Weekly Links 7.19.20
A weekly update of content from around the web including modern takes on the ancient world, material related to this past week’s articles, and a look at what our editorial staff is reading.
This week in classics:
Due to COVID, some colleges are resorting to laying off faculty.
Rewriting the curriculum at Yale.
Using rhetoric to revive classics.
A letter in support of Classics at Carthage College.
On the actual average salary of a professor.
This week in Eidolon history:
2020: Tiresias beyond the gender binary.
2019: The importance of open-access scholarly publishing.
2018: The gender dysphoria of the Metamorphoses; perspectives on your hopeless gay crush.
2016: Who’s afraid of Simone de Beauvoir? Why Thucydides?
From the editors: There are over 60 videos documenting police brutality filmed during protests in New York City; these young South Koreans are opting out of society; a useful list of the publications that pay writers; one woman’s quest for connection led her to a white supremacist hate group, and then back out again, then to Islam; Teen Vogue on the intersections of fatphobia, racism, and police violence; Padma Lakshmi’s new food show is a Trojan horse; koalas are helping us cure chlamydia; the rise of the Karen; the promising results of one city’s universal basic income experiment; these therapy dogs are essential workers; kimchi can protect against COVID; are all the r/relationships stories made up?
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