adrien palladino
@apaladine.bsky.social
art historian | scholar | editor | researching medieval material culture, tracing echoes of byzantium, and navigating historiographical myths
Pinned
"Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present."
Marc Bloch (1886-1944), The Historian's Craft, 1949
Marc Bloch (1886-1944), The Historian's Craft, 1949
L’Arménie, archi moderniste | Invitation au voyage | ARTE
YouTube video by Invitation au voyage
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November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Publication – « Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres », éd. Jonathan Shepard and Peter Frankopan
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Publication – « Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres », éd. Jonathan Shepard and Peter Frankopan
Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe …
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September 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Publication – « Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres », éd. Jonathan Shepard and Peter Frankopan
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.
June 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.
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Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Rima Hassan is a French citizen.
Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot
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Rima Hassan is a French citizen.
Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot
...2/
June 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Rima Hassan is a French citizen.
Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot
...2/
Rima Hassan is a French citizen.
Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
X : @FranceDiplo_EN & @francediplo & @jnbarot
...2/
"Today I think of myself [...] as a historian of small things—fragments of conversations, whispers in corridors, haunting lines of lost poems, broken shards of history that do not fit the pot we carry about in our heads [...]."
quote from a wonderful book: Paul E. Dutton, Micro Middle Ages, 2023
quote from a wonderful book: Paul E. Dutton, Micro Middle Ages, 2023
June 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"Today I think of myself [...] as a historian of small things—fragments of conversations, whispers in corridors, haunting lines of lost poems, broken shards of history that do not fit the pot we carry about in our heads [...]."
quote from a wonderful book: Paul E. Dutton, Micro Middle Ages, 2023
quote from a wonderful book: Paul E. Dutton, Micro Middle Ages, 2023
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This Eid, our hearts are with the Palestinians of Gaza. You deserve life, justice, peace, and the right to celebrate Eid without mourning.
#EidMubarak #FreedomForGaza #Madleen #Solidarity #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #JusticeForGaza
#EidMubarak #FreedomForGaza #Madleen #Solidarity #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #JusticeForGaza
June 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Eid, our hearts are with the Palestinians of Gaza. You deserve life, justice, peace, and the right to celebrate Eid without mourning.
#EidMubarak #FreedomForGaza #Madleen #Solidarity #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #JusticeForGaza
#EidMubarak #FreedomForGaza #Madleen #Solidarity #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #JusticeForGaza
Mitteleuropäer ist der, den die Teilung unseres Erdteils verletzt, berührt, behindert, beunruhigt und beengt (György Konrád, Mein Traum von Europa, 1985)
May 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Mitteleuropäer ist der, den die Teilung unseres Erdteils verletzt, berührt, behindert, beunruhigt und beengt (György Konrád, Mein Traum von Europa, 1985)
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We invite you to the workshop “The Brescia Casket: An Exemplary Object Biography Between Art History, Technical Art history, and Reception History”
16.05.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 h at the ZI and online
Program: www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
Funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
16.05.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 h at the ZI and online
Program: www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
Funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
May 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We invite you to the workshop “The Brescia Casket: An Exemplary Object Biography Between Art History, Technical Art history, and Reception History”
16.05.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 h at the ZI and online
Program: www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
Funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
16.05.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 h at the ZI and online
Program: www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
Funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
May 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...
Opinion | Mohsen Mahdawi: I Never Lost Hope in the Principles of Democracy
Detained at his citizenship interview, the Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi speaks of his ordeal.
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May 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...
The writer as a painter. youtu.be/JI-2KX5tfS4?...
Meet Me at The Met: Orhan Pamuk
YouTube video by The Met
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May 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The writer as a painter. youtu.be/JI-2KX5tfS4?...
At this rate, just one more discovery and Ridley Scott can finally shoot Sharks vs. Gladiators: The True Story.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...
Bite Marks on Skeleton Offer First Evidence of Gladiator Combat With Lion
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire.
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April 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
At this rate, just one more discovery and Ridley Scott can finally shoot Sharks vs. Gladiators: The True Story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...
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Excited to take part in the roundtable "The Two Cultures. Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" organized by the Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication at Masaryk University.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Excited to take part in the roundtable "The Two Cultures. Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" organized by the Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication at Masaryk University.
@re-cent.bsky.social @epinicion.bsky.social @apaladine.bsky.social
@re-cent.bsky.social @epinicion.bsky.social @apaladine.bsky.social
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The book “Conques Across Time. Inventions and Reinventions (9th–21st centuries), edited by Ivan Foletti and @apaladine.bsky.social, is out! More about the book: center-recent.com/publikace/#c...
April 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The book “Conques Across Time. Inventions and Reinventions (9th–21st centuries), edited by Ivan Foletti and @apaladine.bsky.social, is out! More about the book: center-recent.com/publikace/#c...
Thank you, Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov), for consistently speaking out with clarity and facts: youtu.be/Sox2VVM6eGQ?...
Netanyahu’s Gaza War is ‘Barbaric.’ The U.S. Must End Our Complicity | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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April 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Thank you, Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov), for consistently speaking out with clarity and facts: youtu.be/Sox2VVM6eGQ?...
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We are pleased to invite you to take part in the two-day roundtable “The Two #Cultures: Natural #Sciences and #Humanities, Convergent Paths?”, to be held on April 7–8, 2025.
Full program: center-recent.com/en/the-two-c...
Full program: center-recent.com/en/the-two-c...
March 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We are pleased to invite you to take part in the two-day roundtable “The Two #Cultures: Natural #Sciences and #Humanities, Convergent Paths?”, to be held on April 7–8, 2025.
Full program: center-recent.com/en/the-two-c...
Full program: center-recent.com/en/the-two-c...
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When the Louvre’s new department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art opens in 2027, a huge gift of icons will be among its new acquisitions; plus more from our monthly round-up of the important works to enter museum collections
Acquisitions of the month: February 2025 | Apollo Magazine
Eastern Christian icons for the Louvre and French Old Masters for the Art Institute of Chicago were among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
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March 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
When the Louvre’s new department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art opens in 2027, a huge gift of icons will be among its new acquisitions; plus more from our monthly round-up of the important works to enter museum collections
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‘When authoritarians promise a return to an imaginary past, they stoke a furious nostalgia in those who have no better way to understand what is actually undermining their sense of a durable and meaningful future.’
Judith Butler on Executive Order 14168: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler on Executive Order 14168: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong
We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘When authoritarians promise a return to an imaginary past, they stoke a furious nostalgia in those who have no better way to understand what is actually undermining their sense of a durable and meaningful future.’
Judith Butler on Executive Order 14168: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler on Executive Order 14168: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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un chercheur du CNRS dans le domaine spatial en route pour un colloque à Houston a été refoulé par les autorités américaines et son matériel informatique confisqué, parce que des propos critiques envers Trump ont été retrouvés dans son téléphone et son ordinateur
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www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
March 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
un chercheur du CNRS dans le domaine spatial en route pour un colloque à Houston a été refoulé par les autorités américaines et son matériel informatique confisqué, parce que des propos critiques envers Trump ont été retrouvés dans son téléphone et son ordinateur
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...