Daniel James Watson

Bergin Fellow @SCSLibrary @DIAS_Dublin. History of thought as the basis for contemporary thought: especially pre-modern Platonisms, and especially Ireland.

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Everything you wanted to know about medieval dreams of Ireland's apocalyptic imperial destiny but were afraid to ask! My article on the reception of Orosius' historiography by the Middle Irish narrative, Suidiugud Tellaig Temra, is now freely available https://t.co/GjGN2Bet4V

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Latest sign of the apocalypse. A normal box of Barry’s is no longer to be found at Dublin Airport, just these piddly little things. Even you didn’t have a friend in the world, they wouldn’t see you through a weekend. Soon they’ll be selling singles for a euro!

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

An unexpected delight to have been invited to join this wonderful meeting on Maximus the Confessor!

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

In this open access chapter, now published, I argue that Augustinian historiography provided early medieval Irish authors with the conceptual basis for making nostalgia for the pagan past theologically intelligible. https://t.co/5spHJ5hmtg

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

An outreach-style interview on my research on early medieval Irish philosophy. If you think you might be interested in this area of research, and what it is that I'm trying to find out about it, I think this qualifies as an accessible introduction. https://t.co/8s2BjNEoNV

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

@jabgreig Looking forward to this!

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Couldn't have asked for a weirder or more exciting match at the Leinster final yesterday. From start to finish it was charged with strange and almost mythic intensity

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

South Dublin Pastoral

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Grateful for the opportunity to share my research with the departments of Celtic Studies and Philosophy and Religious Studies at Saint Francis Xavier's University later this week.

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

It's an honour and privilege to have been invited to give the Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture this year. Though I will have to pull quite a rabbit out of my hat if I hope to do him justice!

[Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @CLIC_ERC]

OPEN POSITION (postdoc or post-MA) on the @CLIC_ERC project!! Full-time (12 months) starting *1/1/2025* or as soon as possible thereafter (deadline 15 December). Come to Aarhus!! https://t.co/JtUiteiwSG Pls RT!

[Silvia Di Vincenzo @Essedivvu]

Extremely happy to be part of this new project at @degruyter_phil! Updates on the volume on Aristotle's Categories edited by @ChiaradonnaR are expected in the coming days:

[SV Asterix @SvAsterix]

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[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

I don’t think there’s anything that tempts me to be a horder so much as an empty box of tea. Somehow it feels like getting rid of a keepsake given by an old friend.

[elena.parina @elena_parina]

I'm certainly partial, but I am very glad about this award of the @BritishAcademy_ for Prof Erich Poppe https://t.co/vuhSVYgnUg

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Apparently there are two indentical photos of the scholar, John Strachan, hanging around the same stairway at work, except that the one is framed white, and the other, black. If Twin Peaks is at all indicative, things are about to get extremely weird, but also, somehow, charming!

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

Banksy's centrist sentimentality for leftist politics seems the spiritual heir to Kinkade's conservative nostaglia for the pre-ideological (desire for what must not be allowed to be, becomes the basis for what must be), but perhaps this will change my mind https://t.co/NslsJlgqDr

[Daniel James Watson @totalmediation]

No doubt the humble plea of a local numerologist. 'Oh mark you not its symmetry, dear citizens, both vertical and horizontal, its divisibility to halves, quarters and eighths, thus arriving at prime 11: itself a dyadic repetition the monad, which, if added, makes again the dyad?'

[Early Irish Maynooth @EarlyIrishMU]

An upcoming event at the University of Bonn in memoriam Rudolf Thurneysen with a very strong contingent of present and past members of @EarlyIrishMU and the School of Celtic Studies at @MaynoothUni @MU_Research, incl. @ChronHib @CCeLL_project.

[NeoplAT @NeoplAT9_16]

Stephen Gersh's running commentary on Ficino's reading of Plotinus's Enneads is out. It is a monumental work that will change not only our understanding of Ficino's thought but also our knowledge on the first (full) entry of the Enneads in the Latin West.

https://t.co/4pRVkvwXdw