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Ueli Zahnd

@uelizahnd.bsky.social
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Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨CFP, #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture Workshop! Early-career scholars, don't forget to apply to present your work on Early Modern Material Culture in Bern (19-20 Nov 2026)! Deadline: 2 Oct 2026 👇
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Master in Reformed Studies Geneva's Faculty of Theology and the @ihr-geneva.bsky.social launch a Master in Reformed Studies, starting Fall 2027. It will be international (all in English), interdisciplinary, and affordable. See www.unige.ch/theologie/en.... Share widely! #earlymodern #reformazing 🗃️
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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Les séminaires de recherche IHR reprennent le 19 octobre avec la venue de Hanna Walsdorf (Université de Bâle), qui donnera une conférence intitulée : « Danser ou ne pas danser ? Cartographie d'une controverse (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) ». Il est également possible de participer à distance : unige.ch/ihr.
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I recently reread that passage from Lombard (Sent. III.35) where he says God's justice is "not only that by which he is just, but also that which he gives to man when he justifies the ungodly" (iustitia Dei non solum illa qua ipse iustus est, sed etiam illa quam dat homini cum iustificat impium)
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
These are two amazing places to work in, as I can attest. #earlymodern 🗃️
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The @ihr-geneva.bsky.social has opened its call for the Bourses Regard, supporting early career researchers for short visits at the institute. Share widely and apply! #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Applications to our two weeks of summerschools @ihr-geneva.bsky.social are still open until April 15... #reformazing #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Closing conference of the "Paul in the 16th c" project: A conference of triples: each panel consists of an exegete, a reformation historian, and a systematic theologian presenting on the same text from the corpus paulinum... #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
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Andrea Hofmann @andreaghofmann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#Reformazing - schöner Nachmittag und Abend in Genf mit "Female Reformation" und spannender Diskussion. Danke @ihr-geneva.bsky.social @uelizahnd.bsky.social für die Einladung und Gastfreundschaft!
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@andreaghofmann.bsky.social is in Geneva next week. If you aren't, you may follow her talk on zoom, see www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue... #earlymodern #skystorians #reformazing
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Séminaire de recherche IHR - 30 mars 2026 - Institut d'histoire de la Réformation - UNIGE
Séminaire de recherche IHR 30 mars 2026 Andrea Hofmann
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Please share the news: the first week is given in English, the second in French (but it's possible to follow both, of course) #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Now that's a new way of #catfishing - play to the academic's vanity and grab them by their self-love 😅 #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
There we go: our two weeks of summerschools just started... #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social Looking forward to the rest of it... #earlymodern #skystorians
Giovanni Gellera on John MairRuth Atherton on Osiander
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It was great to attend the valedictory lecture of @dettwiler.bsky.social Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)! #academicsky
Andreas Dettwiler giving his farewell
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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Next Monday, our PhD candidate Christian Martens will present his thesis research “François Hotman (1524-1590): humanisme juridique, historiographie et engagement politique”. See you at 12 PM in Uni Dufour (U365), Geneva! Presentation in French. More details on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...
Portrait of François Hotman in somber colors; he is wearing a white ruff and his right hand is placed on this torso, underneath a large black cape. The image features the name of the conference and of the lecturer, as well as the place and time. At the bottom of the image, a pink band with the mentions "Institut d'histoire de la Réformation" and "Université de Genève"
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳 🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪 (and, at the same time, my first one in Italian) 🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳 btw, more than 80% are open access, see here: archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/... #earlymodern #skystorians
stats from https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/635557
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
There are several job openings in Geneva you might be interested in: - a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550) - a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology See the thread for links #earlymodern 🗃️
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Looking forward to welcoming @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social in Geneva in ten days!
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thanks for sharing widely #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Bad news indeed. We will miss you excellent scholars coming abroad! #skystorians #academicsky
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Really useful, thanks for creating this!! #earlymodern #skystorians
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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A G-rated impression from our recent PhD-Lunch: @jebbb.bsky.social presenting his research on #OriginalSin in #16thCentury exegetical debates, which we announced in such graphic detail that #bsky censored us (poor #Eve, but there is no such thing as prelapsarian fig leaves...) #earlymodern
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Looking very much forward to listen to @julienleonard.bsky.social in Geneva!
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) readvertizes its portal on "Cultures and Societies": if you're interested in learning more about jobs, events and publications in the SSH (mainly, but not exclusively in a Swiss context), have a look at it: www.cult-soc.ch/en/cult-soc/ 🗃️
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Subject portal - Cultures and societiescult-soc - Fachportal Kulturen und Gesellschaft
The Swiss Society for African Studies aims to promote research on Africa as well as the organization of conferences to discuss issues related to African lifestyles and the diverse aspects of African s...
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Today was a good day for some #MentalDiversification. We have a new wardrobe now! #DoItYourself
First drillsPutting the pieces togetherAlmost thereDone!
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
You "occasionally" get angry? Great wordplay 🤭 #earlymodern #puns
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Friedemann Vogel @friedemann-vogel.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#NRW hat neue Zahlen zur "Entfristungsquote der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten" an Hochschulen vorgelegt (Vorlage 18/3369). Und da staunt man nicht schlecht über das Eigenlob: der Anteil an Unbefristeten sei von 54% (2017) auf 70% (2023) gestiegen! -Wie das möglich ist? Lest selbst. #IchBinHanna
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I've a problem with #emojis here on #bluesky: if I'm on the phone, I have to use the phone's set of emojis which are different from the standard bluesky ones (compare 🗃 with 🗃️). Some #feeds depend on the standard set, though, and posts written on the phone will not be loaded. Any #workaround?
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm a bit confused about their opening statement: "While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers." Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It's true students are less religiously literate nowadays. But the Reformation still has much to teach them about ideas, fights over ideas and consequences of ideas. Studying the social, cultural and political management of difference remains as relevant as ever. #reformazing
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
One for the #Reformation experts: I reread #Luther ’s Assertio (1520) with the passage below on #FreeWill (🇬🇧 in the ALT text). Isn’t this a deliberate provocation of #Erasmus, four years before their famous dispute broke out? SecLit seems to be silent about it. Thoughts, hints? #Earlymodern 🗃️
Luther, Assertio omnium articulorum, Wittenberg 1520, fol. h5r: "Scripture is abundant on the subject [of the bound will], but it has been so ravaged by out Nebuchadnezzar [=the pope] that the very form and knowledge of the letters is gone, and we need some new Esdras who will discover new letters/a new language and recover the Bible for us once more, which I hope is now being done as the Hebrew and Greek languages are flourishing all over the world."
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I've just come across a new-to-me category of #earlymodern convent employee. It's women who are entrusted w/carrying letters to and from the convent. They seem to be well-compensated. Wondering if any of you have ever come across something similar. #nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#earlymodern #skystorians
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The unmistakable effect of a three-day hackathon for #earlymodern 🗃️ PhD students: +60 commits to our textbase +60 new commentaries in the repertory +750 lines of code for the web interface -12l of coffee -467 fruit gums Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A beautifully arranged small exhibition the Bernese theologian Benedikt Aretius (c1522-1574) opened today at the University Library of #Bern. Informative about both Aretius' life and intellectual context - take a look if you're in the area #earlymodern 🗃 www.ub.unibe.ch/service/auss...
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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Busy week ahead! The IHR has the pleasure to welcome 3 researchers: Patricia Eichel-Lojkine for a masterclass on Tuesday, Mathilde Monge and Oriane Manigault for a digital seminar on Thursday. More info on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue... #reformation #earlymodern #geneva #womeninresearch
Portrait of Marguerite of Navarre, with the title of the conference and the date: 10.12.2024 in GenevaPoster of the seminar centered around the SOLIDAMIN program, by Mathilde Monge and Oriane Manigault.
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I don't agree about the historical role you attribute to the humanities. But as far as their future is concerned...
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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Opening today: "Albrecht Dürer. Defying Norms, Setting Standards" Graphische Sammlung, ETH / Zürich #earlymodern #arthistory #prints 🏛️ gs.ethz.ch/en/current/
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OnThisDate @onethisdate.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The final session of the Council of Trent concluded on December 4, 1563. It reaffirmed Catholic doctrine amid the Protestant Reformation, shaping Church practices. Key figures included Pope Paul III and St. Charles Borromeo, marking a pivotal Counter-Reformation moment.
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Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Some impressions from our latest IHR PhD Lunch: Sonia Solfrini presenting her work on Matthieu Malingre (ca. 1500-1572) #earlymodern #16thc #reformazing. We obviously need a bigger room with so many people attending these days...
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Welcome Giovanni! #earlymodern #skystorians
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle. The image shows this battle of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies. Printed was this story from John Heywood in 1556. #skystorians 1/2
For more information on the book, read Judith Rice Henderson: “John Heywood’s ‘The Spider and the Flie’: Educating Queen and Country” in: Studies in Philology, 96.3 (1999): 241-274.
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#
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‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ : English Women Travellers to Europe, 1558-1630
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/11/2024
I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I always wondered why Swiss reformers of the late #16thc were so well informed about #medieval #CanonLaw. And now I've come across this: doi.org/10.3931/e-ra... Great job, Johannes Haller... #earlymodern #reformazing #e-rara
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We are organizing a #hackathon / coding days at @unil.bsky.social next week. If you feel the need for some social warmth while you write your code, come and join us at IDHEAP (free lunch for CUSO members if they register here: theologie.cuso.ch?id=877&tx_di...)
Hackathon Digital Sources - Atelier d'encodage pour les doctorant·es qui travaillent sur un volet numérique dans le cadre de leur projet de thèse. L'atelier leur donne la possibilité d'avancer ces volets en présence d'autres doctorant·es qui se confrontent à des problématiques et enjeux similiaires et qui peuvent s'échanger sur les solutions envisagées. Des spécialistes seront présent·es pour guider les travaux et pour donner plusieurs inputs de 15 minutes sur des best practices à adopter.
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One of my doctoral students came across this French edition and glosses of the Pauline Epistles (Paris, Antoine Verard, 1504; 2nd ed 1507). The translator is "un docteur en theologie de l'ordre de saint Augustin" – any idea who this might be? #earlymodern #exegesis gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
Title page of the 1504 edition, ©gallicaExplicit of the 1504 edition, fol. v4r
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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It is on: the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne is looking for a new director #medieval #philosophy #academicjobs: berufungen.uni-koeln.de
Job announcement (W3, medieval philosophy)
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