Benjamin Anderson
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Art historian, gay husband & doodle dad 🐩 Writing ✍️ etc. at bunyaminanderson.com 🛜
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I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗
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I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa
about 1 month ago
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates.
buff.ly/hjj4J7u
#SOSClassicsUO
#SaveHigherEd
#ONfr
#Ottawa
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Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
https://buff.ly/hjj4J7u
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What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!
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Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -
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Marinos Sariyannis
22 days ago
My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url:
academic.oup.com/book/61617
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Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
https://academic.oup.com/book/61617
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Beginning soon! (In person & online) -
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa
about 1 month ago
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help.
#DefendClassicsUOttawa
#Ottawa
#AncientHistory
#SaveHigherEd
#HigherEdCuts
#AncientGreek
#Latin
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It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship! We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
about 1 month ago
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kate wagner
2 months ago
i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
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(Deadline is 31 October.)
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2 months ago
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As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -
3 months ago
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Tom Piggy
3 months ago
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
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New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.
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The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey ...
https://www.routledge.com/The-Conquest-of-Istanbul-and-the-Manipulation-of-Architecture-The-Islamist-nationalist--Rhetoric-of-Conquest-and-Melancholy/Gur/p/book/9781032751092?srsltid=AfmBOooz3kBHQRPv5yngnU6nW8m3KlkkU5B8hH77KmpMmRmeYidyGSR9
3 months ago
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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies
4 months ago
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
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Unfair to doodles 🐩
4 months ago
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wetcat
4 months ago
Fire at Arthur's Seat
#photography
#edinburgh
#wildfire
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We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
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Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Job #AJO30300, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
4 months ago
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Philip Forness
4 months ago
We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.
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Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -
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NO to the cable car at Monemvasia! - Αίτηση Online
* We say “NO!” to the proposed cable car project on the rock of Monemvasia; not only because it will disfigure both the natural and monumental setting of this unique historical town, but also as the p...
https://www.openpetition.eu/gr/petition/online/no-to-the-cable-car-at-monemvasia#petition-main
4 months ago
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Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!
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5 months ago
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Guess that musical!
#musicals
5 months ago
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Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)
6 months ago
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Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -
8 months ago
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First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa
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8 months ago
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Good one
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
8 months ago
This is the animal that never was. Not knowing that, they loved it anyway: its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny— right down to the still light of its gaze… —Don Paterson, “Unicorn” after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus” It’s
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In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -
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https://events.cornell.edu/event/thinking-with-images-in-later-greek-epigram
8 months ago
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
8 months ago
Died (alas!) on this day 1614 in Toledo, Spain, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.
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This Athenian kitty just snagged a tasty bug in the Agora 🐜
8 months ago
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Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video -
www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...
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The Oracular Image: From Byzantium to the Baroque
YouTube video by ascsathens
https://www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVhyNDw?feature=shared
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En route!
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8 months ago
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So erschien damals (1906) etwas wissenschaftlich doch auf Deutsch -
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April 1 - in Athens & online!
9 months ago
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Way to lean into the subtext -
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Na ja -
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Happy Valentines Day from De Gruyter 💘
10 months ago
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John Simpson
10 months ago
Donald Trump is the first leading US politician to suggest that Ukraine might lose its independence and be reintegrated with Russia. He tells Fox News: “They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday.”
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Murphy paws 🐾 / bunny paws 🐰
10 months ago
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Is this a book review or a delicious sandwich?
10 months ago
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Obviously my favorite piece in the Barnes Foundation is -
10 months ago
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Happening today - in Philly and on Zoom! 🕌
10 months ago
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Mirela Ivanova
10 months ago
Just discovered that
@bunyaminanderson.bsky.social
and I's open access article on the Politics of Byzantine studies has made it onto the Wiki page for the 'Byzantine Empire'! Thanks to the anonymous editor!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
11 months ago
Born on this day in 1503, Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, better known as Parmigianino. Here, his marvelous self-portrait in a convex mirror, 1524.
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Mirela Ivanova
11 months ago
excited to see that
@bunyaminanderson.bsky.social
and I's aritcle is now in physical print! what is byzantine studies all about?? find out now, open access!
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Toward an archaeology of Barbra Streisand -
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Happy holidays from our doodle to yours -
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Audrey Flack’s memoir, pure gold -
11 months ago
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Real thrill to see our piece in the 600th issue (!) of EHR -
@mirela.bsky.social
@enghistrev.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
11 months ago
The apothecary Pierre Quthe, with his herbal. Painted in 1562 by François Clouet, whose day is today.
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