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I can take no credit here - congratulations to @racheljwillie.bsky.social and @spparkle.bsky.social!
If you work on #earlymodern sound in any capacity do consider Sonance for your article projects!
And if you'd like to review any recent books in the field please do give me a shout! 🗃️

My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern

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📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣

Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

📖Book presentation: Silvia Cinnella della Porta, "Traduttori e mercanti: la scoperta inglese del Nuovo Mondo" (Firenze University Press, 2025).
📍La Colombaria (Florence) | 📆 25 February 2026 | ⌚16:00

#EarlyModern #BookLaunch

#earlymodern

📌Wednesday, 4 Februrary 2026 ⌚11:00
📖 Germano Maifreda will present his book "Io sono una strega (Einaudi, 2025)" as part of the seminar series “Voices from the Margins: Women, Religion, and Othering.”
🌍Università degli Study di Firenze |💻Online: meet.google.com/kxd-mmcg-xno

Updated CfP: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation’ @ Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026.

Please do check out and share our #CfP. Deadline: 27 February 2026.

#Earlymodern #Communication #History

@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙

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Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

CfA 📢Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships for 2026-2027 @folger.edu
🏦Folger Shakespeare Library |🌍Washington DC
⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026
🔗 www.folger.edu/research/the...

#callforpapers #Fellowships

L'EFR recrute un.e assistant.e scientifique Date limite de candidature : 8 janvier 2025, 12 h (heure de Rome)

#Reclutamento
L’École française de Rome seleziona un(a) assistente scientifico(a)
📆 Termine ultimo per la presentazione delle candidature: 8 gennaio 2026, ore 12.00
➡️ Inizio del rapporto di lavoro: 1° febbraio2026
➕Consultare l'offerta di lavoro: https://ow.ly/j6Gb50XKpB2

#EFR #emploi #recherche

Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1 Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.

Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!

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The International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources” is offering 3 fully funded doctoral positions, starting 1 Sept 2026.

Projects in history of science, global history, media studies, DH, and related fields are welcome.

Details: www.stmoderna.it/it/dottorati...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

📢Recently published! 📑Duval, Harvey, Sancho Fibla (dirs.) « Le projet Sorores », Chronica Mundi, 18 (2024).

Contributors explore the diverse experiences of non-cloistered religious women (12th–18th c.).

📩 Request a free copy via the email listed here:
www.chronicamundi.org/en/readers.h...

SEAL OF SAPIEXCELLENCE 2025 – Postdoc Fellowships (€50,000)

Sapienza University of Rome is offering 4 annual postdoc positions linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Seal of Excellence.

⏳ Deadline: 13 February 2026, 11:59

More details and other calls: www.stmoderna.it/it/borse-di-...

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025 TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Domani ci tuffiamo nella Venezia magica d’età moderna… univr.zoom.us//88658895932 #magic #magia #witchcraft #stregoneria #modernhistory #storiamoderna #venice #venezia #santainquisizione #inquisition @stmoderna.bsky.social

✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...

#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory

New on Stmoderna
Call for papers | Violenza economica. Dominazione, sfruttamento e disuguaglianze di genere nel lungo periodo
📍 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”
📅 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
A conference on the history of economic violence and gender inequalities across time and space.

Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

📌Friday, 24 October
Presentation of “Chimere: Research Network on Cultural Histories of Magic”, launching a new seminar series on magic, folklore, and esotericism.
📍 University of Verona |🕚 11:50
💻Join on Zoom : univr.zoom.us/j/82097215327

Details on the speakers 👇

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!

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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-...