海外古代哲学经验分享｜波恩大学 Universität Bonn, Institut für Philosophie
海外古代史经验分享｜荷兰 莱顿大学 Leiden 古希腊罗马史
从这本书开始，走进塔西佗和他的罗马帝国。
罗纳德·塞姆（Ronald Syme，1903—1989），新西兰裔英国古典学家，20世纪英语世界最优秀的古罗马史研究者之一，牛津大学教授，主要从事古罗马政治与文化史研究。代表作有《罗马革命》《撒路斯特》等。
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What working in UK HE feels like at the moment
我写这篇文章是因为有一天，我对Bluesky上关于英国高等教育状况的两个不同人的帖子发表了安慰性评论，我感到很感动。在这样做的时，我意识到，对于那些阅读这个博客且没有进入高等教育的人来说，在该行业工作的现实可能非常隐蔽。大学只是......大学，对吗？因此，鉴于英国HE的现实与人们想象的大不相同，我想一个简短的概述可能会有所帮助。
标题：我们都坐在座位的边缘，看着我们的影子，为裁员和关闭。一直。它消耗了走廊对话（你听说过正在发生的事情吗......）。它消耗了部门讨论（我们可以做些什么来避免......）。它消耗了机构讨论。它渗透到一切事物中，甚至我们的教学，甚至我们的研究（我能做些什么来阻止目标在我的背上）。
这不是偏执狂。玛丽女王大学一直在列出有多少英国高等教育机构正在实施裁员计划。多达71个机构。我们让第一家高等教育机构宣布将关闭。除此之外，还有部门被强行修剪或完全关闭的趋势，许多现代语言部门都遭遇了这一命运，而且似乎特别针对人文学科。
尽管政府重新调整了欢迎的语气（我们已经几周没有被指控对年轻人的反言论自由腐败），而且大学被确定为即将上任的工党政府将面临的主要风险之一，但我们除了热情的话语外，没有任何东西来解决该部门面临的真正实际问题。这些很复杂，我不会试图在这里解开它们，但除其他外，学生费用没有实际增加，依赖国际学生的反常激励措施，他们毕竟突然不受欢迎，以及没有学生人数上限的罗素集团机构能够尽可能多地增加学生，损害其他机构，都造成了绝对的混乱。你会注意到，这些事情都不在个别学者（或者，公平地说，个别副校长）的控制范围内。也许预算会用帽子生产一只兔子，但我没有屏住呼吸。
压力和限制意味着需要处理的工作更少，这意味着非常不稳定的同事无法获得他们一直在努力并真正应得的长期工作，而签订无限期合同的同事正试图做两个、三个、四个同事的工作，他们应该在部门分担不可能的工作量，而没有。
我是从学者的角度来写这篇文章的，但对于专业服务同事来说，情况并没有好到什么程度——用更少的钱做更多，更精简，通过集中化（可疑）实现效率的持续压力并没有缓解。
毫不奇怪，这一切的结果是压力。压力、压力和更多的压力——这反过来又会影响我们的身心健康，以及我们按照我们想要做工作的能力。我们点击了生存模式。离开它是很难的，如果不是不可能的话。我们精疲力尽了。学期还没有真正开始。
我承认我写作时处于相当幸运的位置。我的机构没有出现在玛丽女王大学名单上。我们预计不会有一轮裁员，更不用说第二轮裁员了。但那个窃窃私语的声音总是在你耳边响起——下一个会是我们吗？会是我吗？会是我吗？
Between aversion and appeal: fictional villains, disgust, and identification
23 October 2024, from 15:00 to 17:00 (CEST)
Online (Teams): https://tinyurl.com/yyu3me8y
The so-called ‘paradox of fiction’ — the fact that we respond emotionally to characters and events of which we know that they are not real — takes on a particular further dimension when we meet engaging fictional villains. In fiction response, we seemingly allow ourselves to engage intimately with people whom we find repellent, and from whom in real life we would probably stay away altogether. Questions are raised here about our potential to experience seemingly contradictory emotional reactions simultaneously (aversion and appeal), and whether this potential is different when we respond to fictional people and situations. In my presentation I will approach these issues from a variety of angles: situating my discussion in emotion-theoretical approaches to contradictory or mixed affect, I will look at ancient (and some modern) thinking about responses to fictional villains. I will also present data and findings from an audience experiment in which we measured respondents’ reactions to a video featuring a murderer, having told some respondents that they were watching real-life footage, and others that they were watching a fictional, scripted and acted scene.
Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern:
Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging
Ambivalent emotions, conflicting passions, bittersweet feelings: such experiences are commonplace, but more complex than suggested by ordinary language usage and currently available scientific models. Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern (BAM) is a multidisciplinary hub that brings together philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists to work on mixed affect.
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马赛克讲座
Nikki Vellidis (Oxford): From Myth to Mundane: Mosaics in Imperial Era Greece
24 October: 9:00 UK; 10:00 CET; 17:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/96207314374?pwd=L6O8C3f2MuTL6BCeCSHkM4WGLSLGAw.1
Meeting ID: 962 0731 4374
Passcode: 285658
Nikki Vellidis is fourth-year DPhil student in classical archaeology at the University of Oxford, funded by the Onassis Foundation and Leventis Foundation and supervised by Professor Peter Stewart. Her thesis, "A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment Surrounding Mosaic Pavements in Imperial Period Greece and Asia Minor," aims to analyse how architectural settings of mosaic pavements affect how the mosaic is viewed. The methodology of this thesis combines traditional art history analysis and newer computational analysis, such as 3D modelling. She previously earned an MA degree in classical studies from Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Francesco De Angelis. Her thesis, "Beware of Envy: A Reconstructive Study of the Mosaics of the Roman Villa of Skala," focused on understanding the architectural context surrounding two Roman mosaic pavements from the island of Kefalonia.
This talk focuses on the figural decoration found in mosaic pavements from the Imperial Period in modern Greece. It aims to provide an overview of the popular iconography depicted on tessellated pavements – ranging from the realm of the mythical to surprisingly mundane. Greece has a long history of mosaic pavements and, therefore, a long tradition from which to draw inspiration. This tradition combined with the influence of the new Imperial rule under which the Greeks were living to create pavements unique to this area of the Empire. By examining the diverse iconography depicted in these mosaics, we uncover fascinating connections between tradition, myth, everyday life, and the Imperial context of the mosaics.
