It’s May so fast approaching is … you guessed it: the International day of the Slavonic Alphabet and culture! Read all about the modern politics of letters in my article on the latest issue of History Today

Can't wait to discuss my new book with the brilliant @Helen_Gittos and @Pseudo_Isidore next week. Join us 🥂 ⏲️Monday (20th) at 5pm 📍All Souls College, Oxford Big thanks to Peter Frankopan, Oxford University Byzantine Society (OUBS), Oxford Medieval Studies

My article on the Cyrillic alphabet in History Today is free to read - what a better way to spend May 24th, the day of the Slavonic Alphabet and Culture!

My TEDx talk about history, borders, nationalism and my roots and routes around the Balkans is now available online! Thanks to TEDxOxford and the beatiful Oxford City Hall. youtube.com/watch?v=LFmmVg…

Incredible project! Just like the exhibition The Odyssey of Byzantine Studies in Turkey, it provides a crucial resource to understand the development of our field. Congratulations to Sebnem Donbekci 👏🏻

New in Reflections: Mirela Ivanova Mirela Ivanova and Benjamin Anderson @BunyaminAnders on 'The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires'. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… Uni of Shef History CornellHistory

An important and impressive dissection of scholarship on Byzantium from the fall of Constantinople to the present. A must-read for Byzantinists.

The incredible 7th century wall paintings at the Sogdian rulers’ palace found in and on display at Afrosiyab (ancient and medieval Samarkand). Note the Turkish guards sitting cross legged with their long hair up top!

Dimitris Stamatopoulos' Byzantium after the Nation has been reviewed in EHR. Read the article The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires: 👉🏻tinyurl.com/ReviewStamatop… 🛒📙 tinyurl.com/CEUPressStamat… #Review #bookreview #article #byzantine

Slightly unbelievable (and probably the product of mysterious algorithms) but it seems that Ben (@BunyaminAnders) and I’s article on the Politics of Byzantine Studies is currently the most read on the English Historical Review website! Thanks for reading and/or clicking!

Thanks to Mirela for her diligent, enthusiastic and essential contribution to the making of The New Real.

‘I have always feared returning to class to scan the faces of my fellow students and find out who among them was missing — faces that I used to see every morning in the halls or in the corridors, young people who were passionate and kind.’ newlinesmag.com/first-person/a…

The Samanid Mausoleum in Bukharra (10th c.): oldest funerary monument in Central Asia! Survived almost entirely in tact underground (left). Local man outside told me Genghis Khan didn't destroy it because he was "scared of cemetaries".

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