Helmer Helmers
@helmer.bsky.social
Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC. History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
The Moroccan government confirmed that the Ceuta migration wave was organized and amplified through social media. A similar campaign is currently being run on TikTok, where people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq are being encouraged to migrate through Belarus to EU via the Baltic states. 1/2
Call for papers Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd: Planten in de vensterbank! De domesticatie van natuur, 1780-1940. Abstracts insturen voor 25 september: Meer info: www.mdnl.nl?p=20217
Call for papers Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2027 – MdNL | Maatschappij der Nederlandse letterkunde
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#CfA 📢 Postdoctoral fellowships, Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (2027–2030) 📆2027-2030 | 🏫 Princeton University (USA) ⏰ Application deadline: 4 August 2026 🔗 sf.princeton.edu/about-us/new... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Humanities #SocialSciences
2026 Call for Applications
The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2027-2030 fellowship competition. Appli...
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In November is het zover! Dan verschijnt het boek dat ik samen met Marianne Eekhout, @arjannobel.bsky.social, Godfried Nijs heb samengesteld. 80 thema's verbonden aan 80 plaatsen vol nieuwe verhalen over de Opstand in de Nederlanden wbooks.com/winkel/gesch...
Atlas van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog
Ontdek de Tachtigjarige Oorlog in tachtig thema’s, met lokale verhalen, kaarten en beelden over Opstand, geloof, strijd en dagelijks leven.
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Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
@letterkunde.bsky.social @allardpierson.bsky.social @kb.nl @rijksmuseum.bsky.social @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social En soms, heel soms, worden er museale vondsten gedaan op boekenmarkten! ☺️ Lees: perkamentus.blogspot.com/2026/07/de-d...
De Dordtse boekenmarkt en wat ik daar vond...
Ruim vijftien jaar geleden, op zondag 3 juli 2011 bezocht ik voor het eerst en voor het laatst de boekenmarkt in Dordrecht ... Tijd om weer ...
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𝗘𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘅: 𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗳 𝗻𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗶𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 📥 Doorzoek de archieven van Tresoar in een nieuwe zoekomgeving en vraag vanaf nu archiefstukken digitaal aan door gebruik te maken van onze #scanservice 📜 Sjoch hjir foar mear ynfo ➡️ www.tresoar.nl/nieuws/eeuwe...
Umeå University is advertising two assistant professor positions in the humanities: www.umu.se/en/work-with... I was a postdoc at Umeå and it's a great place to work! @ethannowak.bsky.social would back me up on this.
Two positions as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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🚨 NEWS: The European Commission finds addictive design of Instagram & Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.
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Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w agoEThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
@helmer.bsky.social Volgens mij heb ik een originele Nicolaes van Geelkercken (1585-1656) gevonden.😎 Koperen plaatje met gravure nr. 22 uit Cupido's Lusthof (Amsterdam, 1613). Morgen meer over deze opzienbarende vondst op de Dordtse boekenmarkt op mijn weblog perkamentus.blogspot.com. Stay tuned! 😀
The University of Guelph (near Toronto) welcomes applications for a Fulbright Fellowship in Digital Humanities 2027-2028. US$25K for 4 months, aimed at academics with tenure or tenure track position. Application deadline Sept 15 2026. www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame...
Research Chairs - All Disciplines
Award 271429-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPEN Awards to be taken up in the 2027-2028 Academic Year...
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50% off with @manchesterup.bsky.social!!! Go on, get yourself a little treat. Our series of Studies in #earlymodern Europe history is basically one big treasure chest of shiny gems. #SkyStorians manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...
Studies in Early Modern European History - Manchester University Press
This series aims to promote challenging and innovative research in all areas of early modern European history. For over twenty years it has published monographs and edited volumes that make an origina...
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CBC has been making a documentary on the rise of Oligarchy. The first three episodes are now online: app.magellan.ai/listen_links... The last episode will, I have been told by the producer, most likely follow in September.
The Billionaire Age Pt 1 | How did we get here?
Listen to Ideas
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Il est donc très risqué d'affirmer à ce stade que la semaine du 6 au 12 juillet sera plus chaude, ou même aussi chaude que celle que nous venons de vivre. Elle sera surtout extrêmement sèche, et c'est cela qui devrait nous inquiéter encore plus, car la nature meurt en silence. 2/2
Signal très chaud pour la semaine du 6 au 12 juillet (carte de gauche). Même ordre de grandeur que pour la prévision il y a deux semaines (à droite) pour la semaine qui s'achève. Elle s'est avérée être la plus chaude jamais observée sur le pays, avec une anomalie de +9°C en moyenne sur le pays.
#CfP 📢 Seminar: “Connections. Mobility and Community in the Early Modern World”, Radical Pietism in Northern Europe 📆 21-23 October 2026 | 🏫 University of Copenhagen ⏰ Deadline: 1 July 2026 🔗 saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/his... #EarlyModern
Historische sensatie! In 2023 stuitte ik op een volstrekt onbekend schilderij. Het bleek te gaan om een voorstelling van de Staten-Generaal en een verbeelding van het ontstaan van Nederland als soevereine staat. Lees nu het volledige verhaal in Early Modern Low Countries. doi.org/10.51750/eml...
Joris discovered an amazing painting and wrote a magnificent analysis of it, too, for @emlcjournal.bsky.social: emlc-journal.org/article/view...
View of Representing Dutch Sovereignty
Early Modern Low Countries
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Joris Oddens@jorisoddens.bsky.social · 2mo agoKen jij deze al @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social? Check it out.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.
Watching the inestimable @helmer.bsky.social at work: Dutch public diplomacy in the Holy Roman Empire. #earlymodern
It's almost time!!! We have less than a week before our Book History Conference. Lots of great panels are planned! If you'd like to join online please contact the organizers, Chloe Akers-Brewers or James Fox. Learn more about the conference program here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
Another woman, this time from 1542, with strong feelings about the Inquisition. Denounced in Lisbon for having said: "f*ck the Inquisition, f*ck those in charge of it and f*ck those who brought it [to Portugal] " (respondeu: merda pera a inquisicao e pera quem a manda e pera quem a tras).
Francois Soyer@fsoyer.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn June 1541, a woman loses her temper during an argument over dinner. According to the different witnesses present she exclaimed alternatively “the Inquisition can drink shit!” or screw the inquisitors!" Three dinner guests denounced her to the Inquisition in Lisbon.
Offre d’emploi – Postdoctoral researcher in late medieval history and literature (Amsterdam) rmblf.be/2026/06/09/o...
Offre d’emploi – Postdoctoral researcher in late medieval history and literature (Amsterdam)
The Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies (GER) has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research position for three years, 1.0 FTE. This position is part of the research project ‘V…
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📢 Call for Papers #REFORC2027: 📝 20-minute papers (individual or panels) across disciplines. 📣 Open to themed and general topics in Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-1700). Join an interdisciplinary, international dialogue and submit your proposal! tinyurl.com/26np4mpn
Is everyone’s theme for summer reading "pesky early modern Catholic print in Protestant lands, written by brilliant and dear friends", or just me? FYI: @ewatson.bsky.social & @creutcke.bsky.social amazing new books are on sale now with discount codes on @catholicismsem.bsky.social's profile.
After having traveled back and forth from one USPS depot to another since April 8 (track and trace is a mixed blessing), this thing has landed on my desk! 😅 Available here: share.google/fALEZCpmR8P3... And electronically from Amazon now and from your library soon.
