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C. M. Sampson

@samosafuz

🇨🇦 πάντα γογγυζόμενα ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ. Actively engaged with @karanisbooks | https://nitter.gq/t.co/TFZyHUw9TL | @amsocpap | @pylonJournal | @umanitoba

 Winnipeg, MB
Joined March 2021
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The CFP for the American Society of Papyrologists’ panel is already posted. Abstracts are welcome! classicalstudies.org/annual-…
SCS (@scsclassics) profile pictureSCS@scsclassics5 Dec 2024
For the 2026 Annual Meeting, calls for abstracts from Affiliated Groups and for organizer-refereed panels will be posted throughout the fall and winter. The 2026 Meeting will take place in San Francisco, CA, on January 7–10, 2026. classicalstudies.org/annual-…
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And best of all is not to have been born, and not to behold the rays of the blazing sun (425–26). πάντων μὲν μὴ φῦναι ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἄριστον μηδ’ ἐσιδεῖν αὐγὰς ὀξέος ἠελίου
sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) profile picturesententiae antiquae@sentantiq18 Oct 2024
No one:... Theognis: Better to throw yourself off a cliff than be poor.
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I’m heading out of town today on a lecture tour of eastern Ontario and Quebec, sponsored by the @cac_scec. 5 days, 8 institutions, 1600+ km, discussing topics in (you guessed it!) papyrology.
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First stop is @TrentUniversity in scenic Peterborough. Caught up with a colleague and three charming students over supper last night before this morning’s lecture.
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Wired: me, getting up at 4:15 to team-teach a seminar on Iliad Papyri with wonderful colleagues in Basel, Paris, and Lausanne 😃 Tired: me, the rest of the day after a 4:15 wakeup 🥱
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I learned a great deal from my weekend reading, but also chuckled from time to time at @papyrologyatman's wit, including this gem: "I was so immersed in my acting that I forgot I was not in a James Bond but rather an Austin Powers movie." Brava!
C. M. Sampson (@samosafuz) profile pictureC. M. Sampson@samosafuz6 Sep 2024
Well, there goes my weekend… Thanks, @papyrologyatman
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Well, there goes my weekend… Thanks, @papyrologyatman
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Home 📍
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R. Campbell Thompson's biography of E.A. Wallis Budge in the obit he published in JEA 21 (1935: 68–70) almost makes it sound like the pursuit of near eastern studies is a form of demonic possession.
Paragraph excerpted from Campbell Thompson's obituary of Wallis Budge, which begins 'He came of forebears who had served the East India Company in India and Basrah, so that that lodestone of the Near East which has drawn so many Englishmen away from decent classical studies could influence him easily.'

ALT Paragraph excerpted from Campbell Thompson's obituary of Wallis Budge, which begins 'He came of forebears who had served the East India Company in India and Basrah, so that that lodestone of the Near East which has drawn so many Englishmen away from decent classical studies could influence him easily.'

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Big day for this DH-neophyte: off to Victoria for a week of XPath and XQuery boot camp #DHSI24
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This is madness
Sign for Leonidas Preferred Belgian Chocolates on Leuven

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Another papyrological pilgrimage ticked off the bucket list.
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Happening this weekend @UMArtsFaculty: North American Papyrology Seminar (NAPS III), sponsored by @amsocpap. Workshopping editions-in-progress and basking in the amicitia papyrologorum.
Poster of scheduled sessions and presentations for the third North American Papyrology Seminar (June 1, 2024)

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This doodle (of a chicken?) on a magical papyrus made me smile today. From PSI 15 1496: psi-online.it/documents/psi;…
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P.Oxy. 14 1767 is up for auction. Previously sold at a December 2010 Sotheby’s auction of mss. Maybe it will be rescued and returned to an institutional home? click.e.invaluable.com/?qs=5…
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This place never gets old.
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“We need to instill a respect for human beings…” 👍
Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) profile pictureTed Gioia@tedgioia29 Mar 2024
(1/4/) The real crisis in the humanities isn't happening at colleges—but in society at large.
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I'm a bit late to the party, but wanted to add some perspective on why there's so much yet to do
The Conversation Canada (@ConversationCA) profile pictureThe Conversation Canada@ConversationCA12 Mar 2024
Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning — with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them theconversation.com/ancient-…
Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and...

Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and...

However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.

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🧵 I'm teaching G&R myth (😍), and to illustrate a) variation in myth; and b) the value of generative AI in matters requiring close reading, I asked students to read Callim. Hymn 1 (1–54); answer 6 basic questions; pose the same qs to ChatGPT; reflect on the differences (1/5)
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The six questions follow below. TL;DR: if I were grading ChatGPT's knowledge of Callimachus, it would fail (🥴). Students are learning for themselves that, just because the terminal _can_ answer instantaneously, it doesn't mean the answers are in any way accurate (😳) (2/5)
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This is a wonderful award in honor of a prestigious scholar. Apply!
SCS (@scsclassics) profile pictureSCS@scsclassics22 Feb 2024
The 2024 Ludwig Koenen Fellowship is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured faculty, including contingent faculty, who are seeking training in or to conduct research in papyrology. Apply by April 22, 2024! classicalstudies.org/awards-…
Society for Classical Studies, 2024 Ludwig Koenen Fellowship. Summer fellowship open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured faculty, including contingent faculty, who are seeking training in or to conduct research in papyrology. Deadline: April 22, 2024, and a QR code.

ALT Society for Classical Studies, 2024 Ludwig Koenen Fellowship. Summer fellowship open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured faculty, including contingent faculty, who are seeking training in or to conduct research in papyrology. Deadline: April 22, 2024, and a QR code.

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ἰὼ πατρῷον οὖδας ἀρχαίων ἐπῶν, 
χαρᾷ σε φέγγει τῷδ᾽ ἀφικόμην φίλον πολλῶν ῥαγεισῶν ἐλπίδων μιᾶς τυχών.
View of Ann Arbor from the papyrology lab, 807 Harlan Hatcher Library

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