Daria Kohler
@dareiadareia.bsky.social
• Classics (Greek and Roman "publishing")
• Digital Humanities (dabbling in things)
• Research management (currently at KU Leuven)
A little book just out: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009545327
• Digital Humanities (dabbling in things)
• Research management (currently at KU Leuven)
A little book just out: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009545327
An opinion: (1) hybrid participation – at least passively – is a good thing for lots of reasons; (2) it is not hugely difficult to arrange, and we all should be able to handle the setting up by now; (3) those not doing the setup still need to acknowledge that it needs people and thinking through.
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
An opinion: (1) hybrid participation – at least passively – is a good thing for lots of reasons; (2) it is not hugely difficult to arrange, and we all should be able to handle the setting up by now; (3) those not doing the setup still need to acknowledge that it needs people and thinking through.
Among other things, I'm preparing a suggestion to teach an MA course on ancient books, hopefully to begin next autumn. It's getting more and more real, with ECTS and exam description, so it's very exciting (and a bit scary).
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Among other things, I'm preparing a suggestion to teach an MA course on ancient books, hopefully to begin next autumn. It's getting more and more real, with ECTS and exam description, so it's very exciting (and a bit scary).
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The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History 2025 conference asks what it means to be in and out of the canon in intellectual history.
📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...
www.helsinki.fi
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History 2025 conference asks what it means to be in and out of the canon in intellectual history.
📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
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Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
A very nice volume coming from an event at LECTIO (@lectio-institute.bsky.social), also featuring my collection of thoughts on prefaces and names. Always strange (but also enjoyable) to think back to the original conference when the publication comes out.
New issue of Trends in Classics Vol. 17, No. 2 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... Networking through Proems: Proemial Strategies for Intellectual Networking in Antiquity @elsagiova.bsky.social @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social @dareiadareia.bsky.social @dareiadareia.bsky.social
Special Issue: Networking through Proems:
Proemial Strategies for Intellectual Networking in Antiquity
Issue Editors: Kasra Abdavi-Azar/Marco Pelucchi/Elsa Giovanna
Simonetti/Pietro Zaccaria
Volume 17, issue 2 of the journal Trends in Classics was published in 2025.
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A very nice volume coming from an event at LECTIO (@lectio-institute.bsky.social), also featuring my collection of thoughts on prefaces and names. Always strange (but also enjoyable) to think back to the original conference when the publication comes out.
Still Life with Books | Artwork | National Museum of Women in the Arts
nmwa.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.
C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.
C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
I still don't have a good way to bookmark cool things on here... so I'll just repost them instead.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
August 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I still don't have a good way to bookmark cool things on here... so I'll just repost them instead.
"the infernal lecture"!
For all students and scholars facing a deadline, you are not alone. Tolkien wrote to his son, Michael, on 1 March 1939:
"I am going off to Scotland on Monday night or Tuesday morning, & have not written the infernal lecture yet. Not much bed for me between then and now, I fear"
"I am going off to Scotland on Monday night or Tuesday morning, & have not written the infernal lecture yet. Not much bed for me between then and now, I fear"
August 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"the infernal lecture"!
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Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!
www.kuleuven.be
August 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Can anyone recommend a tool for creating 'bookmarks' or saving posts on here? Or is there an obvious one which I've missed?
August 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Can anyone recommend a tool for creating 'bookmarks' or saving posts on here? Or is there an obvious one which I've missed?
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📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
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For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine!
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine!
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
One more point on this: dear fellow academics, when you announce conferences or events without a hybrid option [another topic...], please do so at least 1-2 months in advance. This way, those who have it a bit harder to arrange travel/visas/other things can make sure they can attend. Accessibility!
Visa application centres are the greatest scam ever. You cannot opt out, you pay extra, and then they have a website upload system that crashes (but if you don't want to use it, you have to pay to scan your documents there). Well, at least now I don't have to travel for 2h to get to one!
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
One more point on this: dear fellow academics, when you announce conferences or events without a hybrid option [another topic...], please do so at least 1-2 months in advance. This way, those who have it a bit harder to arrange travel/visas/other things can make sure they can attend. Accessibility!
Visa application centres are the greatest scam ever. You cannot opt out, you pay extra, and then they have a website upload system that crashes (but if you don't want to use it, you have to pay to scan your documents there). Well, at least now I don't have to travel for 2h to get to one!
August 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Visa application centres are the greatest scam ever. You cannot opt out, you pay extra, and then they have a website upload system that crashes (but if you don't want to use it, you have to pay to scan your documents there). Well, at least now I don't have to travel for 2h to get to one!
Presented my graphs and tables at #papycongress2025 :)
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Presented my graphs and tables at #papycongress2025 :)
In Köln for #papycongress2025. Already spotted three people with conference bags at the hotel breakfast and one person studying the programme.
July 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In Köln for #papycongress2025. Already spotted three people with conference bags at the hotel breakfast and one person studying the programme.
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You can turn this off if you go to settings, tab Generative AI, and just uncheck "Enable generative AI features in Acrobat."
Though I do still find it mind-boggling that there isn't a good academic-oriented free open-source PDF reader. But that's another issue ...
Though I do still find it mind-boggling that there isn't a good academic-oriented free open-source PDF reader. But that's another issue ...
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can turn this off if you go to settings, tab Generative AI, and just uncheck "Enable generative AI features in Acrobat."
Though I do still find it mind-boggling that there isn't a good academic-oriented free open-source PDF reader. But that's another issue ...
Though I do still find it mind-boggling that there isn't a good academic-oriented free open-source PDF reader. But that's another issue ...
Even scammers are mocking me...
May 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Even scammers are mocking me...
The top three things driving me mad as I'm finalising the volume edits:
1. OneDrive / SharePoint sync issues
2. Bibliography entries for conference proceedings without editors (n)or traditional publisher
3. [still vacant]
1. OneDrive / SharePoint sync issues
2. Bibliography entries for conference proceedings without editors (n)or traditional publisher
3. [still vacant]
May 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The top three things driving me mad as I'm finalising the volume edits:
1. OneDrive / SharePoint sync issues
2. Bibliography entries for conference proceedings without editors (n)or traditional publisher
3. [still vacant]
1. OneDrive / SharePoint sync issues
2. Bibliography entries for conference proceedings without editors (n)or traditional publisher
3. [still vacant]
Quick note of appreciation to those who name their files correctly and clearly (not "paper_Leuven.docx" or "fig_1.png" but at least including the last name and the title). They most probably won't read it here, but still!
May 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Quick note of appreciation to those who name their files correctly and clearly (not "paper_Leuven.docx" or "fig_1.png" but at least including the last name and the title). They most probably won't read it here, but still!
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@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you!
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
April 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you!
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
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A Hedgehog in a French bestiary, c.1270.
March 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A Hedgehog in a French bestiary, c.1270.
Now I can spam from two accounts at the same time! But it's of course a good idea to separate my personal bluesky and the institution's bluesky account, even if I will probably repost a lost between the two.
Hello BlueSky! This is a new account for the LECTIO Institute. We are an interdisciplinary research institute based in Leuven devoted to the study of the intellectual history of pre-modern and early modern Europe.
www.kuleuven.be/lectio
www.kuleuven.be/lectio
March 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now I can spam from two accounts at the same time! But it's of course a good idea to separate my personal bluesky and the institution's bluesky account, even if I will probably repost a lost between the two.
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Hello BlueSky! This is a new account for the LECTIO Institute. We are an interdisciplinary research institute based in Leuven devoted to the study of the intellectual history of pre-modern and early modern Europe.
www.kuleuven.be/lectio
www.kuleuven.be/lectio
March 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hello BlueSky! This is a new account for the LECTIO Institute. We are an interdisciplinary research institute based in Leuven devoted to the study of the intellectual history of pre-modern and early modern Europe.
www.kuleuven.be/lectio
www.kuleuven.be/lectio