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German Digital Council: An 'Inside-Out' Case Study
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021-04-28)In 2018, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel appointed a group of nine scholars and practitioners, including BKC’s Urs Gasser, to the German Digital Council (GDC). The GDC was formed with the unusual mission to ask both ... -
The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times
(Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, 2021-04-26)Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s ... -
On the idea of dead poets as imagined by T. S. Eliot, compared with ideas about reperformance, Part II
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-24) -
On the Idea of Dead Poets as Imagined by T. S. Eliot, Compared With Ideas About Reperformance, Part I
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-17) -
Platform Accountability Through Digital "Poison Cabinets"
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, 2021-04-13)Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent. -
Envisioning Aphrodite Inside the Living Wood of a Myrtle Tree
(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-10) -
On ‘Connecting the Dots’—metonymically—between a Shield and a Garland Presented to Achilles
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Global Surface Temperature Response to 11-Yr Solar Cycle Forcing Consistent with General Circulation Model Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2021-04)The 11-year solar-cycle is associated with a roughly 1 W m-2 trough-to-peak variation in total solar irradiance and is expected to produce a global temperature response. The amplitude of this response is, however, ... -
On Visualizing Heavenly Origins for Particularized Icons in the Greek-Speaking World of Today
(2021-03-27)I recall here the happy occasion of my most recent viewing, in the year 2014, of the famous ancient Myrtiá (Μυρτιά) or ‘Myrtle Tree’ growing on the hallowed grounds of an old monastery, now a nunnery, in Palianí (Παλιανή), ... -
Pausanias Tries to Visualize the Three ‘Graces’ of Orkhomenos in Boeotia
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A sampling of comments on Pindar Olympian 4: highlighting Thalia as one of the three ‘Graces’
(Harvard University. Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-03-06)The three ‘Graces’ or Khárites, personifications of kháris, a noun often translated in a generalizing way as ‘grace’, are reverently addressed in a victory ode of Pindar, Olympian 14, as presiding goddesses of the city of ... -
Some variations on the theme of a recomposed performer in ancient Greek prose and poetry
(Harvard University. Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-27)This essay is inspired by a most admirable comment made in an article by Johanna Hanink (2015) about nostalgic attempts, in the early fourth century BCE, at recovering the charisma associated with the former glory days, ... -
About Euripides the anthropologist, and how he reads the troubled thoughts of female initiands
(Harvard University. Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-20)I have long admired what I would call the anthropological insights of Euripides into aetiologies, that is, into myths referring directly to rituals that frame these myths. Of course the very idea of linking anthropology ... -
How a girl dances in an Aeolic way, whether she is wearing sandals or not
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-13)In this brief essay, I consider again the beautiful sandals worn by the girl from Lesbos who is described in a song of Anacreon that I analyzed in my previous essay for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2021.02.06). Even though ... -
Starting with Anacreon while preparing a compendium of essays on Sappho and her ancient reception
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-06)In consultation with the editorial team of Classical Inquiries, I am preparing to submit to them, for a hoped-for free-standing online publication, a compendium of my published essays on the topic of Sappho’s ancient ... -
Repository Approaches to Improving the Quality of Shared Data and Code
(MDPI AG, 2021-02-03)Sharing data and code for reuse has become increasingly important in scientific work over the past decade. However, in practice, shared data and code may be unusable, or published results obtained from them may be ... -
Imagining a sensually self-assertive singing bride—while reading the songs of Sappho
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-01-29)This brief essay considers a situation where girls and women are having an all-night party in celebration of a bride who is getting married tomorrow, let us imagine. In previous essays, I have analyzed references, in a ... -
Imagining a Courtesan in the Songs of Sappho
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When Self-Praise Connects the Speaker to the Universe: A Diachronic View of the Word Eukhomai (εὔχομαι) in Its Homeric Contexts
(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-01-20)In translating Homeric Greek, speakers of English need to translate eukhomai (εὔχομαι) as ‘pray’ or ‘vow’ in some contexts and as ‘boast’ in other contexts. Meanwhile, there is an attestation of the third-person eukhetai ...