Benjamin Anderson
@bunyaminanderson.bsky.social
Art historian, gay husband & doodle dad 🐩 Writing ✍️ etc. at bunyaminanderson.com 🛜
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The Oracular Image: From Byzantium to the Baroque
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Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video - www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...
What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!
Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -
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My latest book, on open access!
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My latest book, on open access!
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Beginning soon! (In person & online) -
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Beginning soon! (In person & online) -
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Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
October 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
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i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines
(Deadline is 31 October.)
We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Job #AJO30300, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
(Deadline is 31 October.)
As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -
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This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.
The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey ...
www.routledge.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.
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We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
August 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
Unfair to doodles 🐩
August 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Unfair to doodles 🐩
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August 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Job #AJO30300, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
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We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.
I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.
July 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.
Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -
NO to the cable car at Monemvasia! - Αίτηση Online
* We say “NO!” to the proposed cable car project on the rock of Monemvasia; not only because it will disfigure both the natural and monumental setting of this unique historical town, but also as the p...
www.openpetition.eu
July 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -
Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!
🏛️Sardes Antik Kenti ve Bin Tepeler Lidya Tümülüsler, UNESCO Dünya Miras Listesi'nde
t24.com.tr/video/sardes...
t24.com.tr/video/sardes...
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!
Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)
May 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)
Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -
First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa
April 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa
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This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…
—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…
—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
April 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…
—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…
—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -
events.cornell.edu
April 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -