Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 12/03/2026CFP: Zurück. Remigrieren zwischen Geschichte und Literatur Tagung in Bern. Über Rückkehrerzählungen und deren gesellschaftliche Bedeutung 051
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3 110530
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 08/12/2025My book is now out in paperback! 📘 A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment bit.ly/3NEXFbA For anyone researching bookbinding, this is a development worth noting; and for those studying book prices: use the discount code LAHIS26 1304
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldPedro Rueda @pedrorueda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Call for papers 7th Conference on the History of Publishing: Book Censorship and Prohibitions in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, June, 17–19, 2026 (Barcelona) 022
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...huffpost.comI Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking."Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead." 361710662
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Since it’s an online event: Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the Online Enlightenment Club to discuss ‘Beyond Voltaire: A Community of Readers across the Atlantic’. 040
Reposted by Agnes Gehbaldinfoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Exhibition review: Agnes Gehbald paints in her review an impressive picture of the art-science exhibition «Naming Natures - Natural History and Colonial Legacy», currently on display in Neuchâtel: www.infoclio.ch/de/node/1901... 041
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldRea Vogt @reapfel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Our Special Issue "Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900" in the journal Comparativ, co-edited by @agnesgehbald.bsky.social, Philipp Horn and me is online! With a coda by @sfahrenthold.bsky.social : www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...comparativ.net Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900 | Comparativ 074
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldRea Vogt @reapfel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This Friday on port cities as points of passage! See more in the programme: www.hist.unibe.ch/e11168/e5169... With @agnesgehbald.bsky.social 056
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 17/02/20251. Professorin: 1909 war die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin an der Universität Bern weltweit die erste Frau, die zur Professorin ernannt wurde. #unibern Festakt heute Abend und Ausstellungseröffnung zu ihrem 150. Geburtstag www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...srf.chAnna Tumarkin: In Bern wurde sie erste Professorin der WeltZu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es weltweit keine einzige Professorin – bis sie kam: die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin. 030
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 22/01/2025New article: “Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press” #BookHistory #Printing The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past. dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...dx.doi.orgProject MUSE - Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press 1199
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025So @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me will publish an article titled "Paper Regimes of the Publishing World: A Bird’s Eye View on the Materiality of Global Book History" in the journal Globalgeschichte / Global History, volume 3.2 (2025). More news soon #GlobalBookHistory #GlobalHistory #Paperhistory 3394
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b... 163
Reposted by Agnes GehbaldFES history @feshistory.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Neuerscheinung: Band 64 des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte #AfS mit dem Rahmenthema "Migration in der Moderne. Wege – Orte – Erfahrungen" ist nun erschienen. Die Einleitung von Friedrich Lenger ist hier abrufbar [PDF]: library.fes.de/pdf-f... 11511
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 19/02/2024For those of you in and around Bern 🇨🇭, I am excited to announce my book launch on 27 February at 17:00 @histunibern. Do come and join our discussion! 2123
Agnes Gehbald @agnesgehbald.bsky.social · 30/11/2023first post – first book: a NEW BOOK about books A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment bit.ly/3NEXFbA @cambUP_History #Globalbookhistory #Colonialbookmarket 55518