Society for the Study of the Past
@socstudyofthepast.bsky.social
The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Pinned
Let’s take a trip back to last week when we held our first ever annual meeting on the topic ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’. Thanks to all those who joined us, and those who were not able to will be able to catch up on the recordings soon! 🎥
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
Don’t ever quote “academic freedom” in response to the the academic boycott of Israel. There is no academic freedom wherever the long arm of Zionist pressure reaches.
5 days ago, the Collège de France advertised the very conference they subsequently, and cowardly, canceled due to tantrums thrown by anti-Palestinian racists who condone a genocidal, settler colonial project 👇
Make it make sense 3/
bsky.app/profile/coll...
Make it make sense 3/
bsky.app/profile/coll...
#Histoire #MoyenOrient
🇵🇸🇪🇺 "La #Palestine et l’#Europe : poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Henry Laurens, titulaire de la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe, et le @carepparis.bsky.social.
⏰ Les 13 et 14 novembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/396t3rft
🇵🇸🇪🇺 "La #Palestine et l’#Europe : poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Henry Laurens, titulaire de la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe, et le @carepparis.bsky.social.
⏰ Les 13 et 14 novembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/396t3rft
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Don’t ever quote “academic freedom” in response to the the academic boycott of Israel. There is no academic freedom wherever the long arm of Zionist pressure reaches.
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
there are several individuals who have been removed from academic positions so that they cannot continue to harm students, but whose work continues to be published by elite university presses, and continues to be reviewed in BMCR. our intellectual communities collude to erase histories of abuse
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
there are several individuals who have been removed from academic positions so that they cannot continue to harm students, but whose work continues to be published by elite university presses, and continues to be reviewed in BMCR. our intellectual communities collude to erase histories of abuse
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
this book, y’all. you’ll thank me later if you check it out; it’s very good.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
this book, y’all. you’ll thank me later if you check it out; it’s very good.
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
Happy Article Proofs Day to all who celebrate
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happy Article Proofs Day to all who celebrate
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
It’s Friday again so time for a new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ! 🎙️ In this one we talked to Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress. 🌙
You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It’s Friday again so time for a new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ! 🎙️ In this one we talked to Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress. 🌙
You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
Pasts Imperfect (11.6.25)
This week, historian of early Islamic material culture Rhiannon Garth Jones breaks down the reception of Roman antiquity during the Ottoman Empire. Then, dispelling myths about the Black Death; archae...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
Please join us on Saturday, Nov. 8 online for this workshop with Dean Spade.
Learn how to identify common patterns of emotional activation and conflict that emerge in political organizing, and how we can hold each other with care through challenging moments.
Learn how to identify common patterns of emotional activation and conflict that emerge in political organizing, and how we can hold each other with care through challenging moments.
Join us for a workshop led by Dean Spade, "Sticking Together in Tough Times" on Nov. 8 online.
This workshop benefits Wesam Water Project, a collaboration with/Wesam Hussam Mezher, a young boy from Gaza, to provide clean drinking water to families in the Gaza Strip.
chuffed.org/project/1424...
This workshop benefits Wesam Water Project, a collaboration with/Wesam Hussam Mezher, a young boy from Gaza, to provide clean drinking water to families in the Gaza Strip.
chuffed.org/project/1424...
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Please join us on Saturday, Nov. 8 online for this workshop with Dean Spade.
Learn how to identify common patterns of emotional activation and conflict that emerge in political organizing, and how we can hold each other with care through challenging moments.
Learn how to identify common patterns of emotional activation and conflict that emerge in political organizing, and how we can hold each other with care through challenging moments.
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
"Deir el-Balah’s Stolen Past: A Canaanite City Looted Under Occupation" by @jehadabusalim.bsky.social
jehadabusalim.substack.com/p/deir-el-ba...
jehadabusalim.substack.com/p/deir-el-ba...
Deir el-Balah’s Stolen Past: A Canaanite City Looted Under Occupation
Did you know that in the 1970s and 1980s Israel looted one of the most important Canaanite sites in Gaza, a site closely tied to ancient Egypt?
jehadabusalim.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Deir el-Balah’s Stolen Past: A Canaanite City Looted Under Occupation" by @jehadabusalim.bsky.social
jehadabusalim.substack.com/p/deir-el-ba...
jehadabusalim.substack.com/p/deir-el-ba...
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
@bdsmovement.bsky.social have published a statement on #isac2025 Warsaw and the organisation’s normalisation of Israel’s ongoing apartheid and genocide against Palestinians bdsmovement.net/news/palesti... #🏺
Palestinians Urge Boycott of 2025 Islamic Archaeology Conference Normalizing Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Once again, the Islamic Archaeology Conference is in violation of the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines. Furthermore, it includes speakers from Israeli institutions illegally based on occup...
bdsmovement.net
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@bdsmovement.bsky.social have published a statement on #isac2025 Warsaw and the organisation’s normalisation of Israel’s ongoing apartheid and genocide against Palestinians bdsmovement.net/news/palesti... #🏺
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
I emailed and I encouraged colleagues to do the same. the PPFP is a vital program which does so much good. if you can do something to support it, please do
Here is what you might say in an email. Please cc standup4PPFP@gmail.com and consider including your dean and chancellor.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I emailed and I encouraged colleagues to do the same. the PPFP is a vital program which does so much good. if you can do something to support it, please do
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
I am very concerned about anticipatory compliance at UC. Provost Katherine Newman has opted to defund a critical program called the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP). This incredibly selective postdoc has provided a route to UC faculty for many of my most valued colleagues. +
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I am very concerned about anticipatory compliance at UC. Provost Katherine Newman has opted to defund a critical program called the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP). This incredibly selective postdoc has provided a route to UC faculty for many of my most valued colleagues. +
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
pick just one fund and set up a recurring donation
Recurring donations are virtually the only support coming in for survival funds—times are tough which is also why folks are canceling them, but please don’t cancel just because you think the need is gone 😔 these families will die because people forgot them. And apps like this will ensure that.
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
pick just one fund and set up a recurring donation
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
today’s the day!!
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
today’s the day!!
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK and the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s Tackling Islamophobia Working Group have some events in store for you! 🌙 All welcome - please use the email on the poster to sign up.
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK and the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s Tackling Islamophobia Working Group have some events in store for you! 🌙 All welcome - please use the email on the poster to sign up.
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
This is a great special issue that explores capitalism and its visual representation, revealing how exploitative production is masked as free, equal exchange, with images serving as the key tool of this concealment and inversion.
it's here!
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is a great special issue that explores capitalism and its visual representation, revealing how exploitative production is masked as free, equal exchange, with images serving as the key tool of this concealment and inversion.
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
We are gearing up for new actions because we understand that our collective efforts make a difference. If you're interested in joining us, you can do so 👇
Interested in joining MfP? Fill out our intake form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Medievalists for Palestine Intake Form
docs.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are gearing up for new actions because we understand that our collective efforts make a difference. If you're interested in joining us, you can do so 👇
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
For this week’s episode of Radio ReOrient (from @reorient.bsky.social ) we spoke to Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel about the mechanics of resistance. 🇵🇸 Why do we protest? To find out, listen in via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts.🎙️
Jummah Mubarak from Radio ReOrient! 💚🌙
Jummah Mubarak from Radio ReOrient! 💚🌙
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For this week’s episode of Radio ReOrient (from @reorient.bsky.social ) we spoke to Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel about the mechanics of resistance. 🇵🇸 Why do we protest? To find out, listen in via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts.🎙️
Jummah Mubarak from Radio ReOrient! 💚🌙
Jummah Mubarak from Radio ReOrient! 💚🌙
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
Classics and Africa CFP
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, …
resdifficiles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
One more push: please help spread the word about my crowdfunding effort to support Arabic-language access to ancient Gazan literature & financial support for a Gazan translator!
🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
Click here to support Chance Bonar's story *AncientGazanLitTranslation
*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.
spot.fund
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
One more push: please help spread the word about my crowdfunding effort to support Arabic-language access to ancient Gazan literature & financial support for a Gazan translator!
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
We are so close! Help @chancebonar.bsky.social make Ancient Gazan lit more accessible to community!
🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
Click here to support Chance Bonar's story *AncientGazanLitTranslation
*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.
spot.fund
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We are so close! Help @chancebonar.bsky.social make Ancient Gazan lit more accessible to community!
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
The Complaint Apparatus
Some thoughts on the co-option of complaints
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world!
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world!
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...
Reposted by Society for the Study of the Past
Writers, please sign on. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
!["lydiakiesling [via IG]: I have written for the NYT in various sections since 2014 and it was one of the most exciting moments of my professional life when I first had a byline with the magazine. Since then the paper has supplied the majority of my freelance income, because they are one of the few places that has money to spend and a single long magazine piece there can pay $10,000--almost unheard of anywhere else. In our denuded national media landscape something like 8 percent of American journalists are employed there. I say all this only to convey that, although I know it's craven, I wrestled with severing the connection to a financial lifeline that is known as "the paper of record" and also employs people I care about and respect across its many sections. But I can't pretend not to see the way the paper has played the role of stenographer for the IDF, or used language to emphasize the humanity of Israeli civilians while turning murdered Palestinians into faceless groups, or allowed Bret Stephens to treat genocide like a matter of personal sentiment. Freelancers are important for maintaining this storied institution. I'm not so naive to imagine even 300 people will make a difference, but we won't know if we don't try. If you're a writer, learn more and sign on at the link in my stories. I sign in remembrance of the many murdered Palestinian journalists and novelists and poets who will never again have the choice."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gsejldqrfqdgjfyce5fc46gv/bafkreihwojydlx5myor6eqdg4stkuz4pjivzeinvr7zqufprhxhvmem4qm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Writers, please sign on. www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...