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Richard Calis

@richardcalis.bsky.social

historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor @Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast

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Richard Calis@richardcalis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lovely to see that two great podcasts about my book are now online. Maryam Patton interviewed me for the 'Ottoman History Podcast' and Sam Tchorek-Bentall for 'Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast'. www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/cali... open.spotify.com/episode/51ob...

Martin Crusius and the Discovery of Ottoman Greece

with Richard Calis hosted by Maryam Patton | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusiu...

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Mette Bruinsma@mette.bsky.social · last yr.

Come work with us! A 2,5 years postdoc on critical university heritage: you'll contribute to two curated heritage interventions, based on (1) physical anthropology collections and (2) botanical history. You'll join an international, interdisciplinary team. #skystorians #heritage #histofscience

Postdoc Critical University Heritages

Are you interested in developing interventions addressing the coloniality of physical anthropology collections and botanic gardens? Apply now!

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Turkey Book Talk@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · last yr.

From last week 📚👇 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 🎧🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...

Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece

Turkey Book Talk #244 – Richard Calis, assistant professor in cultural history at Utrecht University, on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranea…

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Turkey Book Talk@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode 🚨🚨 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 📌📌 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...

Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece

Turkey Book Talk #244 – Richard Calis, assistant professor in cultural history at Utrecht University, on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranea…

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last yr.

Artwashing AI includes such perverse efforts as this: using a tool whose energy needs are so extractive that it contributes to climate change, which threatens the survival of endangered species...in order to "really make ya think" about endangered species.

Screenshot of a NYTimes Headline, which reads, An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument. Link to the paywall bypassed version here: https://archive.ph/h17bJ#selection-509.0-513.153
Johan Östling@johanostling.bsky.social · last yr.

The second international History of Knowledge Conference will be held in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is approaching: 1 May. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...

The History of Knowledge Conference

Lund University, 8–10 October, 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical …

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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.

‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...

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Richard Calis@richardcalis.bsky.social · last yr.

Also very excited for later today when I get to see my book for the first time in the wild at the RSA book fair and the @harvardpress.bsky.social table with the fantastic Emily Silk! #RSA2025 #Ren2025 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece — Harvard University Press

The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe’s foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western im...

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Clelia Crialesi@cleliacrialesi.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 Special issue of Galilæana edited by Raffaele Danna & Francesco Brusori: "Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)". More info here: shorturl.at/8IgM3

Call for abstracts | Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries) | Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Scie...

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