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Alison Sharrock

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Professor of Latin, University of Manchester ecocritic currently reading Ovid's Metamorphoses in the light of climate change

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Alison Ruth Sharrock is an English Classics scholar. She has been Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester since August 2000. In 2009, she gave the Stanford Memorial Lectures. Together with David Konstan of Brown University, she edits the series Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory published by Oxford University Press. .. more

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Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Aug 19

I agree with the strong preference for being in person, but I think the realities of the climate situation mean that we should limit as far as possible the amount of air travel for academic meetings and conferences. I travel around Europe by train. Greece is the hard one. US is no longer possible.

Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Aug 5

Very likely, as long as it is done fully. Statistics always need the Tim Harford question - is that a big number? What would be the expected proportion, relative to total number? I think very likely the actual proportion will be *lower* than the expected, but it will need that context to be clear.

Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yes, that's my worry also. I read the original article with great interest, and have bought the book to read properly. I remain concerned, however, that it is over-confident about the ability of democracy, at least as currently constituted, to address the problems.

Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Apr 24

I'm giving a talk at a workshop tomorrow, 'in' Toronto (by zoom), about what Latin literature can do with ecocriticism. I am going to say that I think we need to make major reductions in flying for such purposes. What do others think? Can/should academia stop its addiction to conferences?

Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Feb 11

Is it even sensible to work on the so-called SAF? It is never going to be truly sustainable when you take into account land use and increased flying. Better to concentrate on reduced usage of flying, with concentration on other (e.g. battery) flight for the residual needs.

Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Jan 24

I would like to tell the Bluesky community about an article I have just had published, which reads an ancient poem through a 21st-century lens. It's about a time when a young man tried to drive the chariot of the sun, which went horribly badly and burnt the earth.
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Ovid’s Phaethon: Anthropogenic Global Heating, Ancient and Modern | Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society

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Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · Jan 12

Interesting article, thanks.