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Sarah Porter
@portersf.bsky.social
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asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
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@sarahebond.bsky.social on @jiatolentino.bsky.social's desk?! in Vogue?! we love a crossover.
screenshot of a photograph from Vogue Philippines' instagram from a feature of Jia Tolentino. in the photo is a white desk surface with five books visible: Carriére's Chronicle of a Trial, Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional, Sarah Bond's Strike, and one in the back that I can't see very well.
March 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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1. are you thinking about ruins? 2. are you thinking about intersectionality and ancient cities? 3. (invited) 4. are you thinking about space, place, and lived experience in antiquity?? Join us!
#aarsbl25 #sblaar25
Description: This unit seeks to engage diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives on social practices in antiquity as mediated through place or larger spatial frameworks. Presentations exploring the creation, use, or understanding of space or place through material remains and/or texts are welcome. Call for papers: 1. Reflecting on ruins. Ancient and modern reflections on ruins, ruination, and ruined spaces often diverge considerably. We anticipate proposals that explore this gap between ancient and modern theorizations of ruins. Do theories of ruins/ruination developed for the industrial and post-industrial world offer insights for ancient datasets? Can ancient reflections on ruins speak to contemporary ruin theory? We also welcome proposals on specific archaeological sites or ancient literary discourses of ruins. Theoretical frameworks informed by gender, trauma, occupation, and war are especially sought. 2. The Social Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Space. Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity Units are pleased to announce a joint session dedicated to the theme of intersectionality and urban space in Common Era Antiquity. The session will be a combination of invited contributions as well as papers accepted for presentation. We invite proposals for papers that consider ways in which shared urban spaces such as marketplaces, crossroads, streets, cemeteries, shops, cauponae, insulae, domus, harbors, prisons, etc. furnished places for dynamic construction and signaling of socio-religious identities. 3. A book panel on Mark Lester’s Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2024) held jointly with the Book of Deuteronomy unit. Panelists will be invited. 4. Finally, we have an open call on space, place, and lived experience in antiquity. Successful proposals will include a clearly stated theoretical framework and an explanation of the link to “lived experience.”
March 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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here's a picture of my dog, and i'll just put the image desc here: photo taken from behind of a large-ish black and white dog (Luna) on a blue leash, walking a sidewalk triumphantly, holding a stick that's twice her size, like all of us
December 12, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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so is mine 💕
November 26, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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alas, neither st. lucy nor hypatia were summoned...but i did get to read some tarot!
in the foreground, a round table with votive and taper candles and draped in crimson and gold. if you look closely, you can see a saucer with two eyeballs on it. in the background, a fireplace draped in purple twinkle lights. spooky!
October 25, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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blueya
September 17, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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@emuehlbe.bsky.social thought of your "imagination, space, and filth" article last night when this guy died in the Yellowstone ep i was watching (yes i KNOW it's repub show)
screenshot of Yellowstone. A man with grey hair and glasses is sitting on a toilet saying "i don't want to die on a fucking toilet." (he will die on a fucking toilet in just a second. but he abducted the guy's son!!!)
February 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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obsessed with these lowkey disturbing holiday cards a long-ago friend is selling www.redbubble.com/people/acsb9...
small shocked gnome with red hat against a black background. a terrible teethy face grins from the darkness. text: "christmas eve will find me."
December 5, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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it's week 4 - time for one of my good ole "this is how we seminar" games
In the background, a white paper with black text (it's Mark 11:12-22). Laying on top of that paper are a bunch of smaller paper squares, each with an instruction on it. Visible are: "Point us to a place in the text," "Something you're confused about," "express appreciation for a colleague's contribution," "provide supporting evidence for a colleague's view," "say 'I'm not sure' and explain why"
September 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM