Idunn Victoria Rostøl
@ivrostol.bsky.social
PhD in Intellectual History at the University of Oslo. Mission history, childhood, antisiganism, children's literature, and history of emotions. https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/history-of-ideas/temporary/idunnvs/index.html
I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART
![an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil.
lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text
neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled
chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets
lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text
true neutral: just the footnote
chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!"
lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it
neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication"
chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jenhljo6xs32gmkabw4mbxpo/bafkreienl4ibcc6j5smjpjpoc2woecnkvxrf3rrf5xvidcqvt5ezp353nq)
Wrote a few words in @shcy.bsky.social's online exhibit Childish Things last week. Thanks @layla-koch.bsky.social for your helpful comments!
SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis week on Digital Childhoods, Idunn Rostøl (@ivrostol.bsky.social) shares about Norwegian children's mission to Romani children and how this shaped ideas of nation and childhood. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/collecti...
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
“I often tell students that source analysis is about the skills and imagination the historian brings, rather than just the nature of the source” New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️
Unverbal Diarier
‘Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history,’ writes Michaela Kalcher. What this unremarkable bourgeois did leave, however, was a day-by-day account of the Fr…
williamgpooley.wordpress.com
Først gikk de etter feminister, så skeive – og deretter transpersoner. I 30 år har Den katolske kirken motarbeidet styrkede rettigheter for kvinner og seksuelle minoriteter. For den argentinske nonnen Monica Astorga betød kjønnskampen slutten på livet i kloster.
(+) Hun var nonnen som ga ly til transpersoner
Men da Den katolske kirken trappet opp kjønnskrigen, måtte Monica Astorga forlate klosteret.
morgenbladet.no
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
forbes.com
«Ingen i det palestinske teamet bak «Praying for Armageddon» har overlevd Gaza-krigen. – En etter en ble de målrettet tatt ut, sier regissør Tonje Hessen Schei.»
Team bak norsk film er drept i israelske angrep
Ingen i det palestinske teamet bak «Praying for Armageddon» har overlevd Gaza-krigen. – En etter en ble de målrettet tatt ut, sier regissør Tonje Hessen Schei.
klassekampen.no
Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too). 📆Conference dates: 25-27 June 📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April 👩🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...
Call for Abstracts
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Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network@oxscandistudies.bsky.social · last yr.Join us Friday 14 Feb at 10am (GMT) for our second postgrad seminar of 2025. “Postcolonial Perspectives on Scandinavian Print Culture” w/ Madelen Velasquez Howard (Independent Scholar) & Idunn Victoria Rostøl (Oslo) Sign up by email! #scandinavianstudies #oxford #history #skystorians
Excited for this! I'll share some work-in-progress from my thesis about how interwar debates regarding nature vs. nurture were communicated to children through fictional conversion stories.
Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood@histchildoxford.bsky.social · last yr.Looking forward to the next session of our seminar. Idunn Victoria Rostøl, visiting us from Oslo this term, will be talking about "Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)"; join us in person or online, Monday 10 Feb, 11-12.15 GMT
Hello world! I'm researching the involvement of children of the majority population in the forced assimilation of Romani in Norway. This photo (1904) shows some of these children busy making prizes for a bazaar. The money they made would be invested in orphanages and work camps targeting Romani.
'I imagine he sounded rather like the Irish men from the next generation I heard talking outside mass when I was growing up... A voice is the living person it belongs to; it is made of their exhaled breath'. Joe Moran on the voices lost in history: www.historyworkshop....
Lost Voices: The Insides of History
Joe Moran on what is lost and what is left behind in history, through imagining the voice of his grandfather.
historyworkshop.org.uk
Happy New Year! Happy New Oxford History of Childhood Seminar Programme! Check out our exciting line-up (online and in person) for this term, featuring @jennycrane.bsky.social, @ivrostol.bsky.social, and more!
