Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Incidentally, this was the piece I was screaming about here—because I simply dialed up the most beautiful, perfect epigraph and even though there were no problematic copyright issues Routledge wouldn't abide bsky.app/profile/greg... 100
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Out today in open access: /Philology in Europe Before and After 1800: Change and Continuity/, ed. Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz. (To which I was honored to add an afterword!)taylorfrancis.comPhilology in Europe before and after 1800 | Change and Continuity | LaPhilology in Europe before and after 1800 investigates a period often regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the humanities. Since the nineteenth 11712
Reposted by Greg GivenJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comI’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard CrimsonThe Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect. 8292126
Reposted by Greg GivenUAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Three dope @uaw.org logos on the cover for a pamphlet for the union’s education conference. Circa late 1940s. From the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social . 0134
Reposted by Greg GivenMegan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026new @xroadproj.bsky.social call for proposals, y'all! grants up to $15k for "diverse knowledge makers" with "innovative projects exploring African American religious history" deadline is 1 Sept come get this money crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...crossroads.princeton.eduRequest for Proposals 197
Reposted by Greg GivenKrista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Today I begin my tenure as Chair and Associate Professor of Denison University's Religion Department. I made a little promo to help advertise the department. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4M1...youtube.comWhy Study Religion at Denison University?YouTube video by Denison Religion 2243
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 30/06/2026For those of y'all who didn't have a child in 2025, a taste of what it looks like to attempt to access the new child tax benefit. This SUCKS. 040
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Giving Bsky one more chance to show me the path here before I start bushwhacking my own way through the literature 01014
Reposted by Greg GivenJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Every academic who writes in short snatches of time, in cafes, on trains, and at the breakfast table, imagines that every other academic retreats every evening to an elegant desk in a book-lined study and spends hours deep in concentration filling page after page with original scholarly reflection. 2441267
Reposted by Greg GivenOnur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🥁 @kmkentel.bsky.social and I have a new book coming out very soon! “Istanbul Unbound” will be the inaugural volume in the new series Transregional Middle Easts from @uofupress.bsky.social 🥂 Thanks to support from @fwf-at.bsky.social it will be fully Open Access 🎊 uofupress.com/books/istanb... 0148
Reposted by Greg GivenLauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026@dennismhogan.bsky.social chef’s kiss 0277
Reposted by Greg GivenEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My review essay on recent books by Georgia Frank, Blake Leyerle, and Joseph E. Sanzo Experiencing the Past | Essays in Long Late Antiquity liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukExperiencing the Past | Essays in Long Late AntiquityThis article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 13212
Reposted by Greg GivenMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ... 212869
Reposted by Greg GivenThe CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 22/06/2026GenAut talk | Dan Batovici "Outside Looking In, Inside Looking Out: The Literary Dossier of Clement of Rome" [hybrid] Thursday, 27 June, 8.30pm CET at the AELAC Conference 2026. From the organisers, the Zoom link for this talk is: zoom.us/j/9814841977... 044
Reposted by Greg GivenPeter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 24/06/2026You can almost always find unexpected things in manuscripts. Today: an Ethiopian scribe trying his hand on a Greek note in an Arabic manuscript (Sin. ar. 506). It's not only the shape of some letters, or the use of textual dividers, but esp. the sneakily inserted word ቀሌምኮስ that gives him away. 14418
Reposted by Greg GivenAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 24/06/2026the whole thing is here and it looks spectacular! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...ancientjewreview.comDeath of the Desert Review Forum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEWThis AJR Forum, organized and guest edited by Candace Buckner, features responses from Ellen Muehlberger, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, and Ciara Mulcahy to Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death ... 021
Reposted by Greg GivenMadeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026You can now preorder the paperback of Make Your Own Job, with this gorgeous new cover!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... 3338
Reposted by Greg GivenNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/06/2026If you're an anthropologist of science/tech in the Boston area and want to teach an intro-level class at Tufts on the same this fall, well you're in luck: apply.interfolio.com/188534 027
Reposted by Greg GivenGreg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I have an academic curiosity that I could research myself but it’s way too perfect of a Bluesky query to go casting about in databases on my own. Who do I read on the use of bibliographic taxonomy in the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick? On the appeals to philology and compendium of testimonia? 11213
Reposted by Greg GivenThe CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Later today! 012
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I have an academic curiosity that I could research myself but it’s way too perfect of a Bluesky query to go casting about in databases on my own. Who do I read on the use of bibliographic taxonomy in the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick? On the appeals to philology and compendium of testimonia? 11213
Reposted by Greg GivenRare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Rare Book School invites the public to the 2026 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades, “𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀” with 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗺 at 5:30 p.m. ET on 8 July. This event is hybrid. Details at rarebookschool.org/events/2026/... 075
Reposted by Greg GivenMedieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...bl.ukRescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to lifeNew multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles. 317475
Reposted by Greg GivenRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026saw the clickbait headline "most academic research should stop" from the chron in my inbox and my first thought was "um, it already has????" 1494
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Oh man I’ve been waiting for somebody to write this 130
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026not me getting emotional over a speech about a team I've never followed in a city I've never lived in 050
Reposted by Greg GivenCourtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I am *thrilled* to share that we are hiring again! A tenure track job in early modern literature! I’ve found Wesleyan a terrific place to work—help us spread the word? wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comProfessor of EnglishThe Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a scholar-teacher of early modern literature for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2027. We are open to candidates with comparative ap... 16344
Reposted by Greg GivenAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Coming in September: a new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity by Yuliya Minets: "Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions"! Bookmark now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgLanguages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean ReligionsCambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions 03510
Reposted by Greg GivenTom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm looking for some extra work this summer so if anyone has anything - e.g. remote research (especially London archives or Cambridge area), transcription, editing, proofing, etc, or knows of anyone looking, then feel free to let me know! 01323
Reposted by Greg GivenInternational Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We're thrilled to announce our 2026-2027 cohort of Shohet Scholars! The grants support research into religious communities of the ancient Mediterranean. Congratulations to Madeleine Kraft, Christy Cobb, Kelly McClinton, Bernard Frischer, and Grace Funsten. Learn more here: shorturl.at/hzdqCshorturl.atCurrent Shohet Scholars – International Catacomb Society 073
Reposted by Greg GivenEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Our journal recently dropped its word limit from 12,500 to 10,000 per piece and it's been an experiment in seeing how people think about revision, editing, and rhetoric Namely: does an idea require a certain number of words? 2142
Reposted by Greg GivenDr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer @libbiesp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026It's true! Villanova is hiring a tenure-track position in Eastern Christianity! Please share far and wide. aarsbl.org/job/tenure-t... 12529
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 16/06/2026It’s the service role that ✅ leaves a giant hole in your CV ✅ invites resentment and hostility from your institution ✅ even in best case scenario won’t improve your material conditions as much as leaving academia would. There‘s literally no other reason to do it than belief in the mission. 050
Reposted by Greg GivenDougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026oh i get it now. its soccers answer to the world baseball classic 131069166
Reposted by Greg GivenNathan Leach @nathanleach.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My book is now available for pre-order! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-revelat... Publisher flier and discount code: 0126
Reposted by Greg GivenMaia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Looks like it’s time to bring back the #chroniclepitchbot again. “Is this decontextualized, historically inept, and badly substantiated report by tenured professors at high profile institutions stupid and violent? We asked the writers.” www.chronicle.com/article/insi...chronicle.comIs a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities. 165
Reposted by Greg GivenYitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I made this and put it on Insta and apparently it’s making the rounds, lol this city. Knicks in Five!! 36516
Reposted by Greg GivenJeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026My 2021 _Studies in Late Antiquity_ article on Porphyry, Eusebius, and shared scriptural practices at the beginning of the fourth century is now #OpenAccess! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...online.ucpress.eduTransforming TextualityPorphyry, Eusebius, and Late Ancient Tables of ContentsLate Antiquity witnessed a revolution in textuality. Numerous new technologies transformed the practices through which readers accessed written knowledge. Editors reconfigured existing works in order ... 22814
Reposted by Greg GivenAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026oh look it's another thing! this is my paper for Westar published in their house journal FORUM. again happy to share a copy (although it will also be up on my Knowledge Commons page when I get a chance!) 4122
Reposted by Greg GivenGreg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My first crack at editing a volume of any sort, and so lucky to do it with these brilliant and adventuresome colleagues. An honor to be trusted with their scholarship! What's the vol. about? To perhaps strain bsky's patience for digesting big chunks of text, an excerpt from our introductory essay: 063
Reposted by Greg GivenMina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Excellent position at the University of Lausanne. Apply if you can (highest possible salary and quality of life).career5.successfactors.euCareer Opportunities: Professorship in Christian apocryphal literature and History of Christianity in Antiquity (22801) 036