This Friday, 21 November, COSMOPOET will present at the lunch seminar of Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... This is an in-person event. All are welcome!

University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040): memorients.com/news/univers...

Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...

Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...

New volume of Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Vol. 55 (2025) journals.openedition.org/cchyp/1857 #openaccess @openedition.bsky.social Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de l’époque médiévale (LA3M, Aix-en-Provence)

My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌

🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:

🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.

The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃 🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET) 📍 MPIWG 🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX #HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr

Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/Coudenberg/62/30083 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.

This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.

Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!

Sun(dials) and Sea in Dunbar today

The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages Università di Pavia, Italy Deadline June 30, 2025 More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/ Please share!

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools Just a few photos from the first two days @cosmopoet.bsky.social @stephenaj.bsky.social @tur-alexandre.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @irht-cnrs.bsky.social

Now with Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social on Byzantine manuscripts, and here with her (all time?) favorite, an example with many texts in one codex - a library in one volume, with several quadrivial works, but also theological and geomantic

Good morning!

The next stop on the tour starts tomorrow: eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t... A great team, a great opportunity to collaborate with the @labnf.bsky.social and @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and an important and invaluable possibility to teach with historical manuscripts and instruments!🤩😍

Posting a little late (just before the event), but I still wanted to share this program (which is a new thing for me - started one year ago), as it is something I am glad to be part of and moreover something of personal importance: sphere.cnrs.fr/seminaires/s...

🧵The first workshop on the Spatio-Temporal Profiles of Multi graphic Written Artefacts is now behind us. Lots to think about before the Paris meeting in 2025: about a wide range of temporalities such as astronomical and apocalyptic time, about the importance of patterning, sequencing, and indexing..

Huge thanks to the staff of the SuUB Bremen who took excellent care of me yesterday! 🙏🏻🙏🏻now off to @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social and the UWA for our workshop which starts this afternoon: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor...

Here is the next Cosmopoet adventure and this one has been cooking for a while together with colleagues Hanna Wimmer (UWA Hamburg) and Matthieu Husson (Observatoire de Paris):https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/workshop71

🧵I have been thinking about quadrivial handbooks in Byzantium for a while and during the past year I have been making shy baby steps towards a study of George Pachymeres' Quadrivium by giving seminar papers on his reading practices.

Tonight!

Something to look forward to next week 😍

🧵This is a piece very dear to my heart - a short piece, but I think important. I know of no other historiography of the history of science studies within #Byzantine Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Green #OpenAccess version will soon be available on Zenodo + I have 10 codes to share.

From June 2 to June 6, 2025, the Training Week: A Global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: New Approaches, New Digital Tools will take place in Paris. Limited number of scholarships; deadline April 18, 2025. For more details: eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t...

COSMOPOET and @dulila.bsky.social are featured as "Staff Member of the Month" in this short interview Olivier Demerre conducted on behalf of the Greek Section of the Department of Literary Studies at UGent: www.grieks.ugent.be/medewerker-v...

Map of Byzantine Thessaloniki www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...

#skystorians it’s time for the last seminar of my 3-year Marie Curie project. This Friday, January 31, 3.30 PM (Italy time), join me, Edgar Omar Rodriguez Camarena, and Alberto Fabris, to discuss about New Spain and urban space in the 16C on Zoom ➡️ unive.zoom.us/j/88975868772

A CfP that may intrigue the astronomically-minded: Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space (Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/...

Poster printed & presented, now in the office. It was a little scary; at first it felt like I'm selling something. Then I was blown away by the questions people asked and how genuinely curious they were. I regret I got to visit only a few other posters. Thank you, Giulia, for being there! #msca

🧵With COSMOPOET, I am trying many new things (first logo, Bsky...) and here is the next one. On 27 November COSMOPOET will participate in the LW Research Day "From Source to Understanding" (www.lwresearchday.ugent.be) with the very first academic poster I ever made.

A thread about Cosmopoet's logo and the diagrammatic tradition it belongs to :)

In the next (carefully curated) post, I want to tell you about Cosmopoet's logo and its inspiration, but for tonight a selfie attempt with a tee I ordered for the UGent LW Research Day. I think it came out well, the t-shirt, not the selfie 🤔🫠

Here is me trying something new

I am visiting Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών (ΙΜΣ-ΙΤΕ) / Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH) this week and speaking about cosmological ideas of the oikoumene tomorrow evening www.youtube.com/live/4BiNr0T...

The Second Edition of the History of Science in the Medieval World summer school is ON! Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 15-19 July 2024. DEADLINE for applications: 29 April 2024. For more information on how to apply and the full program, see here: drive.google.com/file/d/1EWbj...

A year ago I attended a reading meeting of Circus palaeobulgaricus led by Aneta Dimitrova for the first time. Then we read meteorological texts. A year later, today I joined for Barlaam and Ioasaph reading, a 14th-C ms from the Rila monastery, and a unicorn fable. Pure joy 😍

Looking up