Julia Boss

Does This Angel Look Familiar? A Modern Face Appears in a Rome Fresco.

A 17th-century fresco of an angel in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome changed to look like PM Giorgia Meloni. Pope Leo XIV echoes the Council of Trent: images “cannot be misused or exploited, as they are intended exclusively to support liturgical life and personal and communal prayer."

Entire Discworld series turned into a rotating book wheel - Yanko Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5w To say that the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett has a cult following is one of the biggest understatements in book world. It's a pretty long series but ...

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ive ever seen

#Discworld

www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/e...

Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Cornell University Press Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

Fun Fact: Medieval and Renaissance history are now in my acquisition areas! #HistoryUP

Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...

What people call their “scraps” document, a crowdsourced poem:

dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans

Purgatory (for the possibility, rarely realized, that a very good idea, doing everything right, could earn its way back into the main document).

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Coll Thrush I am an unrepentant regional chauvinist. I believe in my heart that those of us lucky enough to call the Pacific Northwest home live in one of the best places on the planet. Perhaps because I was rais...

“What does it mean for someone like me to claim allegiance to a region that historically speaking is not mine? When a settler says, ‘I’m home,’ what cultural and political work does such a statement do?”

Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
nwbooklovers.org/2026/01/13/e...

Circular pattern mosaic.

Apse mosaic.

Mosaic with rosette patterns.

Floor mosaic with diamond patterns.

Mosaics of Hisham's Palace/Qaṣr Hishām/Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho.
#MosaicMonday

Undammed Last year four of the dams on Klamath River were removed.  The largest dam removal project in United States history, this is a remarkable test case to show how nature and people can thrive on free-flo...

I love when an interview feels more like a conversation. That's why I was so delighted to talk with Barbara Bernstein for Locus Focus on @KBOO about how the dam-removal movement fits into larger efforts to restore ecosystems and equity. @princetonupress.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/131440...

does anyone have any suggestions for books on follies, grottoes, ornamental hermits, things of that nature? coffee table or monograph.

Fun bluesky fact is that no matter what else is going on, someone is always reading Moby Dick

Reposting this as I complete a developmental edit on an otherwise brilliant book that loses momentum at the close of each chapter when the author announces its “Conclusion.” I think using the label can also constrain how an author imagines the work that might be accomplished in that final section.

Grants & Fellowships - AHA AHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; hiring a researcher; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a li...

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2026-27 research grants until February 15, 2026. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️

Rereading @allyfield.bsky.social's piece again. It's just so wonderful! Thinking of screening Laughing Gas (1907) this time around as well. Alongside Something Good--Negro Kiss, it's a film that shows how racial images were *contested* in early cinema, rather than being monolithic.

At the Edge of Erasure: An Interview with Anouche Kunth, Historian of Exile - Public Books In the basement of a French administration office there was a mass of 12,000 documents related to the refugees of the Armenian genocide, telling a terse story of loss.

“Administrative language salvages truths from oblivion, but it also resembles a theater of the absurd when, invariably, it ends with an official formulation.”

Anouche Kunth on the ways raw sources can become historical narrative.

A figure seen from behind, preaching to an audience, with a mountainous landscape in the distance

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968

"How do we take our place again in a world where nothing remains of what was? Where even the 'ordinary' is no more?"

Laure Astourian interviews historian Anouche Kunth.

Screenshot of CFP text: On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the John Carter Brown Library and the John C. Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Washington University invite proposals for participation in a major conference to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, June 4-6, 2026, on the broad topic of religions and freedom c. 1776. "

Deadline today but please if you're interested drop us a line! Conference on Religions and Freedoms c 1776 (really, VERY broadly circa), joint @jcblibrary.bsky.social and the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Wash U.

TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...

Submit your recently defended (last 2 years) dissertation on New Netherland and/or the Dutch in North America to be considered for the Hendricks Prize. More info here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awa... (self nominations welcome)

Apron made of glazed indigo-dyed cotton embroidered with multi-coloured cotton. Made from two pieces of cotton joined vertically with a band of embroidery. The apron is gathered into a deep band at the waist and tied with two long woven ribbons. The hem is trimmed with a deep edging of cotton bobbin lace, mainly in white but with red and green. The pattern is composed of bold floral and geometric motifs. There are vertical rows of petals resist-dyed onto the ground fabric.

Embroidered cotton apron. Czech, 19th century.
Ref T.282-1987, V & A Museum.

I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Merriam Webster’s choose-your-word GIF for 2026, showing that my screenshot grabbed the word “picturesque.”

Preparing to baffle friends and family by wishing them a picturesque 2026.

Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Publishing Assistant (Oxford, UK) ...

Job Opportunity!

Princeton University Press seeks a Publishing Assistant (Hybrid) who can provide assistance to the Editorial, Marketing & Sales, Publicity, and International Rights teams based in the European (Oxford) office.

Deadline: January 4

Learn more and apply: hubs.ly/Q03YbGXD0

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#sinology

I have been asked to share this FT opening at PCC. Please pass along to anyone who would be a good fit. (More in replies).

Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program.

Here's the official posting:

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

The Deformation: Attention and Discernment in Catholic Reformation Art and Architecture by Susanna Berger

Susanna Berger

Congratulations to Susanna Berger, whose book The Deformation has been longlisted for the Art and Christianity Book Award! This award honors an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of the relationship between faith and art.

Check out Berger's exceptional work here: hubs.ly/Q03Y9qWz0