Greg Given
@greggiven.bsky.social
"A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
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Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
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If scholars are going to cite or assign an English translation of Eusebius's Church History, it really ought to be Jeremy Schott's excellent work, which is a significant improvement on anything else available—and is also priced extremely accessibly.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
The History of the Church by Eusebius of Caesarea - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If scholars are going to cite or assign an English translation of Eusebius's Church History, it really ought to be Jeremy Schott's excellent work, which is a significant improvement on anything else available—and is also priced extremely accessibly.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
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The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures---
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
TeTra | Ellen Muehlberger "Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
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November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures---
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
oh the hours I have spent pondering the mysteries of Gruetli-Laager, TN
GRUETLI LAAGER: 29434 STATE ROUTE 108, GRUETLI LAAGER TN 37339-9998
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
oh the hours I have spent pondering the mysteries of Gruetli-Laager, TN
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Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social
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/beṣlē w-ḥardlå/
ܒܨ̈ܠܐ ܘܚܪܕܠܐ
"onions & mustard"
ܒܨ̈ܠܐ ܘܚܪܕܠܐ
"onions & mustard"
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
/beṣlē w-ḥardlå/
ܒܨ̈ܠܐ ܘܚܪܕܠܐ
"onions & mustard"
ܒܨ̈ܠܐ ܘܚܪܕܠܐ
"onions & mustard"
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Including a translation of Donna's "Sunrise" into Syriac
Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (1947-2025) | fringe philology
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November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Including a translation of Donna's "Sunrise" into Syriac
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Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
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We have a great lineup of new titles this month, such as "After Transformation" by @maiakotro.bsky.social. All are included in our 50%-off fall sale, running through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We have a great lineup of new titles this month, such as "After Transformation" by @maiakotro.bsky.social. All are included in our 50%-off fall sale, running through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake
BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k
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October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
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I'm gearing up to record on @mikemotia.bsky.social's New Book Network podcast, and people, if you want to catch up on what's been going on in ancient Mediterranean studies lately, you should go look at his catalog!
newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...
newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...
New Books Network - New Books Network
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October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm gearing up to record on @mikemotia.bsky.social's New Book Network podcast, and people, if you want to catch up on what's been going on in ancient Mediterranean studies lately, you should go look at his catalog!
newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...
newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...
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@philharland.bsky.social has an article out in MTSR.
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses
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Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@philharland.bsky.social has an article out in MTSR.
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses
brill.com/view/journal...
Putting the Persian Back in “Magic”: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses
brill.com/view/journal...
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TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
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After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world?
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Digital Round Table: Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities (Dec 5th) – Society for the History of the Humanities
www.historyofhumanities.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world?
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
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i am not a harvard administrator but if i had to guess i would say these cuts were in the offing once the first grad student union contract was signed (cf. BU) but all these government shenanigans gave them cover to slash students without looking like mustache-twirling gilded age magnates
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
i am not a harvard administrator but if i had to guess i would say these cuts were in the offing once the first grad student union contract was signed (cf. BU) but all these government shenanigans gave them cover to slash students without looking like mustache-twirling gilded age magnates
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I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
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Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
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Tonight! 🤩
The Pearlsong book launch will be Oct 20, 5:30-7:00pm Boston time, in-person at Harvard, or by Zoom. I'll give a talk, but more importantly, so will Dr. Erin Walsh, and there will be music composed for the event by Jane Sheldon! More details and registration here:
Calendar | Center for the Study of World Religions
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Tonight! 🤩
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As a student, professor, and colleague, I have often wanted this website. Eric has done us all a tremendous kindness by compiling into one place all the (often elusive or opaque) information needed to learn or teach several ancient languages using braille and describing the process with clarity.
Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages
[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.] I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North …
www.blindscholar.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As a student, professor, and colleague, I have often wanted this website. Eric has done us all a tremendous kindness by compiling into one place all the (often elusive or opaque) information needed to learn or teach several ancient languages using braille and describing the process with clarity.
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Next Monday!
Hear about our new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), and its first volume, The Pearlsong!
(You'll hear me cite, among others, the Shangri-Las, Robert Hunter, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and Erik Davis.)
Hear about our new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), and its first volume, The Pearlsong!
(You'll hear me cite, among others, the Shangri-Las, Robert Hunter, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and Erik Davis.)
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Next Monday!
Hear about our new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), and its first volume, The Pearlsong!
(You'll hear me cite, among others, the Shangri-Las, Robert Hunter, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and Erik Davis.)
Hear about our new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), and its first volume, The Pearlsong!
(You'll hear me cite, among others, the Shangri-Las, Robert Hunter, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and Erik Davis.)
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Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
Things Unseen | University of California Press
How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowl...
luminosoa.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!