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@philiphahn.bsky.social

Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading

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The Dragoman Renaissance by E. Natalie Rothman | Paperback | Cornell University Press In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman....

BOTH of E. Natalie Rothman's books on Venetian-Ottoman intersections:

📖 Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

📖 The Dragoman Renaissance
Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism (BONUS: OPEN ACCESS!)

24.04.2024 03:47 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged ...

Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World, edited by Paul Nelles & Rosa Salzberg, is published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World,

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

View the table of contents here:
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

25.04.2024 12:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary...

Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

11.04.2024 12:19 — 👍 54    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 2
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Kapitalismus: Die Sprache des Geldes "Verdient" man seinen Lohn? Und "gibt" der Arbeitgeber Arbeit? Im Kapitalismus ist eine besondere Sprache entstanden, und die führt bisweilen ganz schön in die Irre.

Prägnanter Artikel von Daniel Stähr und Simon Sahner über unsere überwiegend unbewusste Sprache des Kapitalismus in @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-...

21.04.2024 08:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

Our project blog is back for a THIRD series, showcasing #earlymodern source material on medicine, slavery, and race-making. So far Ana Struilou has written about 'berberisco' practitioners in Seville and Barbara Di Gennaro Splendor has shared new work on galleys, slavery and expenses in Venice.

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10.04.2024 12:05 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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WerkstattGeschichte Die Macht der Farben – ein Überblick über historische Diskurse um Geschlecht und »Rasse«.

Werkstatt Geschichte Heft 89:
Die Macht der #Farben in rassistischen und vergeschlechtlichten Diskursen. Wie bestimmte Farben im Zusammenspiel ihrer Materialität und Symbolik historisch wahrgenommen und genutzt wurden, um Bedeutung zu generieren: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6... #OpenAccess

23.03.2024 00:23 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

How shameful and unfair

09.04.2024 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Helvecia in Brasilien, Natur in künstlicher Befruchtung, planetare Grenzen im frühneuzeitlicher Forstwirtschaft? Dies und vieles mehr in der neuen traverse zum Thema „Natur“, die ich gemeinsam mit Sabine Pitteloud und Stephanie Ginalski herausgeben durfte. revue-traverse.ch

09.04.2024 14:05 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Directory of History Dissertations Browse through the AHA's Directory of History Dissertations.

Every history dissertation title, searchable in one place: The AHA’s Directory of History Dissertations contains over 57,000 titles of dissertations completed or in progress at 204 history departments in the US and Canada. 🗃️

09.04.2024 15:01 — 👍 20    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 2

Still current.

07.04.2024 14:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Einfach mal bei der Bahnfahrt durch den Thüringer Wald aus dem Fenster statt ins Handy schauen. Im Herzoglichen Museum Gotha wird gerade eine Ausstellung dazu gezeigt: www.stiftung-friedenstein.de/ausstellunge...

07.04.2024 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD Candidate ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’ We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate to study the role of multilingual books in Western Europe in the sixteenth century.

Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues
@rozanneversendaal.bsky.social and Natalia Petrovskaia are looking for a PhD candidate in the project ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

04.04.2024 09:45 — 👍 23    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

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