Divna Manolova

OIKOS Course Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages at UGent 📅 2–3 February 2026📍Ghent University
The biennial OIKOS course on Byzantine Culture brought together ReMA and PhD students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an intensive exploration of the theme of Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages.

A reading recommendation: zenodo.org/records/1823..., which led to this other web place www.worldswritingsystems.org and I am loving it 😍

Lunch Lecture Session with Qianyu Wang & Dr. Divna Manolova First duo lunch lecture session of the Medieval Seminar Series 2025-2026

This Friday, 21 November, COSMOPOET will present at the lunch seminar of Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... This is an in-person event. All are welcome!

University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040) | MEMOs University of Vienna, Tenure Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040)

University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040):

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NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027 | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...

Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500) | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...

55 | 2025 Journée d’étude « Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fi... Revue consacrée à l’histoire et la culture de Chypre, des origines à l’époque contemporaine - Journal devoted to the history and culture of Cyprus, from its origins to the contemporary era

New volume of Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Vol. 55 (2025) journals.openedition.org/cchyp/1857 #openaccess @openedition.bsky.social Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de l’époque médiévale (LA3M, Aix-en-Provence)

My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌

Byzantine Silver Plate Depicting Aratus and Urania This Byzantine silver plate is on view at the Institute as part of the exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity".

🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:

Well yes, but in every impressionistic image there must be a grain of realistic diagrammatic something, right? The horoscopic square is easily recognisable for instance. And I wonder about the rest, and yes, especially about that lunar crescent one...

Cool! I like "determinedly oblique". I see the horoscope, but what do you say about the rest of the diagrams?

🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃

🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 MPIWG

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#HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr

I like the addition of a cloudy sky - theoretically an obstacle for the functioning of the sundial!

Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/Coudenberg/62/30083 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

Who knows 🤔 but I'll try to find out things about the building. Also what a wonderful mosaic!!!

A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.

This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

A prototype version of a modern astrolabe designed and produced by Kevin Karney, pinned together with cocktail sticks and held up by string.

Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.

2025: Celestial Scripts: A Comparative Study of Astrological Diagrams in Manuscripts from the pre and early Modern Periods Org.  Florence Somer (EIDA project, LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris) Dates September 22nd-23rd, 2025 Place Instanbul, IFEA (Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes) This workshop is part of the EIDA ...

There is an EIDA page (eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2...) but it seems to me that the IFEA one is more up to date.

Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!

I am staying with friends in Dunbar and we go for long dog walks in beautiful places.

North Berwick is also very beautiful

Dunbar is very pretty, so I recommend coming!

Sun(dials) and Sea in Dunbar today

'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation' This workshop takes its cue from two authorial/autograph manuscripts in Edinburgh’s small but fine collection of medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts.

The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages

Università di Pavia, Italy

Deadline June 30, 2025

More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/

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2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools
Just a few photos from the first two days @cosmopoet.bsky.social @stephenaj.bsky.social @tur-alexandre.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @irht-cnrs.bsky.social