Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Congratulations. I wish (also for that reason) that I was a bit younger. 120
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenJohan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund) We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c... 02428
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026If you should be in Mumbai Wednesday evening ... 000
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Are you interested in combining the history of humanities and science? Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam! Applications for Fellowships in the academic year 2026-2027 are now open. Deadline: 30 April 2026 vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...vossius.uva.nlVossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications - Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and SciencesThe Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline 30 april 2026 for fellowships in the second half of 2026. 065
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenElsbeth @historecluse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Wow! I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class. 011
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Last chance for free download today! 032
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Thank you for sharing and for the collaboration. I could not have wished for a better series editor than @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social 040
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13. It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America. Please share and comment!cambridge.orgThings of the PastCambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past 063
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world? Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents! www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...historyofhumanities.orgDigital Round Table: Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities (Dec 5th) – Society for the History of the Humanities 0126
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Sad story. The University of Chicago is, or was?, a unique institution. In related news, their program in history of science has just paused accepting new graduate students. Maybe they should make some spots available for studying the recent history of the University of Chicago? 041
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Lost El Dorado. Figure of ruler of the Muisca, bringing gold offerings to the Gods on Lake Guatavita. Photo from the collection of Salomón Koppel and his wife, Bogotá, around 1880. The figure was bought by Adolf Bastian and disappeared in a warehouse fire in Bremen. Museo Nacional de Colombia. 030
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Ph.D. scholarship (by international standards, very well paid) available in my department. If anyone, or anyone's student, should be interested, please let me know. I would be especially happy supervising topics relating to the history and theory of humanities.candidate.hr-manager.netPhD Positions at The Department of Communication of Arts, Roskilde UniversityThe Doctoral School of Communication and Arts (DCA), Roskilde University invites for a number of PhD positions. The scholarships are fully funded for 3 yea 022
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025In Danish! The question would probably surprise most Danes. Not really something we talk about (but the answer is yes!) 110
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Are you interested in the entangled history of humanities and science? Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam. Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open. Deadline: 1 June 2025 vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...vossius.uva.nlVossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications - Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and SciencesThe Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2025 for fellowships in 2026. 12415
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Great idea, thank you for sharing! I just passed on it to the Board of Events of the Society for the History of Humanities, suggesting that we do something similar. 120
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Beware of your Greenlandic dreams. Ruins of Medieval Church at Qaqortukulooq, in one of the Scandinavian settlements. After hundreds of years in Greenland, the settlements died out in the 15th century, for unknown reasons. 080
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenHelene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌 10595158
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024It is labelled "Classics of the Humanities II" because it is a follow-up to another (Eurocentric) volume, edited by Rens Bod and me, in 2019: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2019...journals.uchicago.eduHistory of Humanities | Vol 4, No 2 020
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Exiting! New volume of History of Humanities, with introductions to texts that you can use to teach the history of the humanities in Africa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...journals.uchicago.eduHistory of Humanities | Vol 9, No 2 170
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenCarlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Schicksale der Theorie 0191
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024For those who reads Danish, a longer version of the story here: tidsskrift.dk/passage/arti...tidsskrift.dkVisning af: Historien, tiden og fortiden. Om billedet af historieskrivningen i Oplysningstiden 020
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Finally, history, in new relationship with justice and ignoring time. 8 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024More subduing, now in the Vactican. 7 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024History – or German scholarship – subdued time, reconstructing the past from the remains. 6 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The relationship turned sour. Time destroyed the remains of the past. History’s helpers salvaged the remains from time. 4 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024More (and more explicit) revealing. 3 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024More revealing, with moral lessons for youth. 2 100
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Time and history. The story of an abusive relationship in 8 parts. Once time and history worked together revealing the past. 1 120
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenJoão Ohara @oharajrm.com · 24/11/2024Just started this pack on researchers who work with the philosophy of history broadly understood (including the history of historiography) - please let me know if you want to be added. We're not many and we're spread quite far and wide, so anything helps. go.bsky.app/NoGHFec 74214
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Cultures boxed-in and removed from history. Map of “African Tribal Art”, divided according to the “One Tribe, One Style” principle. Produced for conference at Indiana University, September 28-30, 1961. 030
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenPeter Schöttler @pschottler.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Marc Bloch, historien et résistant, va entrer au Panthéon, annonce Emmanuel Macron 04617
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRichard Bott @richardbott.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Our interview with Dr Ikhlas Abdel Latief, Sudan’s director of Museums, about the recent looting of the Sudan National Museum theconversation.com/sudans-natio...theconversation.comSudan’s national treasures have been stolen – we spoke with the director of museumsThe war in Sudan has seen the looting of the country’s museums. Heritage boss Ikhlas Abdel Latief speaks about the losses. 0198
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Why do we hold on to things of the past? A short piece with some thoughts on Napoleon's hat, published in the delightfully odd CANOA project and its ‘enciclopEdia arbitraria’ earlier this year. www.canoageopam.org/post/napoleo...canoageopam.orgNAPOLEON’S HATWhy do we hold on to things of the past?Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRoskilde University, DenmarkOn July 14, 1807, during the battle of Friedland, southeast of Königsberg, where the French army defeated t... 050
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A philosophy of history for an industrial age. The Three-Age System - Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age - at the World Fair in Paris in 1889. (Picture from the Danish National Museum). 0103
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenXin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Online talk on the making of national heritage in the Department of Archeology at Cambridge this coming Wednesday. 011
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h 4297