@smschober
early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
So very happy to have you, Annika, and Laura Schleiss join the modi:hair project!! 🤗
Welcome to Lucerne (which luckily presented itself from its very sunny side today)! ☀️
An invitation to help us think about the current moment in relation to the discipline of environmental history and the work of environmental historians -- please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat about a potential contribution.
Hi #HistSTM #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #ECR ,
Please submit you unpublished articles for the 2026 Nuncius Prize.
We would love to see your article published.
A scene of several persons preparing food for horses.
#AnimalHistory hive mind: what did city #horses eat in Early Modern Germany?
@jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
This is a scene from late 17th century Hamburg. I’m interested in what grain was used and what the guy in the bottom left mixed together. Thanks.
These things are imagination killers. They are innovation killers. They are environmental killers.
While they might be useful in certain fields, fields which have been using similar techniques for decades, those fields are not the whole of life.
The machine, in “organizing” your work, will impose a hegemonic structure on your work. It will literally force you into the paths of thinking and writing that are preferred by a power majority.
📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...
And #Germany should decide right now, that they are not going to play a minute of football in a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. Nie wieder!
#WorldCup #USA #DFB
Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600
niche-canada.org/2026/01/31/p...
#envhist #medieval #envhum
Der #Ukraine stehen bitterkalte Tage bevor, bis zu -25.
Das ist eine humanitäre Katastrophe - selbst wenn #Putin ausnahmsweise Wort halten und Angriffe auf die ukrainische Energieinfrastruktur wirklich aussetzen würde.
Bitte spendet für die Menschen in der #Ukraine! Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten 👇
Damit alle diesen Text von @oliviakortas.bsky.social lesen können, kommt hier ein 🎁-Link ohne Paywall:
www.zeit.de/2026/05/kyji...
Wenn ihr das Geld erübrigen könnt (man kann auch zusammenlegen). Jedes Kit hilft!
Ukraine2Power hat ein Überlebenskit für 80€ (Gaskocher, Heizdecken, Hand/Fusswärmer, Thermoskanne, Powerbank) zusammengestellt.
Konto: We Aid gGmbH
IBAN: DE 52370205000001838801
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Danke 🙏
Die Halbierungsinitiative stellt eine Bedrohung dar für den medialen Service public in allen Landessprachen und würde zu massiven Einschnitten im publizistischen Angebot führen.
Deshalb sagen wir Professor:innen sagen «Nein» zur Halbierungsinitiative.
www.wissenschaft-fuer-den-service-public.ch
Diejenigen, die in den🇺🇸gegen Trump protestieren & Widerstand leisten brauchen ein klares Signal demokratischer Solidarität aus🇪🇺. Dazu zählen klare Stellungnahmen seitens der europäischen Regierungen, die die Zerstörung von Demokratie & Rechtsstaat sowie Menschenrechtsverletzungen in den🇺🇸kritisieren.
“Please get the truth out about our son.”
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion?
Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Dass ein 21-Jähriger wegen schwerster Krankheit, dramatisch fehlender Versorgung und mangelnder Hoffnungsperspektive keinen anderen Weg sieht als Sterbehilfe, ist Ausdruck eines kollektiven Versagens.
#MECFS
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Petition an den Bundesrat und die Schweizerische Bundesversammlung für die Erhaltung der Bibliothek Werner Oechslin
Ohne Unterstützung muss die Bibliothek Ende 2026 schliessen.
Sie helfen uns, wenn Sie diese Petition mit Ihrer Unterschrift unterstützen.
www.bibliothek-oechslin.ch/toppetition/...
We are picking a new meeting date for this month, so if anyone wants to join, or knows of someone that might, let me know! 🙂
It's a small group of 9 people, and we offer a warm, informal and safe space to share your work. #SkyStorians #HistSci #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️
Mit libidinöser Grausamkeit gegen Menschen mit Behinderung: Die Historikerin Dagmar Herzog geht einem Merkmal der #noAfD auf den Grund, das bisher vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung gefunden hat.
Von @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
Es fehlen noch 7 400 Unterschriften und es sind noch 9 Tage Zeit. Das muss doch zu machen sein!
Keine Führng eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen
epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...
Screenshot of the page that the URL in the post points to: H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members to join its existing team. New editors and advisory board members will play an integral role in shaping the identity of the network as current network staff look to refresh the network and the vital functions it serves. This includes the standard work of disseminating information about CfPS, funding opportunities, etc., as well as taking on new initiatives, like blog authoring, resource page-building or project-building. H-SMT editors are volunteers who share in the network’s responsibilities as List Editors, who manage memberships, the listserv, and blog content on a rotating basis; Special Projects editors who can develop a short-term or long-term project to serve the network; and Advisory Board Members, who consult with all the editors about larger questions and practices to develop the network as needed. This range of positions also allows for volunteers to engage at different levels of commitment and duration. H-Sci-Med-Tech is a network for scholars who apply humanities and social science methods to study science, medicine or technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. While rooted in history, ours is a very interdisciplinary field, bringing together theories and methodologies from across the humanities and the social sciences. With more than 6,200 subscribers, H-SMT is one of H-Net's larger networks and has the benefit of an existing editorial workflow for a new editor to step into or to support an editor focused on special projects. If you would like to be a part of our team, please submit an application by February 1, 2026. We anticipate that newly hired editors will begin their duties in February 2026. Applications should consist of a cover letter indicating the position you are interested in (List Editor, Special Projects Editor, or Advisory Board Member), a curre…
H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Mensch-Werden, Mensch-Sein am IEG Mainz! Wir bieten ab Februar 26 eine Promotionsstelle zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Menschwerdung, mit @jpaulmann.bsky.social und @mwilckens.bsky.social im Rahmen von @sortingpeople.bsky.social
Deadline 4. Januar 2026
www.ieg-mainz.de/job/wissensc...
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
weniger hilflos daneben stehen, u.a. weil Unis so KI-geil sind & Lernende sogar dazu ermuntern, LLMs zu
nutzen. Was noch viel bedenklicher ist: der Aufschrei unter Kolleg*innen müsste noch viel größer sein, denn die Illusion(!), 1 Text einfach durch 1 'KI' jagen & 'the one & only interpretation'