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Caroline Barron

@carolinebarron.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.

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Alex von Tunzelmann@alexvont.bsky.social · last yr.

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

To this day, only a few scholars of the Holocaust, and no institution dedicated to researching and commemorating it, has issued a warning that Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan “Never again,” transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood.What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before. Because the Holocaust has been so relentlessly invoked by the State of Israel and its defenders as a cover-up for the crimes of the I.D.F., the study and remembrance of the Holocaust could lose its claim to be concerned with universal justice and retreat into the same ethnic ghetto in which it began its life at the end of World War II — as a marginalized preoccupation by the remnants of a marginalized people, an ethnically specific event, before it succeeded, decades later, to find its rightful place as a lesson and a warning for humanity as a whole.
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · last yr.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · last yr.

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Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

I (co)-wrote a book! The catalogue for the Piranesi Print Project I co-curated at the British School at Rome has been published, and I am very proud of it! The research for this project was so interesting, and there’s still work to do! Thank you to everyone who was involved, my heart is full ❤️

British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · last yr.

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of the long-awaited catalogue, "Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome", authored by Clare Hornsby and Caroline Barron. This project is now complete, and we are so happy to finally share it with you!

Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

And so begins another Monday! This week’s Research To Do List task: finish the revisions to a talk on the Diaspora Revolts in Cyrene under Trajan that I’m giving in St Andrew’s next week. And some marking…

Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

Working on the final revisions to a little article about some Latino-Punic inscriptions in Libya today! Quite pleased with how it's going, and hopeful that I'll be ticking it off the Overdue Research Things To Do List by Friday...hold me accountable please.

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · last yr.

The Historic England press release gives a more detailed overview of the finds and their significance: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne... (And pictures of @proftommoore.bsky.social doing some excellent CT scan pointing.)

Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England

The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.

historicengland.org.uk

Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s the end of term. A lovely term in many respects, but also brutal in its busy-ness and responsibilities. But…Research Leave lies ahead!! And whilst I have a book to finish and 24,000 other projects to complete, I really am a very happy Caroline. For now: bubbles. And then, gin.

A glass of champagne held up in front of a bookcase.
Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week of term! And the final lecture for my Pompeii module. We've had such a good time: great, questioning students, more material than we know what to do with and brilliantly creative Visual Reconstruction projects to mark at the end. Definitely my favourite part of this job.

Caroline Barron@carolinebarron.bsky.social · last yr.

The weather today was Not Good: it alternated between snow, rain, bright sunshine and cold wind. Flashback to Sunday, when the sun was warm enough on the skin that this soft Southerner left her Big Coat at home and brought the sunglasses out (and a jacket, because she’s not actually that brave…)

The sun shining on the river Tyne, with Millenium Bridge visible in tge background