seeingspectacles: Recent Episodes
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/unified-weapons-master-future-fighting/?_escaped_fragment_=ba6Dzz#!ba6Dzz If real gladiators fought like this, that wold be a fairly rubbish show.
After a longish interlude, Prometheus Unbound is back with a short episode on the Japanese reception of Euripides’s Medea, featuring Prof. Christina Laffin, and the artistic directors of the Yayoi Theatre Movement, Yayoi Hirano and Peter Hall. The show is on November 7th-9th, 2013 in Vancouver. Go check it out if you can!
Originally posted on From Stone to Screen:
For readers who happen to be on or near the UBC campus this week, we’re having the first of many fundraising events to raise the money needed to digitize the squeeze collection. Enjoy some delicious baked goods full of buttery, chocolatey, or bacon-y goodness, buy a few books…
This is a great blog run by the graduate students in CNERS, chronicling the process of digitizing the CNERS archaeological and squeeze collection (a squeeze is a copy of an ancient inscription). I can’t wait for the collection to go online.
Were the ancients on to something about living the good life? This episode features a roundtable discussion with staff writers from the In the Agora site about two major Hellenistic schools of philosophy and the Orphic mystery cult to tackle the question of whether or not we could live our lives in accordance with […]
http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/cultural-touchstones-and-lucan.m4a Madmen and Ninja Turtles: Cultural Touchstones and Lucan. Today on the podcast, we cover the formation of national and individual identity through cultural touchstones. Commercials from Concerned Children’s Advertisers and Canadian Heritage Minutes help to deconstruct the phenomena of shared moments of cultural memory today, while helping us to consider the ways in which […]
Prometheus Unbound Ep 2 Episode 2 End Notes: For intro mix sources see episode 1 notes. The ending clip is from The Giant of Marathon. Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Galatea Film. 1959. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052604/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Selections from Harry Hanrahan’s very funny “160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes” mashup. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw) The distinctive voices of the 80s action movie trailer mashups, […]
Christian Brady’s podcast series “Prometheus Unbound,” featuring Lucan’s Pharsalia as a gateway into the Roman Empire. We’ll cover everything from political partisanship, war lit, family feuds of epic proportions, intertextuality, the macabre, remakes of Golden Age Latin epics, political resistance through art, atheism and much, much more! All while looking at ways the modern […]
Scholarship: Beyond the Paper Good morning, everyone! Now that we’re all writing up our reports, I wanted to share with you a potentially useful link. As the title suggests, this short post by Jason Priem is about online scholarship. Priem clearly outlines three larger consequences of publishing academic work online: quantity, accountability and community. It […]