The 2026 call for scholars at risk is open until 24 April at my alma mater
Up to ten 1-year postdocs (renewable once), all disciplines, admin and mental health support, colleagues who care
Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)
Utmost freedom of research and institutional support from both Max Planck Society’s @khiflorenz.bsky.social and Berlin’s @kulturspk.bsky.social Now the 4A_Lab is again recruiting postdoctoral and doctoral fellows for the next three years. Please send in your transdisciplinary proposals!
📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢
Student Assistant (m/f/d): "The Art of AI. Rethinking Notions of Creativity, Aesthetics and Ethics"
The project, led by Dr. Hana Gründler and Rafael Brundo Uriarte, seeks to appoint a student assistant (m/f/d).
🚨Deadline: 15 February 2026
➡️ t1p.de/8n1y8
📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢
Academic Assistant at the KHI (The Polycentric Renaissance)
The KHI – Department Bianca de Divitiis – is pleased to announce a call for applications for two full-time positions of Academic Assistant (m/f/d).
🚨Deadline: 28 February 2026
➡️ t1p.de/igavx
There are bunch of different #scholarships/#fellowships going in Cambridge at the Needham Research Institute and its East Asian History of Science library #historyofscience #科技史
Here are details:
www.nri.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...
I just read a brilliant, honest, and sharp book review in /American Journal of Archaeology/, and wish to share it with everyone who sees this post.
Ryan M. Seidemann, review of /Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures/ (2024) by Justin M. Jacobs. doi.org/10.1086/736684
Germany’s Central Institute for Art History (ZI) issued a new series of Calls for prizes and fellowships. The intellectual resources and collections at ZI and generally in Munich are invaluable for art historians. I enjoyed a great time there to write my book manuscript. Please consider to apply!
For art historians around this planet, it is now really ironic that the next CIHA World Congress will be held in Washington DC on the topic of sovereignty.
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
WTF 🤬 AfD-Verbot jetzt!
Photograph of a tree with snow with text stating the winter deadline to submit to Germinate is December 31st.
Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate!
The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past.
We're excited to read your work!
g-ehr.com/submit/
This makes me so sad and furious
Wenn Academia einfach nur ein Job ist, warum fällt es dann nicht unter das gleiche Arbeitsrecht wie jeder andere Job?
Und damit Guten Morgen!
#WissZeitVG
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Are you an African scholar looking to publish your #research?
Apply for @miasa-ug.bsky.social Publishing Workshop and get in-depth feedback from editors @africaspectrum.bsky.social & Contemporary Journal of #AfricanStudies.
➡️ Apply now by 19 Dec: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/cal...
This is the unfortunate reality in German academia. Most scholars have to drop out, but usually they are not welcome in other places. If you're an international researcher (this is my case), the situation is even more tough & options for employment outside of science are very [extremely] limited.
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
and who has never spent significant time to take care of a child
Fabulous!
Maybe we should put together a symposium on Chinese built structures in Germany?
There is also one in Munich, albeit a simpler structure, right? To the north across woods when one takes a bus, a stop called Chinese pavilion or something similar. In Kassel there is a patch of land called Mulang, Hessen Landgraf’s imagined Chinese village, fascinating history, too!
Good to know! Thanks! The building looks fancy with the pond and co. The Chinese garden in Frankfurt am Main is also very nice. There was an arson attack on it, a few years ago, the same night when the Korean garden in Ffm was also set on fire.
Was it tasty? I passed by several times but never went in…
A very engaging read!
@florianurban.bsky.social found for our book Form Follows Fuel that it's v hard to get #embodiedenergy figures for buildings today. #embodiedcarbon is widespread, yet it's much less clear, and more vulnerable to distortion. Here's our argument:
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...
📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
March 1969, Chen Wanli and his wife committed suicide at home. They were among the persecuted intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution. My latest paper traces Chen’s career from medicine, photography, archaeology to the museum, showing precarity and resilience of museum professionals in 20-C China.
At the periphery of a world war, perhaps this one. But all titles are relevant in today’s world.
