I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...

Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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I am an ancient historian and I write about ancient things, but that chapter in the book I just published, about boys and men consuming and producing images of women they make up, and those images persisting to obscure and replace the real women around them in daily, even intimate, interactions?

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

We're delighted to announce the plenary speakers for the EHS Winter Meeting 2027 (9 Jan 2027, online) 🎉 Professor Denise Kimber Buell (Williams College) Professor Emerita Philippa Levine (UT Austin) More info about the meeting & how you can submit to give a paper will be announced this autumn.

The stunning portrait depicts a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. It was unearthed in Akhetaten/Tell el-Amarna. This city was established by Pharaoh Akhenaten as a new capital. Dating around 1345 BC. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky #Egypt

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With today's theft of Vix torc, here's what has been taken... The torc was found as part of a burial & placed around neck of the interred. Despite its size, it weighs only 480g (less that half the weight of the Snettisham Great torc). It is STUNNING. #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs 🏺 1/2

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Pompeii archaeologists unveil stunning fresco ceiling in ancient banquet hall

The vault depicts Dionysus and Ariadne, whose union is one of the best-known Greek myths

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Following a trip to the Odyssey yesterday I wanted to do a Circe Mari. So looked out the greek pottery for reference

Are you working on the histories of clerics and clerical networks across and beyond political borders? Interested in presenting your research at next year's Leeds IMC? Consider submitting an abstract to our Call for Papers! Deadline 1 Sept, details at: medreligion.wordpress.com/transnationa...

Transnational Clerical Communities

Call for Papers for sessions organised by the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion seminar series at the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 St. Brendan the Navigator. Bibliothèque de Re…

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Yesterday, in her all-staff talk our VC chose to highlight the recent election of 5 FBAs from the University of Exeter. She failed to point out that 4 of us (with many of our colleagues) have just been placed at risk of redundancy. #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

Morwenna Ludlow@morwennaexe.bsky.social · 3w ago

#DefendExeterUni

A CfP for #IMC2027.

The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Professor Marguerite Johnson FAHA: humanities.org.au/our-communit... An Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, Marguerite was elected to the Academy in 2022.

Blogging the History of Women in Ancient World Studies - Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026) www.awaws.org/history-of-w...

Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026)

AWAWS was shocked and saddened to hear of the recent death of emerita professor Marguerite Johnson on the island of Lesvos. She was a brilliant, kind and thoughtful supporter, mentor and teacher of...

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So, so sad to hear of the death of Professor Marguerite Johnson. She wrote a wonderful book about Boudica, that I used when writing my own, and then we met on social media, and did an online lecture together. She was incredibly kind & I so hoped we would get to meet in person one day.

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blogging the History of Women in Ancient World Studies - Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026) www.awaws.org/history-of-w...

friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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Some of the oak posts from Seahenge - an early Bronze Age timber circle which was discovered at Holme beach in North Norfolk following ‘shifting sands’. Photo was taken at ‘The World of Stonehenge’ exhibition at the British Museum during 2020. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Seahenge

I'm writing something about how gender is everywhere in historical studies--- even in, actually especially in, those places that are supposedly most removed from gender

Carved head of a beast. From the #VikingAge Oseberg ship burial of two women. It is one of five unique carved animal heads from the womens’ richly-furnished ship grave. AD 834. Norway. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Part of the interior of Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn on Rousay - one of the Orkney islands. The cairn dates to the Neolithic, and is a wonderful example of a two-storey cairn with chambers on top of each other. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

New Publication: ‘Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book’, edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Conklin Akbari medievalartresearch.com/2026/07/13/n...

New Publication: ‘Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book’, edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Conklin Akbari

This new publication explores the diverse roles of textiles in manuscripts from late antiquity to the early modern period, highlighting their connections to global trade and cultural interactions a…

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TOMORROW!! #WCCWIKI is having their July editing session. 13.00-15.00, 22 July! Join at the link below 🏛️🏛️ us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168

Fundraiser for the family of Marguerite Johnson (Hon Professor in Classics, Uni Queensland; former Prof of Classics, Newcastle; great influence on #classicalreception studies in Australia & beyond) who has died with her partner in an accident in Greece www.gofundme.com/f/help-kate-...

Donate to Help Kate and Jack After the Tragic Loss of Their Parents, organized by Edyn Chapman

It is with unimaginable heartbreak that we share the devastat… Edyn Chapman needs your support for Help Kate and Jack After the Tragic Loss of Their Parents

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The next #WCCWiki online editing session is Wed 22 July, 13.00-15.00 BST. We meet on Zoom, have a chat, help each other out, & edit #Wikipedia together to improve the gendered representation of classicists (broadly conceived) online. All welcome us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168

& just to flag, this is an article I started as part of #WCCWiki

Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 3w ago

Roman women did goldsmithery! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeia... (here's one I wrote earlier)

The loss of Professor Marguerite Johnson is profound, the world is a much poorer place without her and her work.

Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies@awaws.org · 2w ago

AWAWS was shocked and saddened to learn of the death last week of Professor Marguerite Johnson. She will be greatly missed by all in the AWAWS community and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and loved ones at this difficult time.

Roman women did goldsmithery! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeia... (here's one I wrote earlier)

‘Warrior’ and ‘diademated’ stelae have been found across Bronze & Iron Age SW Iberia, but their purposes were unknown. The discovery of 3 stelae at the burial site of Las Capellanías indicates they were associated with burials and ancient routeways. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Who Wants Normal? has been out in paperback 3 months today! I spent four years interviewing 50+ of Britain’s best loved disabled women, from Ruth Madeley, Jameela Jamil, Tanni GT, Rosie Jones to Nikki Fox. I’m so glad more readers are able to read their wisdom. And filthy anecdotes.