Call for Papers – Epiros: the Other Western Rome, in association with Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research on Friday 8th November. Please submit abstracts of 300 words by the 17th August to [email protected]

Every now and then I think back to when a very elderly Reader in Oxford Bodleian library put his stack of books down on a shelf in the men's bathroom, inadvertently setting off the handblower, and the echoing cackle as he declared that "now they would be even more dry reading"

Check out this call for papers for a virtual workshop on ‘Epiros: The Other Western Rome’ 📆 Friday 8 November 2024 medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/07/30/cal… Nathan DC Websdale Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

Deadline for abstracts for Epiros: The Other Western Rome is this week!

🥉 Congratulations to Alice Barnes-Brown | Travel Writer & Editor, our AITO Young Travel Writer of the Year - Bronze award-winner, for the article ‘A slow boat through the Cyclades’, as featured in JRNYmag!🎉✈️ #TWOTY #AITO #TravelAwards #VisitGreece #Cyclades Visit Greece

Awful news from Leiden, an ancient university with a proud record internationally and which I have often visited

Hey everybody, please take a look at the Call for Papers for the 27th OUBS International Graduate Conference, entitled 'Byzantium and its environment', which will be held on 1st-2nd March 2025. Abstract deadline 29/11/24. See here for more info: oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com/27th-oubs-inte…

Day One of Epiros: The Other Western Rome is in the can, and we have had a wonderful array of insightful papers crossing Ioannina, Euboea, Ohrid, and Southern Italy. Join us from 9am tomorrow for day two!

Greta Thunberg goes to #Georgia to support a movement for #democracy. Greta Thunberg rejects #COP29 in #Azerbaijan by calling things as they are - greenwashing and whitewashing hypocrisy and a circus. Greta Thunberg goes to #Armenia. The only democratic bright spot in the whole

2001. Labour Manifesto Launch. Deputy PM John Prescott is hit by an egg after encountering pro-fox-hunting protesters in Rhyl. He responds with a left jab. Prescott later tells Blair 'well you asked me to go out and connect with the electorate'. RIP JP 🌹🌹🌹

Never change, Daily Telegraph

The last Odeon in #Oxford on George Street set to close Jan 25th and be replaced by a giant aparthotel. Since the 1930s, the city centre cinema has been in the fabric for students (£5 tickets) & the public. The loss hurts Oxonians for tourists, again. tinyurl.com/4fnfd9fk

Billionaires should not own social media platforms. Billionaires should not run our newspapers. Billionaires should not control our politics. A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.

📢The Medieval Mediterranean - 10 Feb, 5pm Our next webinar with SMM will explore authority in the medieval Mediterranean. We'll be joined by Prof, Damian Smith Saint Louis University, Dr Philippa Byrne Trinity College Dublin & Nathan Websdale Oxford History👇🏽 ow.ly/rPr550UOuPU

Fabulous weekend at Armenia & Byzantium V here in Oxford. A warm, generous, and analytical event. Full congratulations, and many thanks, to the organisers.

Christ is risen! These words capture the entire meaning of our existence, for we were not made for death but for life. #Easter vatican.va/content/france…

Epiros: The Other Western Rome returns to IMC_Leeds with Francesco Dall'Aglio, Evangelos (Evan) Zarkadas, and chaired by Ida Toth. Find us in the Esther Simpson 2.09 at 16:30 tomorrow for all things Late Byzantine, Balkan, and as a special treat, Via Egnatia. Thanks to Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research