Carol Atack

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 07:48 UTC

I agree - publishers have become interested only in whether authors have £10k for OA, not in the quality of the book. Incentives favour vanity publishing by those with large grants, as the scheme is currently structured.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

Very excitingly the proofs of a chapter I wrote in 2016 have arrived! Castoriadis and Rancière on Athenian democracy, for Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought, a wide-ranging volume full of fascinating moments in the history of the reception of Ancient Greek political thought.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Very Odyssean! I had a very unpleasant encounter with the miltemi winds on a ferry between Delos and Mykonos and can only admire your fortitude.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

When I was a senior teaching fellow at Warwick the title denoted that that its holder was covering for someone senior and being paid at a higher rate to do so, plus acknowledging the STF’s own research and publication profile. Actually the best paid academic role I’ve held.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 16:49 UTC

It's on the Cambridge Core website, though you'll need a log-in. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 15:45 UTC

I first encountered Xenophon in the pages of my school Greek text book (Wilding) and I don't think anyone would have thought then that I'd ever write a book about him. So very belated thanks are due to Miss Smith of Wakefield Girls' High School.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Just arrived! My little Xenophon book for the Classical Association's Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics series. Hoping that a broad readership will take up the invitation to think again about this author and see his consistent and coherent model of the cosmos.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

If you have access to Cambridge Core, my little Xenophon book is there as Vol 48 (2018) of Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics. I don't know how it travelled back in time but as my previous research showed, anachronism is a thing... Print copies available at the end of the month.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 10:07 UTC

Always good to have the print copy of a book, especially one of this impressive size. Over 650 pages of women and ancient Greek philosophy, from a huge array of contributors. A great resource for teaching and research.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 11:58 UTC

Witty, informative and quietly devastating - Keith Piper's Viva Voce uses a dialogue format to take apart the racism of Rex Whistler's notorious murals in the Tate restaurant, now the space in which this new film is brilliantly displayed. If you haven't already, go see it!

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 07:17 UTC

From yesterday's walk to the library and college - the Burrell's Walk cherry trees by the side of Cambridge's university library have just blossomed, making a trip for mundane errands magical. Each petal counts for #TinyJoys, I think.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

Congratulations, definitely a good moment, but I'd go for seeing and returning corrected proofs!

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

Perhaps inevitably I look at women as bearers of epistemic agency and authority in Xenophon's work.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

Out today! The Routledge Handbook of Women in Ancient Philosophy, edited by the awesome Sara Brill and Catherine McKeen, with 40 chapters exploring women's varied contributions to ancient thought from an impressive range of scholars: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Hurrah! This is such fantastic news both for @josephinequinn.bsky.social and for Cambridge Classics.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

Significant Cambridge news - council orders removal of one of the hideous pieces of 'art' disfiguring Hills Road. In a city full of great art and architecture, it's beyond depressing that these works blight the approach from the station to the city centre. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

I didn’t like the sixth so much. But here’s the fifth from 1987, I think from a talk at the ICA.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

Thanks - I was introduced to the series when I worked for Tower Records in the 80s and they made glorious sense then, and helped me make sense of Californians, but I haven’t kept up with the later ones, and you make that sound like a good call.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 11:00 UTC

Because that's what Thucydides' history looks like to him (and indeed to Plato, I'd suggest), and indeed provides some of his exemplary characters, at the very start of the tradition of reading Thucydides and finding what you're looking for.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 10:01 UTC

There's lots of responding to Memorabilia 3 (and Plato's Republic 8-9) going on in Hellenica 1-2, though - concepts and typologies guiding the selection of events in those books too.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 06:55 UTC

Oh definitely agreed that he shouldn’t have two hours out of ten. But more enjoyable to frame him as succeeding in what he is doing (a kind of moralising great man story-telling) than as failing in what he is not doing (what I think you’re labelling as serious historiography)?

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

With the Xenophon, it might help to think of the Hellenica, at least books 3-8, as a portfolio of case studies to illustrate Xenophon's value system, rather than as a very selective history?

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

More on the exhibition from the college website:
newn.cam.ac.uk/event/newnha...

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 13:15 UTC

It was a wonderful evening, wasn't it? And an important chapter in the college's history.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

Newnham College in the news - fascinating research on Newnham women at Bletchley Park, currently on display in college: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

Proofs for my little Xenophon book! Just as term comes to a close.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

Spitalfields

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 07:55 UTC

7am Monday morning in Cambridge. The classic view doing its thing.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 29, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

To say nothing of Isocrates' comments on his own decline in his Panathenaicus.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 08:39 UTC

PSA for anyone hanging on to using non-proprietary email clients while their organisation uses Microsoft Exchange/Outlook... you need to fire up Outlook from time to time as your missing email is hidden in an *Outlook* junk folder not your mail client's junk folder.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 07:34 UTC

Chipmaker whose proposed (and abandoned) acquisition of the UK’s major semiconductor success ARM belatedly alerted people to the concept of technology sovereignty. So has been in the news. (Just being a reply guy here)

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