This day marks the beginning of the ongoing Kashmiri Insurgency, rooted in the separatist movement that demands autonomy from India. India continues to use military force to curb the issue, much to its failure. The Kashmir Valley remains one of the most volatile places in the world, with regular clashes between stone-pelting youth and the […]
We are currently in Nashville, on the road to Dollywood, and so we don’t have time to write a post today. (If you want to come along with us, from where you are, there is no better guide than our friend and fellow Classicist Helen Morales’ 2014 book Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road […]
How much time did you spend in Athens with your face up against a window, peering into a closed building, trying to get a glimpse of a work of art or at least the space in which it was made? Did this happen to you at Archimidous 15 and Nikhil Chopra’s Drawing a Line through […]
Today starts a new phase of this year of daily posts (Minus Plato Today), as between now and early August I will be posting while traveling throughout Europe (including stops in Madrid, Bilbao, Athens, London, Malaga and Kassel). Central to this journey is my experience of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel and the question […]