Dr. Chance Bonar

Hey #SBLAAR25, looking for funding for your project on the Ancient Mediterranean? We're accepting applications through February 1 for the Shohet Scholars Grant.

My #aarsbl ride-or-die from day one.
@chancebonar.bsky.social

Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking tonight at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award.

#NationalBookAwards

Big cookie with the book cover on it

lovely and enlightening event about @ingerkuin.bsky.social's new DIOGENES book in conversation w @aristofontes.bsky.social. there were sheet cookies with the cover!

AAR/SBL folks: Sunday, 8-11pm First Church Boston (on Marlborough between Clarendon and Berkeley)!

In good #aarsbl25 fashion, AAR double-booked the Genocide unit and the Kierkegaard unit in the same room — but didn’t update the app early enough for most folks to know before they started

Grateful to see God, Slavery, and Early Christianity on display at the CUP booth at #aarsbl25!

The display copy is 75% off (~$30), and is otherwise 30% off during the conference

My favorite thing about SBL is that I’ve seen 10 friends, mentors, and supervisors in the span of 20 minutes

Ran into @chancebonar.bsky.social and hugged him like a lunatic even though I saw him yesterday and am his supervisor

Ask us anything graphic - photos of Claire (TGS host-orian) and Julia (TGS editor)

As part of TGS’ 1000th Patreon member celebration, @juliaschifini.bsky.social and I are recording an AMA video! If you’ve ever wanted to ask one of us a question about history, podcasting, or history podcasting, now’s your chance. ☺️

“Had UChicago simply matched the market, its endowment would be $6.45 billion larger today—more than enough to repay its entire debt.”

Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired

if simply associating with depraved pedophiles is enough to get a professor fired how is anyone ever going to learn economics

Unfortunately, his colleagues back then defended him & praised him as a beacon for students 🫠

www.thecrimson.com/article/2006...

Alumni and friends of UVa Religious Studies: you are invited to our reception at the AAR/SBL annual meeting!

Sunday, November 23, 8-11pm at First Church Boston.

The venue is not a literal ship as in years past, but the etymology of “nave” keeps us in line with UVa tradition.

Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation

TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

Listen, my brother, Virginia Tech *was* the sexy and cool place to go---back when you had a Religious Studies department

@chanda.blacksky.app might appreciate this

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

We’ll have to see how they handle the gap he’s leaving. Harvard tends to look after its insiders, and failing upward isn’t exactly uncommon, especially for men and higher admins. I’m not optimistic that this will prompt any real reflection on what isn’t working.

Despite controversies, Larry Summers has kept a hold in elite circles Larry Summers has seen his share of controversy, and up to now, he's always bounced back. But the scandal engulfing those with ties to Jeffrey Epstein is, for now, derailing the high-profile economist...

ICYMI: other Harvard economists, as Larry Summers’s colleagues and protégés, are again defending him publicly just like they did in ‘05/‘06.

Two of his most public defenders within the department, then and now, teach what is historically the largest course at Harvard.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

This is what I like to see!!!

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties

Ah yes I forgot this is a feature!

“Pls consider my book proposal I swear it’s good pls pls”

New conference advice: the AARSBL25 app has a messaging feature, so you can now message folks whose numbers you don’t have to meet for food/coffee/receptions!

Bring lip balm and get lip balm from the Wipf & Stock booth!!!

Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...