keynote speakers (confirmed): Assoc. Prof. Clare Rowan (Warwick) Call For Papers: The call for papers is now open. To offer a paper, please submit a title and abstract (max. 250 words) to Assoc. Prof. Kenneth Sheedy (ken.sheedy@mq.edu.au) by May 20 2025. Presentations should be 20 minutes in length.

Last day or two to submit an abstract to the ACANS/Macquarie University Ancient Societies and Ancient Artefacts conference if you are so inclined! A great exchange on how we use material culture in the classroom awaits! :-)

Actually, I almost worked for the JC a few years ago and know exactly why! Not as dramatic as you think!

Oh my god Sidney Prescott from Scream PLEASE

We’re thrilled by this development. A lot of hard work by some very good people has gone into creating this new society.

If you love the ancient world but want to be challenged and inspired to explore things through a less colonial lens, do give this a read.

Related to my work on pathologizing Orpheus’s sexuality: It’s been disturbing to be going through so many university websites in recent months & noticing how many still do similar work of pathologizing LGBTQ+ students and resources

Society for Classical Studies 157th Annual Meeting JANUARY 7-10, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the LCC QUEERNESS BEYOND IDENTITY Organized by Nicolette D’Angelo (UCLA) and Erin Lam (UCSB) Queer studies within Classics finds itself increasingly mired in debates about the precise gender and sexual identities of elite individuals from the historical record, such as Elagabalus and Sappho, as well as literary/mythological personae, such as Iphis and Caeneus. Sebastian Matzner (2022) has written that the queerness of the ancient world “has two dimensions”: first, those figures/practices which appear queer within the rubric of Greco-Roman gender and sexual norms, and second, aspects of antiquity which only become queer in their later reception(s). Recent scholarship of both stripes places a high premium on celebrating the gender and sexual diversity of the ancient world, unwittingly reinscribing the historical violences that accompany “outing” queers while also idealizing these subjects as “good” or “bad” exemplars of entire minoritized groups (Amin 2017). Meanwhile, in queer and trans studies, scholars and theorists have long demonstrated the limits of positivistic, identitarian, and taxonomical analyses, from Cathy J. Cohen to Jules Gill-Peterson to Robyn Wiegman. What new histories and theories of queerness come into view once we look beyond the desire for representation? Can we reimagine Queer Classics as the use of queer and trans scholarly methods that centers the “urgency and politics” of these methods’ origins, and foregoes the “relative safety” of depoliticized identification with queer figures from the past (Kotrosits 2023)?

To join us in this project, please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email to Tom Sapsford at sapsford@bc.edu by March 1, 2025. Any questions about proposals or the panel can be directed to Erin Lam (erinlam@ucsb.edu) and Nicolette D’Angelo (ncdangelo@g.ucla.edu). Please ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously, and their decision will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by April 1, 2025, with enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the upcoming SCS meeting. Bibliography Amin, K. 2023. “Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 29, 91–107.

Sharing the CFP for the LCC-sponsored panel at next year's SCS. "Queerness Beyond Identity," organized by Nicolette D'Angelo (UCLA) and Erin Lam (UCSB).

Deadline for abstracts: March 1.

Please share widely!

Calling researchers in Queer & Trans Histories ⚧️🌈

This #LGBTplusHM25 we want your proposals for our new series.

Ed. by the UK’s first permanently endowed professor in LGBTQ+ History, Matt Cook, @psimonetto.bsky.social & Jennifer V Evans.

Find more info here: https://buff.ly/4hoB1lo

Do as the Romans do: as Christopher Nolan sets to work adapting The Odyssey, here’s why all things Classical are high society’s next hot trend First Gladiator II lit up our screens, now a raft of Greek plays are ablaze on the West End. But gone are the days of toga parties: all things ancient are more dazzling than ever

When I tell people abt white nationalist classicism some colleagues sometimes say they're skeptical that anybody rly holds such uncritical views of the ancient world. Then a style mag calls "all things Classical" the next "hot trend" (they dont mean counternarratives) www.tatler.com/article/chri...

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Attended a colouring workshop and panel discussion about queer antiquity today at the @ausqueerarchives.bsky.social
with @31bce.bsky.social @jessicamckenzie.bsky.social and Eli Farrow who you may know from @queerasfact.bsky.social as the panelists. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🥰📚

Archeologische topstukken buitgemaakt bij inbraak Drents Museum Een van de topstukken is de gouden helm van Cotofenesti. Het stuk is van bijna zuiver goud.

Utterly depressing news. Last night there was a burglary in the museum of Assen in the Netherlands. Several prized ancient Dacian artifacts, including the golden helmet from Cotofenesti, were stolen. These were on loan as part of the Dacia exhibit which had been touring Europe the last few years.

The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis* ABSTRACT. This article explores the intersection of sensory perception, emotional experience, and ritual practice within the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries,

My article on sensory deprivation and the so-called Ploutonian at Eleusis has been published!

This is a deeply personal and vulnerable article - establishing a route into Sensory Archaeology as an Autistic researcher. I’m very proud of it.

#ClassicsBluesky

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

The front of a cuneiform tablet that is reddish brown in colour. The top left is missing, creating a smooth corner there. There are a few cracks throughout but it’s otherwise legible

The back of a conform tablet that is reddish brown in colour. The bottom left corner is missing creating a slightly diagonal, smooth edge. There are a few thin cracks throughout and some portions of text have flaked off.

“Anger, they say, anger
goes like a wild bull.
It constantly leaps forth like a dog,
like a lion”

From a spell to expel anger, impressed with a reed stylus into clay almost 4,000 years ago in a beautiful Babylonian dialect of the Akkadian language cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/27...

A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user thehmn. It depicts two carved ivory figurines of foxes dressed as monks. The caption reads, Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

Clearly, this was a global issue.

I think so fondly of this conversation and there are some beautiful moments of shared experience!

Summer School 2024 | Hellenic Musuem The Hellenic Museum annual Summer School returns in January 2024. Five days, four short courses, 8000 years of Greek and Roman history!

Jan 6-10 hybrid Melbourne - Hellenic Museum Summer School with Dr Christopher Gribbin: Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans and Natives in Ancient Spain; Greek Architecture and its Legacy; Minoan and Mycenaean Greece; Athenian Democracy in Practice www.hellenic.org.au/whats-on/sum...

After interviewing @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for about 3 hours for my PhD, where we talked about working class classics and queer perspectives, she kindly put my name forward to be a part of this incredible project 💜 I am so proud to be among my fellow working class peers. Thank you WCC!

Very excited about this… one of my favourite projects I’ve ever contributed to ✨✨

A white square superimposed over a classical painting, the square has the head of Athena drawn inside with her name printed underneath. In the top right corner of the square is the number 87.62 and to the left 38.

We're announcing something big on the 2nd of January 2025, so once you've recovered from your Hogmanay celebrations check back for a surprise 👀

IYKYK...

Join us for our joint AIA/SCS panel and submit you anonymous questions today! forms.gle/Pc2omtsJxoez... @scsclassics.bsky.social

When Will Museums Tell the Whole Truth About Their Antiquities? Some US museums will overlook the dubious origins of acquisitions if it suits their purposes.

Cleveland's behavior is an unusually visible example of the Faustian bargain many museums make in order to acquire & hold onto looted antiquities. Better to erase historical knowledge than have to give up a treasured possession. hyperallergic.com/760120/when-... 5/5

I just ordered this fine book and that discount code worked a charm. Looking forward to this book.

Everybody say Happy 1,894th Birthday, Antinous!

May you all never mysteriously drown in a river and be turned into a god by your homoerotic situationship (or do, if that’s your thing)

Thank you for all that you’ve done for me, my special little guy 🫶💜

Decided to add to the ever growing list of #AncientBlueSky🏺 Starter Packs with one of people that have plenty of photos of the ancient sites and museum collections.

Give me a shout if you would like to be added to it!

go.bsky.app/AQCsDTt

Would love to reconnect with old mutual from tw*tter, and follow new friends!

If you are ancient world historians, museum folks, or interested in queer histories at any capacity, please say hi!