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Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics- King's College London - Department of Political Economy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA388/l...

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Lecturer in Ancient History University of Leeds #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA796/l...

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Lecturer (Education Focused) in Early Modern Philosophy - AOAC2266RXLS University of St Andrews - Department of Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA458/l...

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Bong Joon-Ho said "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." As many readers have discovered, the same is true for books! @xuetingni.bsky.social recommends 5 new translated Chinese SFF books! reactormag.com/beyond-liu-c...

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@ubleiden.bsky.social Chinese Queer Collection at Leiden University Library will be officially launched. An amazing resource for research and teaching. If you are interested in joining the inaugural workshop and learning more, see the post below!

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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

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mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RP7jxZWof7... Congratulations 🎉 to @tristangbrown.bsky.social Tristan Brown and to Haiyan Lee and Michael Ng, with @princetonupress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social . I am excited for the new & diverse directions in Chinese legal historical studies.

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Butcher in the Middle Ages! Or an Innkeeper or a Merchant https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/worst-jobs-middle-ages/ #medievalsky #jobs #history

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Good morning! We’re looking for the next Director of @projectmuse.bsky.social. Is it you?

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Happy to share a new book chapter on "The Three Gorges Dam and Sino-American Hydraulic Planning." It's in an exciting new volume edited by Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley on Sino-American relations during WWII. Thanks to both for leading this fun project. www.amazon.com/Uneasy-Allie...

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Few academics in the humanities want to re-think decades-old evaluation systems; nobody wants to re-do their years-old course designs. The real cost of this inertia and refusal to adapt will soon become all too clear.

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#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Physicists are fascinated by knitting because there's a lot of applicable science. A simplified model of how yarns interact shows that a piece of knitted fabric can have many stable resting states depending on its history of deformation. physics.aps.org/articles/v17...

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It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

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History of property!

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Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.

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Zhongguo fojiao banhua quanji 中國佛教版畫全集 (84 vols) is now available at the UL. Thanks to Dr Noga Ganany from FAMES at Cambridge, not only supported us with generous funding , but also wrote a very nice article to introduce this new series: www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ser...

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Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

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Please share! Five fully funded PhD positions now available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo! Application deadline: February 24.

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New at the Journal of Comparative Family Studies: Household Migration and Adolescent Marriage Choice in Settings with Changing Marriage Systems By Erick Axxe, @srhayford.bsky.social & Dirgha Ghimire utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/... #sociology #psychology #anthropology #familyscience

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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!

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Definitely should not happen in humanities teaching. Is there some fundamental misunderstanding about “human”ist? Call it something else perhaps. 🤔

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Just saw some pics of the amazing firework artist Cai Guoqiang’s 蔡國強show today in Quanzhou, Fujian. The theme is women! Women in this area are historically strong and creative.

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Our bursary scheme is open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD Details at: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

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We have made a starter pack with all the LeidenAsiaCentre experts! Click the link to follow all our experts: go.bsky.app/SRhr5x PS. For LAC affiliated experts who have recently joined BlueSky and are not on the list, please contact us!

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Our Sinology subject librarian at @ubleiden.bsky.social showed us some cool stuff today! These were probably appreciated as beautiful objects rather than texts.

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My contributor copy has arrived! Lots of beautiful images of exhibition items. Do go along to the British Library's amazing exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, if you can - on until 2 March 2025. www.seetickets.com/timeslot/med... #MedievalSky 📜 🗃️

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Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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library.osu.edu/site/manga/?... OSU’s exceptional manga collection. Great for research and teaching.

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New publication: _Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song_ now out in @uvapress.bsky.social series Traditions & Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism It's a great collection that includes an interview with Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and an introductory essay by Lama Jabb.

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Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

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Working with my #Leiden MA students in a Classical Chinese course and a global gender history course on their final papers. I am seeing so many good research projects that I have to fight the urge to ask each student if they would be interested in pursuing PhD study.😅

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Squished (sixteenth-century?) spider in a vast 11-volume edition of the works of St Augustine (Basel, 1506) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (Peterborough.A.6.1-6). #spider #marginalia #saints #christianity #rarebooks #augustine #collecting #basel

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Truly amazing opportunities! A really vibrant intellectual community.

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A cycle.

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After twenty years of field work and digital collection, there are inevitably some intriguing or truly remarkable items in my collection that I may share from time to time, including interesting samples from a variety of legal texts and judicial archives from the Qing period (1644-1911).

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A cool list.

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I shared some thoughts about Huan Jin’s excellent book The Collapse of Heaven: youtu.be/H6ySX68b9uo

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Delighted to see my book, Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India, in the company of some excellent works on the British Association of South Asian Studies prize shortlist 🤩! www.basas.org.uk/news-events/...

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Come join my online book talk/discussion next Friday EST. Zoom ID: 852 364 4345 Passcode: sociology

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Good Bloomberg opinion piece on why declining fertiltity rates are not a 'crisis'. Nothing new here for demographers, who already know this, but good to see this being promoted to a wider audience - Why Falling Fertility Is Not a Crisis www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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Explore the complexities of gender and sexuality in the medieval world—enroll in our course today! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/medieval-gender-sexuality #Sexuality #gender #onlinecourse #education #history

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New #OpenAccess book! 📚 "Sozialgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft" is a socio-historical study by Juliane Scholz examining the changing conditions of scientific work in the Max Planck Society from 1948–2005 🔗bit.ly/3Vc9vhS #HistSci @maxplanck.bsky.social

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Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" is hiring a Postdoc! 🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation." 🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology

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'Akkerman & Langman make the case for the importance of studying material culture ...by the end of this book, an attentive reader has been prepared for an apprenticeship in the arts of deception ... recipes for invisible ink & deadly poisons are included in an appendix' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST. Zoom ID: 852 364 4345 Passcode: sociology

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