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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

📢 Applications for the Winter School di Studi sulla Riforma are still open!
🌍Florence | 🗓️ 13–16 November 2025
⏰ DEADLINE : 10 October 2025
#Earlymodern #Reformation

New on Stmoderna:
Looking for a postdoc? Check out the Max Weber Programme at the EUI (Florence) for 2026/27.

🕒 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025, 14:00 CEST
🔗 Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

Unearthing the Musical Secrets of a Renaissance Convent Laurie Stras on the thrill of archival discovery, the women behind the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, and the music that inspired Ricordanze: A Record of Love

More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

Curious about Jewish communities in early modern Venice?

From Monday, Oct. 6, at the State Archive of Venice, Renata Segre leads a 5-week cycle on sixteenth-century manuscripts about Jewish communities.

🔗 Learn more: www.stmoderna.it/it/eventi/

📣New on Stmoderna!

Call for Applications: Winter School (Florence, 13–16 Nov 2025) on the Protestant Reformation - its political, cultural, and social dimensions, and its legacies in philosophy, literature, music, and the arts.

Deadline: 10 Oct 2025

see it at: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

Starting today in Rome, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies:
Mapping Dissonant Objects – a three-day workshop organized by Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, and Lina Scalisi.

mapdisob.hypotheses.org

📢 New on StModerna

The Istituto Sangalli Prize for Religious History 2025 (11th edition) offers young scholars the chance to publish monographs on religious history (Middle Ages–contemporary) with Firenze University Press.

⏳ Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Two Franciscan friars seen through Japanese eyes from:

Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" c. 1600 (Kobe City Museum Collection)

Triple-knotted cinctures, bare feet, rosaries, hoods. Nicely observed. And linen shirts under the habit too.

Holy Smoke The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe.

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

A scientist in a lab coat looks through a microscope in a laboratory, with other researchers blurred in the background. Overlaid text reads: “Record Applications – Choose Europe: EU research fellowships attract record 17,058 applications.” The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right corner.

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.

A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.

Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.

→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP

#ChooseEurope

New on StModerna: the Eleonora Rai Prize
Established in memory of Eleonora Rai, it awards PhD theses on themes she worked on: religious, cultural, and gender history, with special attention to violence (early modern to contemporary age).

⏳Deadline: 26 Nov 2025
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 New Call for Papers on StModerna

A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
📍 University of Oxford
🗓️ 22–23 October 2026
⏳ Deadline: 31 December 2025

👉 This and many other CfPs await you on StModerna: www.stmoderna.it/it/call-for-...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic

historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Cover of the advertised book.

This volume investigates the epistemological dimension and social embedding of resource policies while providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in many fields.
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

🎓 Two new PhD opportunities just added on StoriaModerna:

📍 University of Trento – deadline: 26 August 2025
📍 University of Sassari – deadline: 1 September 2025

🔎 Full details here: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

🏆 New on StModerna: the Paola Bora Prize (2025)

An award for unpublished MA and PhD theses on gender studies (including history).
Open to theses written in Italian or English.

Deadline: 31 October 2025

👉 See this and other awards and calls here: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

📢 Just published on StModerna:

🌍 5 doctoral scholarships in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) – deadline: 27 August 2025

🔎 Full details and more here:
www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...
www.stmoderna.it/it/concorsi/
www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.

Please share widely!

www.historyworkshop....

🔎 For more calls for fellowships and opportunities, check out the dedicated sections on our website:
fellowships: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...
PhDs: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...
awards: www.stmoderna.it/it/premi-per...

Bando di concorso per borse di studio dell’anno accademico 2025-2026. Scadenza: 31 luglio 2025

📢 Call for Applications
The Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici has published its 2025–2026 fellowship call (15 scholarships available).
Deadline: 31 July 2025
More info 👉 www.iiss.it/bando-di-con...

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

Thanks a lot, Eduardo! Happy to be on Bluesky – let’s keep early modern history alive and buzzing here too!