Matt Lupu Podcast: Recent Episodes
Matt Lupu
Do you want to know about history? What about culture? Exotic travel? We got you covered. Join your host Matt Lupu as he tries to breathe life into ancient history, archaeology, dead languages, and much more! About your host: Matt is a dentist, historian, author, world traveler, and forever student. Sometimes he’s even funny.
Season 2 is officially underway! This project has been a long time in the making, and we're glad to finally be sharing it with you. In this introductory episode, Matt lays out the scope of the discussion, chats about his research and methodology for this project, and starts diving into the history of migration in Eastern Europe.
Season 2 is officially underway! This project has been a long time in the making, and we're glad to finally be sharing it with you. In this introductory episode, Matt lays out the scope of the discussion, chats about his research and methodology for this project, and starts diving into the history of migration in Eastern Europe.
Season 2 is officially underway! This project has been a long time in the making, and we're glad to finally be sharing it with you. In this introductory episode, Matt lays out the scope of the discussion, chats about his research and methodology for this project, and starts diving into the history of migration in Eastern Europe.
Season 2 is officially underway! This project has been a long time in the making, and we're glad to finally be sharing it with you. In this introductory episode, Matt lays out the scope of the discussion, chats about his research and methodology for this project, and starts diving into the history of migration in Eastern Europe.
Season 2 is officially underway! This project has been a long time in the making, and we're glad to finally be sharing it with you. In this introductory episode, Matt lays out the scope of the discussion, chats about his research and methodology for this project, and starts diving into the history of migration in Eastern Europe.
The final episode of Season 1 has arrived! In this episode, Matt chats with Ledio Hysi, an archaeologist who’s worked on bringing Classics to the wider world for several years now. Hear about Ledio’s work with Lithodomos VR, a tech company that’s bringing the past into the future, and what Ledio thinks about Classics outreach in the modern world. Ledio shares stories from his archaeological fieldwork in Turkey and lets us in on what he’s up to now (hint: it’s delicious!).
In the penultimate episode to Season 1, Matt thinks about the ways in which Classics has historically been promulgated to broader audiences, and whether this model is sustainable today. He discusses attempts in Hollywood, video games, and - recently - the internet to reach people with the story of the ancient world, and how successful (or not) those attempts have been. How do we keep Classics alive? It'll take all of us, and we need to act now.
Join us for a conversation with Matt Lester, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, about the struggles facing doctoral candidates trying to finish in this climate of closures and loss of funding. Hear Matt offer his thoughts about his own department shutting its doors and about methodological problems facing the field, and how he thinks we can save Classics for future generations.
In this episode, Matt tackles the methodological and epistemological issues in academic departments. He considers why asking bad questions makes it harder to defend vulnerable fields of study against the onslaught of budget cuts and closures, and offers some possible solutions to keep these departments open.
What’s the legacy of ancient Greek art? What can we know about the way that ancient Greek artists worked? How do we consume the work they left behind? And how should we consume it? Join Matt as he talks to Maria Marinou, a working artist based in Sheffield, about her experiences growing up in Athens and her journey from art school to archaeology, and hear her thoughts about museum possession as a Greek person living in England.
Who owns the past? Who gets to decide where significant objects live, how they’re cared for, and who has access to them? In this episode, Matt digs into the controversial fate of the so-called Elgin marbles - the sculptures taken from the Parthenon in Athens that currently reside in the British Museum in London.
In episode 2 of this season, Matt speaks with Austin Wojkiewicz about the skills he developed while pursuing a master’s in ancient history and Greek language, and how he uses those skills now after leaving academia for the ever-expanding field of IT.
What are you going to do with that? It’s the question every Latin major gets asked when they tell anyone about their degree track. If you’re a major, let Matt teach you about the hidden value of an undergraduate degree in Ancient History, Greek, Latin, or Archaeology.
In the introductory episode to the Matt Lupu podcast, Matt tells us about his long and complex journey from professional dentist to professional classicist and historian. Join Matt every other week as he brings the ancient world to life through new and interesting discussions with his friends from the crazy world of archaeology and history and learn how the ancient world affects us all today!