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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 2d

genius answer mom

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 5d

Is the popularity of the admonition to children "use your words" the apotheosis of Lacanian psychoanalysis or what

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 5d

TIL there's a play that combines Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the life of Malcolm X. Such a cool/intriguing idea. At the @folger.edu now
www.folger.edu/whats-on/jul...

Folger Theatre: Julius X

Al Letson harmonizes with Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in his retelling of the story, "Julius X: A Re-envisioning of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare."

www.folger.edu

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Sep 10

Critical Ethnic Studies cfp for a special issue on Caste, Empire, and Race, including "The imbrication of caste and race across geographies and histories." My guess is they'd welcome a submission on the ancient world
www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/submissions

Submissions — Critical Ethnic Studies

www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decarbonize electricity. (this) problem solved

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 13

How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington

Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

www.theguardian.com

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 13

Re slavers/fascists. What's your take on the idea, which I associate with VDH but I doubt it originates with him, that armies from democracies always (usually?) defeat totalitarian armies? It's so embedded in triumphalist narratives of Western Civ that to me it's suspect on its face

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 13

Even better

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 13

Latests PI includes Jennifer Roberts on Thucydides: "A whole book could easily be written on the use and abuse of Thucydides in the United States alone over the past hundred years." I hope someone will take this up!

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 7

I wrote about Latin on state flags & colonial violence for Pharos. I intended to publish on Flag Day but then a terrorist assassinated a MN State Rep and we start w MNs new flag. Monday after July 4th is another good time for thinking about nationalist symbols pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/07/07/l...

Latin Mottoes in State Flags Sanitize Colonial Violence

Land Acknowledgement: Pharos is researched, written, and published online at Vassar College, an institution situated in the homeland of the Munsee Lenape people. Please read more. In 2024, the state o...

pharos.vassarspaces.net

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's so frustrating, my institution has a repository but it's designed in a way that search engines can't find and those running it are indifferent to that fact (I guess they see it as purely archival?); meanwhile stuff on academia shows up well in search. Other options you're aware of now?

Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Musk, regretting the world he brought about, says he's now all about empathy, which he recently said was "the fundamental weakness of Western Civilization." I wrote about how that view dovetails well with white nationalist thought about Greco-Roman antiquity: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Those of us trying to do critical work in Classics are sometimes told we are risking too much in a hostile higher ed climate and guess what, they were coming for us anyway no matter what we did

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Jul 1

It’s funny because Black Diaspora studies and critical theory in general was consistently portrayed as a threat to the “classics” and a true liberal education but lo and behold here are the “classics” being cut right along the more critical disciplines.

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Jun 30

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yes, also better news for engagement elsewhere, I feel like 25-34 elsewhere has a better chance of turning out than 18-24 elsewhere

Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wow this is a steal

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Jun 30

yoooooooooo

flash sale of the ebook of THE BRIGHT AGES by me and @lollardfish.bsky.social

only $2.99!!!!!

#medievalsky #booksky

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

A New History of Medieval Europe

bookshop.org

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 29

I agree with this, for all his name recognition Cuomo was weak in NYC, the dude couldn't even claim to eat a bagel for breakfast, so I'm excited about Mamdani but wondering how it transfers

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 26

And you know what, these days I would take another Hadrian

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 26

Also his beard! I can't grow one myself but it made me think about how few politicians have that (last president: Taft!)/why that might be and then inevitably I think of Hadrian whose beard we learned about in HS and only now am I like huh I guess that was a big deal & not just some wacky factoid

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 26

This makes me realize I don't know how to learn where my scholarship has been cited! How did you learn about this cite?

Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 25

One of the ways this formulation of it became popular is its catchy/legible name, yes, but also the veneer or intellectual depth that the originator of this version (of a much older idea) bestowed upon it. His analysis of Plato is one of the ways he produced that appearance of depth 2/

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here we have a prominent political commentator and white house advisor promoting the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. The man who gave it that name began his analysis with a discussion of a Platonic dialogue. 1/ pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/10/07/g...

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 25

So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.

This is correct. They tell us that the great replacement is a "conspiracy theory, yet we can look at New York City and see it happening right in
front of our eyes.
Stephen Miller @ @StephenM • 10h The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for
Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That's how you
turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 18

Luckily there are other good reasons to read books, including ones that might be more persuasive to kids! like fun! (with the right book)

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 18

How long have I been doing this and only today learned that Goebbels had a doctorate in philology

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 16

The terrorist in MN who murdered Melissa and Mark Hortman named his security company "Praetorian Guard Security Services." It's just a small piece of the picture, but when so many representations of ancient Rome idealize violence, a certain number of people are going to take that to heart

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 13

A few years ago I shared a version of my syllabus. It's a good course and the students get a lot out of it. "Classical Rhetoric" is capacious enough to say something valuable the current landscape. But it's hard to give up the pull of trad. political speech/media www.academia.edu/35562142/Cla...

Classical Rhetoric Presidential Campaign Syllabus

Syllabus for my course "Classical Rhetoric and the Presidential Campaign."

www.academia.edu

Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · Jun 13

Since 2008 I've taught a course on Classical Rhetoric and the Presidential Campaign. We always learn a ton, and we never just focused on speeches, but this article speaks to what has haunted me every time, that what we're looking at just doesn't matter

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jun 13

"No fire and brimstone speech can turn back the clock on what digital media has done to how we talk to one another, how we consume news and how much outrage now shapes a million versions of personalized reality."

Sharp piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

Opinion | Obama Isn’t Going to Save You

www.nytimes.com

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