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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

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Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Jul 29

Journal of Roman Studies review:

"[This] is an admirably accessible volume... Many of these chapters will be top recommendations on my undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Overall, the volume is an impressive piece of work that makes a valuable and fresh contribution to the field."

JEROEN W. P. WIJNENDAELE (Ed.), Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 504, illus. isbn 9781399518024 £155.00 (hbk); 9781399518031, £29.99 (pbk). |...

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 25m

Sinds vorige week doceer ik een nieuwe cursus op basis van 'De wereld van Clovis' @ertsberg.bsky.social voor Davidsfonds Academie te Tielt. Een schot in de roos. Gemiddelde inschrijvingen voor een cursus schommelen rond de 30-40, maar Clovis krijgt alvast een zeer dankbaar publiek van 61 deelnemers.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3h

Silver linings: for once it's not the Usual Suspects mailing list.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 6h

Academia and particularly the humanities is facing a global crisis. We need to be supporting each other. What we do not need to be doing is tarring kind, brilliant people with political views and personality traits they don’t have just because you disagree with the results of their research.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 7h

HEAR, HEAR!

James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 7h

Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 9h

Ireland: "Mr. Stark, I Don't Feel So Good".

Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 9h

Map Of 3,554 Shipwrecks Around Ireland Going Back To 1530

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 18h

Portland, Chicago, LA, DC, soon NYC perhaps— these "blue" cities are not DOING anything beforehand apart from (mostly) disapproving of the Trump regime and having lots of immigrants. The crime narrative is a myth, the sending in of ICE and army (!) intended to provoke dissent. This may backfire

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Surely your buddy Ned will know!

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Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social · 1d

Dear NAPS friends, I just received awful news that Dennis Trout has passed away 😢

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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 1d

#Employment The Department of History at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present. mesana.org/resources-an...

Middle East Studies Association

The Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in Sunlit Uplands.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 1d

Source: the 'White Collar' Portrait series - Marie Cecile Thijs.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 4d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Alain Gerlache @agerlache.bsky.social · 1d

Sagesse et dignité

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Today in turbo-charged introductions to Byzantium, I tried covering Eastern Roman History c. 400-600 CE. In 20 minutes. And I nearly got there... Until I tried explaining Christology. BAM! 10 MORE MINUTES THROUGH THE WINDOW!

If have to summarize the class it would be:
"Laws, Walls, and Chalcedon".

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Final words by Jane Goodall.
Powerful stuff.

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Today I'll be giving a brief introduction to fifth and sixth century Eastern Roman history, for an MA module on Medieval Greek Literature. Which is as good an excuse as any to sneak this into the PP:

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Expo @lectrr.bsky.social is nog tot en met volgend week te bewonderen in Cafe Edward te Gent.

Wie nog golden oldies in huis heeft mag ze zelfs meebrengen, want ze worden ter plekke gesign-... euh -personaliseerd!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 3d

Catch of the month.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

The Far Edges of the Known World is now available in North America! If you like ancient history, global history, reading about different cultures, or just fancy an escape - give it a look.

The Far Edges of the Known World

A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders., The Far Edges of the Known World, Life Beyond the Borders of Ancien...

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 4d

Read this in its entirety.
Because it hits right in the feels.

"You need to look after you first and foremost and only work hard to do things for yourself. You do belong and history needs to be told by you, these are our stories to tell and you are qualified to tell them with everything you bring"

Letter to a Young Archaeologist, February 2022

Zeynep Kussan

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 4d

Dag iedereen, op 22 oktober komt m'n exorcismeboek uit maar op 21 oktober is er in Leuven al een avant-première (haha) waarop iedereen welkom is: duivels, dans, extase, hapjes!

Inschrijven: www.eventbrite.be/e/boeklancer...

Boeklancering UITDRIJVEN - geschiedenis van het exorcisme - Kristof Smeyers

Uitgeverij Otheo Books, KADOC Leuven, vzw Patria en Boekarest nodigen u uit op de boeklancering van 'Uitdrijven' van Kristof Smeyers.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Bert De Vroey @bertdevroey.bsky.social · 5d

Ooit waren de Taliban zowat de belangrijkste vijand van het westen, als de antipode van onze westerse waarden en normen. Nu ondermijnen we die waarden en normen zelf steeds meer, en rekenen we daarbij op de hulp van de Taliban.
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Minister van Asiel en Migratie Van Bossuyt wil praten met taliban om meer Afghanen terug te kunnen sturen | VRT NWS: nieuws

Minister van Asiel en Migratie Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA) wil met het Afghaanse taliban-regime praten om de terugkeer van "illegale en criminele Afghanen" mogelijk te maken. Ze noemt dat een "pragmat...

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 5d

Just published in Revue du Nord 451: an interdisciplinary article setting out the arguments for seeing one of these coins as the earliest historical evidence for Bruges (BVRGES) and the other as a coin of Boulogne (BONONIA), both key elements in Charlemagne's North Sea defences.

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