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Looking for a home for your SBL proposal? Consider two sections I co-chair Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy and Paul and Politics. Both are especially open to early career folks and grad students and have open calls. Text of CFPs threaded below:

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There’s no story than can be used for everyone and part of political storytelling is knowing that.

Danielle Allen turns to John Adams and a leadership lesson that still holds: the job is not to do everything yourself, but to choose who else gets to lead.

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

looking for a novel way to spend your St Patrick's weekend this year? why not tune in (in-person or via Zoom) to BC's "Mapping the Field of Jewish-Christian Relations" conference featuring some of your favorites! Registration info at the link and in the alt-text: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

with alt text!

Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!

Hello, I wrote this with @ewg118.bsky.social back in 2017. www.forbes.com/sites/drsara... I stand by it. 🗑️

those kids look freaking *terrified* (BTW in case you are a Dean Cain Oeuvre Completist, the company that made this seems to be pretty solidly dedicated to making shlocky films with him at an alarming rate: www.jcfilms.org)

Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books: Shirley Jackson Agatha Christie Dorothy Sayers Averil Cameron Elizabeth A. Clark

Caved in and started watching Heated Rivalry.

I read this right before going to bed last night then couldn’t sleep because I was staring at the ceiling thinking “Fozzie Bear is a Lebanese Christian and gets mistaken for Jewish like Ralph Nader or Tony Shaloub”

before you are weird to me about this one please remember we’re all just posting here. we’re all just posting our little posts

🚨 Please share 🚨 If you’re going to SBL in Denver this fall, consider submitting a paper for the Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom open call! We’d love to hear your work

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Maybe JD Vance could periodically invite Pope Leo to various things — a book club, a birthday party, a ski trip — just so we can watch him be publicly smacked down each time. It’s the least we deserve.

imaging converting to one of the few religions in the world with One Guy in Charge and that guy repeatedly lets you know how much he personally dislikes you

Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!

Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...

I led that overhaul

it was great! highly recommended!

excited to *finally* go on. UVA Historical Tour today! www.virginiaguides.org/about-tours

Harvard has now stated it will no longer collect or report gender demographics for the faculty under Trump. The percentage of women among tenured faculty is now less than 25%, I would guess closer to 20%, due to retirements, departures, & 2025 denials of multiple women.

Some context for this new policy, which makes me 🤯: The last time they counted (the administration now tells us that the lawyers advise them to refrain from doing so) tenured faculty in Arts and Sciences were 70 per cent male.

sometimes it's difficult to explain how "neutral" insistence on "equality" across the board can actually reinforce structural inequities but sometimes... it's not difficult at all www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

I know my recent and forthcoming books are a bit pricey, but my first book is available open access: kismet.press/portfolio/th...

Everyone, go read @historianca.bsky.social’s newest article in Eighteenth-Century Studies! 🎉 Sisters But Not Women: Queer Kinship and Salvific Androgyny in Ephrata’s Celibate Sisterhood muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I’ve come up with a fancy new name for the MAHA yoga-mom anti-vax homeschooling crafty-ass wing of MAGA: the Zone of Pinterest

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

This site has incredible energy for having opinions about religion coupled with not much energy for knowing things about religion.

Maybe it happened

aw, well, this is kinda sweet... sllc.umd.edu/news/rachel-...

"Hagar is perhaps more epithet than name, ha 'the,' gar 'resident alien.' She is an African (Egyptian) woman or girl of childbearing age held in slavery by Sarah (Gen 16:1)." Read Hagar by Wil Gafney buff.ly/A37N6gV #BlackHistorySBL26

Huge congratulations to Heather White on their Mollenkott Award! You can read, assign, cite, recommend their award winning article on churches as spaces of gay liberation organizing on QTR’s completely fee free and open access site here! @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...

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If you crop this picture just the right way, it looks like this angel is smoking a cigar. Now I can't unsee it.

lmao you find out what this movie is actually about around the 40 second mark of this trailer and never in a million years would i have predicted it

Last call for Rhea Receptions this summer! Receptions is a new thematic series of reviews, essays, and engagements that bring the ancient world to a broader audience by examining public-facing, non-specialist depictions of the ancient Mediterranean in modern media. Come write and explore with Rhea!

i'm only 14 pages into Susanna Elm's IMPORTANCE OF BEING GORGEOUS and it's sooooooo good www.ucpress.edu/read/books/t... (read for free!)

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The second volume in our series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T): Fabien Muller's /Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy/

How much can these toys fucking go through

CC the semi-eremitcal cat has taken to sleeping in our bed and has reached that all-important I Won't Let You Make the Bed stage of cat acclimation

liberal arts? liberation arts

This event is part of our ongoing celebration of the centennial of the International Catacomb Society's founder Estelle Shohet Brettman (1925-1991). You can learn more about her amazing life and dedication to the study of the catacombs on the ICS webpage: www.catacombsociety.org/about/about-...

We're excited to be teaming up with Fordham to bring you the first "Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Lecture" with @candidamoss.bsky.social! Join us!