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James Harland
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Asst. Prof. @dependencybonn.de (non-T-T, #ichbinhanna), Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology. Exploring what happens when empires die. Book available at http://t.ly/LfaV http://jmharland.hcommons.org/publications
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 10d
Although I haven't been told about it and have had to find out for myself via their website, at least one nice thing to come out of AUP's move to Taylor & Francis is that my book has now been made a paperback for the rather more affordable price of €40: www.routledge.com/Ethnic-Ident...
Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: A Modern Framework and its Problems
For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, ...
www.routledge.com
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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 2d
Students today are being robbed of the joy of writing unhinged college essays and finding it 10 years later and thinking it actually slaps
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you. You people couldn't hang with real slackers. finn wokeupchic • 4d It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 2h
Arrgh *Geschichte
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3h
It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 5h
Oh, this looks really useful! And that is very much a good question to ask. In German one could name Meier and Patzold's Gene und Gechichte (but that's not ideal for typically monolingual British students and also won't make everyone happy...)
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6h
(And yes I appreciate this is probably a predictable answer on my part. In terms of case studies, I will go and have a think...!)
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6h
Granted this is somewhat older but I still find it so useful for students as a statement on issues of disciplinary compatibility and how one works with them. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Archaeology and Historiography | 44 | Companion to Historiography | Gu
Archaeology and Historiography - 1
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6h
Can only second this!
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 18h
Even if we discounted that the OP’s claims that no one had perception of that peoplehood are in fact wrong: buddy, these arguments are logically incompatible with one another.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 19h
It’s fascinating that the commenter needing this pointed out is simultaneously trying to suggest some forms of perceived peoplehood are *innately* more or less real than others while at the same time using perception at a given moment as the sole qualifier for a peoplehood’s reality.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
It’s only hard to imagine transnational/interlinguistic/diasporic networks of peoplehood if you’re hopelessly trapped inside Nation State Brain.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
It’s almost as if there might be important warnings and lessons in the history of antisemitism for those rightly concerned about Islamophobia, or something.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
So ironically (if I’m not caricaturing) even if some few *were* as the OP described it would in fact be a consequence of a far more recent forced dismantling of that longstanding shared sense of commonality.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
(Necessary disclaimer that I’m not a modernist of course so if what I’ve described here is a caricature I’ll gladly be corrected…)
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
(In European nations that themselves were only just beginning to come into being in specific clear and coherent national forms, which was actually what drove a lot of that concern)
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
if memory serves an important sticking point (in internal and external debate) about the ‘liberation’/assimilation of Jews in the 19th century in Europe was whether they ought to *stop* seeing themselves as having more in common with their pesky correligionists than their “national compatriots”.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 21h
Didn’t Deutsche Bank effectively issue a statement about how fucked we all are?
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 1d
I'm sorry, but looking at the 4 examples of "emerging" classroom "innovations" sent to me in this email, I'm like nope, nope, nope, nope. As for their being "pioneers" who are enhancing student learning... I lean more toward their being "suckers" who are ultimately undermining learning.
What does effective AI integration in college courses actually look like? The Chronicle conducted a nationwide survey of more than 850 faculty members and academic leaders and conducted in-depth interviews to find out. The result is a new report: “The Emerging Multimedia Classroom: How AI Is Changing Course Design and Delivery.” Learn how innovative faculty are reimagining instruction with AI, and get practical insights for your own classroom: An anthropology professor uses AI to generate historical visualizations, turning them into teachable moments about digital literacy. A language instructor created a virtual conversation partner that gives students 24/7 practice opportunities. A writing professor employs AI to help students craft audience personas and refine their work using iterative prompting. A social sciences professor uses AI to generate songs that make complex concepts memorable. These pioneers aren't just experimenting — they're thoughtfully integrating AI to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 1d
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preisler-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d
Guilty as charged on failing to do this…
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t imagine she was always like this.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d
(and I do feel some guilt about it. I’m not good at being restrained when outraged about these things…!)
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d
…and yet it still stings!
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that saying rude things will get me blocked even if I’m doing so in outraged response to already expressed rudeness.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 2d
OH MY GOD
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d
lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...
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