You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history. Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.

One of the strong points of the HOPWAG series is Adamson's accessible writing style. It is good to have 'All Ten Rules for Writing about the History of Philosophy' in one place. Useful as they are for students, I suspect they will find application beyond #history and #philosophy 👇🏻

First spotting of my book in the wild! At at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ. With thanks to Athina Pfeiffer for the photo. Official publication day is January 20 in the US. March 17 in the uK. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery

First spotting of my book in the wild! At at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ. With thanks to Athina Pfeiffer for the photo. Official publication day is January 20 in the US. March 17 in the uK. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery

I am now a host on the Jewish Studies channel for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. If you have a forthcoming Jewish Studies title (or even within the last year or two) and have not yet done an NBN interview, please get in touch!

I can't see the OP because nuclear block, but good thread.

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We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

New book alert! an advance-copy of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt just arrived. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery

My 2-volume anthology (Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy) is now available on Oxford Academic! Please ask your universities to purchase access. Vol. 1: academic.oup.com/book/61633; Vol. 2: academic.oup.com/book/61775. It should be available in print very soon as well. #philsky #slavery #earlymodern

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New book alert! an advance-copy of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt just arrived. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery

breathing steadily, calmly. but there are blurbs now. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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"The Centrality of Slavery" arrived today. www.pennpress.org/978151282842...

Wonderful experience this week with my students as the Vega String Quartet hosted us in their rehearsal hall and performed music inspired by the history and musical cultures of the Middle East. Here is a playlist with some of the works they played ... 1/2 open.spotify.com/playlist/5A2...

Maps! From my forthcoming book and created by @greenleejw.bsky.social. I highly recommend JW Greenlee and especially appreciated his collaborative and iterative process of design. These maps capture the geography implicated in the slave trade that I study in the book. There is ... 1/3

Wonderful experience this week with my students as the Vega String Quartet hosted us in their rehearsal hall and performed music inspired by the history and musical cultures of the Middle East. Here is a playlist with some of the works they played ... 1/2 open.spotify.com/playlist/5A2...

For those who will be at MESA this weekend and next week. I am on a panel about slavery in the medieval Middle East on Sunday at 11am. Abstracts in images and alt text below. Please come join us!

For those who will be at MESA this weekend and next week. I am on a panel about slavery in the medieval Middle East on Sunday at 11am. Abstracts in images and alt text below. Please come join us!

Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abun­dant gifts as an author, her exhaus­tive research, and ele­gant writ­ing ele­vate her book above its sub­ject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast

Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵) 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

New open access volume on slavery in Ethiopian Studies with link to download: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Slavery_and_...

This is excellent research by Claire Dillon and great reading. A fine example of medievalism and modern colonialism between Cefalú, Sicily; Rome; and Mogadishu online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

My copies of “Tradecraft”, the collection of essays by people who helped John le Carré research his novels, has arrived. Contains one chapter about the week Jason Stearns and I spent with the author in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Fielded a question about how representative Bomma and Abraham Ibn Yijū (enslaved man and slave owner in Gosh’s In an Antique Land) we’re in the wider culture of slavery. Short responses below.

JEWISH STUDIES VISITING POSITION! Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

If you need beautiful maps for a project (or eel knowledge) I know a guy…

Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class. Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery

There absolutely are people out there who would claim this. There are people who have turned "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" into "All antisemitism is justified in the name of anti-Zionism."

I hope everyone on the "left" defending Leo Frank trutherism knows that one of the most high-profile figures associated with this particular antisemitic conspiracism is a deputy Pentagon press secretary for the Trump administration: www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-penta...

@religiondispatches.org is a publication of @praeyesright.bsky.social. Ya’ll, your writer is pushing racist conspiracy theories of the kind that inspire deadly violence. Is your silence consent, or because you condone this speech?

If @religiondispatches.org could come collect its writer that would be elite.

#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.

@modernlanguage.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

#NewBlogPost Our member Ella Christina Ayyoub writes about "The Portrayal of Jews in Syrian Television Drama Series" - read her blogpost here: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-portraya...

#CfA | The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg is seeking a junior professor with tenure track (W1TTW2) of Jewish Studies | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfp-... Deadline for applications: June 19, 2025

Our 50% off sale is live! 🎉🌺 Explore some recent "Best of" titles and save 50% off books (including ebooks and audio) sitewide, with code BLOOM50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list?

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