@nichephoros.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Utrecht University/19th century/ History of Nationalism
Just watched Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle after Another" and I was very much impressed by it. Alongside being an excellent piece of cinema, it is one of the few works of fiction (alongside Dostoevskij's "Demons") to fully capture the psychology of revolutionaries and secret societies.
12.11.2025 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For German examples, i'd also cite Johann Wirth and Arnold Ruge. More articles/books: "nationalists internationalism in the modern age" by David Motadel and "transnational patriotism" by Konstantina Zanou, as well as any work by Maurizio Isabella
11.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mazzini is indeed a great example! I'd recommend the excellent volume "Mazzini and the globalization of democratic nationalism" by Bayly and Biagini. For primary sources by Mazzini i'd suggest his "Thoughts upon democracy in Europe", especially art. 7 on nationality and cosmopolitanism.
11.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
07.11.2025 23:24 — 👍 3572 🔁 999 💬 10 📌 10“genAI” is not just some tool, signed: former programmer who’s been coding since he’s 11. It’s not bc “humanities”.
The express, advertised feature of this product is abusive and fraudulent.
There are many such technologies forbidden. We don’t just resign to allowing forgery of money, do we?
I've had many conversations with students who don't want to use AI, for various reasons, and they are frustrated by their universities' efforts to push AI onto them. Many students are more thoughtful and critical about AI than ed and tech leaders and resist the "everyone is doing it" defense.
15.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 63 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to chair today's launch of Matt Myers' fantastic THE HALTED MARCH OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT: THE WORKING CLASS IN BRTAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY, 1968–1989 (OUP), Thursday, 5 June, 5:30pm, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), Central Building, LSE. Please join!
05.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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I wrote about ole Luigi www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
17.03.2025 17:12 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
3500 people protesting the right-wing Dutch government's 1.3 billion € budget cuts to higher education. This is an extinction-level event for dutch research, and @Radboud_uni @radboudumc and the HAN are having none of it.
#nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet
My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April
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📖 New Book Release! 📖
I am thrilled to announce the publication of my latest book: Police, Crime, and Public Order in Liberal Italy. The National Model and the Case of late 19th-Century Sicily (1861–1914).
📚 More details here: shorturl.at/Lukud
#History #Policing #Crime #Italy #Mafia #BookRelease
Congratulazioni Andrea! Molto curioso di leggerlo!
04.03.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a great pleasure to have partaken to this year's conference of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, where I presented a paper on the appropriation of History by Italian and German nationalists in the 1800s. Fantastic keynotes by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social, Lynn Hunt and Sarah Chambers!
03.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔎 Deadly games of espionage! On 24 Feb, Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman explores early modern spycraft in SHN’s lecture, uncovering how spies kept secrets and exposed their enemies.
📅 24 Feb 2025 | 📍 Utrecht | ⏰ 17:00
🍷 Free drinks included!
Sign up: forms.gle/Zy1kE5Tjnkjb...
