Benjamin Anderson
Art historian, gay husband & doodle dad 🐩 Writing ✍️ etc. at bunyaminanderson.com 🛜
- Very much looking forward to this conversation! “Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s” February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST 300S Buell Hall and online Byron Hamann Response by Benjamin Anderson
- Congratulations 🎉 to Andrew Griebeler & Botanical Icons 🌱 on winning the 2025 ICMA Book Prize!
- Happy holidays from our doodle to yours! 🐩
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- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonEleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
- I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonThe petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
- What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!
- Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -
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- Beginning soon! (In person & online) -
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonShocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
- It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship! We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
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- (Deadline is 31 October.)
- We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
- As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonThis is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
- I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
- New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonWe're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
- Unfair to doodles 🐩
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- We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300
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- Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -
- Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!
- Guess that musical! #musicals
- Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)
- Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -
- First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa
- Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
- Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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- In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -
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- This Athenian kitty just snagged a tasty bug in the Agora 🐜
- Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video - www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...
- En route!
- So erschien damals (1906) etwas wissenschaftlich doch auf Deutsch -
- April 1 - in Athens & online!
- Way to lean into the subtext -
