Had a wonderful #SNTS meeting @durham.ac.uk, first one since I became an associate member last year. Met, listened to, and learnt from colleagues and friends, presented a short paper on my current project, and visited the Hadrian's Wall, including the stunning #Vindolanda

Had the pleasure over the last two days to contribute to the conference on post-mortem existence in honour of Loren T. Stuckenbruck, a brilliant scholar of Second Temple Judaism and a dear friend, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, held @lmu.de. Congrats to the organisers and to Loren!

Thoroughly enjoyed my first day at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Do join us on Thursday, online or in person, for three excellent sessions on future insight and its discontents in the long late antiquity. The Leeds bunny for attention

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Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social

Send your abstracts by the end of this week!

Mateusz Kusio@mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CfP 'Contested Prophecies, Uncertain Futures - Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Views of the Future in Late Antiquity' @ Late Antique Encounters Conference, Ghent, 3-5 February, 2027 Please send in your abstracts (<300 words) and a brief academic CV to mateusz.kusio[at]kuleuven.be by 10 May, 2026. +

Happy to see the publication of my article "Nathanael, the Fig Tree, and the Retrieval of Johannine Polysemy", available in open access in the forthcoming issue of NTS, exploring the significance of the fig tree in the story of calling of Nathanael (John 1:48). doi.org/10.1017/S002...

CfP 'Contested Prophecies, Uncertain Futures - Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Views of the Future in Late Antiquity' @ Late Antique Encounters Conference, Ghent, 3-5 February, 2027 Please send in your abstracts (<300 words) and a brief academic CV to mateusz.kusio[at]kuleuven.be by 10 May, 2026. +

Today and forever #СлаваУкраїні! 🇺🇦

Mateusz Kusio@mateuszkusio.bsky.social · last yr.

Three years ago today, the criminal full-scale invasion of #Ukraine by Russia has begun. This photo of the historian Natalia Yakovenko translating Livy in Kyiv during the Russian offensive in March 2022 will remain a testament to the human spirit resisting cruelty and darkness. #СлаваУкраїні! 🇺🇦

2026-29 postdoc Junior Research Fellowship in Theology & Religious Studies, Trinity College, Oxford. Candidates with PhDs submitted Oct 2023-May 2026 and with no comparable prior appointment. Deadline 21 January 2026, interviews 16 March. nt4ox.link/JRF-TrinOx26

Super excited to have the new strand "Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)" accepted for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Come join us on Thursday, 9 July

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Mateusz Kusio@mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 11mo ago

REMINDER IMC '26 CfP for a new strand Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE) Proposals of ca. 200 words, along with a short academic bio, should be sent to Mateusz Kusio (mateusz.kusio@kuleuven.be) by 15 September, 2025.

REMINDER IMC '26 CfP for a new strand Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE) Proposals of ca. 200 words, along with a short academic bio, should be sent to Mateusz Kusio (mateusz.kusio@kuleuven.be) by 15 September, 2025.

It's beginning to look a lot like the publishing process is slowly coming to an end! My edition of Commodianus hopefully out next year with OUP

IMC '26 CfP for a new strand Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE) We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +

Very happy to announce that I have received a senior postdoctoral fellowship funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social which will allow me to continue at KU Leuven on my project on the delay of the Parousia for the next three years!

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Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 13 March: Nicola Holm (UW): Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops. As always on 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in person and on Zoom.

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

Three years ago today, the criminal full-scale invasion of #Ukraine by Russia has begun. This photo of the historian Natalia Yakovenko translating Livy in Kyiv during the Russian offensive in March 2022 will remain a testament to the human spirit resisting cruelty and darkness. #СлаваУкраїні! 🇺🇦

...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

Hoping to see some of you at EABS/ISBL in Uppsala this June!

It was fun! Thanks for having me @tetraseminar.bsky.social

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · last yr.

Here goes the recording – thanks to all who joined in! Mateusz Kusio (KU Leuven) •The Manuscript Tradition of Commodianus: On the Reception of an Obscure Poet•

Tomorrow! If you want to attend online and are not yet on the mailing list, contact @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us on Thursday 6 February at 10 AM for a conversation with @mateuszkusio.bsky.social on the early Christian Latin poet Commodianus

Join us on Thursday 6 February at 10 AM for a conversation with @mateuszkusio.bsky.social on the early Christian Latin poet Commodianus

Glad to see the program is now available for this summer’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social. I’ll be the black sheep (or goat, rather), presenting on heavy metal in a panel on Radicalism in Late Antiquity & Byzantium, alongside @jmharland.bsky.social & @mateuszkusio.bsky.social

Hello World. As I am moving to this bluer pasture, I am beginning to say goodbye to the project that kept me busy for the last four years. The first full draft of my edition of the earliest known Christian poet, Commodianus, has just gone out to OUP. Long road ahead, so wish me luck