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Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence, May 22, 2026 - May 22, 2026 Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2025 Call for Papers Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts the gender roles in a society firmly on records. Although we can never fully grasp the motives behind past acts of violence, through them we can gauge what was tolerated or sanctioned in any given society. Historical violence can suggest which meaning early modern people had of assault and abuse, whether physical, verbal or psychological. This brings us to the fundamental methodological question of how modern categories can capture past social realities. In this regard, the aim of the workshop is to offer a more precise picture of gender violence, with a quantitative study on survivors, their witnesses, and the negotiating process. This gathering aims to promote a discussion on how to defy certain stereotypes around gender-based violence by investigating how women and men in the past viewed and talked about their roles within the abusive act. While some treated the violence suffered as an intimate matter, charged with shame and danger and therefore difficult to articulate, others saw it as a matter to be publicly outed and put into words. This workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words) on any aspect of gender and violence in early modernity. Papers that investigate the possibility to offer significant input for the study of what we would regard as psychological/physical trauma; dynamics of power; for understanding responses to assault; to investigate the status and forms of victims and perpetrators. The past can share its feelings as violent acts are always initially expressed through language and shaped by specific social and cultural norms.

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social

Deadline: 20 December 2025
Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

AI experts in higher ed aghast at higher ed’s embrace of AI apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

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Only available on microfilm

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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

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We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"

Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into

Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

23.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 21    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 2

Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Cri...

cool new stuff from cool historians but also me hah take that #16thC #17thC #earlymodern #spain #italy #skystorians #iberia
www.routledge.com/Evidence-Crime-and-Forensics-in-the-Early-Modern-Mediterranean/Homza-Scott/p/book/9781032781464

10.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Another book I'm very much looking forward to this year. Congrats, Amanda! #earlymodern #vendetta

29.08.2025 12:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians

26.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy An exceptional study of private peace pacts in early modern Italy that challenges earlier notions of the place of these private agreements in the development of the courts and state.

Really excited that this book is getting an English translation - congrats, Paolo! #earlymodern #peacemaking #vendetta

19.08.2025 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 56th edition of the Austrian History Yearbook has officially been published! For now you can read its 10 research articles and 58 book reviews online while we eagerly anticipate the journal's physical publication.

#History #AcademicSky #Austria #Vienna #Europe

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

06.08.2025 14:59 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective. – Faculty of History

Ranting on elite violence in early modern Styria at this fine conference on violence in Warsaw in September. Really looking forward to it!

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Late to the show, as always, but still honoured to having this paper published in the Austrian History Yearbook.

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