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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Apr 14

Mein neuer Text für @volksverpetzer.de - warum wir es in den USA mit Faschismus zu tun haben, was Forschende mit Schwerpunkt Faschismus dazu sagen, welche Kriterien es gibt und teilweiser Realitätsverweigerung in großen deutschen Medien. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/trum...

Trumps Regime nicht "Faschismus" nennen ist Realitätsverweigerung

Unter Experten ist die Debatte, ob Trumps Bewegung "Faschismus" ist, inzwischen vorbei. Unsere Medien sollten die Dinge beim Namen nennen. Die Historikerin Annika Brockschmidt listet etliche Kennzeich...

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Mar 3

And it's out! Congratulations to the editors and participants.
It was my first paper after my career break.

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Dec 17

Weihnachtspause steht bevor: Zeit zum #Einkuscheln! 🙃 Vorher sollten wir uns aber genauer ansehen, warum Narrativ vom unbefristeten Mittelbau, der nicht Prof werden will & sich einkuschelt, so problematisch ist. & warum es dazu beiträgt, System zulasten von #IchBinHanna zu stützen! #ArbeitInDerWiss

Gemütlich einkuscheln?! Ein #IchBinHanna-Gruß vor den Feiertagen

Der Hashtag #Einkuscheln ist längst etabliert. Aber was genau macht die Formulierung vom gemütlich eingekuschelten Mittelbau so problematisch - und inwiefern fügt sie der deutschen Wissenschaft Schade...

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Dec 11

Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Dec 11

We are delighted to launch Essays in Long Late Antiquity: a new #OpenAccess journal in the field of first millennium studies encouraging interdisciplinary and superregional approaches, edited by @calthalas.bsky.social & Jakob Riemenschneider. Find out more: bit.ly/ELLA-blog @unierfurt.bsky.social

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · Nov 6

george orwell up in heaven like "wait did anyone actually read my fuckin books"

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · Oct 24

Have been eagerly waiting for this - excited to get my hands on a copy! Great work as always, Sabrina!

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Oct 23

Thank you Sébastien Morlet for putting together this wonderful volume!
@devoretext.bsky.social Here it is!
My modest contribution is entitled "Les enjeux idéologiques de la réception des extraits philoniens sur la cause seconde dans la Préparation évangélique "
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Brepols - Eusèbe de Césarée et la philosophie

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Sep 23

📢 Expect to see a special issue on early Christian authorship in the first 2025 volume of "Early Christianity," edited mea manu!
With contributions of the viri mulieresque illustres, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @danbatovici.bsky.social, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, @gpfewster.bsky.social, and myself

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · Jul 30

Leave it in, I say!

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Jul 26

Out in the fall in the Journal of Early Christian Studies!

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Alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese @bibelexegese.bsky.social · Jul 24

Invitation to a workshop at XIX. International Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford (5-9 Aug 2024): “Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms: Discussing the New Edition“. #OxfordPatristics

Programme, part 1: Tuesday 11:40-13:00
Cordula Bandt: Observations on the Biblical Text(s) Commented by
Eusebius
Barbara Villani: New Fragments from Eusebius’ Commentary on the
Psalms

Programme, part 2: Wednesday 11:40-13:00
Christoph Markschies: The Opponents of Eusebius of Caesarea in his
Commentary on the Psalms
Tommaso Interi: Reassessing Eusebius’ Contribution to Early Christian
Exegesis of the Psalter

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Alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese @bibelexegese.bsky.social · Jul 24

Frisch erschienen @bbaw.bsky.social in unserer Reihe #GCS (Eusebius Werke X/2,1): Cordula Bandt: Eusebius Werke X Der Psalmenkommentar 2. Teil, 1. Band: Die Kommentare zu Psalm 51–71. Weitere Informationen: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Phots des Einbandes und des aufgeschlagenen Titelblatts des Bandes, der auf einem Tisch liegt.

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Alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese @bibelexegese.bsky.social · Jul 24

Invitation to a workshop at XIX. International Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford (5-9 Aug 2024): “Exploring Digital Editions and Tools in Patristic Studies in the 21st Century“. #OxfordPatristics

Programme, Thursday Aug 8: EXAMINATION SCHOOLS, ROOM 7
9.00-10.20 and 11.20-1.00
WORKSHOP (SHORT PAPERS): EXPLORING DIGITAL EDITIONS AND TOOLS IN PATRISTIC STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Jacopo Marcon: The Digital Edition of the Pseudo-Oecumenian Commentary on Romans
- Laurence Mellerin: From Reference Index to Tet Portal: Ongoing Developments in the Biblindex
- Felix Albrecht: Digital Scholarship and the Septuagint: the Göttingen Edition of the Psalms and Odes
- Emiliano Fiori: Syriac Patristic Florilegia: The Challenges of a Born- Digital Edition
- Holger Strutwolf: The Editio Critica Maior of Mark – A Digital Edition
- Bastien Kindt: The Patristic Texts of the GREgORI Project: From Input
File to Tagged Corpora Available Online
- Annette von Stockhausen: The Patristic Text Archive (PTA): How to
Build a Platform for Digital Critical Editions of Ancient Christian Texts
- Sebastiano Panteghini: Digital Methods for Indexing Large Manuscript
Collections and Preparing a Critical Edition

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · Jul 23

We have a programme! Join us in September for our conference, either in person or via zoom (sign-up via email to recreate-texts(at)uni-jena.de). Tons of exciting papers! More info at www.heteronome-texte.de/en/events/re....

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Jul 2

Academic friends, what are the most important things to find, iyo, in a recommendation letter for an academic job?

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Jun 13

well this looks neat:
*Remembering Nicaea: The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus*
ed. and tr. Martin Shedd, Sean Tandy, Jeremy M. Schott

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cover of the book in the SBL series Writings from the Greco-Roman World, with the title and editors in the tweet text

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · May 20

For whoever is lucky enough to be in Paris end of May

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · May 16

Just under a week until the submission deadline! Please send me a message with any questions.

Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · May 2

I am happy to announce a vacancy for a full-time PhD Position at the Faculty of Theology at KU Leuven focused on the Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug. Applications will be accepted until May 22, 2024. For more information see: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

PhD Position on the Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug

PhD Position in Syriac Studies

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · May 14

If you are interested in ancient titles and you are around, you are welcome to join! My paper will be on "Early Christian Titling and Anti-Jewish En-Titlement: From Josephus to Hegesippus"

Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Apr 3

Excited about this!

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · May 3

Been eagerly waiting for this - very exciting!

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · May 2

I am happy to announce a vacancy for a full-time PhD Position at the Faculty of Theology at KU Leuven focused on the Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug. Applications will be accepted until May 22, 2024. For more information see: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

PhD Position on the Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug

PhD Position in Syriac Studies

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · Apr 11

More events in Jena! Come join us this September for another Summer School on heteronomous texts! Last year's was great (in no small part thanks to @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social!), this year's could be even greater - so don't miss out!
More here: www.heteronome-texte.de/en/events/in...

Poster advertising an International Summer School on heteronomous texts, from September 8-12, 2024, in Jena, Germany. More information at www.heteronome-texte.de/en/events

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Apr 4

Publication time! Here is my latest piece on why we may just misunderstand urban politics of late antiquity. Looking at the April unrest of 449 in Edessa I'm tackling the myth of urban political decline. Plus, of course, bonus monks and deaconesses. All in OA!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus

The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus offer an opportunity to look at the evolution of urban structures in the middle of the fifth century at the edge of the Roman Empire. Observing a ci...

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · Apr 3

Excited about this!

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Sebastian Weinert @sebweinert.bsky.social · Mar 27

I've passed it on and will (probably) get it to you by tomorrow; hope that's soon enough! Not a bother at all, it seems like I could profit from a look at that myself ;)

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