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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I saw this cake on the Great British Bake Off a few weeks ago and decided to make it for Canadian Thanksgiving. I don't know if it would earn a Paul Hollywood handshake, but I'm happy with how it turned out: thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/... Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🍁

A photo of a cake on a kitchen counter with the sides covered in crushed walnuts and the topped with eight swirls of buttercream each with a walnut half on top.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very excited to be presenting on this interdisciplinary panel at the College Art Association conference in Feb in NYC with two amazing art historians! This will be my first ever art history conference, so I guess we are starting off big.

Screenshot from the online program of the College Art Association conference that provides an overview of the panel "New Aporoaches to Italian Early Modern History."

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm giving a guest lecture on medieval music (antiphonals) tomorrow and I forgot how much fun it is to sight sing neumes.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The year was 1778 in Europe, and strong Marge Simpson vibes were in the air.

a woman with a haircut like Marge Simpson

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking through some festival books today and feeling grateful that past me photographed these prior to the British Library hack.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm very excited to be part of this panel at SCSC with my wonderful colleagues again this year! If you're planning to be at SCSC and have room in your schedule, we'd love to see you there! #earlymodern #dh

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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Artisans and Urban Space: Reconstructing Labor Networks in the 1526 Descriptio Urbis,” Emily K. Hagen “Digital Descriptio Urbis II: Emerging Technologies and Demographic Data Processing,” Frank Lacopo

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Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Mapping Information Routes, Government Collaboration, and Essential Amenities in Florence,” Jennifer Mara DeSilva “The Costs of Crusading: Mapping Enslavement in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Heather N. Smith

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Nawab, the Surgeon, and the Parrot: guest contributor Dr Kristof Szitar traces the journey of a Persian manuscript from South India to Hungary (via an English surgeon) in today's new blog post. memorients.com/articles/the...

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The Nawab, the Surgeon, and the Parrot: A Persian Manuscript Between Arcot and Northumbria | MEMOs

The manuscript reveals the overlooked role played by colonial intermediaries, such as surgeons, in moving Persianate objects into European collections.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It is OUR Privilege to Behold HER #caturday

Fancy cat woodcut printers mark, book from Venice 1566.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Last week, I built the Trevi Fountain (a fantastic birthday gift from my family). I am particularly enamoured with the LEGO horse statues (shown in photo 3).

A photo of a LEGO model reconstruction of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

A close up photo of the central LEGO statues on the fountain.

A photo showing one of the LEGO horse statues on the Trevi Mountain model.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"It was on a small credenza close to the entryway of our house. Facing the TV. So you could see his reflection in the TV when you're watching TV,” she says. “Every time you walk into the kitchen, you pass the head. Every time you walk into the house, he greets you. He's there.”

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great article. "So the $35 sculpture you got at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII. Now what?"

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yesterday, I visited the Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg. As some of you may recall, in 2022, a Roman portrait, unknowingly acquired by a woman at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, for $34.99, was identified as an artefact stolen during World War II from the Pompejanum. It was returned in 2023.

A Roman marble portrait of a man strapped into a black car seat with two seatbelts crossing over it.

A Roman marble portrait of a man in a museum setting.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My third-year history course on digital approaches to pre-modern Europe starts tomorrow, and I can't wait to see the brilliant projects the students will create this year!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Somewhere Juana la Loca and Philip the Handsome are cooking up the popcorn.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Embedded Pedagogies has a cover! I liked this image of the ones that were shared because it shows someone reading a large music score alone in a rows of auditorium-style seating. The room is structured for a certain kind of interaction and a poor fit for what he is trying to do.

Cover of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure if Change. Shows a man reading a music score in an auditorium.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This arrived on my doorstep today! I'm delighted to have this work included in such an interesting collection of articles by fantastic scholars. 🎉

A photo of a Sixteenth Century Journal printed issue open to the first page of the article "A Fraught Fanfare: Acoustic Enemies in Ducal Siena."

A photo of a Sixteenth Century Journal printed issue open to a page of the article "A Fraught Fanfare: Acoustic Enemies in Ducal Siena" that includes text and an image of a 3D digital reconstruction of a 1560 temporary triumphal arch modeled by Jamie Wong.

A photo of the Table of Contents from the Sixteenth Century Journal Summer issue, 2026

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Moto Perpetuo @motoperpetuo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A remarkable discovery in Paris: the French National Library has identified a previously unknown autograph manuscript by Mozart. The 38-page notebook contains composition exercises and seven pieces for flute and harp. More info at moto-perpetuo.com/mozart-manus... #Mozart #ClassicalMusic

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congratulations, Andrea!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Andrea Rizzi @ Unimelb @andrearizzi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📘 My new book is out! And it's free for two weeks: 'Looking Trustworthy: Portraits and Textual Poses of Humanist Translators in the Renaissance' (Cambridge Elements in the Renaissance). How did Renaissance translators earn readers’ trust? Free PDF 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Looking Trustworthy

Cambridge Core - European History 1000-1450 - Looking Trustworthy

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Interesting video on a not very well-known instrument, the lirone or lira da gamba, invented by a guy with the remarkable name of Atalante Migliorotti, who was a pupil and assistant of Leonardo da Vinci.

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Introducing the Lirone

YouTube video by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Exciting news! Madeline Bassnett's Climate Change Cookery: Recipes and Resilience in England's Little Ice Age 1550-1700 is now avalilable for pre-order: www.concordia.ca/press/climat... (full disclosure: Madeline is my partner, but the book really is brilliant!) #earlymodernclimatechange

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

She came to us with the name Rikki and we thought it suited her perfectly (Bonus Rikki Don't Lose That Number ear worm).

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This adorable kitty has been bringing a lot of joy to my household lately. We adopted her in May.

A photo my a young adult cat (gray tuxedo markings, green eyes) lying down on a cozy knitted white blanket.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thank you so much, Paul!! I'm so grateful to have had your support both as part of my comps and dissertation committees.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you!!! And thank you for welcoming this project to the Department of Digital Humanities. I was so fortunate to work with the GAME AND IASC students at Brock, and their contributions are integral to this dissertation.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm a doctor of history!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I am so grateful to my amazing advisor and all my committee members for all their guidance and support. It's been a phenomenal experience and I look forward to the future of this project. @crosehistorian.bsky.social @paulecohen.bsky.social

A selfie of me (reddish hair, gold glasses, pink blazer, black and gold belt) after passing my PhD defense.

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Dissertation defense (in history) tomorrow! Feel free to send me any advice. :-)

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Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Back from a wonderful and productive research trip to Tuscany with amazing colleagues! I am very grateful to the Society for Reformation Research @socrefresearch.bsky.social for supporting my travel through the Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Career Research Grant in Early Modern Studies!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Africans 1418-1839" by Pius Onyemechi Adiele, PhD. A Catholic priest of Ahiara Diocese Mbaise, he obtained his PhD in Church History from the University of Tübingen in Germany. #OpenAccess library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Africans 1418-1839 (Volume 16)
by Pius Onyemechi Adiele, PhD.

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