That means a lot, Xabier! It's always easy to dismiss things as "utopian," "unrealistic," or whatever the case may be. Here's hoping that we acknowledge human history has involved a lot more radical politics than people usually suppose!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have to say that Margaret was a very easy person to talk to!
Thanks so much, Xabier! Glad to hear you enjoyed the book!
Hope you enjoy it!
haha, 40 makes you ancient these days!
Part 2!
Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…
Join us next week as we continue our conversation on Program Restructuring...
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#religiousstudies #highered #university #religion
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Ah, that means so much! You may also want to check out Sarah Bond's excellent book "Strike!" which is about labour stoppage in Roman antiquity! There's still lots of research to be done on these things.
I had a great time chatting with @margaret.bsky.social about the book! I'm guessing Part Two of the interview will drop later this week!
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 📖
Margaret interviews ancient historian @cbzeichmann.bsky.social about all the wild stuff happening in the ancient world and confirms her guesses about Spartacus and the Third Servile War
@margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod
This looks incredible - early career scholars and PhD students check this out!
“It is imperative that we recognize, even if belatedly, those few black pioneers of the decades before the initiatives of Hoyt and Waters—the likes of Leon Edward Wright; Charles B. Copher; G. Murray Branch; and Joseph A. Johnson. We must inscribe them and a few others into our full organizational consciousness and memory. These few are no longer with us; they have yet to be fully claimed and recognized. They struggled mightily to figure out how to speak to the challenges and pressures of the different worlds they intersected as black male intellectuals on the peripheries of the field.” —Vincent L. Wimbush
Access Vincent L. Wimbush's Presidential Address, “Interpreters—Enslaving/Enslaved/Runagate” in JBL 130.1. buff.ly/Z66VcDy #BlackHistorySBL26
Ah, hope you enjoy it!
Do you like the idea of supporting my work, but hate the idea of touching a book? You're in luck! The audiobook for Radical Antiquity was released today. Use that extra Audible credit or ask your local library to add it on Hoopla or Overdrive! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798318511561/
I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
It has to be two consecutive historical left-populist landslides, so lopsided that they’re both far beyond theft range, in order to barely oust the regime. That requires sudden vast appeal to some of the 90 million nonvoters (voteshaming simply doesn’t work, so chuck that brainfailed instinct).
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The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein's charitable organization while teaching at the University, according to recently released documents from the Department of Justice. Professor Thomas K. Hubbard requested the money for a conference held in April 2016 named "Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape." Hubbard said he received no money from the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation. Attendance at the conference was required for students in Hubbard's Mythology of Rape class, according to its syllabus.
I feel nauseous. thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...
My department is hiring a 2-year VAP in Religious Studies & Africana Studies (cross-appointed in both programs). Interdisciplinary teaching is a huge plus!
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Final reminder: closing date is the end of this week - Feb 15th! 👇🏻
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
Casting UK based Scholars!
For a new series (Smithsonia) on the history of ruins.
We need experts on:
🔹 Ancient Rome/Greece
🔹 Medieval England
🔹 WWII & Nazi Remains
🔹 Native American Sites
🔹 US Civil War
📅 Shoots mid-March.
📧 casting@pastpreservers.com
#History #UKBased
Any takers for a Zoom guest lecture?
Abstract of article proofs: "In recent decades, biblical and early Christian studies have become more keenly aware and critical of how ancient Mediterranean literature perpetuates patriarchal stereotypes about women, incites gendered violence, and often participates in a culture of blaming women for the perpetuation of such stereotypes and violence. This article examines how the soul is gendered and made a victim of sexual violence in a Nag Hammadi text known as the Exegesis on the Soul (Exeg. Soul). After introducing Exeg. Soul and Nag Hammadi Codex II, I examine how the text participates in victim blaming and in conversation with recent advances in classical and biblical scholarship, as well as key differences between Exeg. Soul and other texts in Codex II regarding their characterization of sexual violence. I argue that despite its usefulness in encouraging ascetics to resist desires and repent like the soul portrayed in the text, Exeg. Soul offers a less forgiving portrayal of divine intervention (or lack thereof) in moments of sexual violence and risks the revictimization of survivors."
✨proofs day✨ for "Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul," coming out with Harvard Theological Review soon
This survey might be of interest to our Canadian members.
In case you want a reminder of the last time we went through this conversation…
For those with academic library access, I’ve also published Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "Racist Reactions to Black Achilles." Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (2022): 79-96.
