Susan M Cogan

Greg Jenner’s You’re Dead To Me is fantastic and wide-ranging.

It was delightful to finally meet in person! Thanks so much for coming up for the day!

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Congratulations!! This is fabulous news!

Escaped the Cambridge Half Marathon (which went past my front door) by having a day out to Wicken Fen. Gorgeous afternoon outdoors on a warm March day!

Paging @kjkesselring.bsky.social !!

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.

Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7

Two-thirds of the way through my term as a Burghley Visiting Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge. Pictured here: the Great Gate.

Finally. Saturday happy time in the sun with Early Modern Floral Culture and @susancogan.bsky.social @amsterdamupress.bsky.social

Fabulous! That was such a fun piece to research and write! #Flowers for the win!

From United Humanists on FB

The decisions that the Trump regime is making are at odds with the majority of the American people (who may have voted for him, but without calculating what he would do). To friends abroad: please amplify the messages of the resurgent democratic movement in the US, for we are your best friends.

For crying out loud

Not only is this a fake Jefferson quote, but it's out of character.

Over 20,000 Jefferson documents are online.

He wrote "Jesus Christ" in only 13.
One is a list of books

He created his OWN version of the Bible.

He also supported the separation of church & state.

So...stop.

Curious about academic publishing? Don’t miss me and my brilliant colleagues’ panel at #aha2025 tomorrow, Jan 3, at 1:30. Want to make an afternoon of it? Don’t miss me and more brilliant colleagues chat about the ins and outs of peer review at 3:30! @uncpress.bsky.social @historians.org

Anyone already at #AHA25 interested in office-hours-with-an-editor tomorrow afternoon? (The editor is me, if that changes your thinking in either direction.) No pressure, no pitching, just me answering your questions about publishing, no matter how “silly” (they’re probably not that silly tbh)

‘A place to heal’: Native tribes urge Biden to protect sacred lands before leaving White House Environmental groups are also petitioning Biden to protect Sáttítla, Kw’tsán and Chuckwalla in California

Yes they’ll be subject to litigation and Trump, but Biden should still preserve more places while he can, especially if he can protect important Indigenous sites, and help rectify the long history of those places being appropriated for national parks/monuments.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The committee said it also received testimony that at a 2017 party, Gaetz twice had sex with "Victim A," who was 17 years old at the time and had just completed her junior year in high school. "Victim A recalled receiving $400 in cash from Representative Gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex," the committee wrote. "Victim A said that she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask her age."

In his written responses to the committee, Gaetz denied having sex with a minor. The Department of Justice previously investigated Gaetz for violating sex trafficking laws but did not bring charges. The committee said it did not find sufficient evidence Gaetz violated the federal sex trafficking statute because although he transported women across state lines for the purpose of sex, those women were all 18 or older at the time.

Responsible coverage of the Gaetz report would add: paying a minor for sex alone is a violation of the federal sex trafficking statute, no transportation or coercion required (and an alleged trafficker not knowing an alleged victim’s age is not considered a defense) www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-ga...

Accurate!

I mean seriously, the SLC airport is out in the desert. Plop a Target there and bam, captive audience.

Target could make a killing if they opened a store near the airport. Instead of the somewhat creepy cell lot we’d all be wandering around Target buying things we don’t need while waiting for someone’s plane to land.

*Wow*

This makes me even more excited about being there next term, even if I will miss The Best Day.

Having @ellamchawk.bsky.social here at #UtahState was delightful!

This!

College isn't meant to churn out income production units for corporate shareholders to milk, it's meant to help students become more well rounded, curious, interesting people.

Beige-coloured cuneiform tablet with slightly rounded edges. It has rulings with cuneiform characters.

Around 1800 BCE, a businesswoman named Taram-Kubi received 20 shekels of fine gold, presumably as payment for textiles she wove.

She lived in Assur, capital of the Assyrian empire, and sent her textiles to far-flung Anatolia for her husband to sell them cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/28...

Associate Professorship of Digital Scholarship at University of Oxford Apply for the Associate Professorship of Digital Scholarship role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come to Jesus College Oxford!

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Reconstruction of a Roman villa in the Netherlands and some Dutch archaeological finds:
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Here too. It’s hideous.