In this instalment of our Halloween Feature on Curses, Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin highlights her research on magic as lived religion. In particular, she addresses the ways in which Christians perpetuated magical practices that had existed in Egypt for millennia, but were adapted to make them their own.
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Blog Post #86: “In Blood and Ashes”: An Interview with Jessica Lamont
In our latest instalment of our Halloween series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” we are interviewing Dr. Jessica Lamont, Assistant Professor at Yale University, on her newly published book through Oxford “In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece.” Dr. Lamont shares with us the questions and research that inspire this work, providing remarkable insight into the real people behind the curses in the ancient Mediterranean.
Blog Post #85: Graduate Student Feature with Charlotte Spence
We’re back for another month of Halloween-related content here at Peopling the Past. This month we are feature blogs that deal with cursing in the Ancient World. Our first post in this series features the work of Charlotte Spence, a PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter, who’s work explore the ways in which ancient individuals conceived of the role of the dead and the gods in carrying out curses.
Blog Post #84: Graduate Student Feature with Anisa Mara
In this week’s blog post, we interview Anisa Mara, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Anisa takes us through her work studying Bronze Age pottery from legacy collections of excavations in Albania to understand community organization, mobility, and social diversification during a period of significant change in this region.
Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gao
In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations.
Blog Post #82: The Penestai of the Thessalians with Gino Canlas
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples series, Dr. Gino Canlas introduces us to the Penestai, a people belonging to the serf class that lived in the Thessalian plains.
Blog Post #81: Undergraduate Student Feature with Ellen Schlick
We are back with another student interview – this time with undergraduate student at Carlton College, Ellen Schlick, who takes us through her recreations of Roman bread-making using recipes from Cato’s De Agricultura. Get ready to see some mouthwatering savoury culinary experiments!
Blog Post #80: Graduate Student Feature with Matt Coleman
In this week’s blog post, we interview Matt Coleman, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto, who takes us through his research on the “popular” reception of Hellenistic art in antiquity and the modern world.
Blog Post #79: Graduate Student Feature with Katerina Apokatanidis
This week we interview PhD student Katarina Apokatanidis from the University of Toronto. Katarina takes us through her research into the ever fascinating Orphic tablets – gold funerary tablets placed in Greek tombs to guide the soul to a good afterlife. These tablets give us tantalizing hints into afterlife beliefs that we are still trying to understand, and Katarina’s work aims to shed light on the lived experiences of these beliefs and practices.
Blog Post #78: Interview with Kyle Lewis Jordan of Curating for Change
In February and March we are featuring public scholars who work across a number of media to represent the ancient world in creative and responsible ways. This week we speak with Kyle Jordan Lewis, early career scholar and curatorial fellow at the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museum, on his work to broaden the scope of the study, understanding, and representation of disability in antiquity.
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