Month: September 2024

Next month I’ll be giving a paper entitled “Greek Style and the Problem of Parthian Art” at the conference Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World, the poster for which is below. (I’m very impressed with myself that I managed to put a pdf in this post.)

The conference is in honor Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, whose scholarship on Parthian art and coins especially has been essential to my own. As I have only recently come to this topic (in the last decade), I have been dependent on the foundations she (and other scholars, of course) has laid. The program looks very interesting, and I am looking forward to it a great deal, not least because it will be my first ever visit to Oxford.

As of yesterday, one of my stable of email accounts is no more: hpc4476@nyu.edu. I haven’t taught there in a while, so I am hardly surprised. Never fear, though; my Michigan, Cooper Union, Hofstra and Bard emails all still function, and I will soon have another, from Baruch College, because this fall I am teaching in the history department there. In fact, I’ve already started teaching there, but my new email hasn’t caught up with me yet. It is, sadly, another example of how teaching as an adjunct can be far more difficult than teaching as a fulltime (if only temporary) faculty member: you tend to fall through the cracks of college administration. It’s a nuisance to be sure, but I can handle it. The ones who really suffer are the students.