On Thursday, 11 Dec, 5:30pm London time (12:30pm New York/6:30 Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Online-via Zoom ONLY.
All welcome - Please share. To register, see www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

✊ That's the close of the ballots!

❤️ Well done to everyone involved in the GTVO efforts, speaking to members, and getting your ballots in! It's been a big collective effort!

💬 We should get the results for both the national and the local on Monday - so more soon!

🚨Happening in 2 weeks and I can't wait: Endangered urban heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference. It will be AMAZING and I mean it! Join us live in Cairo, or else on zoom. Program and rsvp link:
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

Istanbul folk - @drvukovich.bsky.social and I will be hosting a workshop on the Byzantine and Ottoman heritage of the Balkans in a few weeks at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul! Come join us and our amazing speakers!

Lecturer in Digital History 
UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

The new Society for the Study of the Past now has socials! 🥳🍉

You can find us on Insta or here on Bluesky: @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social

Or check out the website here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

"“Having my visa revoked and then losing my student status has upended my life and future — not because of any wrongdoing, but because I exercised my right to free speech,” Srinivasan said in a statement to CNN."
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Post-doc in medieval studies at the University of Vienna, beginning September 2025, base salary of about 5K euros/month "for a period of 6 years." Research or habilitation proposals in English or German due by April 9th. #medievalsky

📢📢 KCL student union members have voted overwhelmingly in favour (1564 for 186 against) for a motion calling KCL to expand its Ethical Investments Policy to divest from conventional weapons (as well as controversial weapons) and from companies involved in human rights violations

Grotesque treatment of our colleagues at King’s. Solidarity to those facing harassment and intimidation for speaking out ✊

Great idea. Also shame on the associations, especially every single Byzantine Studies association that never mentioned Palestine 🍉 while using artefacts from it and producing knowledge about it. Cowards.

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

The treatment of our colleague Dr Rana Baker is unacceptable. Dr Baker is a serious scholar and a fine person, calling her a “terrorist” is immoral and libellous. We need to stand up for academic freedom ✊🍉

My brilliant friend Dr Claire Knight @brisunipress.bsky.social has published an excellent book on late Stalinist cinema and this is her triumph @uclssees.bsky.social - поздравляю 🍾

Release of an open resource research portal for study of the inscriptions in the Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.

These have been documented digitally by the project Saint Sophia’s Inscriptions, Department of Conservation, Gothenburg University

Monday 9/12 14.00 – 15.00 CET

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I’ll start by plugging my last press article for @uk.theconversation.com about queer soldiers in the war in Ukraine: theconversation.com/ukraines-lgb...

Why doesn’t the media report that gay Chechens are forcibly sent to die in Ukraine?

Solidarity with queers of all nationalities 🏳️‍🌈 and Ukraine 🇺🇦