Paul Dilley
@babelalexandria.bsky.social
Erling B. "Jack" Holtsmark Associate Professor in the Classics, Departments of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Iowa. Digital Humanist. Opinions are my own.
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
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Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:
Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)
Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.
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New guest post on Membra Dispersa Sinaitica: Habib Ibrahim identifies the Sinaitic parent codex of yet another leaf from the Mingana Collection in Birmingham. @dehypotheses.bsky.social
Reuniting James Intercisus: A Mingana Leaf Rejoins Sinai Ar. 369
A guest post by Habib Ibrahim* 1. While working on the Arabic dossier of James Intercisus,1 a Syrian-Persian saint of the 5th century, I came across a fragment in the Mingana Collection in Birmingham ...
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New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Breaking News: Sarah Mullally will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the Church of England.
Sarah Mullally Is Named as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, will lead the Church of England. She has been a vocal supporter of the rights of women in the church.
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Job posting: Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester. Applications due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/researc...
Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester | Mary Jaharis Center
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🧵 Learn more about HMML’s collections—approximately 486,000 manuscripts photographed in partnership with more than 1,500 repositories worldwide: hmml.org/collections/
Collections
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Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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BookTok loves marginalia and neuroscience is down for it: 🧪 💙📚 www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-a...
The TikTok Trend of Writing in Margins Is Based on Real Neuroscience
Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature
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Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...
Geplante Forschungsprojekte
Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.
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New book: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Falko Daim, and Susanne Greiff, eds., The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology (Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-pre...
The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology | Mary Jaharis Center
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Very happy to see the BL digitized manuscripts continue to come back online!
mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social · last yr.More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
Funding opportunity: 2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships. Applications due October 17, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026202...
2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships | Mary Jaharis Center
Met fellowships are awarded to junior scholars, postdoctoral and senior academics, and museum professionals for independent study or research.
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When higher ed is under attack and things look bleak, I find creating academic networks helps me to feel a bit less alone and helpless
Jennifer Barry@jennisifire.bsky.social · last yr.Delighted to be participating in another VECSS (Virginia Early Christian Studies Seminar), spotlighting work from some dear friends and colleagues. This fall we are hosted by Candace Buckner at VTech!
The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies
On behalf of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Erich S. Gruen Prize Committee invites all graduate students in North America to enter the sixth annual competition for the best graduate rese...
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New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration You can now subscribe to the show too. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vys...
New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0HyD...
Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.
Ethiopia inaugurates Africa's biggest dam amid regional tensions
Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.
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Call for contributors: Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse, special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). Submissions due September 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/wikidat...
Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse | Mary Jaharis Center
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The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.
unbelievable. one of the very few graduate translation programs in the anglosphere is shut down. america is nothing if not INSULAR
Middlebury to conclude graduate programs in Monterey, California
President Ian B. Baucom shared the news with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey on August 28.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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