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Palestine: Classics and Archaeology’s Litmus Test

This week, the 2024 joint meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is taking place…

4 min readJan 4, 2024

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Palestine: Classics and Archaeology’s Litmus Test

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Isis Naucratis

“Then nothing in the world will”: A Breakup Note

On November 3, 2023, I wrote the following letter to the executive committee or Council members of the Classical Association of Canada…

8 min readNov 23, 2023

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“Then nothing in the world will”: A Breakup Note

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Orientalising Palestine: A Digital Archive

I am currently compiling a crowd-sourced digital archive of Orientalist and dehumanizing coverage and takes on Palestinians. My goal is…

17 min readNov 6, 2023

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Orientalising Palestine: A Digital Archive

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Isis Naucratis

Editing books is super hard, and important, work so let us stop pretending like it is not

This is a short post about the toll editing academic volumes take on editors, and also the systemic lack of support and consideration for…

4 min readJun 5, 2023

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Editing books is super hard, and important, work so let us stop pretending like it is not

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Isis Naucratis

Cleopatra VII: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

This is a 2-part post. Part 1 is written by Dr Katherine Blouin and Part 2 is an expanded version of the interview Dr Rebecca Futo Kennedy…

13 min readApr 20, 2023

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Cleopatra VII: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

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Isis Naucratis

Canada is a metaphor: On the Doctrine of Discovery, Roman law and genocide

In 1823, the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided that private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans…

8 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Canada is a metaphor: On the Doctrine of Discovery, Roman law and genocide

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Isis Naucratis

Alexandrian fragments: On tsunamis and other waves

In 365 CE, following a earthquake whose epicenter was located in Crete, a tsunami hit many areas around the eastern Mediterranean…

8 min readDec 14, 2022

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Alexandrian fragments: On tsunamis and other waves

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On the Value of Edited Volumes or Prepartum Prologue of a Book to be Born

I recently sent the final version of a c.450-page edited volume entitled “The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period”…

10 min readJul 22, 2022

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On the Value of Edited Volumes or Prepartum Prologue of a Book to be Born

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Isis Naucratis

Like melting clay: The climate crisis as History

On August 9, 2021, CBC News posted a news clip with the following title and caption:

10 min readAug 10, 2021

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Like melting clay: The climate crisis as History

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‘Stay Alive’: What Academic Annual Reports (Don’t) Say

by Katherine Blouin

14 min readMay 17, 2021

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‘Stay Alive’: What Academic Annual Reports (Don’t) Say

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Isis Naucratis

Isis Naucratis

Dr Katherine Blouin is a YQB-born Associate Professor of History and Classics at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of Everyday Orientalism.

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