Shakspier's Avatar

Shakspier

@shakspier.bsky.social

She/Her/Hers. Ph.D., Cultural Historian. Genocide and Holocaust Studies scholar. International Humanitarian Law.📍Mexico City 🇲🇽 ENG/ESP/FRA

227 Followers  |  560 Following  |  52 Posts  |  Joined: 30.11.2023  |  1.9056

Latest posts by shakspier.bsky.social on Bluesky

Institution access is something that the idea of not having gives me anxiety. 🥲
I want to do my research in peace 😭

07.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

7 Oct 1655: Henry Fell arrives in #Barbados to begin a #Quaker mission there #otd (BL)

07.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

So glad to have a new graduate student working with me. Their ideas for their thesis sound amazing. 😀

30.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

22.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
28.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
What is Community Archaeology’s Value for Our Discipline’s Future? « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog Research programs that are deeply engaged with, and responsive to, communities require significant investment to build and sustain. Why, then, should archaeologists -- often constrained by time and re...

Meghan C. L. Howey asks 'What is Community Archaeology’s Value for Our Discipline’s Future?' in this new #blog, accompanying #openaccess #research out now in the #SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ➡️✅ https://cup.org/3VTvUjZ

#archaeology
#communityarchaeology

28.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It keeps raining 🥲

28.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.

Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck

Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

24.09.2025 09:37 — 👍 26    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Self-portrait, study,

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1493

(Met Museum)

08.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
A narrow dirt trail winds through tall green grass and bright pink wildflowers, leading toward dense evergreen trees. In the distance, rugged snow-capped peaks rise against a cloudy gray sky in the North Cascades.

A narrow dirt trail winds through tall green grass and bright pink wildflowers, leading toward dense evergreen trees. In the distance, rugged snow-capped peaks rise against a cloudy gray sky in the North Cascades.

Yesterday’s stroll through the mountains. 🏔️

#scape #photography #landscape #pnw #wildflowers #bloomscroling

30.08.2025 01:56 — 👍 527    🔁 50    💬 10    📌 1
Post image

Portrait Miniature of an unknown young man in yellow with a bonnet & feather, by Nicholas Hilliard, watercolour on vellum, ca. 1585-1590.

(V&A, London)

29.08.2025 11:02 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Late August afternoon, Dublin

29.08.2025 11:17 — 👍 46    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Feeling quite tired as of late. Need to rest more.

30.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Today is National Blueberry Day 🫐 🥳 (July is also blueberry *month.*) Quill & Crumb, our café, is getting into the spirit all week with this blueberry tart. Visit us and enjoy some delicious seasonal treats. www.folger.edu/visit/folger...

08.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

funny, it’s like now we have the worst neapolit(ical) ice cream ever

But they are all one.

07.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I wish that book proposals didn’t cause so much anxiety as they do.
#academicsky
I just want to write my little book, please 🥹

07.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 We're hiring!

Join our friendly journals production team at Bristol University Press as a Journals Assistant Production Editor.

#AcademicJobs #PublishingCareers #PublishingJobs

Apply by 22 July 2025: buff.ly/gcuN1uS

07.07.2025 15:07 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
32 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Vacancy Edu University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of

32 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

#VacancyEdu #Postdoc #Postdoctoral #PostdocJobs #ScienceCareer #AcademicJobs #ResearchOpportunities #PhDlife #PostdoctoralFellowship #JobSearch #Scholarships

vacancyedu.com/32-postdocto...

07.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

This book by Oswaldo Zavala was a great read. #drugcartels #narcos #US #Mexico
And it will be very useful in my next project concerning México and Central America.

07.07.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

First day of the #ISAforum25 here in Rabat, #Morocco! Drop by the De Gruyter Brill booth to browse our latest publications, chat with me about your work or just to say hello! 💛

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
@isa-sociology.org

07.07.2025 06:44 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

#AppelàCommunication 📢 Le @cths.bsky.social lance un appel à communication pour le 150e congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, sur le thème «Histoires d’eau» (18-22 mai 2026, @campuscondorcet.bsky.social). Propositions à transmettre avant le 3 oct. 2025 ➡ https://urls.fr/BKVVg2

07.07.2025 12:30 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Catalog Jewish Studies cover

Catalog Jewish Studies cover

📢📚 Just in time for #BIAJS2025 in Glasgow, our new #JewishStudies catalog with all the 2025 releases is out! Many highlights will be featured at our book stand.

🔗https://issuu.com/degruyter/docs/jewish_studies_2025_i_de_gruyter

03.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

De Gruyter Brill and Japan’s National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) launch "NIHU Studies in the Humanities," an #OpenAccess series showcasing peer-reviewed research from NIHU’s six institutes.

Explore the series website here: brill.com/page/forthco...

07.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Currently beginning preliminary #research into #aesthetic #philosophy for a new project with a colleague of mine in Vienna.

03.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Turquoise visual with orange text reading "Open Access News," followed in navy blue by "Agreement with Max Planck Society" and the De Gruyter Brill logo. In the background is the open access symbol, an open lock.

Turquoise visual with orange text reading "Open Access News," followed in navy blue by "Agreement with Max Planck Society" and the De Gruyter Brill logo. In the background is the open access symbol, an open lock.

🔓 Exciting #OpenAccess news! We've extended an agreement with Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society to give both De Gruyter and Brill authors access to OA book funding through the Max Planck Digital Library (@mpdl.mpg.de). Researchers at all 86 Max Planck institutes are eligible. 1/3

01.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Le Panthéon Stéphane Bern nous entraîne dans un lieu d’exception : le Panthéon, l’ancienne église Sainte-Geneviève devenue nécropole nationale qui accueille les grands hommes – et grandes femmes aussi – de notre ...

🗿Qui entre au Panthéon… et pourquoi? Une histoire éminemment politique

L’historien Michel Biard, auteur d’une «Histoire politique du Panthéon» était l’invité d'Au Cœur de l'Histoire sur Europe 1

#histoire #Panthéon #mémoire #France
www.europe1.fr/emissions/le...

01.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

If only they would recruit me 🥹

01.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👀 #academicsky

29.06.2025 18:39 — 👍 40    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

I am considering writing a monograph on the history of state violence in México. I just need to find the right academic press to publish with. I wonder who might be interested. #academicsky #historian #Mexico #academic

01.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@shakspier is following 20 prominent accounts