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Christine Kooi

@christinekooi.bsky.social
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Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A useful primer on the AI discourse and how it fails to center human beings.
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Holland Historisch Tijdschrift @tijdschriftholl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
De eerstvolgende Stille Omgang in Amsterdam zal plaatsvinden in de nacht van 20 op 21 maart 2027. Bij deze zwijgzame processie door het hart van de oude stad wordt herdacht dat er in 1345 een wonder plaatsvond dat bekend is geworden als Het Mirakel van Amsterdam. @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Early Modern Low Countries is celebrating its 10th anniversary. #earlymodern
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Publications like this remind me how regrettable it is that so many of my US history colleagues can't read any language than English. In my department they even voted to get rid of the foreign-language requirement for their PhD students. 🗃️
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Or, as I like to call it, "How the Dutch saved the British Monarchy." #earlymodern
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A truly eye-opening thread about just how much the AI broligarchs devalue women. One more reason to loathe AI; it's a stalking horse for patriarchy.
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Mare @mareonline.nl · 27/09/2026
Jasper van der Steen schreef een boek over de Nassaus, de Duitse adellijke familie die een hoge prijs betaalde voor het behoud van lucratieve Hollandse bezittingen. ‘Willem van Oranje geloofde niet in het Nederlanderschap, maar in het verdedigen van het familiebedrijf.’
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De Nassaus zetten alles op het spel voor hun bezit: ‘Doodsverachting was een deugd’
Jasper van der Steen schreef een boek over de Nassaus, de Duitse adellijke familie die een hoge prijs betaalde voor het behoud van lucratieve Hollandse bezittingen. ‘Willem van Oranje geloofde niet in...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Paul has found in the archives the coolest confluence of 1572 events ever. #1572ayearintheendofchristendom
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A techbro and theobro married and produced...this?
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Comment dit-on "killer rabbit" en français?
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Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wat een leuk interview met collega Jasper van der Steen over zijn mooie nieuwe boek www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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De Nassaus runnen hun dynastie al eeuwen als een familiebedrijf. ‘Voor elke generatie is de opvolging een stresstest’
Geschiedenis: De geschiedschrijving over vorstenhuizen gaat vaak over staatsvorming. Jasper van der Steen besloot het anders aan te pakken. Hij keek naar de Nassaus als een familiebedrijf.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For all your Reformation hot takes.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Almost completely Anglophone. For my money, "Seaside Hotel" (Danish) and "Professor T" (Belgian) belong on this list.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a salutary reminder that any complaints I may have about my job or my employer are of the decidedly first-world variety.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#earlymodern #skystorians
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zo veel bekeringen in die tijd, van hoog en laag. Een interessante draad. #reformatieindelagenlanden
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#reformatieindelagelanden
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nieuw boek over de Nederlandse Opstand verschijnt binnenkort. "1578: Had Brussel de Nederlanden kunnen redden?" Weet iemand hier wat van? shop.walry.be/products/157...
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1578 - Had Brussel de Nederlanden kunnen redden?
Dit boek verschijnt binnenkort (1/10/26). Wanneer je dit boek in bestelling plaatst voor zaterdag 17 oktober 2026, brengen wij het voor u mee naar de boekvoorstelling in het Gentse Stadhuis. Plaats he...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries
Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30

23 Oct	Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’ 
 
20 Nov	Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’ 
 
18 Dec	Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’
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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IHR LOW COUNTRIES SEMINAR program 2026-7! All sessions either hybrid or online only. Please register for any you want to attend, including online, by going to www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While Latin Christendom was irretrievably fissuring in Europe, it was finding new pastures elsewhere. #1572ayearintheendofchristendom
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"...calling a text extruded from an LLM a ‘history’ is, quite literally, a category error. There are far too many deliberations, choices, and cares in the production of a history for it to be something statistically generated, a mere algorithmic derivative." #NoAIintheclassroom #skystorians
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our state government has contracted with a software company to provide AI platforms for state agencies. Their AI programs are called, I kid you not, "Justinian" and "Trajan." #skystorians vulcan.ai
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VULCAN: Frontier AI for Government | JUSTINIAN and TRAJAN
VULCAN strengthens America's social contract by safely shepherding frontier AI to government.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A digital interactive map of the early 19th-century Netherlands. #skystorians
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#earlymodern
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dutchies! I recently discovered this excellent (Dutch) #hextag podcast on the last witches of Schiedam whose trial brought the #earlymodern witch-hunt to an earlier end in the Dutch Republic. Definitely worth a listen! stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...
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Heksen in Schiedam - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Als geen Reformatie in de NL had plaatsgevonden, zou er dan toch de Opstand zijn uitgebroken? #reformatieindelagelanden
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#earlymodern
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anabaptists for the win! #reformazing
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd be happy if the golf courses went away, too.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apparently doing your work is now a "verification tax."
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Settling in with the master for this week's graduate seminar. #earlymodern
Book cover: German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650. Thomas A. Brady Jr.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've put in my proposal and hope to be there next summer. #earlymodern
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now if only the Democratic national party leadership would invest some serious money in this race.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our new issue is out! Read through the thread for a sneak peek at what's inside. #earlymodern
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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
For the Leiden Medievalists Blog I wrote a post about the Ferragosto heist in Messina where 5 works by Antonello da Messina were stolen. #art #renaissance www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/ant...
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Antonello Who?
Last summer, four works by the Italian renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from a regional museum in Messina, Sicily. This blog post explains the significance of Antonello’s paintings...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2027 Attending to Early Modern Women conference is seeking proposals! Submission deadline is 30 September. #earlymodern #skystorians. www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
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Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you late-stage consumer capitalism.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's the link to the program for those who are curious. There appears to be distressingly little attempt to address the cognitive, pedagogical and moral ramifications of LLMs. proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
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AI and History Conference 2026
A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The disruption of centuries-old ideas and institutions, abetted by new media and exploited by opportunistic ruling groups. I always tell students that they should study the sixteenth century if they want to understand their own. #reformazing
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A most remarkable painting that I will use the next time I teach witch hunts. #earlymodern
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Grumpy jay, shell-shocked owl, from natural history dictionary by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1586. Today is his day.
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Andre Pagliarini @apagliar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Release day! My book is officially available! www.ucpress.edu/books/claimi...
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Claiming the Nation by Andre Pagliarini - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Friends, if you've ever worked in the Dutch National Archives, consider signing this petition. Its administrators want to completely shut down its public educational programs and turn it into a repository of exclusively government records. #skystorians 🗃️
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Nieuwe PLAG @nieuweplag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Judith Pollmann en Arjan Nobel vertellen in een interview over de plannen van de Nieuwe PLAG. Zo is Arjan van plan om samen met Anne Petterson een handboek te schrijven voor onderzoek naar plattelandsgeschiedenis. Lees het volledige interview hier: www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Toegang geblokkeerd / Access Blocked
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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗚 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗩𝗼𝗹 𝟮𝟯, 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🔓 Lees gratis online: tseg.nl/issue/view/2... 👉 Bestel de paperback: lup.be/journal-issu... Mis geen enkel nummer ✍️ lup.be/take-a-subsc... #economischegeschiedenis #socialegeschiedenis #socialhistory
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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The ATWG Conference program committee is extending the workshop proposal deadline from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30. The information you'll need for this process can be found here: www.ssemwg.org/attending-to.... Let me know if you have any questions! #earlymodern
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Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just called my optometrist to schedule a routine eye exam and was immediately answered by an "AI scheduler." I insisted on talking to a human being and got one. What problem is AI dehumanization a solution to?
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Female Rufous Hummingbird hanging out in my backyard this morning. South Louisiana, USA. #birds 🦉
Close up of a humming bird with open beak, copper gorget and pale rufous breast, sitting on a branch.
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