Dr. Chance Bonar

A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027 -The deadline is on January 10, 2026

📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

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Cover of the advertised book.

👉 NEW AND OPEN ACCESS

The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

If you haven’t already read it, “Black History at the Vassall Estate” is an incredible historical and archival project centered on enslaved persons and enslavers in Cambridge MA

irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

YOU STEP ON IT.

You can immediately imagine at least 5 reasons why the community rightly thought that this was inadequate in 2007

If you haven’t seen or been to the more recent memorial, it’s worth seeing: mel.virginia.edu

Stumbled today onto UVA’s initial (and horribly failed) attempt to memorialize the enslaved persons forced to build and work at the university

I’m one of the panelists for this event. It’s open to the public if you’re interested.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

This is the most amazing bit of cross-cultural mythmaking ever. I wonder if this was inspired by myths of Talos? Anyhow, I am very sorry that the secretive guild of ancient Roman robot engineers never existed, though pleased they were appropriately unionized.

By October 15, apply for a fellowship to fund your visit to HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, for research residencies to be completed between January 1 and June 30, 2026.

Learn more: hmml.org/research/fellowships
Application deadline: October 15

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Lose Your Kin White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative

Today, like every day, is a good day to re-read Christina Sharpe’s “Lose Your Kin”

thenewinquiry.com/lose-your-kin/

You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Le Monde enters Gaza City, an ocean of ruins emptied of its people Le Monde's Jerusalem correspondent entered the Palestinian urban area for a few hours on Friday, October 3, under escort from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The territory, largely destroyed by airstrikes and bulldozers, was utterly deserted, with nearly all residents having fled south within the enclave.

Le Monde enters Gaza City, an ocean of ruins emptied of its people

As Juan relates in his post below, he's been writing about Gaza for 20 years. He's compiled a bunch of his works chronologically, and released them as an ebook; Gaza Yet Stands. You can buy it here 👉 www.amazon.com/Gaza-Yet-Sta...

Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle Leading and rising scholars introduce a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which situates the Jewish apostle to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion.

𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 has a cover and a website!

Conceived as a companion to PwJ (Fortress, 2015), this is the first go-to introductory resource on PwP (Fortress, 2025). The publication date is set for 4 Nov 2025, just in time for SBL.

www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

So apparently USC sold human bodies to the US military for them to give to the IDF for training.

True story.

t.co/lZ5jmQoZ1t

I vowed never to flee Gaza City. Israel's assault has left no choice After two years of defying Israeli orders, I realized I could no longer protect my family if we stayed put, as bombs fall on every corner of our city.

"By the beginning of this week, I too lost hope."

"On Tuesday, I left Gaza City for the first time in two years."

"[I]t soon became clear that this operation is like no other, and I had to take my survival into my own hands."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

But I’m personally doing this to upset you

Unsurprisingly, I’ll be preemptively citing you in it!

Thank you so much!

Another one in the pipeline: "Slavery, Writing, and Authorship in Early Christian Polemics against Mani" was accepted for publication in Studies in Late Antiquity!