There is a lot going on in Pieter van Laer's 1630s "Self-Portrait with Magic Scene" (e.g. #earlymodern#alchemy and #magic, and #books). But have a look at the paper cone in the right foreground of the painting. Likely seeds or #peppercorns are spilling out. This is relevant for #PaperHistory and #BookHistory, dear #histodons.
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"
Am Mittwoch (22.05.) startet unsere Tagung zum deutschen #Kolonialismus mit neuen Perspektiven auf Akteure, Grenzziehungen & transimperiale Beziehungen!
Veranstaltung mit Unterstützung der DFH (@DFHUFA) und in Kooperation mit dem IHMC, der Univ. Lothringen, dem CRULH, dem Collège doctoral franco-allemand »transferts culturels« und dem Ciera (@gipciera).
Saw THE BEEKEEPER (2024) last night. I, of course, loved this movie. I will watch anything with Jason Statham (I'm not the only one as it turned out after the movie was over last night. 😆).
I also got a kick out of the movie as a medievalist. Apparently, there is a secret society of assassins called Beekeepers, who protect human civilization based on the idea that it is like a beehive.
Next week, we'll be welcoming hundreds of historians from all over the world to Lisbon for the 5th conference of the International Network for Theory of History!
The final programme in now on our website: three keynotes, five round tables and dozens of parallel sessions.
One central problem that resulted from the federal nature of the #Dutch republic was secrecy: How could one keep a secret with so many actors involved? This was almost a mission impossible, although one tried several measures such as an oath of secrecy to deal with the problem.
When dealing with Dutch #emdiplomacy you inevitably come across two other big issues: the Protestant character of Dutch #earlymodern#diplomacy and the importance of trade and commercial interests. For @helmers_h and @NinaLamal these are not contradictory interests. However, they argue that “commerce, geopolitics, and protestantism were perfectly reconcilable”. (4/5)
Finally, @helmer and @NinaLamal argue that it is important to analyse #Dutch#emdiplomacy not only in its European context, but in its global dimension. The East India Company (#VOC) and its growing importance in #Asia played an important role in the rise of the Dutch republic. Unfortunately, both dimesions – the European and the global one – are far too often dealt seperately with by modern research. A problem that is generally true for research on #earlymodern diplomacy.
This leads to an overarching problem of how to competently connect national, European and global perspectives on diplomacy without blurring the focus. A question to be discussed elsewhere. (5/5)
Am Internationalen Tag der #Familie widmen auch wir uns der #Verwandtschaft, verstanden als soziales Gefüge, das in ökonom., politischen & sozialen Kontexten, nicht zuletzt bei der Übertragung von Herrschaft & Besitz, wirkmächtig, erfahrbar & beschreibbar wird - dazu der Thementeil (hg. v. Michaela Hohkamp) in #WerkstattGeschichte 46/2007 "tanten"
➡ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/tanten
Deadline approaching: submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. #histodons@histodonshttps://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes
For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
🏆 Applications for the Amílcar Cabral Prize are open until 26 May.
The prize is intended to honour an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires.
#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.
A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.
After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes