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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Hope to see you there!

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 1d

… & here is a link to the website of the Institut historique allemand, with all the details: www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/agenda-de...

En ligne et sur place : La Réunion de Paris de 825

Enjeux théologiques et politiques de la controverse des images

www.dhi-paris.fr

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 1d

The workshop is also on Zoom. Here’s the program in three screenshots …

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!

We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 28d

i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 28d

(Deadline is 31 October.)

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities

Job #AJO30300, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 31

As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -

Sign, surrounded by hostas, pointing the way to the “Floriculture War Memorial Trail.”

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Aug 28

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 24

New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.

The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy

This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey ...

www.routledge.com

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · Aug 12

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very doodly:

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Unfair to doodles 🐩

A screenshot from NYT’s Spelling Bee declaring that “doodly” is “not in word list”

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wetcat @wetcat.uk · Aug 10

Fire at Arthur's Seat
#photography #edinburgh #wildfire

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities

Job #AJO30300, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · Jul 22

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Jul 20

Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -

NO to the cable car at Monemvasia! - Αίτηση Online

* We say “NO!” to the proposed cable car project on the rock of Monemvasia; not only because it will disfigure both the natural and monumental setting of this unique historical town, but also as the p...

www.openpetition.eu

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!

T24 @t24.com.tr · Jul 12

🏛️Sardes Antik Kenti ve Bin Tepeler Lidya Tümülüsler, UNESCO Dünya Miras Listesi'nde
t24.com.tr/video/sardes...

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Guess that musical! #musicals

Jacket copy from an original cast album:

"A landmark musical." —T. E. Kalem, Time Magazine
-Jack Kroll, Newsweek Magazine
"Glows with originality."
—Judith Crist, Today Show, NBC-TV
"Broadway's first treatment of nerve ends."
—Douglas Watt, Daily News
"Magnificent, strikingly innovative."
—Martin Gottfried, Women's Wear Daily
"Sizzles, provocative, an original and standout experience."
—William Glover, AP
"A truly sensational musical has finally happened."
—Jack Gaver, UPI
"An original piece of work that joyously breaks new ground, delights and astonishes."—Brendan Gill, The New Yorker

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · May 30

Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)

Marketing email announcing the acquisition of Rowman and Littlefield by Bloomsbury: “Bloomsbury authors include Carol J. Adams, Bertolt Brecht, Nawal el Saadawi, Paulo Freire, Rafia Zakaria, Slavoj Žižek, Ruth Wodak, and more.”

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Apr 15

Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -

A big floppy doodle with a tiny purple dinosaur 🦕

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Apr 9

First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Apr 9

This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…

—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Unicorn
by Don Paterson
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”

This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny-
right down to the still light of its gaze.

It never was. And yet such was their love
the pure beast arose; they had cleared the space.
And in the stable of its nothingness
it shook its white mane out and stamped its hoof.

They fed it, then, not with hay or corn,
but with the chance that it might come to pass.
All this gave the creature such a power

its brow put out a horn; one single horn.
It grew inside a maiden’s looking-glass
then one day walked out, and passed into her.

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · Apr 7

In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -

events.cornell.edu

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Apr 7

Died (alas!) on this day 1614 in Toledo, Spain, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.

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