Nik Matheou 🇵🇸

A colleague and I wrote an article for @ScotNational in response to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's apology following the self-commissioned Race Review, in the light of continued complicity w/ genocide & colonialism in Gaza. Read in full here: archive.ph/2025.08.23-0...

New school year, new office sign

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025

Please submit your paper to us at lampsedinburgh@gmail.com
Deadline: 29th August 2025

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

Now for accountability and reparations @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thanks be for summer kids clubs at the local community centre 🙏

The only real answer to #MAGA...

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Happy Father's Day to all the Marx daddies out there keeping it dialectical 🙏🚩

Birthday vibes

Amazing! I know the project but didn't see that this had launched, thanks for aleting me to it ☺️

5hr train sorted 👌 ⚒️⚔️

Very happy with my early bday #tattoo 😊

#mongolsky #mongolempire

Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeing how it might be useful in your research

Absolute dream of a week/end guest lecturing at the University of Ghent on an Afro-Eurasian perspective on the Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages. The students were great, and the merchant capitalist setting of the city couldn't have been more fitting!

YouTube video by Communist Songs May Day Labor Anthem (Socialist Revolutionary Song) - Kartvelian (Laz) ,Armenian,Kurdish,Turkish

Happy May Day to all workers, waged and unwaged! Long live revolutionary internationalism, onwards to full communism in our lifetimes 🚩🏴

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9X...

Registration and programme for “Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500” - Past and Present received from Mariana Bodnaruk (Masaryk University, Brno), Stephan Bruhn (German Historical Institute, London) and Michael Eber (University of Oxford) Dates: 22 - 23 May 2025 Venue: German Historical ...

We are pleased to be supporting:

"Trans Sainthood in Transistion, ca. 400 - 1500"

@ghilondon.bsky.social and online on 22 - 23 May 2025

Programme details and Zoom registration;

pastandpresent.org.uk/registration...

Very much looking forward to this conference in Edinburgh starting tomorrow, with a wide range of papers:
www.eventbrite.com/e/graduate-c...

Nice to see the medieval tradition of Sufi lodges leading popular revolt is alive and well

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD at University of St Andrews An academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more deta...

Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews!
#medievalsky

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

Sad to miss it! I have Views 😅

Very flattering - didn't even realise he had an academia.edu account

One for all the epigraphers out there: late thirteenth century #Armenian bishop and historian, Stepanos Orbelean, complaining about the poor preservation of an inscription he was using (and largely recorded verbatim) in his history.

Stepanos, babe, I feel you. #Medievalsky

Retotalising Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction to its History - Historical Materialism I’ve divided this presentation into four distinct parts.[1] A shorthand description of these might be Conventional narratives of capitalist origins Commercial capitalism as a better alternative Modern...

Jairus Banaji slaps once more - what should be another nail in the coffin of Brennerism/Political #Marxism, but sadly that satisfying story remains a useful origin myth for #Marxist intellectuals and organisers unengaged with history (understandably!).

www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

Mind currently whirring at the fact that, of all the legal traditions in medieval Afro-Eurasia, only East Roman (Byzantine) law recognised interest without condemnation or mystification.

The longest chapter - by some distance - in the 11th c. casebook known as the Peira is on debt & interest.

The Afro-Eurasian Middle Ages - Arc Humanities This series presents the integrated study of the Afro-Eurasian “Old World”, in its formative millennium between ca. 500 and ca. 1500. After the end of the

Excited to announce I'll be editor for a new series at @archumanities.bsky.social, The Afro-Eurasian Middle Ages, presenting 'the integrated study of the Afro-Eurasian “Old World”, in its formative millennium'.

Share widely, & get in touch if you have ideas!

www.arc-humanities.org/the-afro-eur...

More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’

"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK"

Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks! Got inspired after rereading Caliban & the Witch and Q in the last months of last year

Oh.Em.Gee 😍 I got a much less impressive tattoo inspired by late medieval peasant revolts, but I went for the Rota Fortuna/Wheel of Fate, rather than Danse Macabre 😅