This Thursday, 12 March 2026, Emmylou Haffner and Nadia Podzemskaia organise a truly cool event, across arts and sciences, on the topic of points and lines. COSMOPOET will be present with achromatic lines and cosmological diagrams. The program is available here: www.item.ens.fr/points-et-li...
Join us on March 4 Fotini Kondyli's lecture "Spindle Whorls and Women’s Work: Reframing Middle Byzantine Lives in the Athenian Agora." 12:00 pm on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/spind...
book jacket with inverted medieval text
"The Early Illustrated 'Apollonius of Tyre' Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest" by Head of Research of the Old Books New Science Lab / CMS Alum, Jessica Lockhart, with Michelle P. Brown, is now available from Barkhuis Publishing. 📖
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Well observed, @stephenaj.bsky.social ! we will put a pin in it and keep it in mind for our diagrammatisation discussions in April.
OIKOS Course Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages at UGent 📅 2–3 February 2026📍Ghent University
The biennial OIKOS course on Byzantine Culture brought together ReMA and PhD students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an intensive exploration of the theme of Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages.
A reading recommendation: zenodo.org/records/1823..., which led to this other web place www.worldswritingsystems.org and I am loving it 😍
This Friday, 21 November, COSMOPOET will present at the lunch seminar of Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... This is an in-person event. All are welcome!
University of Vienna - Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history (from 1040):
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Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...
Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...
New volume of Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes Vol. 55 (2025) journals.openedition.org/cchyp/1857 #openaccess @openedition.bsky.social Chypre, de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin de l’époque médiévale (LA3M, Aix-en-Provence)
My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌
🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:
Well yes, but in every impressionistic image there must be a grain of realistic diagrammatic something, right? The horoscopic square is easily recognisable for instance. And I wonder about the rest, and yes, especially about that lunar crescent one...
Cool! I like "determinedly oblique". I see the horoscope, but what do you say about the rest of the diagrams?
🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃
🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 MPIWG
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#HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr
I like the addition of a cloudy sky - theoretically an obstacle for the functioning of the sundial!
Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/Coudenberg/62/30083 @cosmopoet.bsky.social
Who knows 🤔 but I'll try to find out things about the building. Also what a wonderful mosaic!!!
A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social
🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.
This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)
It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!
A prototype version of a modern astrolabe designed and produced by Kevin Karney, pinned together with cocktail sticks and held up by string.
Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.
There is an EIDA page (eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2...) but it seems to me that the IFEA one is more up to date.
Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!
I am staying with friends in Dunbar and we go for long dog walks in beautiful places.
North Berwick is also very beautiful
