Society for the Study of the Past
@socstudyofthepast.bsky.social
The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
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Let’s take a trip back to last week when we held our first ever annual meeting on the topic ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’. Thanks to all those who joined us, and those who were not able to will be able to catch up on the recordings soon! 🎥
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🎥 Dr Shadia Abdrabo from ICOM Sudan shares her thoughts on the #ICOMDubai General Conference.
#museums #sudan #icom #icomuk #conference #icomsudan
👀See the full video and coverage of ICOM's General conference on our website: buff.ly/3DBMoxX
#museums #sudan #icom #icomuk #conference #icomsudan
👀See the full video and coverage of ICOM's General conference on our website: buff.ly/3DBMoxX
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎥 Dr Shadia Abdrabo from ICOM Sudan shares her thoughts on the #ICOMDubai General Conference.
#museums #sudan #icom #icomuk #conference #icomsudan
👀See the full video and coverage of ICOM's General conference on our website: buff.ly/3DBMoxX
#museums #sudan #icom #icomuk #conference #icomsudan
👀See the full video and coverage of ICOM's General conference on our website: buff.ly/3DBMoxX
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It's gift guide time!!!
The last Pasts Imperfect of 2025 is out! The incomparable @toriflee.bsky.social has our annual ancient world gift guide. Then, saving Sudan's cultural heritage, cats in Ancient China, Indigenous canoe-making, ancient disability, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more!
Pasts Imperfect (12.4.25)
This week, the one and only Tori Lee returns with her annual ancient world gift guide. Then, racing to preserve Sudan's cultural heritage, a new study on domestic cats assesses the leopard cats of anc...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's gift guide time!!!
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For ABSOLUTELY NO REASON at all, did you know that the Critical Ancient World Studies volume has three chapters on critical philology which are all OPEN ACCESS?
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
For ABSOLUTELY NO REASON at all, did you know that the Critical Ancient World Studies volume has three chapters on critical philology which are all OPEN ACCESS?
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Join us and help spread the word! This is coming up in a few days and we are still very low on signups. Though many of may be familiar with the term "pinkwashing," Khalil's work shows us how queer people in Palestine are targeted by the occupation in many more, sinister ways. Come learn with us!
Dec. 6: scholar and organizer Khalil will teach "On Blackmail and Other Settler Colonial Technologies in Occupied Palestine," on technologies of control, discipline, and surveillance within occupied Palestine and their implications for other colonial contexts. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/on-...
On Blackmail and Other Settler Colonial Technologies — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer here (sugg. donation $40) Step 2: Register for “On Blackmail and Other Settler Colonial Technologies in Occupied Palestine” here In this workshop, scholar and o...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Join us and help spread the word! This is coming up in a few days and we are still very low on signups. Though many of may be familiar with the term "pinkwashing," Khalil's work shows us how queer people in Palestine are targeted by the occupation in many more, sinister ways. Come learn with us!
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some fantastic antiquity/premodern stuff on here, starting with two (2) offerings from @chancebonar.bsky.social!
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
some fantastic antiquity/premodern stuff on here, starting with two (2) offerings from @chancebonar.bsky.social!
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stunning new #OpenAccess article by Mauro Puddu and Peter van Dommelen on "Subaltern Identities in Punic and Roman Sardinia" - a sensitive and expansive decolonial approach to rural landscape www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Making Absence Present: Subaltern Identities in Punic and Roman Period Sardinia | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Making Absence Present: Subaltern Identities in Punic and Roman Period Sardinia
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December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
stunning new #OpenAccess article by Mauro Puddu and Peter van Dommelen on "Subaltern Identities in Punic and Roman Sardinia" - a sensitive and expansive decolonial approach to rural landscape www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
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The American Anthropological Association, Middle Eastern Studies Association, & Society for the Study of the Past, showed their unwavering support for & solidarity w Palestinian people. We recommend archaeos nurture & promote these spaces, committed to equality, equity & justice
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The American Anthropological Association, Middle Eastern Studies Association, & Society for the Study of the Past, showed their unwavering support for & solidarity w Palestinian people. We recommend archaeos nurture & promote these spaces, committed to equality, equity & justice
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"Philology served a carceral purpose, helping the state to map, classify, and control populations."
Vipin Krishna on policing language in colonial India.
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Image: A depiction of thuggee strangling a traveller, unknown artist, 1830s. British Library via Wikimedia Commons.
Vipin Krishna on policing language in colonial India.
www.historyworkshop....
Image: A depiction of thuggee strangling a traveller, unknown artist, 1830s. British Library via Wikimedia Commons.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Philology served a carceral purpose, helping the state to map, classify, and control populations."
Vipin Krishna on policing language in colonial India.
www.historyworkshop....
Image: A depiction of thuggee strangling a traveller, unknown artist, 1830s. British Library via Wikimedia Commons.
Vipin Krishna on policing language in colonial India.
www.historyworkshop....
Image: A depiction of thuggee strangling a traveller, unknown artist, 1830s. British Library via Wikimedia Commons.
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In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
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World AIDS Day. We remember.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
World AIDS Day. We remember.
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"lessons from early medieval Europe echo into our own time - to see what happens when rich people act w/ impunity, when they hoard wealth for themselves & let others suffer, when they try to overthrow governments w/o consequences, when men use their power & position to [violate] vulnerable women."
new newsletter post from. me & @lollardfish.bsky.social as we reflect back on our recent book OATHBREAKERS after 1 year (with a paperback being release next week!)
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Revisiting "Oathbreakers" 1 Year Later
Looking back and announcing a new event!
buttondown.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"lessons from early medieval Europe echo into our own time - to see what happens when rich people act w/ impunity, when they hoard wealth for themselves & let others suffer, when they try to overthrow governments w/o consequences, when men use their power & position to [violate] vulnerable women."
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Some of you may be aware, but one of our beloved W4G comrades has been doxxed, fed jacketed, and harassed for months. This has had severe personal consequences. In addition, sign-ups for workshops and donations for Palestinians have decreased dramatically during this time. (1/6)
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of you may be aware, but one of our beloved W4G comrades has been doxxed, fed jacketed, and harassed for months. This has had severe personal consequences. In addition, sign-ups for workshops and donations for Palestinians have decreased dramatically during this time. (1/6)
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If you’ve just come back from a long weekend celebrating genocide, consider paying reparations to people surviving an ongoing genocide you fund.
It’s not about guilt. Hope as an action for six families & a camp—click “weekly” or “monthly”:
It’s not about guilt. Hope as an action for six families & a camp—click “weekly” or “monthly”:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you’ve just come back from a long weekend celebrating genocide, consider paying reparations to people surviving an ongoing genocide you fund.
It’s not about guilt. Hope as an action for six families & a camp—click “weekly” or “monthly”:
It’s not about guilt. Hope as an action for six families & a camp—click “weekly” or “monthly”:
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@philharland.bsky.social has a book coming out in Spring -already available for pre-order: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean
A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean. With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social ...
press.uchicago.edu
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@philharland.bsky.social has a book coming out in Spring -already available for pre-order: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
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Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
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📢 Enslaved Healthscapes: Bondage, Medicine, and Wellness in the Ancient Mediterranean Realm 📅 December 18, 2025 | 📍 Venice & online (Hybrid) - Want the link? Take a look at the flyer! Remember to check the time difference if you're joining in from Toronto or other places!
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 Enslaved Healthscapes: Bondage, Medicine, and Wellness in the Ancient Mediterranean Realm 📅 December 18, 2025 | 📍 Venice & online (Hybrid) - Want the link? Take a look at the flyer! Remember to check the time difference if you're joining in from Toronto or other places!
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Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
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A wonderful essay by McNeil Taylor on Hellenism, Zionism, and the legacies of c19 Western European colonialism. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A wonderful essay by McNeil Taylor on Hellenism, Zionism, and the legacies of c19 Western European colonialism. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
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Hello London, next Monday 1 Dec I'll be speaking at Senate House about how the histories of slavery and books in the ancient Mediterranean intersect in Rome. Book historians, slavery scholars, classicists, there will be something for everyone. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello London, next Monday 1 Dec I'll be speaking at Senate House about how the histories of slavery and books in the ancient Mediterranean intersect in Rome. Book historians, slavery scholars, classicists, there will be something for everyone. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
buttondown.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
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The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
barbellionprize.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
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🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...