Merry Christmas! God bless us, everyone!

Happy New Year! I am at Hong Kong International Airport, waiting for a 3:20am flight to New York so that I can attend the annual conference of the American Historical Association. I wouldn’t stay up this late for a party, so why am I doing it for work?!? #AHA25

Wandering around the Met in New York, trying to fight off jet lag before the AHA begins tomorrow. I keep coming across artefacts, thinking ‘that looks familiar’, and then recognising them from images that I use in my lecture slides! #AHA25

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍Topic Making History, Writing History, and Becoming History: The Life, Work, and Legacy of #Xuanzang 📆14 Jan 25 (Tue) HKT 9:00am-10:30am 🖥ZOOM Meeting ID: 982 9976 4121 👤Prof. Benjamin BROSE,University of Michigan

Historians often try to explain why things happened, but this is an unusual case in which I tried to explain why something *didn’t* happen. Just published, ‘Untranslatable Law’ in Toma and Bara (edd.), ‘Latin Translations of Greek Texts’: brill.com/display/book/9…

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍 #Istanbul and #Venice: The #Politics of Information in the Early Modern City 📆18 Mar 25 (Tue) HKT 17:00-18:30 🖥ZOOM ID: 982 9976 4121 👤Prof. Filippo DE VIVO, University of Oxford All are welcome, no registration required. #cuhk #history

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍 Virtue at the Dawn of Modern Capitalism: Richard Price’s Idea of Prudence and How Numbers and Finance Became Moral (1750-1790) 📆20 Mar(Thu) 16:30 - 18:00 🏨Room 918, Esther Lee Building, CUHK (ELB 918) 👤Prof. Jacob SOLL, USC

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍 Global Religious Change and Patterns of Ruler Conversion, 1450-1850 📆22 April 25 (Tue) HKT 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 💻 982 9976 4121 👤Prof. Alan STRATHERN, University of Oxford #cuhk #history #lecture

Why do they keep putting ‘so-called’ in front of everything? Are they trying to imply that it isn’t a bill? Or do they just think that adding ‘so-called’ next to any random noun is a general way to convey unhappiness?

That was quick, Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology says it will expedite admissions and provide visa and housing support to students currently enrolled at Harvard as well as those holding confirmed offers in wake of Trump admin's announcement barring international students:

So, it’s not just me…

Just watched Tenet for the first time. It doesn’t seem to make sense that the Protagonist both established Tenet in the future and recruited himself in the past, since he only established it because he recruited himself and vice versa. Am I missing something?

A real head-scratcher!

I thought it was chocolate!

It took a few days, but our job ad is finally up on all the normal online academic job sites! If you're an ancient historian looking for a good tenure-track job, you should take a look. Here it is on the Society for Classical Studies website, for example: classicalstudies.org/placement-serv…