Being in a Place

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Editorial| November 01 2021 Being in a Place Elizabeth DePalma Digeser Elizabeth DePalma Digeser Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2021) 5 (4): 475–477. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2021.5.4.475 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Elizabeth DePalma Digeser; Being in a Place. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 November 2021; 5 (4): 475–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2021.5.4.475 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Now that many of us have left our virtual zoom rooms for brick and mortar class- and seminar rooms after more than 18 months away, we are freshly awake to the potentialities (and, yes, the risks) of interacting with colleagues and students in time-honored places intentionally designed for dialogue and study. For many of us, our recent isolation and anxieties have heightened not only the joys of reunion, but also an attentiveness to how particular places—and the people and things in them—can nurture and shape our interactions, our perceptions, and even our very sense of self. For me, this awareness was particularly sharp when I recently opened a volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum on a table in the library. Grateful as I’ve been to have online access last year, gazing at a digitized page on HathiTrust does not come close to the experience of leafing through the volume’s heavy... You do not currently have access to this content.