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Julia Hillner
@writinghelena.bsky.social
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Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity:
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory

Also working on: crime, punishment, imprisonment, prosopography, digital humanities, and 👆 the city of Rome
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Julia Hillner is Professor for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. She was previously Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert on late antiquity, applying digital methods of social network analysis to large data sets drawn from a wide variety of late antique and early medieval sources. .. more

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Mar 18
At the Connecting Late Antiquities project we've compiled a list of digital projects on late antiquity - one step to, erm, connecting late antiquities!
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social

Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
Related Digital Projects
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you - we are very excited! Happy holidays to you and yours!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 5d
Flashback to 2018 when you could do this kind of things on Twitter 😪, but fast forward to 2026 when we are starting a whole new research project on the topic
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
Third-Party-Funding by VolkswagenStiftung for "The Nameless in History"
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

Reposted by Andrew Jacobs

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 5d
It's the run-up to Christmas and as every year I'm reposting my own Xmas miracle story - of the Apollo 8 mission that set off on 21 Dec 1968, their iconic reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve, & how we found the name of the woman who had this genius idea.
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The Art of Naming Women
This past Christmas something magical happened to me which put my faith back into the importance of writing History (not that I had ever lost it, but in these times, when the value of History as an…
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Reposted by Andrew Jacobs, Pauline Stafford, Julia Hillner

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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d
Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
Yes that's true - to be honest, this particular project is probably looking to recruit internationally.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
I know a few medievalists coming from state schools who have acquired these kinds of languages alongside MA and PhD. You clue up pretty quickly to the fact that you need them.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
And another, less relaxed one, also Antikensammlung Dresden

Both sculptures probably originate from a funerary context.
Marble bust of a little girl, c. 180CE Marble bust of a little girl, seen from the left, with chignon. C. 180CE

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
A very cute little Roman, in the Antikensammlung in Dresden
Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from the left Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from the right Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seem from the front Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from behind

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 8d
Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 10d
Huge congratulations! 👏

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 10d
Rome will open two new Metro C subway stations today - at the Colosseum and Porta Metronia - showcasing the archaeological finds unearthed during construction works.
Rome opens two new metro stations at Colosseum and Porta Metronia
Rome's Metro C subway station at the Colosseum will be inaugurated on 8 December, a national holiday in Italy, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced.
www.wantedinrome.com

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you! Would be great to compare notes!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Our project is very transdisciplinary (late antique and modern; as well as history and literary studies). We are trying to find out how we can bring together different ways of thinking about namelessness, especially in slavery studies.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you for sharing the info about this project, which I did not know about.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you Aleksander!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Vielen Dank!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Vielen Dank! :)

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
More info here www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
Third-Party-Funding by VolkswagenStiftung for "The Nameless in History"
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

Reposted by Charles West

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 11d
some news 👇
we're going to find out how to overcome the numerous practical and ethical problems we face when researching the nameless.
dependencybonn.de Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11d
BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History".
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @volkswagenstiftung.de

Reposted by Julia Hillner

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11d
BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History".
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @volkswagenstiftung.de

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 14d
Although I agree with the sentiment, I love and own a copy of this rip-off of the original:

Mancunian workers taking a break from building St Mary‘s hospital in Manchester (where both my kids were born)
-1968
A line of workers sitting on a high ridge drinking beer overlooking a misty Manchester

Reposted by Pauline Stafford, Julia Hillner

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 14d
Antonio Felle shows two inscriptions from 3rd-cent. catacomb. Latin was used for daughter and Greek for her mother. Language choice interpreted as related to Greek as main language of Scripture at this time rather than geographical origin. Learning a lot at conference on Rome and the Others

Reposted by Julia Hillner

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 15d
A GIS visualization of foreigners in Rome between AD 300 and 1000 as shown at conference “Rome and the Others”

Reposted by Julia Hillner

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De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social · 17d
Das neue Heft der HZ ist erschienen, komplett im #OpenAccess, mit Beiträgen zu Neuro-History, der Erfindung der revolutionären Schweiz von 1847/48, und dem Deutschen Kulturverband in der Tschechoslowakei (1918-1938).
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Das Cover von Heft 321.3 der Historischen Zeitschrift Das Inhaltsverzeichnis von Heft 321.3 der Historischen Zeitschrift: Aufsätze Neuro-History. Neue interdisziplinäre Perspektiven am Beispiel mystischer Erfahrungsberichte // Romedio Schmitz-Esser und Robert Christian Wolf „Vom Siegen ruhn“ oder Die Erfindung der revolutionären Schweiz von 1847/48 // Moisés Prieto ___ 598 Zwischen Wien, Prag und Berlin. Zur widersprüchlichen Rolle des Deutschen Kulturverbandes in der Tschechoslowakei (1918–1938) // Mikuláš Zvánovec Nekrolog Bernd Jürgen Wendt (1934–2025) // Christiane Eisenberg Leitrezension Themen, Methoden, Schauplätze. Die Napoleonischen Kriege im Handbuch // Andreas Fahrmeir

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 18d
sadly, behind paywall, but will upload a copy to Bonn's repository and happy to share (via email on my webpage)

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 18d
So pleased this is finally out: "Social Network Analysis", with my favourite writing buddy, the incomparable Máirín MacCarron, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography. We hope it will be useful, also for teaching!
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
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First two paragraphy of Hillner & MacCarron, Social Network Analysis, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography, Leiden 2026 Cover of Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography edited by Marietta Horster, Richard Flower, Frédéric Hurlet, and Ralph W. Mathisen

Reposted by Charles West, Pauline Stafford, Julia Hillner

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 21d
Looking forward to giving a paper next week in Rome with the archaeologists who excavated parts of the Schola Saxonum, just opposite the church built over Sancta Maria scola Anglorum, as Archbishop Sigeric called it. Lots of interesting 10th-cent evidence attesting to life in the English quarter

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 22d
I think I will also revitalise some in class gobbet writing exercises :)

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 22d
Well it’s an Übung where students are meant to üben research, which surely involves reading and writing. So we will be üben together :)