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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Lovely to see that two great podcasts about my book are now online. Maryam Patton interviewed me for the 'Ottoman History Podcast' and Sam Tchorek-Bentall for 'Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast'. www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/cali... open.spotify.com/episode/51ob...

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Martin Crusius and the Discovery of Ottoman Greece

with Richard Calis hosted by Maryam Patton | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusiu...

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

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Everlasting Flowers between the Pages

"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ha leuk, onze workshop in de PZC! Komen jullie ook? Op 19 september praten we met allemaal toffe mensen in de bieb in Middelburg over oral history en de verhalen van gewone Zeeuwen. Info & aanmelden: dezb.op-shop.nl/8592/verteld...

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Had a great time talking about my book with the wonderful Dimitri Gondicas, director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University #earlymodern #skytorians hellenic.princeton.edu/research/dir...

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Director's Bookshelf with Richard Calis

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Mette Bruinsma @mette.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Come work with us! A 2,5 years postdoc on critical university heritage: you'll contribute to two curated heritage interventions, based on (1) physical anthropology collections and (2) botanical history. You'll join an international, interdisciplinary team. #skystorians #heritage #histofscience

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Postdoc Critical University Heritages

Are you interested in developing interventions addressing the coloniality of physical anthropology collections and botanic gardens? Apply now!

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Mette Bruinsma @mette.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The position is part of COLUMN, a collaborative research project about Colonial Legacies of Universities, funded by the EU under their Horizon scheme. Feel free to reach out with any questions about this job! @richardcalis.bsky.social Gert-Jan Plets and I are happy to answer any questions!

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Had great fun talking about my new book for the Turkey Book Talk podcast #earlymodern #skystorians

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

One for the Dutch university administrators

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In meme form:

the it might work for us meme.

A guy is explaining to a blond woman: Managers everywhere merge academic schools under the pretence it's an answer to the problems in the sector.

woman: "well, did it work for those people?"
guy: "no, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..."
guy: "but it might work for us."

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Artwashing AI includes such perverse efforts as this: using a tool whose energy needs are so extractive that it contributes to climate change, which threatens the survival of endangered species...in order to "really make ya think" about endangered species.

Screenshot of a NYTimes Headline, which reads, An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute
In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument. Link to the paywall bypassed version here: https://archive.ph/h17bJ#selection-509.0-513.153

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Leiden University Press @leidenup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Meet author #BenjaminLeathley at the launch of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism in conversation with #PeterBisschop @richardcalis.bsky.social #JoanPauRubiés #CarolienStolte chaired by #JosGommans Curious to find out more? Event: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Book: lup.nl/publications...

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The second international History of Knowledge Conference will be held in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is approaching: 1 May. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...

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The History of Knowledge Conference

Lund University, 8–10 October, 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical …

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Having fun preparing for today's Descartes Centre Colloquium. Eric Jorink and I will present our new books and reflect on how we can write histories of science. Date/location: 15:30-16:30 at the UniversityMuseumUtrecht - followed by drinks! www.uu.nl/en/events/de... #earlymodern #historyofscience

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

*New University History Fellowship!* Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections? Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share! #Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus

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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

oh, this is good, ye #earlymodern folk and language nerds 🐦🐦

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/03/2025

‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

One week left to apply for this wonderful position in our #EU project on Botanical Gardens #skystorians #historyofscience Please share!

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Join us today for a roundtable on 'embodied scholarship': on how the social lives of Renaissance scholars shaped their ideas! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Very excited for #RSA2025 to start! Join us for a series of panels on ‘Religion in the History of Scholarship’! #earlymodern #skystorians #RenSA25

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Clelia Crialesi @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 Special issue of Galilæana edited by Raffaele Danna & Francesco Brusori: "Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)". More info here: shorturl.at/8IgM3

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Call for abstracts | Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries) | Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Scie...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its index. (From my Inventing the Renaissance)

Image of part of the D section of the index of a book. It lists, in this order: D'Amico, John
Dante Alighieri (with subsections on Inferno, Paradiso, Virtue Ethics and the Guelph-Ghibelline Feud)
Dark ages, Don't Call Them the
Darth Vader
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Nicholas
de Beer, Susanna

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Still a few weeks left to submit an abstract for our wonderful conference in November! ☟ ☟ ☟ #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

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Mario Damen @mariodamen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Job alert! Two salaried PhD positions @uvahumanities.bsky.social in Amsterdam within the Daily Bread Project lead by my colleague @maartjegelder.bsky.social on food protests in the Early Modern Dutch Republic and Northern Italy ⬇️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — PhD position: Food Protest in the Early Modern Dutch Republic

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Dutch subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative U...

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Taylor van Doren, PhD @taylorvandoren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

the United States right now: HUMANITIES BAD - THROW IN TRASH Europe:

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Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Postdoctoral Researcher role: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens...more below \/\/\/

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Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A really interesting botanical humanities job.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Absolute dream job here!

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Mette Bruinsma @mette.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Come work with us on this project! We're looking for a postdoc interested in intellectual history, history of botany and/or colonial history. This project brings together Dutch and Surinam perspectives on botanical knowledge circulation. Drop me or Richard a line if you have any questions.

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Camilla de Koning @camilladekoning.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Dream job alert!

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Looks like an amazing postdoc 🌺🌳

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Postdoc Opportunity!

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Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Very cool postdoc opportunity with @richardcalis.bsky.social!

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Donderdag 6 maart organiseert @athenaeum.nl een avond rondom mijn nieuwe boek "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece". www.athenaeum.nl/agenda/athen... Aanmelden kan via de website of door mij een bericht te sturen. Datum: donderdag 6 maart Start interview + discussie 17.00 Borrel 18.15 Einde 19.00

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Athenaeum Boekhandel | Boekpresentatie Richard Calis, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Collega-historici: de nieuwe website van het Stadsarchief Amsterdam wordt onbruikbaar voor historisch onderzoek. Geef dus alsjeblieft feedback! Voordat andere archieven besluiten dit voorbeeld te volgen.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This offers us a helpful deadline as well, removing ourselves collectively from X. From the 21st of February, we'll be only here, but just as enthusiastic about #EarlyModern things ever, if not more. #SkyStorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Glad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?

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