I posted the trailer of Agora when I heard about it last year, wondering whether the movie itself would be excellent or dire, but because of an extremely limited American release at a time when I was in New Zealand anyway, I missed it in theatres. This evening a couple of professors showed it to their respective ancient history classes, and I ( Read more... )

I imagine this is true in all manner of professions, but in academia, conferences are the networking event par excellence. It's certainly not ironic then, that I was presenting paper based to a non-trivial degree on network theory. It did elicit an internal chuckle though ( Read more... )

I initially found it surprising, but through repetition came to expect, that when I mentioned my attendance at a conference on religious dining, the interlocutor would repeat back "religious dining" with surprise, then ask what "they" ate ( Read more... )

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Some interesting thoughts from vizi on mythology in roleplaying. I agree that the treatment of most Religious/Mythic systems in RPGs is unsatisfactory. In constructing my own, I tend to focus in the region of my academic interests (theological systems, rituals, cult topology, and politico-religious interactions rather than mythology) but I'll have to ( Read more... )