PhD position in history and/or social sciences: Preparedness and the Politics of Solidarity: An Historical and Sociological Analysis of Conceptions and Mechanisms of Solidarity During Health Crises (late twentieth century until the present)

. @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social is well represented at #imc2026 International Medieval Conference this year. A chronological overview:

Doctoraatstudent (4 jaar) gezocht voor project Leven in tijden van crisis. Veerkracht door aanpassing en accommodatie in de middeleeuwse stad: Gent, 1436-38, deadline 17 augustus www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

Marc en Simonne Bloch in het Panthéon 23/6/2026

🎓🍻 Yesterday team member Max-Quentin Bischoff successfully defended his PhD-dissertation Merchants' Futures: Plans and Expectations in the Tucher Trading Company, c. 1520 - c. 1550. Congratulations Dr. Bischoff! @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social

Wonderful symposium! There is still time to write your proposal!

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our annual JHI Graduate Symposium will be held virtually on October 17. The theme is "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity.” Members of the journal’s editorial board will offer constructive feedback on students’ papers. Proposals are due June 22.

Project member Max-Quentin Bischoff will defend his PhD dissertation "Merchants' Futures: Plans and expectations in the Tucher family company, c.1520-c.1550" on Wednesday 10 June at Felixarchief Antwerpen (start at 13:30). More about this: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society. For a short blog : www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

‼️Publication alert‼️📯Born under Mercury: God’s Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant by dr. Nicolò Zennaro www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

Up for a lot fun today CTRL-ALT-HISTORY @uantwerpen.be

🎙️Nieuwe podcastaflevering! In de recente aflevering van de VRT-podcast ‘Voorproevers’ is CSG-lid Peter Stabel te gast naar aanleiding van het boek dat hij samen met Anke De Meyer schreef over de stedelijke jongerencultuur in de laatmiddeleeuwse Lage Landen. 👇Luister: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/podca...

Vandaag helaas niet op Erfgoeddag... Spijt komt altijd te laat. Het is vandaag #Erfgoeddag #Erfgoeddag2026. Het thema van dit jaar: humor. Het zou de ideale gelegenheid geweest zijn om iets te doen met laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmoderne loterijprozen. Wat zijn dat, meneer, loterijprozen? 1/

New podcast! 🎙️ On the latest episode of New Books in Early Modern History, Dr. Miranda Melcher speaks with CUH-member Dr. Wout Saelens about his recently published book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries. newbooksnetwork.com/fossil-consu...

Master of Flémalle, Seilern Triptych 1410-20 Oil on wood Courtauld Gallery, London

Grasduinen in de tijdschriftrekken van de bib en dan per toeval een artikel tegenkomen van een alumna die haar masterscriptie bij je deed... dat is altijd een opsteker! Het artikel gaat over loterijverzen/prozen en is te vinden in De Zeventiende Eeuw (2025).

Vacature doctoraatsproject (4 jaar)! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

🖋️New blog post! In the run up to her PhD-defence CUH-member Alessandra De Mulder reflected on the promises and limitations of digital methods in historical research. 👉Read her blog “Up for auction: one historian’s opinion on digital tools” here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

This might be of interest to @timhitchcock.bsky.social & @joguldi.bsky.social

UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🖋️New blog post! In the run up to her PhD-defence CUH-member Alessandra De Mulder reflected on the promises and limitations of digital methods in historical research. 👉Read her blog “Up for auction: one historian’s opinion on digital tools” here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Urban Studies Institute @uantwerpen.be Call for Visiting Scholars www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

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Journée d’étude – Time and Emotions in Premodern Europe

Wednesday 18 March 2026University of Antwerp, City Campus (location will be communicated) This workshop is part of the annual Raymond Van Uytven Chair in Urban History. In 2026, Prof. Dr. Miri Rubi…

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Suddenly archives are an interesting investment opportunity… why would that be? Aaaah, right, rare resources in the DRC. And we have to tell our students that history doesn’t repeat itself…

‼️New article alert: our project colleague's article was just published! Open access and all...

UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Publication! 📚 In his new article CUH member Nicolò Zennaro explores, through the correspondence of Bindo Piaciti and Antonio Contarini, how late medieval merchants understood and managed maritime risks like piracy and privateering. 👉Find it here: ojs.oltrepagina.it/index.php/ar...

How better to put off bad luck on Friday the 13th 😱 than by discussing all things future-thinking with @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social? Friday, 13 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social, or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries! Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Voor de namiddagploeg

Jeroen Puttevils@jeroenputtevils.bsky.social · 6mo ago

voor de avondploeg: mijn onderzoek naar middeleeuwse en vroegmoderne loterijen is plots (weer) relevant! Ik had zelf al de gelijktijdigheid in @demorgen.be van 2 feb van de artikels over gokverslaving in VK en de Vlaamse Euromillion-winnaars gezien www.demorgen.be/ons-geld/doo...

voor de avondploeg: mijn onderzoek naar middeleeuwse en vroegmoderne loterijen is plots (weer) relevant! Ik had zelf al de gelijktijdigheid in @demorgen.be van 2 feb van de artikels over gokverslaving in VK en de Vlaamse Euromillion-winnaars gezien www.demorgen.be/ons-geld/doo...

Door te focussen op de Euromillions-winst in Zingem hangen we een beeld op van loterijen als slimme investeringen. Dat zijn ze niet

De Morgen-journalist Pieter Gordts schrijft wekelijks de ‘Ons geld’-nieuwsbrief. Vandaag heeft hij het over een algemeen gevoel van onbehagen en onze (foute) ideeën over inflatie. Laat uw e-mailadres ...

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On Feb 13 Jeroen Puttevils presents the project and some of its results at the Institute for Historical Research's @ihr.bsky.social Low Countries seminar. Live in London and also online! Register below.

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries! Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Dit stuk uit het essay (een wroetende poging, die bij voorkeur geen slappe AI-output is) van @fakeplasticruby.bsky.social in DM magazine is tegelijk hartverwarmend, akelig herkenbaar en confronterend, wraakroepend, wanhopig maar ook ook hoopvol. Misschien moeten we wat meer moeite doen.

Last chance to enter the @tseglowcountries.bsky.social Essay contest! Pitch a draft historical essay (max. 750 words, English or Dutch) that addresses these questions by 1 February 2026. More info: iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/tseg...