Seth Bernard
@profbernard.bsky.social
Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
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Seth Bernard
@profbernard.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Friends, please share the attached CfP widely and consider submission: "Climate, landscape and human impact in Italy during the Etruscan period" (Pisa, May 25-27, 2026).
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
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The search for the next director of the Classical Summer School at the AAR, to start in 2027-28, is now open.
Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!
Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!
Open Positions
The American Academy in Rome is seeking candidates for Chief Operating Officer and Director of the American Academy in Rome Classical Summer School.
www.aarome.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The search for the next director of the Classical Summer School at the AAR, to start in 2027-28, is now open.
Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!
Be my successor!
www.aarome.org/about/open-p...
Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!
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How much interaction did the Romans have with Ancient India? The discovery of graves for pet monkeys on the Egyptian coast suggest that some Romans, including soldiers, likely kept exotic pets in their households.
Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
hyperallergic.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
How much interaction did the Romans have with Ancient India? The discovery of graves for pet monkeys on the Egyptian coast suggest that some Romans, including soldiers, likely kept exotic pets in their households.
yes, Sarah, don’t overlook the monkey buried with its own pet kitten! Of everything @gregwoolf.bsky.social, Mantha, and I have edited for #JRA so far this year, this one is up there with my favorites—don’t sleep on the human skull from La Loma on #FirstView either. The Dec ‘25 issue is absolutely🔥
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity
Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
hyperallergic.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
yes, Sarah, don’t overlook the monkey buried with its own pet kitten! Of everything @gregwoolf.bsky.social, Mantha, and I have edited for #JRA so far this year, this one is up there with my favorites—don’t sleep on the human skull from La Loma on #FirstView either. The Dec ‘25 issue is absolutely🔥
Now out, the field report of the 2024 campaign at Falerii Novi! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON | Papers of the British School at Rome | Cambridge Core
THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON - Volume 93
www.cambridge.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Now out, the field report of the 2024 campaign at Falerii Novi! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Amazing! Check out the new 3 volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe, now out, best contributor reward to hit my desk in a v long time.
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Amazing! Check out the new 3 volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe, now out, best contributor reward to hit my desk in a v long time.
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On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Delighted to see Corinna Riva's outstandingly innovative essay on the 1st millennium BCE now published
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Multi-scalar Lenses on the Mediterranean in the First Millennium BC - Journal of Archaeological Research
In the current era of global approaches in archaeology and, more broadly, in the social and historical sciences, questions on the benefits, modes, and challenges of addressing multiple analytical scal...
link.springer.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Delighted to see Corinna Riva's outstandingly innovative essay on the 1st millennium BCE now published
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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📢 Did you know the the Journal of Roman Archaeology is flipping to #OpenAccess?
All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more: https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more: https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 Did you know the the Journal of Roman Archaeology is flipping to #OpenAccess?
All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more: https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
All research content published in the journal from January 2026 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌏. Find out more: https://cup.org/4oaKGzq
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Cambridge University Press
view.updates.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Friends, please share the attached CfP widely and consider submission: "Climate, landscape and human impact in Italy during the Etruscan period" (Pisa, May 25-27, 2026).
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Friends, please share the attached CfP widely and consider submission: "Climate, landscape and human impact in Italy during the Etruscan period" (Pisa, May 25-27, 2026).
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
Deadline for submissions is February 13, 2026, more info here: etrusco.dst.unipi.it
Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
📕 #BookReview
What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺
What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
Congratulations @darcytuttle.bsky.social on a superb study of a critical Roman monument!
NEW: Darcy Tuttle, "Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios," *Journal of Roman Studies* 2025.
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios
www.cambridge.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Congratulations @darcytuttle.bsky.social on a superb study of a critical Roman monument!
We're happy to announce the latest volume of the Journal of Roman Archaeology #JRA now out in print and online! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest volume | Journal of Roman Archaeology | Cambridge Core
Journal of Roman Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We're happy to announce the latest volume of the Journal of Roman Archaeology #JRA now out in print and online! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Summer Beach Read #2: @profbernard.bsky.social 's *Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy.*
Fascinating survey of the material evidence for how Italians conceptualized their past, and how those conceptualizations changed alongside the development of urban states.
Fascinating survey of the material evidence for how Italians conceptualized their past, and how those conceptualizations changed alongside the development of urban states.
July 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Summer Beach Read #2: @profbernard.bsky.social 's *Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy.*
Fascinating survey of the material evidence for how Italians conceptualized their past, and how those conceptualizations changed alongside the development of urban states.
Fascinating survey of the material evidence for how Italians conceptualized their past, and how those conceptualizations changed alongside the development of urban states.
New collaborative OA publication on the state of early Roman coinage studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Money and Mid-Republican Rome | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Money and Mid-Republican Rome
www.cambridge.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New collaborative OA publication on the state of early Roman coinage studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence? A new study argues that this was largely due to the labor of enslaved people, who were indispensable to the city’s growth until its demise in 79 CE.
New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
hyperallergic.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How did Pompeii come to reach such levels of success and affluence? A new study argues that this was largely due to the labor of enslaved people, who were indispensable to the city’s growth until its demise in 79 CE.
@sarahebond.bsky.social writes about my new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social paper on #Pompeii slavery and inequality for @hyperallergic.com, great to see the study catching notice!
New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
hyperallergic.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
@sarahebond.bsky.social writes about my new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social paper on #Pompeii slavery and inequality for @hyperallergic.com, great to see the study catching notice!
Rarely post here, but check out my new, highly ambitious study of slavery and the Roman economy!
New on advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Rarely post here, but check out my new, highly ambitious study of slavery and the Roman economy!
@carlosfnorena.bsky.social are you writing for #ESPN these days?
September 29, 2023 at 6:39 PM
@carlosfnorena.bsky.social are you writing for #ESPN these days?
So has anyone else been finding powerpoint's AI design generator a bit problematic?
September 28, 2023 at 3:46 PM
So has anyone else been finding powerpoint's AI design generator a bit problematic?
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Announcing the 2023-2024 SATHER LECTURES at UC Berkeley
THE POETRY OF BEING AND THE PROSE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto
Lecture 1: "The Poetry of Being"
Today, 7:00 PM
315 Wheeler Hall
[I believe these will be recorded/uploaded]
THE POETRY OF BEING AND THE PROSE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto
Lecture 1: "The Poetry of Being"
Today, 7:00 PM
315 Wheeler Hall
[I believe these will be recorded/uploaded]
September 21, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Announcing the 2023-2024 SATHER LECTURES at UC Berkeley
THE POETRY OF BEING AND THE PROSE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto
Lecture 1: "The Poetry of Being"
Today, 7:00 PM
315 Wheeler Hall
[I believe these will be recorded/uploaded]
THE POETRY OF BEING AND THE PROSE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto
Lecture 1: "The Poetry of Being"
Today, 7:00 PM
315 Wheeler Hall
[I believe these will be recorded/uploaded]