Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.

Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk. And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."

Seven Hills of Brisbane - #classicalreception - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_H... Walks: roseobrienwriter.blog/seven-hills-...

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:)

See you all at IMC next year! Come along to the Civic and Personal Competition in the Roman East panels organised by myself and Yannis Brichant!

Research funding including #classicalreception: Institute of Classics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków through The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange - 2–4 year research stays in Poland for international scholars/ research group - see listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 November: David Addison (University of Liverpool), "Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea". In person and online, as always.

The deadline on this PhD scholarship on ancient monarchy at ANU has been extended until November 28. Full details here: study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

CfP for a proposed strand ‘Civic and Personal Competition in the Late Roman East’ at next year’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social!

Take a look at the programme of our workshop on the subject of Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Anitquity organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly, which will take place at the @dependencybonn.de next month.

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

With @imc-leeds.bsky.social fast approaching, here’s a look at the ‚Urban Dynamics’ in the Late Roman East panels!

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

Applications now open for 2 PhD scholarships at ANU as part of my ARC Future Fellowship Project, 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. Open to both Aus & international candidates. Informal inquiries to brainstorm topics very welcome! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

Tobi providing excellent help in writing this article! He is apparently very interested in Constantinian dynasticism too!

Down under, Macquarie University is proposing to crease all ancient language teaching and to cancel the archaeology and ancient history degrees in favour of a "BA in History". A petition against the cuts below. betteruniversities.work/stop-mq-cuts?

What a joy to present some of my PhD work for the Ewa Wipszycka Late Antique Seminar today 🥰 Truly lucky to be in such a wonderful department!

Where to no-one's surprise I'll be talking about Constantius and a bunch of cranky bishops!

Seen on Facebook this morning. Never change, Brisbane, never change!

Please stay safe Brisbane and QLD friends!

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

The chariot of dreams!

It’s been a pretty wild start to my week, absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MSC fellowship at Warsaw for the next couple of years to keep working on late antique Antioch 😊

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

In a gloomy week, a ray of light. A new edition of Cardiff University Press’ Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture has just dropped. Read it here for free jlarc.cardiffuniversitypress.org

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

The programme is out for the next term of late antique seminars in my brilliant department! Come in person or online! 😊

Right, it's #TWANG* day, so we're going to twang a load of stuff with our mini-catapult. Pay attention it's science. First, a tennis ball. By way of calibration, if you will. But we know what you're all asking... What would happen if we filled that tennis ball with concrete? *Not a thing.

I have never felt so attacked.

Statement from the Religious History Association condemning the Marsden fund cuts in Aotearoa New Zealand #humanities #highered #history

Today, Belgium celebrates St Nicholas. Distributor of presents and bruiser of heretics. ... And he's all out of presents.

Athanasius every time he gets exiled

Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: a new translation and a new edition. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, this Thursday at 4.45 p.m. In person and online, as usual.

Weekend is off to a brilliant start with the adoption of this ridiculous creature 🥰 He adopted us!

#IMC2025 I will be at #Leeds to discuss the debates in the public spaces of third and fourth-century #Palestine as part of urban dynamics. Save the date: Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 16:30-18:00.

Very glad that my 4 thematic panels for Urban Dynamics in the Late Roman East have been accepted. Looking forward to a stimulating day of papers with a bunch of incredible people!

The most snow my Australian self has ever seen! Warsaw looking beautiful this morning 😍

I’m still in a bit of disbelief that I get to live and work in such an amazing city like Warsaw, and it was surreal to see my new place of work today!