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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. .. more

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Nov 8
A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...
Annette Yoshiko Reed '91: Rediscovered Stories - Phillips Exeter Academy
Annette Yoshiko Reed ’91 examines cultural and religious forgetting.
exeter.edu

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 17h
Knowledge unified under the outstretched arms of Philosophy

BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 20h
The latter had been my instinct…?

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 22h
‘the grants to FEHE, the University of Texas and the University of North Carolina, “were noncompetitive, meaning the recipients were selected to apply.”’
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
New Humanities Grants Take A Sharp Right Turn Under Trump
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $75.1 million in grants, with much of the money going to conservative projects and Trump administration priorities.
www.forbes.com

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 23h
Snoweschaton?

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 23h
"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)
Un Chien Andalou means 'an Andalusian dog,' though the much-studied 1929 short film of that title contains no dogs at all, from Andalusia or anywhere else. In fact, it alludes to a Spanish expression ...
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 1d
Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜

search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
Image of a beige-colored vellum page with circular dials attached by thread in the center. Brownish and red ink and faces of animals and a little bird also present

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
No need for apologies! :)

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
As already linked in this piece fwiw…

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, already linked here!

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 2d
Weird resonances with Herder's pointedly rhetorical "Archive of Paradise," that I get into a bit in my intro here, is a theme for our Ancient Word series, and Olender discusses in his Languages of Paradise.
OIS 2. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures | Institute for the Study of Ancient CulturesOIS 2. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Seth L. Sanders, ed., with contributions by Seth L. Sanders, John Kelly, Gonzalo Rubio, Jacco Dieleman, Jerrold Cooper, Christopher Woods, Annick Payne, William Schniedewind, Michael Silverstein-, Pio...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
Has anyone written a scholarly study of the popular noncanonical anthology *Forgotten Books of Eden*? It features a bit in my Forgetting book, but I haven’t seen anything else so wrote up some of what I know—albeit mostly in the hopes that others will tell me more…? open.substack.com/pub/humanhis...
A forgotten book about forgotten books
Rethinking the modern reception of "pseudepigrapha" through The Forgotten Books of Eden (1927), ed. Rutherford Hayes Platt, with preface by William Norman Guthrie
open.substack.com

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 3d
We are now a mere 11 weeks from publication day for THY WILL BE DONE, my book about how Americans have remembered, forgotten, and manipulated George Washington’s history with slavery. It comes out on April 7. Help me spread the word!

Pre-order on Bookshop
Pre-order on Amazon
Cover of THY WILL BE DONE, featuring artwork by Titus Kaphar.

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 4d
🥁🥁🥁Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!

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Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social · 5d
It's amazing what gets printed in collected texts - today the supposed "letter 149" of Jerome - most likely in fact an Irish computistical text of the 7th century.

www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...
Let’s talk about letter 149 of Jerome, de solemnitate paschae – or rather, about CPL 2278, Pseudo-Jerome on Easter
Among the letters of Saint Jerome in the Patrologia Latina (= PL) edition, vol. 22, columns 1220-1224, there is a curious text with the title “de solemnitatibus paschae”, “On the Easter ceremonies”.  ...
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Vanessa de Senarclens @senarclens.bsky.social · 5d
Looted libraries : Politics, Memory, and German- Polish Entanglements
@European Review of Books: europeanreviewofbooks.com/looted-libra...
Looted libraries - The European Review of Books
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
europeanreviewofbooks.com

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 5d
Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me!

The audio version:
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography
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Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...
contingentmagazine.org

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 7d
I’m revising my graduate seminar on medieval manuscripts and was wracking my brain trying to think of an enticing short reading to intro my students to a case study in codicology before remembering that I co-edited a journal issue devoted to the topic. Enjoy!

journal.thewalters.org/volume/76/
A screenshot of the introduction to our open access journal issue of the journal of the Walter’s art museum. The title is seeing codicologically: new explorations in the technology of the book. On the page is an opening from a die cut manuscript the parchment pages of which look like lace.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 7d
The scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text.

Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 7d
HYBRID LECTURE!

"The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky

February 12 @ 5:15pm EST

More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN
The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow's Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 7d
this is a rollicking great read

it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
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Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social · 9d
The audio version is now out for everyone. On your morning commute this morning, join us as we dive headfirst into 2020 cancel culture discourse in this retrospective on the Harper's Letter with @parkermolloy.com. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
They Screamed “Cancel Culture” — Then Went Silent While Trump Gutted Free Speech (ft. Parker Molloy)
Podcast Episode · Cancel Me, Daddy · 01/15/2026 · 54m
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9d
Ngl love this meme

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Liam Dieckhoner on Instagram: "How the early church fathers be posing part 2 #christian #jesus #faith #catholic #god #orthodox #protestant #holyspirit #history #churchfathers"
48K likes, 120 comments - liamdieckhoner on October 22, 2025: "How the early church fathers be posing part 2 #christian #jesus #faith #catholic #god #orthodox #protestant #holyspirit #history #churchf...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9d
My earlier 🧵 is based on a quick read & focuses on “Religious Studies” but hoping some journalist might also look further into this policy for possible aim/effect to defund yeshivot offering BAs…? (Ironically in this case given the efforts to defund universities in the name of *protecting* Jews)
annetteyreed.bsky.social Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d
Looking at the linked data, however, reveals another dynamic at play; of these 12 programs listed to illustrate the purportedly negative financial value of a degree in “Religion/Religious Studies,” all but one are yeshivot +
List of BA degree-granting institutions categorized as “Religion/Religious Studies”—albeit all Jewish seminaries List of BA degree-granting institutions categorized as “Religion/Religious Studies”—albeit all but one Jewish seminaries

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9d
Just saw a follow-up posted @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social FB www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
An Expansive Accountability Test Based on Grads’ Salaries Moves Forward
This week, an Education Department committee reached consensus on a proposed blueprint for the policy, which could end some programs’ access to federal loans.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10d
Bandcamp has banned AI music.

The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."

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Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 10d
Our forum on Celsus' Contra Celsum continues with an article from Robin Darling Young, "Contra Celsum from Caesarea to Constantinople: The Travels of a Byzantine Book"
Contra Celsum from Caesarea to Constantinople: The Travels of a Byzantine Book — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Celsus’ views about empire and cult, whether they were pagan or Christian, were far from dead in the fourth century; they appear in Christian sermons and treatises – not just in their pagan echoes in…
www.ancientjewreview.com

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d
That said, the example of this list—incl seeming lack of any consciousness abt why anyone would support yeshiva education besides # of individual salary—also speaks to our field as important for understanding human society more broadly & cautions against accepting $ as only rubric for our value too

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d
I personally believe that skills of honed critical thought, a sense of historical perspective beyond instant reactions, & interdisciplinary flexibility are features of RelSt that could be argued as valuable for precisely our unpredictable job market (not to mention life in our unpredictable times)+