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Jaap Geraerts

@jaapgeraerts.bsky.social
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Historian: practice of religious toleration; early modern Catholicism; Dutch Republic; digital humanities. Based at IEG Mainz. Fan of metal 🤘 and PSV. Out now: tinyurl.com/ycd5cpcj

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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote a short blog comparing the recent schism in the Roman Catholic Church to the Utrecht Schism of 1723 #schism #LeoXIV ieg.hypotheses.org/7676
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Rome and the Pius Brothers: The Conflict behind the New Schism
IEG researcher Jaap Geraerts compares the schism of the Society of Saint Pius with the 18th-century Utrecht Schism and interprets both as distinct reactions to modern church councils.
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NRC @nrc.nl · 23/07/2025
Het is „meer dan bagger” wat onze recensent bij ‘De Oranjezomer’ zag: propaganda van Geert Wilders laten zien en het dan hebben over de „begrijpelijke angst” voor moslims in Nederland. buff.ly/mzp4SpN
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ZAP: Het is „meer dan bagger” wat onze recensent bij ‘De Oranjezomer’ zag: propaganda van Geert Wilders laten zien en het dan hebben over de „begrijpelijke angst” voor moslims in Nederland.
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
ah, when excellent people's excellence does get recognised, things do look a bit more sensible after all, don't they? This is SO wonderful, humongous congratulations @judithpollmann.bsky.social -- can't wait to see what you'll do with it!
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Couldn't agree more with this @adamtooze.bsky.social banger. "The scandal is not that European defence budgets have not already doubled. The scandal is that Europe spends so much and gets so little for it." The European defense enterprise is a total mess. www.ft.com/content/f450...
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The emperor has no tanks
Europe doesn’t need more spending to transform its moribund armed forces — it needs more co-operation across borders
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We are planning a festive issue for our tenth anniversary🥳. We are looking for potential contributions! #CfP, please spread this as widely as possible. And get in touch if you have questions, all details below. #LowCountries
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ja ja. Veel te hard. En die toon hè? Maar denk 's aan 10% ontslagen (6500 fte!), het kortzichtig politiek egoïsme in de EK & ideologische vernielzucht van dit kabinet. Die bijna 7000 collega's gaan zich een stuk akeliger voelen dan de hoofdpersonen uit deze column. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/meer-...
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Meer dan de helft van onze senaat bestaat uit kleine Trumpjes
De Eerste Kamer stemde woensdag in met de draconische bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. ‘De ChristenUnie en het CDA steunen antidemocratische krachten.’
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series! CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach... @kingsartshums.bsky.social
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Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog
A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Op 8 april 2025 rond de Kkokke van twee heeft het de Eerste Kamer behaagd de onderwijsbegroting van @eppobruins.bsky.social aan te nemen. De sloop van het hoger onderwijs in de slechtst mogelijke en gevaarlijkste periode voor Nederland vangt aan. De #Eppocalyps is hier. #WOinActie
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Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Such an exciting moment. I finally have my book "The Time of the Harvest has Come" in my hands. A study of Reformation, Revolution & the German Peasants' War. Thanks to everyone who helped make it possible. @medievalrevolt.bsky.social @oisinmcgann.bsky.social @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social
Cover of "The Time of the Harvest has Come!": Reformation and the German Peasants' War by Martin Empson, held in the author's hand.
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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
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Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online. www.ceu.edu/article/2025...
Domenico Remps, Cabinet of Curiosities, Opificio delle Petre Dure, Florence. A wooden display cabinet stuffed with wonders and curiosities: corals, images, beetles, a skull etc.
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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Books and Culture: The Religious Image | Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University | University of Antwerp
Book Historic Summer School of the University of Antwerp on Religious Imagery.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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 …
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Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830
Abstract. Faith in the Town explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industr
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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#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...
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Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600 to the Present – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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
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Between Baghdad and Barcelona: Jewish Experiences in the Mediterranean
According to their call, “[t]he Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna invites paper proposals for the 3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop on May 27, 2025. […] This workshop welcomes p...
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
🔔#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 womenandplantin@antwerpen.be! Deadline: 31 March 2025
A young saleswoman stands on a small staircase in a bookshop. With her left hand, she reaches out to a man below for a book, while with her right hand she grabs another work from the shelf. Two men look on.

Rijksmuseum RP-P-2015-26-131: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.593917
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
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Genji Yasuhira @genjiyasuhira.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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...
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Religious Coexistence in the Dutch Republic and France in the Seventeenth Century: Legal Systems, Sacred Spaces, and Minority Resilience in Utrecht and Nîmes
This article examines religious coexistence and survival tactics of the religious minority groups in the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of France, comparing Utrecht’s Catholics and Nîmois Huguenots in...
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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. 🤯
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Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
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Joris Oddens @jorisoddens.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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
A detail from a broadside from 1617 Germany, showing Martin Luther using a giant quill to post his messages onto a church door is shown. Access the print with the title "Göttlicher Schrifftmessiger/ woldenckwürdiger Traum/ welchen der Hochlöbliche/ Gottselige Churfürst Friedrich zu Sachsen/ ..." here: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:KVC-LUT-0000000000049386?lang=de
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Marika Keblusek @feinzeit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
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Wim Berkelaar @wimberkelaar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#AcademicJob #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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jonasroelens.bsky.social @jonasroelens.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Citizens and Sodomites. Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) (Leiden: Brill, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
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
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Forschungsprojekt: Wie Experten zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Kunstfälschungen entlarvten
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
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/...
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
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
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Proofs! 🤓 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities
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David van der Linden @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
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
Poster for the conference Building Peace
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
One of my colleagues has a great name for his WIFI-hotspot 🤓🤣
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Joëlle Weis @joelleweis.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
‼️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/
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Please share or apply for (or both) this DH Fellowship at @IEG_Mainz: tinyurl.com/ykw8cb87 #earlymodern #dh
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
My regular reminder to anyone interested in religion and sound in the #earlymodern world (1400-1800) to come to York next June! 🗃️
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
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...
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Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World, 1400-1800 - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern St...
Join us for this conference with keynote talks from Lucía Martínez Valdivia, Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, Coya Huarmi and Jan-Friedrich Missfelder.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
'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...
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Emily Michelson @emilymichelson.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
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.
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University Teacher/Lecturer (Teaching) in Design Informatics
The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced candidate to the post of University Teacher in Design Informatics.
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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
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
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
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
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10 individual fellowships open for application at AIAS
AIAS-AUFF Fellowships
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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
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...
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Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Digital Humanities (f/m/d) | Central European Universi...
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Jaap Geraerts @jaapgeraerts.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
We’re hiring! Postdoc, five years, at the Digital Humanities Lab at IEG Mainz! www.ieg-mainz.de/Ausschreibun... #skystorians
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Riikka Taavetti @rtaavetti.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
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.
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TIAS Call 2023-2024: Instructions for applicants
TIAS invites applications for 3 Collegium and 6 Postdoctoral Fellow positions for three-year period starting from 1 September 2024. TIAS selects its Fellows via an international call for applications ...
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
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...
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Assistant Professor in Modern History (108201-1123) - University of Warwick
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
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