Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮)

📣 𝗨𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗱.
🗓️ 31/10/2025, 13.00-17.00 uur.
ℹ️ Gratis deelname.
❗S.v.p. opgeven via deze link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qt9gEDkrFa.
🏛️‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬, Johanna Hudiggebouw, zaal 1.27.

📣 𝗨𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗱.
🗓️ 31/10/2025, 13.00-17.00 uur.
ℹ️ Gratis deelname.
❗S.v.p. opgeven via deze link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qt9gEDkrFa.
🏛️‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬, Johanna Hudiggebouw, zaal 1.27.

👩‍🎨Learning by doing! I took students to the ArtLab of our Art History Department in Utrecht, where we recreated a 16th-century French recipe for an artificial cave or grotto, all the rage in early modern Europe. We made fake stones from real parchment: almost impossible to discern from actual stones!

👩‍🎨Learning by doing! I took students to the ArtLab of our Art History Department in Utrecht, where we recreated a 16th-century French recipe for an artificial cave or grotto, all the rage in early modern Europe. We made fake stones from real parchment: almost impossible to discern from actual stones!

Together with 150,000+ other Dutch people, I protested yet again against Israel's ongoing genocide and ecocide on Palestinians and Palestine 🇵🇸 This time we rallied in The Hague. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, when will you finally cut ties with Israel? Free Palestine. Never again, is now #rodelijn

Together with 150,000+ other Dutch people, I protested yet again against Israel's ongoing genocide and ecocide on Palestinians and Palestine 🇵🇸 This time we rallied in The Hague. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, when will you finally cut ties with Israel? Free Palestine. Never again, is now #rodelijn

Great example!

🗣️ Mark your calendar! I'll give a public talk on early modern robots.

🆘 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱! 𝘈 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘱: 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥.

🗓️ 11 June, 5.30-6.30pm.
🏫 Utrecht, Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.21.
💶 Free for Art-ers, €1,- for externs.
📝 Sign up via this Google form: forms.gle/EX369NmT2xR8....

Early morning in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where art history students @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social went hunting for everything festive🥳How are material traces of fleeting celebrations in the early modern Netherlands, like a banquet or parade, preserved & exhibited for contemporary audiences?🤔

Early morning in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where art history students @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social went hunting for everything festive🥳How are material traces of fleeting celebrations in the early modern Netherlands, like a banquet or parade, preserved & exhibited for contemporary audiences?🤔

Van een zestiende-eeuws Venetiaans masker tot een piekfijn bewaard gebleven boek uit 1753 over spectaculaire vuurwerkkunst in Vlissingen: kunstgeschiedenisstudenten @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social mochten tijdens mijn cursus over vroegmoderne festivalkunst🥳 eeuwenoude objecten bestuderen🤩

Van een zestiende-eeuws Venetiaans masker tot een piekfijn bewaard gebleven boek uit 1753 over spectaculaire vuurwerkkunst in Vlissingen: kunstgeschiedenisstudenten @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social mochten tijdens mijn cursus over vroegmoderne festivalkunst🥳 eeuwenoude objecten bestuderen🤩

Perceptions of Privacy in Diplomatic Correspondence*. Dutch and English Ambassadors at the Early Modern French Court | Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence

Shhh!🤫...I delved into the top-secret lives of European ambassadors at the early modern French court🪭I wrote a chapter on the topic for Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence, ed. by Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard 📚

You can read it in open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1484/M.EE....

Oxford Court Studies Seminars will take place at Jesus College, Memorial Room, at 4:30pm (except *9 May) 28 April Rubén González Cuerva (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas): ‘The Court of Tunis: Negotiating Kingship in the Sixteenth-Century Maghreb’ FRIDAY 9 May *Ship Street Centre, Jesus. Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen): ‘Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen’. (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network) 12 May Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki): ‘The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts’ 26 May Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University): ‘The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century’ 9 June Richard Schlag (Jesus College): ‘Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg’ (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)

Trinity Term Card! This term featuring talks by brilliant scholars on the Early Modern courts of Tunis, Copenhagen, Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, and the Holy Roman Empire. Alternate Mondays, 4:30pm, Memorial Room at Jesus College (plus Friday 9 June at Ship Street Centre). All are welcome! (edited)

𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 features insightful contributions by experts on the topic: Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Hubert Bost, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Daybell, Bastian Felter Vaucanson, Natacha Klein Kaefer, Jane McKee, and Richard Maber.

Through that same link you will be able to read the entire volume for free, thanks to the generous support of The Danish National Research Foundation.

Perceptions of Privacy in Diplomatic Correspondence*. Dutch and English Ambassadors at the Early Modern French Court | Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence

Shhh!🤫...I delved into the top-secret lives of European ambassadors at the early modern French court🪭I wrote a chapter on the topic for Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence, ed. by Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard 📚

You can read it in open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1484/M.EE....

Wist je dat eten en drinken een geheime rol speelden in vroegmoderne Nederlandse diplomatie? Ik schreef er een bijdrage over in 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴. Kom te weten hoe een Engelse graaf 'schurfthoofden' at in Alkmaar en hoe een koningin-moeder nootmuskaat proefde in Amsterdam.

👉https://shorturl.at/ljDyq.

Goeie diplomatie gaat door de maag, ;-)

In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

#TransRights

Wist je dat eten en drinken een geheime rol speelden in vroegmoderne Nederlandse diplomatie? Ik schreef er een bijdrage over in 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴. Kom te weten hoe een Engelse graaf 'schurfthoofden' at in Alkmaar en hoe een koningin-moeder nootmuskaat proefde in Amsterdam.

👉https://shorturl.at/ljDyq.

Out now: a special issue of OGE. Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries on the theme 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Theories and Practices', which I co-edited together with Veerle Fraeters and Kees Schepers.
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Fantastic news!🥳Alessandro Arcangeli has written a rave review of my book Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture (Brill, 2023): 'This is a very informed and articulated study of festival culture during the Renaissance ... not systematically examined within diplomatic history until now'.

The review is published in Ludica 30 (2024), 229-32.

For the full review, please visit shorturl.at/X8cqJ.

To order my book, please visit brill.com/display/title/58251.

Fantastic news!🥳Alessandro Arcangeli has written a rave review of my book Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture (Brill, 2023): 'This is a very informed and articulated study of festival culture during the Renaissance ... not systematically examined within diplomatic history until now'.

🎨Art history students in our undergraduate programme @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social visited the Dordrechts Museum!

🔎They studied the modern and early modern art collections of the museum and discussed these with conservator Pim Aarts and educator Kachiri van Zwam.

👊Van de Dam tot het Museumplein: met meer dan 30,000 mensen protesteerde ik gisteren in Amsterdam tegen racisme en fascisme.

🇵🇸Ik demonstreerde met name tegen Israëls genocide in Palestina en het extreemrechtse anti-immigratie en anti-intellectuele beleid van het kabinet-Schoof in Nederland.

👊Van de Dam tot het Museumplein: met meer dan 30,000 mensen protesteerde ik gisteren in Amsterdam tegen racisme en fascisme.

🇵🇸Ik demonstreerde met name tegen Israëls genocide in Palestina en het extreemrechtse anti-immigratie en anti-intellectuele beleid van het kabinet-Schoof in Nederland.

The genocidal regime of Israel has broken the ceasefire and has massacred at least 350 Palestinians yesterday in Gaza. Aided by US and Dutch financial support. I am proud to say that Utrecht resists, among which are many students.