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jaapgeraerts.bsky.social
Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: https://tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj
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Join us for the Summer School Books and Culture on The Religious Image @Ruusbroec Institute and @Museum Platin-Moretus in Antwerpen (30 June-5 July 2025). More information and apply: buff.ly/3QjN4EY #uantwerpen #summerschool #bookhistory

So excited to see ‘Faith in the Town’ (co-authored my me, @kategibson Jeremy Gregory and Carys Brown & published in Open Access form (free to read) today by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Want to know how religious faith was woven through urban life in northern English towns 1740-1830? Then read on …

#History #SkyStorians New CFP! Workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600-present. Now taking place in *London in September 2025*. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/oat...

CFP: Between Baghdad and Barcelona: Jewish Experiences in the Mediterranean. Workshop at University of Vienna, May 27, 2025 (3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/16447

🔔#CallforPapers for a #BookHistory conference: 'Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade', in Antwerp between 5-7 November 2025. Apply now! More info on museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...; or contact [email protected]! Deadline: 31 March 2025

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

On behalf of Dr Sukhwan Kang, we are pleased to announce that our co-authored article ‘Religious Coexistence in the Dutch Republic and France in the Seventeenth Century’ has just appeared in the Journal of #earlymodern Christianity 11:2 (2024) pp. 309–338. doi.org/10.1515/jemc...

For those who have not paid attention to what has been happening to (higher) education in GOP-controlled states in the last years (pet peeve), this excellent article will blow your mind. 🤯

Vandaag lanceren we de website Goetgevonden, waarmee je kunt zoeken in alle besluiten van de Staten-Generaal van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden (1576-1796). Goetgevonden is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten die ooit is gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl!

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting

spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Vanmiddag wordt, op initiatief van Fred van Lieburg, aan de Vrije Universiteit Willem Frijhoff (1942-2024) herdacht. Een passend eerbetoon: Frijhoff was hier jarenlang hoogleraar geschiedenis. Hier het interview over leven en werk dat ik in 2021 met hem had: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

#AcademicJob #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

Citizens and Sodomites. Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) (Leiden: Brill, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

The Forgeries and Networks project (www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...) is recruiting! We're looking for research assistants and a post-doc in art history: www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/... Please apply and/or spread the word! #digitalhumanities

Here's the press release about the project I'm going to be involved in from this summer onwards! 🥳 #dh www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

The great Demi "wizard of networks" Vasques and I wrote a methodological article on religious choice in the context of the Schism of Utrecht! Freely available here: jhnr.net/articles/10.... #earlymodern #DH

Proofs! 🤓 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities

Calling all early modern historians! Please send us your proposals for the conference "Building Peace: Transitional Justice in the Early Modern World" (3–5 April 2025). We're taking a global approach to peacebuilding. Here's the CfP: histj.com/conference.h... #transitionaljustice #peacebuilding

One of my colleagues has a great name for his WIFI-hotspot 🤓🤣

‼️Achtung Traumjob-Potenzial: Die Herzog August Bib sucht zum 1.10. eine*n Referendar*in mit dem Fachprofil Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften mit Kenntnissen in den Digital Humanities, im Forschungsdatenmanagement oder in Projekten zum Thema Open Science. Bewerbungen bis 15.02. www.hab.de/jobs/

Please share or apply for (or both) this DH Fellowship at @IEG_Mainz: tinyurl.com/ykw8cb87 #earlymodern #dh

My regular reminder to anyone interested in religion and sound in the #earlymodern world (1400-1800) to come to York next June! 🗃️

Delighted that delegate registration is now open for Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World, 1400-1800. York, 13-14 June 2024. Early registration & graduate masterclass 12 June from 4pm. Phenomenal speakers lined up. Any questions please email me. #earlymodern 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

'Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Afterlife of a Catholic Altarpiece in a Lutheran Church' @roisinwatson.bsky.social will be speaking at the IHR on Thursday. Come along! #EarlyModern 🗃 www.history.ac.uk/events/cross...

CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.

We're hiring! University Teacher/Lecturer (Teaching) in Design Informatics, Edinburgh Uni. In areas related to design, computer science, human-computer interaction, data science and visualization, and AI... Great dept, great crew, great city.

The complete program is now out! Remote participation will be possible. If you are an EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) member, please attend the general assembly on Thursday, November 30, at 5:00 p.m. CET. See you in Frankfurt and/or online! #earlymodern #c17th #c18th

10 postdoctoral fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Adanced Studies (AIAS): 23 months, open to researchers of all disciplines. Deadline: 1 February 2024 @aiasdk.bsky.social

We are hiring in Digital Humanities and Eurasian history! Come join us. We have amazing students and the colleagues are not bad :) www.ceu.edu/job/assistan...

We’re hiring! Postdoc, five years, at the Digital Humanities Lab at IEG Mainz! www.ieg-mainz.de/Ausschreibun... #skystorians

Come to Turku! TIAS, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, invites applications for three-year period starting from 1 September 2024. I would love to see gender studies scholars, historians, and critical sexualities studies researchers among the new Fellows.

HISTORY JOB ALERT 🚨🗃️ Assistant Professor in Modern History (post 1800), of Britain (including Ireland) or Europe and/or their empires. Come work with us @WarwickHistory! Please share and circulate. Details below 👇 Deadline: 14 January 2024 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

Another interesting CFP: ‘Historical arguments and the digital’, 25-27 June 2024, University of Luxembourg historicalarguments.wordpress.com. CFP deadline is 15 December 🗃️

#job alert: 6-year(!) postdoc position in Econ & Social History at Uni Vienna. Your research proposal can include any theme, time & region but should link #microhistory & global #history with the aim to advance the "micro-spatial perspective." Please circulate the call widely: tinyurl.com/microhis

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!

Reposting for the growing Bsky crowd—please spread the word! UIUC’s English Department is again hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in digital humanities, with a preference for applicants studying BIPOC communities, generative AI, and/or book history! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Come join us @ Mainz: The Leibniz-Institute of European History is offering postdoctoral fellowships between 6 and 12 months, starting April 2024. Deadline for applications 15 October, tinyurl.com/35h64xwk

On today's menu: trying to understand Catholic baptismal practices during the Schism of Utrecht. Wish me luck! :) #skystorians #earlymodern