Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen

Wow!
I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class.

Last chance for free download today!

Thank you for sharing and for the collaboration. I could not have wished for a better series editor than @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social

Things of the Past Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past

My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.

It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.

Please share and comment!

After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world?

Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!

www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...

My workplace ...

Sad story. The University of Chicago is, or was?, a unique institution. In related news, their program in history of science has just paused accepting new graduate students. Maybe they should make some spots available for studying the recent history of the University of Chicago?

Lost El Dorado. Figure of ruler of the Muisca, bringing gold offerings to the Gods on Lake Guatavita. Photo from the collection of Salomón Koppel and his wife, Bogotá, around 1880. The figure was bought by Adolf Bastian and disappeared in a warehouse fire in Bremen. Museo Nacional de Colombia.

PhD Positions at The Department of Communication of Arts, Roskilde University The Doctoral School of Communication and Arts (DCA), Roskilde University invites for a number of PhD positions. The scholarships are fully funded for 3 yea

Ph.D. scholarship (by international standards, very well paid) available in my department. If anyone, or anyone's student, should be interested, please let me know. I would be especially happy supervising topics relating to the history and theory of humanities.

In Danish! The question would probably surprise most Danes. Not really something we talk about (but the answer is yes!)

Vossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications - Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2025 for fellowships in 2026.

Are you interested in the entangled history of humanities and science?

Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.

Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.

Deadline: 1 June 2025

vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Danish superstructure?

Great idea, thank you for sharing! I just passed on it to the Board of Events of the Society for the History of Humanities, suggesting that we do something similar.

Beware of your Greenlandic dreams. Ruins of Medieval Church at Qaqortukulooq, in one of the Scandinavian settlements. After hundreds of years in Greenland, the settlements died out in the 15th century, for unknown reasons.

Pot with branch from dead plant in a windows sill. Next to it is another plant and a watering pot. Bellow, a sign is stuck on the wall reading - Artist: unknown. Dead plant, 2024. Glass, plastic, wood and misc. organic material. The precise placement of this piece among a collection of living plants allows the unknowns artist to remind the viewer of the inescapable cycle of life and death, as well as the capricious nature of the Ava rage house plant.

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨

Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

History of Humanities | Vol 4, No 2

It is labelled "Classics of the Humanities II" because it is a follow-up to another (Eurocentric) volume, edited by Rens Bod and me, in 2019:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2019...

History of Humanities | Vol 9, No 2

Exiting! New volume of History of Humanities, with introductions to texts that you can use to teach the history of the humanities in Africa.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...

Schicksale der Theorie

For those who reads Danish, a longer version of the story here:

tidsskrift.dk/passage/arti...

Finally, history, in new relationship with justice and ignoring time. 8

More subduing, now in the Vactican. 7

History – or German scholarship – subdued time, reconstructing the past from the remains. 6

More salvaging. 5

The relationship turned sour. Time destroyed the remains of the past. History’s helpers salvaged the remains from time. 4

More (and more explicit) revealing. 3

More revealing, with moral lessons for youth. 2

Time and history. The story of an abusive relationship in 8 parts. Once time and history worked together revealing the past. 1

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