Dr Renske Janssen🟥
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Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics and Ancient History | Editor-in-chief of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | Leiden (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch and English
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renskejanssen.bsky.social
Wat is de situatie die in dit stuk beschreven wordt schrijnend, zeg. De formulering 'waar redelijk en mogelijk' in de toezegging van (aan)gepast onderwijs lijkt eerder voor meer dan minder willekeur te zorgen, en ik vind het zeer dubieus dat sommige collega's blijkbaar niet willen meedenken.
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Dichte deuren, bijeenkomsten op onbereikbare plekken en docenten die zich weigeren aan te passen: studenten met een beperking stuiten nog op de nodige blokkades, ondervindt Avalon Leiman. ‘Het is een heel naar gevoel dat ik permanent ben buitengesloten.’

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Overal drempels voor rolstoelgebruikers: ‘Ik voel me niet welkom’
Dichte deuren, bijeenkomsten op onbereikbare plekken en docenten die zich weigeren aan te passen: studenten met een beperking stuiten nog op de nodige blokkades, ondervindt Avalon Leiman. ‘Het is een ...
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renskejanssen.bsky.social
I'd be happy to! It might take me a few days to write it out, but once I've done that I'll send it to you. Would a DM be ok?
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angusmain.bsky.social
Oh hoho no. No no no no no.
Screenshot from article "A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by Al analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way.
The Badminton version is an astonishing painting. It takes your breath away when you see it." 

The part about ai being objective is highlighted
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sententiaepauli.bsky.social
#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
Thanks so much! They're both more or less the same - the one on the left is the PhD thesis as I defended is, the one on the right is the published version, with Oxford University Press.
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renskejanssen.bsky.social
Today marks the fifth anniversary of my PhD defense. My baby is all grown up! A lot has happened in the meantime, but working on this project and getting to defend it in front of family, friends, and some very eminent colleagues is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever done.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
Today marks the fifth anniversary of my PhD defense. My baby is all grown up! A lot has happened in the meantime, but working on this project and getting to defend it in front of family, friends, and some very eminent colleagues is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever done.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
The question is not if tomorrow!you is a nice person (although I'm sure she is). The point is that *you* are, and helping her is the kind thing to do.
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saraghaleb.bsky.social
We’ve been in a recession my whole adult life, and it’s like… At what point does that term stop applying?
yeeeerika.bsky.social
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
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saraghaleb.bsky.social
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
yeeeerika.bsky.social
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
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derk.cda.nl
Schriftelijke vragen ingediend over de aangenomen motie om ‘antifa’ te bestempelen als een terroristische organisatie.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
As such, the motion is senseless, and opens itself up to dangerously broad interpretations of not only what 'terrorism' means, but also of what Antifa membership would entail. It allows any expression that the authorities don't like to be construed as being linked to Antifa - and therefore terrorism
renskejanssen.bsky.social
Not only does opposing fascism, as I understand it, have the exact opposite goal, but Antifa is not even an organisation that one can be a member of. It is a blanket term for a collection of unaffiliated groups that in one way or another oppose fascism.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
Motions like this, in my view, do something similar to the word 'terrorism'. As I understand it, the term is used to designate violence or threats thereof to pressure populations and/or governments, or destabilise society, out of political, religious and/or ideological motives.
renskejanssen.bsky.social
The law on treason, thus Tacitus, at first covered only concrete actions that posed a severe threat to the safety of Rome as a whole. Gradually, however, the term came to refer to anything that might threaten (or even just offend) the emperor and his family - not just in deed, but also through words
renskejanssen.bsky.social
Not to be all 'ancient history is relevant!!!' about this, but the Dutch parliament adopting a motion designating Antifa as a terrorist organisation strongly reminds me of this passage from Tacitus (Ann. 1.72), describing how Augustus and Tiberius stretched the law on treason to its breaking point.
Yet even so he [that is: Tiberius] failed to inspire belief in himself as a citizen among citizens, since he had resurrected the law against treason (lex maiestatis) which previously bore the same name but applied to a more restricted range of offences; betrayal of the army, inciting sedition among the masses, in short any official misdeed threatening the majesty of the Roman people: actions were denounced, words were immune.

Augustus was the first to recognize that the statute seemed to cover libel, prompted to do so by the impudence of Cassius Severus, the orator, who had defamed illustrious men and women in his scandalous writings. Then Tiberius, asked by the praetor Pompeius Macer whether a similar judgement could be returned under that same statute, replied ‘that the law must take its course’. He too had been exasperated by certain notorious verses of unknown authorship satirizing his cruelty, his arrogance, and his disagreements with his mother, Livia.
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secret-terror.bsky.social
Just deleted my Academia.edu account, and I advise everyone do the same.

It's not a repository. It's a grift.

(If you want my stuff, it's here: archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/... )
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historicivertellen.bsky.social
Het is bijna weekend! Op vrijdag staat er altijd ‘oude koffie’ op mijn agenda. Nieuwe koffie, maar met het Oude Geschiedenis team. Verder is het weer teksten redigeren vandaag, dus daarom nog wat leuke amulet verhalen om mee te nemen richting het weekend. Thema:🍷/1 (Object RMO)
Alt tekst: Liggend een licht blauw glazen vaasje in de vorm van een druiventros. Het bovenste stokje van de tros is de opening van het flesje met aan beide kanten een oor. Gevonden in Romeinse Tijd Nederland.