The red and silver English edition of HUMANS next to the smaller Chinese edition in a pale gray cover, both sitting on a circular wooden table (top and bottom cropped) on a wooden floor. The English cover is a dramatic red with yellow lettering. A large, silvery, oval mirror sits in the centre, with a black decorative border with fictional monsters on it. The Chinese cover has a human hand and a robotic hand reaching towards each other.
Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
04.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 47 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Friends, Feb 6, 1PM PST please join Prof. Jessica Zu @jessicaxzu.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her recently published _Just Awakening_ (purchase here: cup.columbia.edu/book/just-aw...)
Sign up for virtual conversation with Prof. Zu below!
15.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
JAOS
The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.
The latest issue of JAOS has been published, #145.4 (2025). This will be the last one under the old name. Starting next year, the journal will appear under its new name, JASPA: Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia.
lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...
@aspa1842.bsky.social
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15.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Front cover of Susanna Elm's The Importance of Being Gorgeous, featuring a marble carved head of a man and title
There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!!
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!
01.12.2025 07:53 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
Please join Adeana McNicholl and myself for the inaugural Buddhism and Caste Seminar at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Boston (November 22-25)
Panel 1: Sat. 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Sheraton, Tremont (Third Floor)
Panel 2: Mon. 5:00PM - 6:30PM | Sheraton, Boston Common (Fifth Floor)
14.11.2025 00:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join us - starting now!
07.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us - starting now!
07.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
02.11.2025 18:12 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Friday Nov. 7 (9AM PST, 12PM EST, 6PM CET, 1030PM IST), please join us for an exciting AAR #online #symposium on _Buddhist Feminist Historiography_ in celebration of Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's tour de force, _The Women Who Ruled China_
Register here: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
02.11.2025 18:12 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!
16.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Oct 29, 1PM friends at Harvard and Boston more generally, do attend @amyparis.bsky.social berg's lecture on Buddhist nuns at @harvard.edu!
16.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming
"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."
For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...
06.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 141 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 5
Webinar beginning now!
03.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
REMINDER: Oct 3, my ONLINE Khyentse Lecture at Northwestern:
“Comparative Subalternities” as a New Framework for the Study of Indian Buddhist Traditions: Locating the Outcaste Monastic within Plantation Geographies
8:30PM IST/8AM PDT/10AM CT/4PM GMT/5PM CET
LINK: northwestern.zoom.us/j/97705400388
03.10.2025 04:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Oct 3, Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social
“Comparative Subalternities” as a New Framework for the Study of Indian Buddhist Traditions: Locating the Outcaste Monastic within Plantation Geographies
9:30PM IST/9AM PDT/11AM CT/5PM GMT/6PM CET
LINK: northwestern.zoom.us/j/9140886463...
28.09.2025 15:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dear friends and colleagues, I'm trying to compile a list of upcoming events on South Asian religions that will be live-streamed for students in my S. Asian religions class this quarter. If you are speaking somewhere or know of relevant events please drop a link below! Cheers! :D
20.09.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 4
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.
It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
22.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 101 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 6
SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
03.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.
Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/60683
23.07.2025 20:56 — 👍 320 🔁 78 💬 10 📌 10
Details - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies with Specialization in Hindu Studies
Help me find a wonderful new colleague for our department! Specialty in religions of South Asia or Southeast Asia. #religiousStudies #tenuretrackjobs jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
10.08.2025 21:39 — 👍 9 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
I wish I could be there!
05.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
03.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
#Sanskrit, #Religion, #Mantra. Fascinated by the incomprehensible. Believes in the power of philology. Postdoctoral researcher @oeaw.bsky.social, collaborator @mantrams.bsky.social
late antique religion + material culture • Yale Divinity School '26 • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
Interested in Syriac manuscripts
Assistant Professor of New Testament at St. Louis University
Drummer with the Original Beauty Operators (Durham)🎶🥁🎶
Sipper of Belgian beers. 🍻
Lily the Shih Tzu is my BFF 🐶
Scholar of Syriac Christianity in Central Asia
Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Literature and Visual arts. Petrarca, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, Emblems, Memory
Exegese und Theologie des Neuen Testaments | New Testament Exegesis and Theology | Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät | Universität Erfurt | hier privat zu meiner Arbeit …
Bollandiste. Médiéviste (Dr) | Hagiographie, saints, reliques, rituels de l'ancien monde | Administrateur de la Fondation Patrimoine, Art et Histoire en Hainaut | Ex-punk originaire de Mons, désormais à Bruxelles
Assistant Professor of religious studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Lived in 7 cities and 5 countries in the EU, now based in Szeged/Budapest.
Author of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces (2022) and Sanctuaries of Roman Dacia (2018)
Academic/ Translation Studies / Biblical Studies/ Professor at University of Agder, Norway. Interested in digital humanities and corpus linguistics. Views my own
History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
Senior Researcher @UAntwerpen | #Medievalist exploring #Chronicles & #Manuscripts | Codicology, Palaeography & #Translation | Focused on literature of the Low Countries: #Brabant, #Holland, #Hainaut, #Looz & #Liège | ORCID: 0000-0002-1308-005X
(Late) Roman archaeologist. Dabbling in archaeological theory, funerary culture and how we think about change in Late Antiquity. Postdoc @ Uni Oslo / Norwegian Institute in Rome
Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd 🎮🎲📚 ~ views my own etc.
Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
Assistant Professor of Religious studies at Crandall University | PhD Cantab | Septuagint | 2nd Temple Judaism | Greek & Hebrew | Morphology & Lexicon #CamLXX
Late antique historian, writer, tea addict (She/her)
Social and cultural aspects of the ancient and early medieval worlds: saints and martyrs, gender, inter-religious interactions, theatre and performance, automata
Professor of New Testament Studies (Biblical Theology), TU Dresden, interested in reading, meals, variants, canon, DH, LLMs, private account
Assistant Professor of Theology. Teaching Pastor. Historical theology, Christology, and the early church. Book on Eusebius of Caesarea with Brepols.
