“…an important contribution to the Berghahn series on Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality and should be essential reading for medical anthropologists in the wake of the pandemic.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly ow.ly/mvM350HPRjw #AcademicTwitter @kasstanb #jewishstudies

Very excited to say I'm joining _Material Religion_ as Book Reviews Editor for UK/EU region. If you have relevant titles coming out soon, or know of one you'd like to review, talk to me! #materialreligion MaterialReligion

Exciting news, please circulate widely! I'm hiring two 12-month postdoc positions for my UKRI-funded project on Orthodox Christian sociopolitics. See link for details. email/message me if you have questions! atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…

Excited to share this work of collaboration: three authors, four national/local Orthodox Churches, based on fieldwork conducted during the pandemic. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A bit of a different medium than I’m used to, but for those who like podcasts… give a quick listen to some of the recent work done as part of my Material Ecologies & Sociopolitics of Religion research. UK Research and Innovation …a lovely collaboration with two amazing scholars.

Please remember to put out Oreos and almond milk for Santa tonight, Saint Nicholas uses the traditional calendar and is still fasting.

Whoever invented the 'narrative resume' was likely a sadist. This is my morning reflection.

Exciting times... 'Apophatic love, contagion, and surveillance: Orthodox Christian responses to the global pandemic' has its vol. & issue pagination now. To celebrate, download it (it's OA), & cite it, if that's what you're into! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If you are Orthodox Christian, or a scholar of Eastern Orthodoxy, please take a look! If you are interested in presenting a paper, contact me! We still have a few places. (And there is some funding available to help speakers with costs.)

Tis phishing season again, and after the teeming seas of last year there's still an odd smell about the mechanism for reporting research progress. Hoping to see some fish get filleted one of these years.

A few years in the making & excited by the list of speakers. A few places still open to the public (please book), if anyone is interested in Eastern Orthodoxy! Speakers include clergy, iconographers and theologians as well as anthropologist & political scientists.

So Damascus got bombed again, with civilian casualties, on top of the sanctions & the earthquakes & the sanctions impeding releaf aid. When is 'enough'? Is there going to be any public outcry this time, or is some suffering not worthy of attention from the global 'community'?

Question for the Orthodox men beginning the fast tonight. What beard oil do you use? (cf Matthew 6:17)

A great statement from this woman about Orthodox Christian Material Culture. The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being subjected to religious persecution by their own government. ☦️

starting to feel like I got swindled by an elaborate scam. they had an impressive show room and everything... but after a month chasing a delivery that keeps getting reschedule, and now phone lines that have gone dead... does anyone know if IKEA UK is even a real business

google the definition for 'sandpit', you get 'intensive discussion forums where free thinking is encouraged' and 'shallow hole or box in the ground with sand in it where small children can play'. How do you get intensive discussions in shallow holes?

So is the new Journal app there to make it easier for the CIA to keep tabs on e’ery one?

The thing I don’t get about these example plates is how they use the same image for 3 of the 4 types of vision.