Sarah-Maria Schober (@smschober) Bsky

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

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Alles spriesst und blüht – Zeit für unsere Frühlings-Apéro-Reihe 🌷

Ob Alltagssorgen, fachliche Fragen oder wissenschaftspolitische Debatten – an unseren #Netzwerkapéros hat alles Platz. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der Erfahrungsaustausch und das gesellige Miteinander.

Sehen wir uns am Dienstag in Bern?

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CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️

We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair.
Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered.
📆 May 15, 2026

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Please share with any of your students and post-docs folks!

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CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 S 01. April 2026 Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 An international, interdisciplinary conference, organised by the SNSF Starting Grant Team “Matter of Distinction: Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade, and Multispecies History” (Annika Bärwald, Laura Schleiss, Sarah-Maria Schober) at the University of Lucerne on October 8–10, 2026. Hyper-present on almost all heads and bodies, hair is a forceful matter of difference. It signals gender, class, sometimes religion or politics – as well as racialised distinction. As such, hair connects and disconnects humans and other species across the globe and throughout history. The conference “Global Histories of Hair” aims to bring together researchers working on hair as a matter of distinction in the early modern and modern worlds. One temporal focus is on the period between approximately 1500 and 1850, encapsulating the European and colonial “age of the wig”. Alongside various types of animal hair reaching their position as “commodities of empire” during this time, human hair was cut, collected and traded over long distances to be used on other people’s heads. In this process, hair and hair practices became an ever-clearer marker of increasingly essentialised and naturalised difference. In a second step, the conference addresses the long-lasting hairy heritage of distinction making from 1500 to the present day. This includes the role of hair as human remains in anthropological collections as well as racialised regulations of hair or differences in hair care possibilities. Contributions might address, but are not limited to, the following areas and questions: Discourse, Knowledge, Practices: * What role did hair play in the so-called “contact zone”, where Europeans commented upon and categorised hair and hair practices of others, while also being observed and often humorously commented upon themselves (for example because of their wearing of wigs and powder)? * What did hair practices in different parts of the world actually look like? * How were grooming techniques or practices of covering hair described, categorised, and also, in some contexts, enforced? Materiality, Trade, Valuation: * What role did aspects of hair materiality, such as hair colour, hair texture, hair strength, hair abundance and loss, play in the global sphere? How did the strands of hair materiality, hair knowledge and hair practices entangle or disentangle? * How was hair collected, traded, valued and used in different regions of the world? * How did the trade, circulation and usage of hair bring people (and other beings) together and separate them? In what ways did the human hair trade differ from or coalesce with the trade in other fibres? * How was hair conceptualised and used by people in different regions as a naturecultural material? How were aspects of malleability or essentialisation visualised or hidden, and for what purpose? How did hair contribute to understandings of the increasing separation of nature and culture, and both of these aspects’ respective roles in distinction making? Intersectionality: * How did ideas about racial, gender-based, religious or class-based hair differences affect people around the globe? * What forms of expression, or even resistance, did hair care provide to people experiencing inequality and suppression? Heritage: * How have lasting hairy heritages affected people and their bodies around the globe since 1500? * What attempts have been made to de-essentialise hair? What are ways of unmaking hair distinctions? Presentations are scheduled for 20 minutes, with ample time allocated for discussion. We invite researchers from all relevant fields, such as history, art history, anthropology as well as museum and collection professionals and archivists. Early-career scholars are strongly encouraged to apply. The conference will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland. Travel, accommodation and visa costs will be covered, and organisational assistance will be provided. Hybrid attendance is possible. The conference language is English. Please submit an abstract (c. 250 words) and a short biography (c. 100 words). The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2026. Contact: svenja.furger@unilu.ch Organisiert von SNSF Starting Grant Team “Matter of Distinction: Early Modern Hair, Race, Trade, and Multispecies History” (Annika Bärwald, Laura Schleiss, Sarah-Maria Schober), University of Lucerne Sprachen der Veranstaltung Englisch University of Lucerne Frohburgstrasse 3 6002 Lucerne svenja.furger@unilu.ch

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026 #infoclioevent

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CfP Global Histories of Hair

Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern

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Awards & Prizes - AHA Awards for Publications These prizes honor exceptional books, articles, films, and digital works on a wide range of historical topics. All prizes are awarded annually except for those with dates, whic...

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15.

The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources.

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Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance | TechCrunch More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

I love this for them.

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Jobs | Humanities and Social Sciences Hub - Trento | FBK is looking for three Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Early Modern History

#jobopportunities

#earlymodern at Fondazione Bruno Kessler #Trento

3 Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Early Modern History

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Dissertationspreis des Arbeitskreises Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG) 2026 Mit dem Dissertationspreis des Arbeitskreises Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung werden hervorragende Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der historischen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ausgezeichne...

Deine Dissertation zu #GenderHist ist abgeschlossen?! Dann bewirb dich um den Dissertationspreis des Arbeitskreises Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung #AKHFG - bis 4.5.26, www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/sti....

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Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out.

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Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum

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Meet Eleonora Susette The previously unknown sitter of Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom has been identified

There's a great story by Khadra Ahmed about the detective work, incl in the latest Foyer newsletter. readfoyer.com/article/meet...

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Postdoktorandin oder Postdoktorand in Neuerer und Neuester Geschichte (90%) · Arbeitsort: Brig (teilweise Homeoffice möglich) | Arbeitsbeginn: 01.08.2026 | Vertragsdauer: 5 Jahre, mit der Möglichkeit einer Verlängerung um ein Jahr

Come and work for us!

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Kultur braucht Freiheit! Freiheit braucht Kultur! - Rücktritt Weimer jetzt! Es ist ein Skandal, der uns alle angeht: Drei unabhängige Buchhandlungen, Golden Shop (Bremen), Rote Straße (Göttingen) und Zur schwankenden Weltkugel (Berlin), wurden nachweislich aus politischen Grü...

#RücktrittWeimer
Bitte hier unterzeichnen:

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🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...

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So very happy to have you, Annika, and Laura Schleiss join the modi:hair project!! 🤗
Welcome to Lucerne (which luckily presented itself from its very sunny side today)! ☀️

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An invitation to help us think about the current moment in relation to the discipline of environmental history and the work of environmental historians -- please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat about a potential contribution.

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Hi #HistSTM #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #ECR ,

Please submit you unpublished articles for the 2026 Nuncius Prize.
We would love to see your article published.

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A scene of several persons preparing food for horses.

#AnimalHistory hive mind: what did city #horses eat in Early Modern Germany?
@jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
This is a scene from late 17th century Hamburg. I’m interested in what grain was used and what the guy in the bottom left mixed together. Thanks.

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These things are imagination killers. They are innovation killers. They are environmental killers.

While they might be useful in certain fields, fields which have been using similar techniques for decades, those fields are not the whole of life.

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The machine, in “organizing” your work, will impose a hegemonic structure on your work. It will literally force you into the paths of thinking and writing that are preferred by a power majority.

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📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...

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And #Germany should decide right now, that they are not going to play a minute of football in a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. Nie wieder!

#WorldCup #USA #DFB

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Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu

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PostDoc & PhD Opportunities - Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600 The European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ‘Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600’ (ECOLENT), led by Sander Govaerts, offers several PhD and pos...

Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600

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#envhist #medieval #envhum

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Der #Ukraine stehen bitterkalte Tage bevor, bis zu -25.

Das ist eine humanitäre Katastrophe - selbst wenn #Putin ausnahmsweise Wort halten und Angriffe auf die ukrainische Energieinfrastruktur wirklich aussetzen würde.

Bitte spendet für die Menschen in der #Ukraine! Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten 👇

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