One of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard. This is the way.

Two pop-cultural gems that were made for one another. Especially for the day that's in it.

My recent on-line discussion with my friend, the writer Adrian Goldsworthy (75 mins.), www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kht...

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in “History of Knowledge of the Ancient World” at University of Kiel www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI059/p...

Looking forward to participate* in this workshop soon, and catching up again with colleagues old and new! *DB willing...

A bit of light in a time of darkness.

Vraag niet waarom, maar ik heb vandaag de Venezolaanse poedelmot leren kennen en ik denk dat jullie die ook willen leren kennen.

"Oh, de ironie. Twee Nederlandstalige sprekers gaan drie kwartier praten over de challenges of first generation students. En dat terwijl juist dat Engels een belangrijke challenge is voor eerstegeneratiestudenten" @adriatisch.bsky.social doet also een duit in the bag 😉 share.google/ajpNqHuVYIas...

Dinsdag binnen twee weken kom ik nog eens de goede boodschap van 'De wereld van Clovis' (@ertsberg.bsky.social ) voorstellen voor het Nederlands Klassiek Verbond te Leuven. Allen welkom!

Driemaal raden wie er zich nog eens aan waagt morgen? THIS GUY!

This week I am taking a crack at gender, heterarchies and military retinues at the workshop I helped organising: Heterarchies and Power Dynamics in Post-Roman Europe. If you want to join us online it is possible by subscribing to the mailing list here: listen.uni-bonn.de/wws/subscrib...

Today I taught my final turbo-charged introduction to Eastern Roman history, focusing on the Komnenoi and events leading up to the Fourth Crusade (1081-1204). I reserved a few precious minutes for the Norman kingdom of Sicily, which at times represented a quasi existential threat to Constantinople.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Recent werd bekentgemaakt dat een Kroatisch massagraf zeven compleet bewaarde skeletten bevatte van Romeinse soldaten. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk waren dit slachtoffers van een grootschalige crisis die het Imperium halverwege de derde eeuw trof. Ik schreef er een artikel over voor het grote publiek.

Zéér benieuwd.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Lecturer in the Study of Islam (LTS) at University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...

Hell, I'd pay good money to watch this.

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...

One day, I will learn to write 'commiserations' without spell-check interfering. But today was not that day.

Zonet ontwapenend mooi optreden meegemaakt van Dressed Like Boys in de AB.

The Querolus is a fabulous source. From memory: there is (at least partially) a translation in A.C. Murray's 'From Roman to Merovingian Gaul'. And I wouldn't be surprised if it features in Ray Van Dam's 'Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul', because of it mentioning the Bacaudae.

"IT IS AGREED AND MOST EVIDENT THAT ALL MASTERS ARE EVIL..." So begins the speech of the slave character Pantomalus in the Querolus, the only extant late antique comedy. It will feature in a slavery sourcebook that we are working on. Read more in our newest blog post: tinyurl.com/zrmc4a6s

Book cover plan, now complete with the blurb on the back! 📕

In the next TeTra seminar which will take place next Thursday 6 November at 4PM CET Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) will speak about the voice of Mary of Egypt. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register with @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs." (Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

We gaan nog even op tournee met Clovis (@ertsberg.bsky.social) dit najaar!

I regret nothing.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Ook zeer relevant voor Nederlandse wetenschappers.

A kind and informative review of my latest volume, The Economics of War in Ancient Greece, by Matthew Sears www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

Recent verscheen het nieuws dat 97% van alle doctoraten aan Vlaamse universiteiten vorig jaar in 't Engels verscheen. Ondertussen zijn Nederlandstalige doctorandi een minderheid aan het worden. Dus kroop ik in mijn toetsenbord om de problemen omtrent onze moedertaal op academisch niveau te kaderen.

In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme. Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:

A discussion elsewhere about That One Unfortunate Copyright I posted yesterday, turned to the practicalities of citation. Flashback to my first international article and one mighty dude in particular.

Today in turbo-charged introductions to Eastern Roman History, we will go from the Apogee of the Macedonian Dynasty to the omnishambles of Manzikert (c. 975-1071). And only now I've discovered that a map we used for years in my old Byzantine History course has a rather unfortunate copyright.

And all the other knights try to chase me

State Supreme Court elections are *super* important for the rest of our democracy. Don't sleep on them.

Exhibition Lawrence Weiner - 'Red and Green and Blue More or Less' (Herbert Foundation, Ghent)

This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates

*Stamp of approval*

Jongens en meisjes, de organisatie die het dichtst bij mijn hart ligt, Een Hart Voor Vluchtelingen, heeft middelen nodig met het oog op de winter. Met het weghalen van de middelen voor de daklozen door ons Anneleen, zitten ze in de shit. Alle info op de prent en hier 👇 eenhartvoorvluchtelingen.be

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .