A reminder about this CfP!

Dr Nicola Holm@nrholm.bsky.social · 3w ago

CfP for Leeds IMC 2027 for a panel organised by myself and Alexandra Kujanpaa (ANU)!

Work from home perks, a Reginald!

Here’s another new clip from our episode of You’re Dead To Me about Roman Emperor Constantine the Great Featuring ace comedian Ivo Graham and ancient historian Prof Lucy Grig You can watch on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds

CfP for Leeds IMC 2027 for a panel organised by myself and Alexandra Kujanpaa (ANU)!

Bit baffled that this even needs to be written; women at the Syriac congress of last week.

Open letter to the Syriac Studies and Christian Arabic Studies community

This open letter addresses sentiments of dissatisfaction that have arisen both prior to and during the conference and will be circulated via the Hugoye newsletter. If you felt similarly or would like ...

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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Reunited with my fave sweets on the way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See all you late antiquists and medievalists soon! ✨

You guys an Augustinian Pope is facing off against rigorists ordaining their own bishops. It's the Donatist Schism all over again. apnews.com/article/vati...

Defying Pope Leo XIV and risking schism, traditionalists go ahead with Latin Mass consecrations

A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent. The Society of St.

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Our magnificent PhD students made this film about the research supervision they receive from colleagues in Classics, Ancient History, Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. #DefendExeterUni www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXTm...

CAHRT Is Its People

YouTube video by Leah Lawford

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Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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My first journal article has just been published!

Divergent dynasticism: Orthodoxy, heresy, and the sons of Constantine in the Greek ecclesiastical writers

ABSTRACT. Following the reign of Constantine I, a new expectation arose surrounding the behaviour of the emperor towards the Church, and his sons were expe

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This weekend I had the chance to tick something of my nerdy bucket list! We went to Sofia and saw the sites of ancient Serdica, including the church where the Western bishops probably met for the Council of Serdica in 343 ✨

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:)

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.

Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk. And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."

Seven Hills of Brisbane - #classicalreception - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_H... Walks: roseobrienwriter.blog/seven-hills-...

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:)

See you all at IMC next year! Come along to the Civic and Personal Competition in the Roman East panels organised by myself and Yannis Brichant!

Research funding including #classicalreception: Institute of Classics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków through The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange - 2–4 year research stays in Poland for international scholars/ research group - see listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 November: David Addison (University of Liverpool), "Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea". In person and online, as always.

The deadline on this PhD scholarship on ancient monarchy at ANU has been extended until November 28. Full details here: study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

Caillan Davenport@drcdavenport.bsky.social · last yr.

I have one PhD scholarship attached to my Ancient Monarchy Future Fellowship project for a candidate working on ancient monarchy and religion, preferably with a comparative element. $38,154 stipend for domestic & international candidates. Deadline 30 September. study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

CfP for a proposed strand ‘Civic and Personal Competition in the Late Roman East’ at next year’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social!

Take a look at the programme of our workshop on the subject of Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Anitquity organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly, which will take place at the @dependencybonn.de next month.

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

With @imc-leeds.bsky.social fast approaching, here’s a look at the ‚Urban Dynamics’ in the Late Roman East panels!

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

Applications now open for 2 PhD scholarships at ANU as part of my ARC Future Fellowship Project, 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. Open to both Aus & international candidates. Informal inquiries to brainstorm topics very welcome! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...