Job alert! This is a reminder that I'm looking for a team member to work on a book history project 📚 that explores the networks 🕸️ of Protestant book agents in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia! Details: konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (EN version at p. 7). Send an application by 9.03!
Casebooks Therapy — where experts and enthusiasts gather to discuss hard to read, often tragic, sometimes life-affirming medical records that aren't even #medieval — will take place on Weds, 25 Feb, 3pm Florence time. Always online, never dull. DM or email @laurenkassell.bsky.social for the link.
#histmed #histsci #earlymodern
#histmed #histsci #earlymodern
This Wednesday (28 Jan) we are back again reading Forman and Napier. Dm if you’d like to join! @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
Join us tomorrow (29 October) for #casebookstherapy!!
@jakubochocinski.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
#histmed #astrology #histsci #earlymodern
Our first session is this Wednesday @laurenkassell.bsky.social
& my own: “Celestial Science and Practical Knowledge: Everyday uses of Calendars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” #skystorians #emhistory #history #hismed
Titles of our presentations.
Luís: “How it shall speed? Astrological Practices in Early Modern Nautical Culture”
Tuna: “A ‘Pathology’ of Prognostications: Courtly politics of Medical Astrology in Ottoman Istanbul in the late 17th Century”
Last week in Istanbul with @ulastuna.bsky.social and @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social after our panel at Scientiae2025 “Prognostication, fortune, and risk: How people navigated material fortunes through almanacs and astrological consulations in the e.m world.” Thank you both and Scientiae organisers!
@eui-history.bsky.social
Will be going to this!
@laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social @extispex.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks #earlymodern #history #historyofmedicine #astrology
Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me
Tomorrow (21 May 15:00-16:00 Florence time) is our final session of casebooks therapy for this academic year. If you’d like to join dm me for the zoom link! #skystorians #casebooks #astronomy #astrology @laurenkassell.bsky.social
Amazing workshop on #earlymodern #almanacs It was great to meet old and new friends in this amazing place #Fribourg
Happening later this week -- Kepler, Kircher, Grynaeus, Bruno, and more: 😃 👇 #earlymodern #histsci
Happy to see my review of @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social’s book, Jesuit Astrology, to be out in the JHA today. Congratulations again, Luís! #skystorians #astronomy #astrology
Of course. There’s also Ann Geneva’s book, i can’t remember if she looks at cases @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social any others?
Sue Ward just brought out the first of three volumes on Lilly’s public and private writings! Here’s the link: sue-ward.co.uk
Today (25 April), I’m joining the Writing Technologies team for an informal workshop to chat about the properties of stones in a medieval Arabic handbook of recipes for remedies and wonders by the 13th alchemist al-ʿIrāqī, and my tentative steps into thinking about stones and generation 💎
How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci
Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.
Emotion in Early Modern Science?
Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing.
📅 15–16 May
🎟️ Free (in person or online)
Very much looking forward to this symposium next month organised by Vitus Huber! Writing-calendar galore ✍️
The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!
Some news!
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
📣Thrilled to be joining Bluesky conversations with my most recent publication on Scottish midwifery! Many thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social and @sgsah.bsky.social!!
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