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The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
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Let’s take a trip back to last week when we held our first ever annual meeting on the topic ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’. Thanks to all those who joined us, and those who were not able to will be able to catch up on the recordings soon! 🎥
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Hello London, next Monday 1 Dec I'll be speaking at Senate House about how the histories of slavery and books in the ancient Mediterranean intersect in Rome. Book historians, slavery scholars, classicists, there will be something for everyone. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’

Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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It’s that time again… 👀 🎄

If you are a business or creator and you’d like to donate something to our Christmas giveaway please do drop us an email at [email protected]

We’ve got most of it covered but always grateful for such things 🥰
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world.

Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Abolition School is fundraising to continue their political education out in Philly - they've lost nonprofit sponsorships due to the political environment downstream of the Trump administration. please support (donate and/or share) as you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/all-in-for...
Donate to Go All in for Abolition School 2026!, organized by Geo Maher
Go All in for Abolition School in 2026! We’re gonna be honest with you: Abolition S… Geo Maher needs your support for Go All in for Abolition School 2026!
www.gofundme.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Today's issue of Pasts Imperfect, the newsletter for all things ancient that bring a global perspective to the Classical world, is out: pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf.... As always, thanks to @sarahebond.bsky.social and her amazing set of editors. Today's main essay: Egyptomania!
Pasts Imperfect (11.20.25)
This week, media psychology and classical reception specialist Kristen Leer discusses Ancient Egypt in horror movies and the problems surrounding "Egyptomania." Then, mapping the thousands of miles of...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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My latest for Nat Geo on things you didn't know about Roman Emperors. Co-authored with Max J. Foa and featuring the work of @sarahebond.bsky.social, Stephanie Frampton, A. B. Bosworth, and Tom Geue.

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese
Lots of emperors met ignominious ends. And then there was Antoninus Pius.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/
The ASOR 2025 Annual Meeting begins today in Boston & online! Join scholars for 4 days of sessions, workshops, and celebration—starting tonight with the Opening & Plenary Session feat. Dr. Timothy P. Harrison.

Welcome to #ASOR25, celebrating 125 years of archaeological research and collaboration.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Officially: the only help coming in is people who clicked “weekly.”

This covers only 51% of our absolute minimum per week.

That math is deadly.

If we make that 51% into 100%, it’d be lifesaving.

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New day, new week, same hope...our current priorities on the giving circle are still:

- Emergency medical care for three women
- Newborn supplies
- Shelter before winter

Click “weekly” on a coffee. This is the ONLY support coming in for these urgent needs. chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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New issue out in The Bible and Critical Theory journal. Special issue this time on The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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many people are saying!
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians received a grant for its Choctaw Dictionary project in 2020. However, as the department was nearing completion of the dictionary, the Trump administration terminated the award.

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Mississippi Choctaw Dictionary Project Helps Preserve Language
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians’ Choctaw Dictionary Project is designed to help teach the language and encourage more daily use.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social
Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel
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November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM