Mareile Pfannebecker

The Obsolescence of the Human Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influ...

Book Launch! My friend Chris Mueller is talking about his translation of Günther Anders’s Obsolescence of The Human at QMUL on Thursday. Published in 1956, it is available in English for the first time!

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...

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There is an excellent chapter on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in there, originally published just after the play’s first performance, an interesting companion piece for Adorno’s famous essay

The Obsolescence of the Human Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influ...

Book Launch! My friend Chris Mueller is talking about his translation of Günther Anders’s Obsolescence of The Human at QMUL on Thursday. Published in 1956, it is available in English for the first time!

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-obsole...

A sumptuous 17th-century food still life painting by Fede Galizia, featuring at left a woven wicker basket heaped with pears. In front of the basket and next to it sit some loose apples. Front and center are three cucumbers, behind which and toward the right edge of the painting is a melon with about a quarter cut out of it, exposing the interior of the fruit. In the back is a shallow white bowl which contains a pile of figs. The painting is called "Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, Plums, and a Melon." According to the museum's object page, "An extremely skilled and detailed still life, the painting inspires the viewer to meditate on the splendor of nature. In the early modern period, such a work would have held both religious and scientific significance, allowing the viewer to be spiritually moved as well as marvel at the new scientific discoveries made possible by the recent invention of the microscope."

I am so excited to participate on this panel Sat, Nov 15 -

Is still life still relevant?

I get to talk with Bryn Schockmel & Derin Tanyol, Sharon Core, & Amanda Malmstrom about women & still life—the subject of 4 shows (!) this fall at The Hyde Collection.
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First time in Private Eye. I just wish it was for something a bit more positive.

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Please apply, especially early career and independant scholars! Come visit #Antwerp and use our magnificent collections!

How to Help Gazan History & Archaeology Students Finish their Degree cover picture by Georgia M. Andreou: GAZAMAP students at work before October 2023 Archaeology has a long legacy of separating heritage from its contemporary context. The ongoing destruction in Gaza…

There is a fundraiser to help twelve History and Archaeology students from the Islamic University of Gaza finish their degrees.

It has been organised by Georgia M Andreou of the Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP), on which the students worked.

The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

We're delighted that so many people have already signed up for our @zooniverse.bsky.social historic wills transcribathon on Thursday 24 July! 📜✍️

⏳ Sign up for your free place at: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#Skystorians #history #EarlyModern @uoearchhist.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

Mareile Pfannebecker presenting in front of a slide with a quote from "An oration made by Hermannus Kirchnerus in the Praise of Travel," translated in Thomas Coryat's Coryat's Crudities (1611): "[Those] who having travelled from their owne house, naked in a manner, destitute of all better discipline and nurture, and voyde of humanity, have returned home singularly furnished and affirmed with all kinds of qualities of the minde, and all such worthy gifts as can be incident in a man."

A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education.

#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social

Just got this in the post from Bloomsbury: James Smith and my book Work Want Work in simplified Chinese 😅

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment."

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