Lessons learned while teaching Digital Classics
When you are a trained archaeologist and a trained Classicist by means that you have your MA in both disciplines – and now a PhD in Archaeology as well – you can easily give...
Stories of everyday phd/postdoclife between old stuff and digital data.
When you are a trained archaeologist and a trained Classicist by means that you have your MA in both disciplines – and now a PhD in Archaeology as well – you can easily give...
Okay, since Sarah aka Ninja finished her 100 Days and worked out her best strategies to keep her working attitude and focus (you can read about this here (100-Day-Challenges and visualizing the process), or...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
Be safe in the face of the pandemic – put yourselves first now, not your work! Okay, guys, I hope this post finds you all in good health and at least with some positivity....
Welcome to the second part of my Bamberg chronicles. In my first post (Bamberg Chronicles I) I told you about this convenient plot twist – my new job -, me moving to Bamberg, experiencing...
Before I moved to Bamberg, I had time to celebrate my birthday with my friends and my dear Sarah gave me a very special birthday present – the so-called High Performance Planner by Brendon...
Dear readers and followers, dear fighters of academia and dear friends – well, first, yes, sorry for two weeks without a post. We are alright – things are just getting pretty chaotic and too...
This is going to be a short post and I shall give you a glimpse of my first feedback on my distance teaching. This semester, I am giving a course on epigraphy at the...
Okay, we are a little bit melodramatic here. I have no new life, I still have my normal one, the old one, the one I am used to for 30 years now. Yes, I...
So, folks, I am recently with a new job and for more than a month I have been struggling with all the great insecurities caused by Corona. One of the big new things: distance...
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...
Can you believe it? We are celebrating out 1st anniversary! We are not that sure when we made out first online apperance, because our blog here, our Twitter account and our Instagram account show...
… and no, I have actually never done that before. I mean, all by myself. Alone, in front of students. Give me a room filled with international experts in my field, let me present...
You may have seen our recent posts and you may have noticed our emphasis on all the stuff of academia that can scare the hell out of us – failing, how to get a...
Today I want to talk about motivation and the last long days of corrections, revisions and re-writing of your thesis or dissertation. When I first stumbled on the #100daysofdissertationchallenge on Instagram, I thought about...