Incredible semester of events from @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as usual - don’t miss out!

Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Our Semester 1 lecture & seminar programme is here! Talks this term cover football fandom and antisemitism, Jewish refugee nurses in Britain, Jewish-Black anti-racist activism, and more. All hybrid and open to everyone. Full programme & booking on our Eventbrite 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/o/the-parkes...

YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w ago

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

This is murder

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco@joshpizpom.bsky.social · 3w ago

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

So much of the ancient statuary and portraiture study I've been doing for this book has led me to the discovery that once upon a time, scholars were so eager to identify the subjects as well-known historical figures that they made leaps and bounds to identify them, without any evidence.

This is incredibly moving.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3w ago

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Can anybody recommend a good article/chapter on Limpieza de Sangre (purity of blood) during the Spanish Inquisition - particularly regarding the idea of "bad blood"? #🗃️ #history

Can anybody recommend a good article/chapter on Limpieza de Sangre (purity of blood) during the Spanish Inquisition - particularly regarding the idea of "bad blood"? #🗃️ #history

Christian anti-Judaism and orientalism excised Jewish ppl from the Roman Empire + reimagined a Biblical never-never period characterised by pseudo-Islamic material culture. Yada…yada…yada… And that’s how we get this guy👇

Why don't all the medieval texts that I want to read already exist in translation?

Sitting in a cafe listening to two students talk about refusing to use AI: "I rather sit here and struggle and maintain my dignity" 🔥

This was a very fun one to write. Rule of open questions in headlines applies. Many thanks to the various institutional policies which allow image publication rights in scientific publications and the DAI which offered high quality photographs for a low fee

Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 4w ago

Publication day is one of my favourite days! Even better when its shared with a friend (@josephscales.bsky.social) Hot off the presses: "Did the Romans Think Jews Wore Trousers?" brill.com/view/journal...

Burnham is an utter charlatan. No truly left leaning politician would dismiss the University sector, or its users, to this extent. Happy to push the trades but unwilling to invest in higher education. "University for me but not for thee". Happy to take an extra 9% tax off my daughter though.

Good government should provide opportunities that suit individuals not favouring one type of further education over another. Then we have both vocational skilled employment AND scientists, authors, linguists, etc. 16 year olds shouldn’t have to pick a forever route when they will work till 75.

Why does Labour hate workers when they work in teaching, and social mobility if it comes via education? How many Labour MPs send their own kids to Uni, while supporting policies that reduce that opportunity for others? How many 10s of 1000s of people need to lose jobs before Labour cares?

When the people in charge know the cost of everything but know nothing of the values they bring us, we will all become poorer.

Oh, I don't really know what to say about this shit any longer. HE and Culture/Arts are some of the only sectors in which the UK is still internationally competitive.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).

‘Personal, social, and economic value’. Receipts and evidence for that? Unsurprisingly, none. God save us from these people.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).

Publication day is one of my favourite days! Even better when its shared with a friend (@josephscales.bsky.social) Hot off the presses: "Did the Romans Think Jews Wore Trousers?" brill.com/view/journal...

“If you don’t go to synagogue you cannot understand the fear antisemitism has wrought” is a unbelievably offensive & ignorant thing to say. Nazis didn’t check synagogue membership before sending Jews into the gas chambers. Jewish identity extends far beyond schul and so too does anti-Jewish hate.

Patrick Andelic@pkandelic.bsky.social · 4w ago

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

My book “Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism” now has a @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social page: www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/moti.... Available soon in open access

Three #Roman leather shoes, for (l-r) a man, woman, & child. Found in an ancient well at Bar Hill fort on the Antonine Wall (Scotland), they're beautifully crafted pieces of footwear, & show that the military communities had access to a bit of luxury even on the frontiers... #AncientBlueSky

"An exceptionally well-written and clear thesis…" — the first review of Maria – Mutter im Konflikt (@mohrsiebeck.bsky.social) is out in JSNT, and I still can't believe the brilliant Helen Bond wrote it. Full review in the picture below.

A #Roman shield found in Dura-Europos (Syria), where it was lost during a siege in the C3rd AD. The only rectangular shield to survive from the Roman world, it is a wonderful find, & gives a great insight into how elaborately decorated these items were #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

I live across the street from David Bowie's childhood home. It's been a fun little fact since moving in 8 yrs ago. That all changed in January. Since then, I've found myself someplace I *never* thought I'd be: tired of Bowie. A 🧵 on celebrity, cultural memory, and community engagement...

David Bowie childhood home plans opposed by neighbours

A heritage group wants to build a visitor centre in the garden of the star's childhood home in Bromley.

bbc.co.uk

When a driverless car runs you over, who is libel? Who bears legal responsibility?

What do you want to bet this is because they spent too much in their AI feature that nobody wants.

John Levin@anterotesis.bsky.social · last mo.

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

I live across the street from David Bowie's childhood home. It's been a fun little fact since moving in 8 yrs ago. That all changed in January. Since then, I've found myself someplace I *never* thought I'd be: tired of Bowie. A 🧵 on celebrity, cultural memory, and community engagement...

David Bowie childhood home plans opposed by neighbours

A heritage group wants to build a visitor centre in the garden of the star's childhood home in Bromley.

bbc.co.uk

The more I learn, the more convinced I am that certain concepts are considered “Modern” simply because the people who studied them were/are scholars of Modernity (and haven’t looked far enough back in time).

We demand historical accuracy

Doing some consultancy work and socks with sandals is officially in the costume guidance! Will it make it to screen? No idea. But I'm thrilled it's made it this far! How soon until we get an onscreen Jesus in some of these bad boys?!

Pair of Socks | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

Pair of red socks in nålbinding, Egyptian, with split toe.

collections.vam.ac.uk