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Divna Manolova
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The optimistic Byzantinist
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University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040):

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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)
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November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...
NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027 | Mary Jaharis Center
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November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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...
Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500) | Mary Jaharis Center
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November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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)
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
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October 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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. 🤩🌐✨🌌
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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🧵🧵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:
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".
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October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🧵🧵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.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
October 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🧵🧵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.
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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!
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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!
September 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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!
June 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Sun(dials) and Sea in Dunbar today
June 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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...
'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.
hca.ed.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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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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Call for applications to access PhD courses – 41st cycle – a. y. 2025/2026 – Dottorati di Ricerca
Phd University of Pavia
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June 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Now with Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social on Byzantine manuscripts, and here with her (all time?) favorite, an example with many texts in one codex - a library in one volume, with several quadrivial works, but also theological and geomantic
June 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Good morning!
June 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The next stop on the tour starts tomorrow: eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t... A great team, a great opportunity to collaborate with the @labnf.bsky.social and @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and an important and invaluable possibility to teach with historical manuscripts and instruments!🤩😍
2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools
org.  Matthieu Husson (LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris), Alexandre Tur (BnF), Anuj Misra (MPIWG, Berlin, Forschungsgruppe ASTRA) Dates  June, 2- June 6, 2025 Places Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ob...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Posting a little late (just before the event), but I still wanted to share this program (which is a new thing for me - started one year ago), as it is something I am glad to be part of and moreover something of personal importance: sphere.cnrs.fr/seminaires/s...
May 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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🧵The first workshop on the Spatio-Temporal Profiles of Multi graphic Written Artefacts is now behind us. Lots to think about before the Paris meeting in 2025: about a wide range of temporalities such as astronomical and apocalyptic time, about the importance of patterning, sequencing, and indexing..
May 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Huge thanks to the staff of the SuUB Bremen who took excellent care of me yesterday! 🙏🏻🙏🏻now off to @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social and the UWA for our workshop which starts this afternoon: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor...
May 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM