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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: Winter Semester 2026/7: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Feel invited to attend all or any of the sessions in this new online public lecture series, entitled "Prophecy, Divination, Verification, and Failure in Antiquity and Beyond", which I am organising within the framework of my FWO project "New Perspectives on the Delay of Parousia" +

Poster of a new lecture online public lecture series, organised within the framework of my research project “New Perspectives on the Delay of the Parousia”, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO; grant number: 1214026N). Lectures, scheduled across the 2026–27 academic year, will be held on Zoom and open to the public.

Prophecy, Divination, Verification, and Failure in Antiquity and Beyond

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Friday, 2 October 2026, 5pm
Matthew Dillon (University of New England), When the Enquirer Misinterprets: Veracity and Prophetic Non-fulfilment in Greek Oracular Divination

Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 6pm
Hindy Najman (Oxford), Prophetic Ends: Vitality and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism

Friday, 6 November 2026, 4pm
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy (Calgary), Wake Up Dead Man: Talking Corpses and Other Misdirections in Roman Divination

Friday, 15 January 2027, 5pm
Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw), To Catch a Thief: On Late Antique Thieves, Policemen, Neighbours, and Unexpected Benefits of Divination

Friday, 5 February 2027, 5pm
Tucker Ferda (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), Process Eschatologies, Interim Periods, the Question of Delay in Christian Origins

Friday, 19 February 2027, 9am (note the hour)
Michael Hanaghan (ACU), Imperial Prophecy in Ammianus’ Res

Friday, 5 March 2027, 5pm
James Crossley (Cambridge), Apocalypticism and the Development of Radical Traditions

Wednesday, 14 April 2027, 5pm
Hauke Rietsch (Brunel), Science, Risk and Prophecy

Friday, 23 April 2027, 5pm
Todd Lawson (Toronto), Protology, Eschatology, and the Seal of the Prophets in the Quran

Wednesday, 5 May 2027, 5pm
David Cook (Rice University), When/Where in the Week Is It? Specific Predictions and Their Failure During the First Islamic Centuries

Friday, 28 May 2027, 3pm
Roland Boer (Chinese International Experts Bureau), The Interim Becomes the Norm: How Socialism was Transformed from a Brief Transition to a Long Historical Phase

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No compulsory redundancies is good news, but it means that management was successful in scaring enough people to leave. And that has serious implications, outlined in this thread. Solidarity

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Job offer. 3-years postdoctoral position on the on the project "Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity" led by Marta Szada at Nicolaus Copernicu University in Toruń. More here: bitly.is/4cmwGyW

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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CFP: Community and Power in the Late Roman East (270-565 CE), sessions at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2027. Submissions due September 4, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/communi...

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Community and Power in the Late Roman East (270-565 CE) | Mary Jaharis Center

Community and Power in the Late Roman East (270-565 CE), sessions at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2027

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Work from home perks, a Reginald!

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here’s another new clip from our episode of You’re Dead To Me about Roman Emperor Constantine the Great Featuring ace comedian Ivo Graham and ancient historian Prof Lucy Grig You can watch on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

CfP for Leeds IMC 2027 for a panel organised by myself and Alexandra Kujanpaa (ANU)!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Reunited with my fave sweets on the way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See all you late antiquists and medievalists soon! ✨

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our magnificent PhD students made this film about the research supervision they receive from colleagues in Classics, Ancient History, Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. #DefendExeterUni www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXTm...

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CAHRT Is Its People

YouTube video by Leah Lawford

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!

Exeter Uni’s finances are strong. We’ve large cash reserves (£200m in 24/25). Never had a budget deficit. This ‘crisis’ is manufactured.
Executive pay at Exeter is out of control. If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!
No meaningful consultation, but a confused mess: faulty and insufficient data, no real discussion, and an impossible, anxiety-inducing and unreasonable timetable to push this through over the summer.
An all-staff meeting of 600 staff resoundingly voted no confidence in Vice Chancellor Lisa Roberts (whose pay and benefits are pushing £400k). We believe this is the biggest single vote by any uni staff in the history of UK HE.
Redundancies are a management choice, not a financial necessity. They even have alternative costed plans with no cuts, but think it’s easier to go for job losses.
Exeter is a fantastic uni, with world-class research, creative and inspiring teaching, and a caring, thoughtful and imaginative community of staff and students. Let’s keep it that way.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This weekend I had the chance to tick something of my nerdy bucket list! We went to Sofia and saw the sites of ancient Serdica, including the church where the Western bishops probably met for the Council of Serdica in 343 ✨

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:)

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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/03/2026

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk. And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."

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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN) @acrsn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Seven Hills of Brisbane - #classicalreception - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_H... Walks: roseobrienwriter.blog/seven-hills-...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:)

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

See you all at IMC next year! Come along to the Civic and Personal Competition in the Roman East panels organised by myself and Yannis Brichant!

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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN) @acrsn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Research funding including #classicalreception: Institute of Classics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków through The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange - 2–4 year research stays in Poland for international scholars/ research group - see listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 November: David Addison (University of Liverpool), "Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea". In person and online, as always.

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

CfP for a proposed strand ‘Civic and Personal Competition in the Late Roman East’ at next year’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social!

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Take a look at the programme of our workshop on the subject of Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Anitquity organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly, which will take place at the @dependencybonn.de next month.

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

With @imc-leeds.bsky.social fast approaching, here’s a look at the ‚Urban Dynamics’ in the Late Roman East panels!

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Ian Bonze @ianbonze.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

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Caillan Davenport @drcdavenport.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Applications now open for 2 PhD scholarships at ANU as part of my ARC Future Fellowship Project, 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. Open to both Aus & international candidates. Informal inquiries to brainstorm topics very welcome! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

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Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World PhD Scholarship | The Australian National University

Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World PhD Scholarship, Applications are invited for two PhD scholarships in monarchy and government in the Ancient Mediterranean world (c. ...

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Tobi providing excellent help in writing this article! He is apparently very interested in Constantinian dynasticism too!

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Down under, Macquarie University is proposing to crease all ancient language teaching and to cancel the archaeology and ancient history degrees in favour of a "BA in History". A petition against the cuts below. betteruniversities.work/stop-mq-cuts?

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Be part of National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) member' enterprise bargaining campaign and help create better workplaces and better universities.

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What a joy to present some of my PhD work for the Ewa Wipszycka Late Antique Seminar today 🥰 Truly lucky to be in such a wonderful department!

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Where to no-one's surprise I'll be talking about Constantius and a bunch of cranky bishops!

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Seen on Facebook this morning. Never change, Brisbane, never change!

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Please stay safe Brisbane and QLD friends!

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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

The cover of the volume "Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood:
Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity" (ed. Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio, Brepols, 2025), including a detail from the painting "Project of an Icon" by Jerzy Nowosielski

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

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Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s been a pretty wild start to my week, absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MSC fellowship at Warsaw for the next couple of years to keep working on late antique Antioch 😊

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

A mosaic of an owl, with part of the black and white corner of the mosaic border above him. The owl is a mess. He honestly looks like he hasn't slept for days.

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Nic Baker-Brian @bluntnorthener.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In a gloomy week, a ray of light. A new edition of Cardiff University Press’ Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture has just dropped. Read it here for free jlarc.cardiffuniversitypress.org

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Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture

The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture is a full text open access online journal, edited by members and associates of the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture and published by Cardi...

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

photo of Benjamin Disraeli with his quote "Therea re three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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