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Benjamin Anderson

@bunyaminanderson.bsky.social
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Art historian, gay husband & doodle dad 🐩 Writing ✍️ etc. at bunyaminanderson.com 🛜

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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Later this month - spolia in St Louis!
counterpublic.org
Conversation: Hamza Walker and Benjamin Anderson with TK Smith on Spolia
Counterpublic is a civic exhibition that weaves contemporary art into the life of St. Louis for three months every three years in order to reimagine civic infrastructures towards generational change.
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here is an exciting CfP "Travellers in Ottoman Lands. Salonica, Rumeli, and beyond... Journey Across Cultures and Identities. Thessaloniki, Greece, April 21-24, 2027 Deadline for submission of proposals: Nov. 15. 👉https://travellersinottomanlands.com/next-seminar/ #OttomanHistory #CfP
travellersinottomanlands.com
Next Seminar - Travellers In Ottoman Lands
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A preview of coming attractions - #medievalsky #skystorians
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hi team, Do you like books? Do you like books that share impactful themes and hang out in series together? Do you have ideas for new book series? Are they about History? LGBTQ+? Medieval? Slavic? Weird Sea Monsters in the Mediterranean? Do you want to share with me? I like books and book series too.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology. Please share far and wide!
academicjobsonline.org
Cornell University, History of Art and Visual Studies
Job #AJO32482, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@realfollowers.bsky.social
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great teaser for Andrew Moisey’s new book up at @yalepress.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu
An excerpt from The Photographic World Picture: A New Prehistory of Photography - Yale University Press
An excerpt adapted from Andrew Moisey's book, The Photographic World Picture: A New Prehistory of Photography
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
An immensely interesting text in a high quality edition!
edinburghuniversitypress.com
An Ottoman Perception of Greek History
An Ottoman Perception of Greek History
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wrote an op-ed: "[President Kotlikoff] should correct the record and accept responsibility for his dangerous driving. … A Cornell student who intentionally drove their car into someone else and then lied about it would be subject to disciplinary action … ." 1/ www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Makes the Rules; He Needs to Follow Them Too
Cornell Law Professor James Grimmelmann analyzes and discusses the legality of the incident between students and President Kotlikoff following the April 30 Cornell Political Union debate.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book For Whom the Bell Dings
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And here is a link to the video! youtu.be/L0WLcBYavLo
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Encounters Series: Rome-Tenochtitlán: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s
YouTube video by Columbia GSAPP
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Better than the Joy of Cooking -
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Very much looking forward to this conversation! “Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s” February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST 300S Buell Hall and online Byron Hamann Response by Benjamin Anderson
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congratulations 🎉 to Andrew Griebeler & Botanical Icons 🌱 on winning the 2025 ICMA Book Prize!
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy holidays from our doodle to yours! 🐩
A black poodle mix with a snowy snout sports a pair (two pairs) of red boots.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Same
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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
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Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
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Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beginning soon! (In person & online) -
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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 wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 22/09/2025
i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
(Deadline is 31 October.)
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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 · 28/08/2025
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.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.
routledge.com
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 ...
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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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 · 11/08/2025
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 · 10/08/2025
Fire at Arthur's Seat #photography #edinburgh #wildfire
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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
academicjobsonline.org
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
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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -
openpetition.eu
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...
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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 · 30/05/2025
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 · 16/04/2025
Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -
A big floppy doodle with a tiny purple dinosaur 🦕
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/04/2025
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 · 07/04/2025
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 · 07/04/2025
Died (alas!) on this day 1614 in Toledo, Spain, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This Athenian kitty just snagged a tasty bug in the Agora 🐜
A tabby licking its chops among the ruins and weeds.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video - www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...
youtube.com
The Oracular Image: From Byzantium to the Baroque
YouTube video by ascsathens
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
En route!
The wing of an airplane at sunrise, above the clouds.
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So erschien damals (1906) etwas wissenschaftlich doch auf Deutsch -
Joseph Mantuani explains why and how his contribution to the 1906 edition of the Vienna Dioscurides was published in German, not Latin:

“Im Plane unserer Publikation wäre es gelegen gewesen, diese Besprechung in lateinischer Sprache zu bieten. Nach den Entwürfen von einigen Teilen wurde ich jedoch inne, dass die lateinische Abhandlung, in welcher die heutezutage üblichen termini technici durch Umschreibungen zu ersetzen gewesen wären, nicht nur ungebürlich breit, sondern für den Leser vielfach unklar werden müsste. So fasste ich denn, bestärkt durch meinen Kollegen v. Premerstein, dem ich auch sonst manche Anregung in dieser Arbeit verdanke, den Entschluss, sie womöglich in deutscher Sprache abzufassen. Der Vorschlag fand sowol seitens der k. u. k. Direktion der k.k. Hofbibliothek, als auch seitens der Leitung und des Verlages volle Zustimmung. So erscheint denn diese Studie ausnahmsweise in deutscher Sprache.”
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