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Wouter Wagemakers

@wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social

Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree

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Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

TONIGHT! Join us tonight for this online extravaganza! #earlymodern #SkyStorians

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · last wk.

BOOK TALK! Delighted to host @rentravailer.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social in conversation about their fab books which are reconfiguring our understanding of #earlymodern England in a global perspective! Mon 26 Oct, 5pm (UK) free registration: www.crowdcast.io/c/das-working #skystorians

book talk: this little world: a new history of tudor and stuart england, Nandini Das and A golden World: how the americas transformed renaissance england, Lauren Working
George Potter 🔶@georgepotter.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Wouter Wagemakers@wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 4d ago

Reading a very entertaining book on Bramante, and the author quoted Madonna's Material Girl to underline that the 16C architect did not see any moral value in ancient Roman architecture, yet accepted this was all the rage at the time and he just needed the money.

Jan Machielsen@janmachielsen.bsky.social · 5d ago

This Halloweentide, I reflect on Arthur Miller's The Crucible: a famous play that has shaped popular understanding of the #earlymodern witch hunt - and a work I've grown to detest. The editors picked a title that gives much away but hopefully still a good read! theconversation.com/the-crucible...

The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’

At the height of America’s ‘red scare’ witch-hunts, Miller, whose play makes a martyr hero of the husband, was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.

theconversation.com

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

And this is why scholars who use gAI don’t want to disclose their use of the technology. They know it’s problematic, unethical and against everything we believe in, work towards and teach, but they want the convenience and benefits of others’ labor without the labeling of AI. It’s mendacious.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · last wk.

If you use AI-produced writing in humanities scholarship you are dead to me. How I evaluate that kind of writing is by crossing you off my list,

Oliver Bullough@oliverbullough.bsky.social · 2w ago

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

A stuffed stork – white with a black arse and red legs and bill. It has a long arrow through its neck.