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Posts by Bob Pierik

Ha thanks! Very good to know and nice to digitally meet you :)

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Ja, juist daarom misschien!

1 week ago 1 0 1 0

Stevin werkt in Nederland wel hoor, NWO heeft nota bene een prijs naar hem vernoemd, er zijn ook straten naar hem vernoemd etc.

1 week ago 6 0 1 0
Text of a Call for Papers: 
The Horse in History: 
Animal Agency, Labour and Mobility, c. 1500-1900
Call for papers for a panel for the ESSHC 2027 in Lyon, FR. April 21-24
Bob Pierik (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
Humans and horses have shaped each other's histories during an intense symbiosis of millennia. From the Columbian Exchange to industrialization, during grand transformative moments in history as well as during more structural longue durée shifts, the horse was not just there, but was a crucial piece of the puzzle, a co-constitutive actor that supplemented human bodies with strength and mobility. McShane and Tarr famously characterized horses as ‘living machines.’ But horse history is not just a story of practical utility. Horses were deeply ingrained in social and cultural fabrics. Through thousands of years of Eurasian history, one's relation to horses shaped and signified one's social status. The social, economic and cultural status of the horse (or in fact of different types of horse) reveals a lot about a given historical society and is in fact an underappreciated lens to ‘read’ historical societies through. Going even further, in recent decades, human-animal studies have challenged us to think beyond anthropocentric perspectives and accentuate animal agencies.
This session is aimed at bringing together scholars with an interest in the horse as historical subject. It invites perspectives that consider human-horse symbiosis from a social, economic and/or cultural angle. Proposals are invited to consider themes such as:
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The working horse, horsepower and horse labour.
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Mobility, carriages, driving, riding.
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Horses and social status/class
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Animal agency, more-than-human perspectives.
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Horse geography: Fields, stables, streets and roads
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Comparing urban/rural horse experiences
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History of veterinary medicine

Text of a Call for Papers: The Horse in History: Animal Agency, Labour and Mobility, c. 1500-1900 Call for papers for a panel for the ESSHC 2027 in Lyon, FR. April 21-24 Bob Pierik (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) Humans and horses have shaped each other's histories during an intense symbiosis of millennia. From the Columbian Exchange to industrialization, during grand transformative moments in history as well as during more structural longue durée shifts, the horse was not just there, but was a crucial piece of the puzzle, a co-constitutive actor that supplemented human bodies with strength and mobility. McShane and Tarr famously characterized horses as ‘living machines.’ But horse history is not just a story of practical utility. Horses were deeply ingrained in social and cultural fabrics. Through thousands of years of Eurasian history, one's relation to horses shaped and signified one's social status. The social, economic and cultural status of the horse (or in fact of different types of horse) reveals a lot about a given historical society and is in fact an underappreciated lens to ‘read’ historical societies through. Going even further, in recent decades, human-animal studies have challenged us to think beyond anthropocentric perspectives and accentuate animal agencies. This session is aimed at bringing together scholars with an interest in the horse as historical subject. It invites perspectives that consider human-horse symbiosis from a social, economic and/or cultural angle. Proposals are invited to consider themes such as: - The working horse, horsepower and horse labour. - Mobility, carriages, driving, riding. - Horses and social status/class - Animal agency, more-than-human perspectives. - Horse geography: Fields, stables, streets and roads - Comparing urban/rural horse experiences - History of veterinary medicine

Proposals for other topics that fit the broader theme of the history of the horse are also very welcome. I am open to changing accents of the session theme if that is constructive to the overall goal of bringing scholars interested in this broader theme together. I am myself working on Europe in the long eighteenth century, but promising abstracts from other periods and places are very welcome.
Submit your abstract (max. 500 words) as soon as possible and before the 11th of April to bob.pierik@vub.be
Image: Archives Municipales Lyon. Plan scénographique de Lyon, chevaux tractant des embarcations le long de la Saône: gravure NB par Seon et Dubouchet (1872-1876, cote : 2SAT/6/32, pl. 24, détail)

Proposals for other topics that fit the broader theme of the history of the horse are also very welcome. I am open to changing accents of the session theme if that is constructive to the overall goal of bringing scholars interested in this broader theme together. I am myself working on Europe in the long eighteenth century, but promising abstracts from other periods and places are very welcome. Submit your abstract (max. 500 words) as soon as possible and before the 11th of April to bob.pierik@vub.be Image: Archives Municipales Lyon. Plan scénographique de Lyon, chevaux tractant des embarcations le long de la Saône: gravure NB par Seon et Dubouchet (1872-1876, cote : 2SAT/6/32, pl. 24, détail)

Hey #skystorians! In case you are working on the history of horses directly or indirectly, or know someone who is: Check out my CfP for a session for the @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon 2027.

Link to PDF:
drive.google.com/file/d/1HRab...

2 weeks ago 5 7 1 0
Text of a Call for Papers: 
The Horse in History: 
Animal Agency, Labour and Mobility, c. 1500-1900
Call for papers for a panel for the ESSHC 2027 in Lyon, FR. April 21-24
Bob Pierik (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
Humans and horses have shaped each other's histories during an intense symbiosis of millennia. From the Columbian Exchange to industrialization, during grand transformative moments in history as well as during more structural longue durée shifts, the horse was not just there, but was a crucial piece of the puzzle, a co-constitutive actor that supplemented human bodies with strength and mobility. McShane and Tarr famously characterized horses as ‘living machines.’ But horse history is not just a story of practical utility. Horses were deeply ingrained in social and cultural fabrics. Through thousands of years of Eurasian history, one's relation to horses shaped and signified one's social status. The social, economic and cultural status of the horse (or in fact of different types of horse) reveals a lot about a given historical society and is in fact an underappreciated lens to ‘read’ historical societies through. Going even further, in recent decades, human-animal studies have challenged us to think beyond anthropocentric perspectives and accentuate animal agencies.
This session is aimed at bringing together scholars with an interest in the horse as historical subject. It invites perspectives that consider human-horse symbiosis from a social, economic and/or cultural angle. Proposals are invited to consider themes such as:
-
The working horse, horsepower and horse labour.
-
Mobility, carriages, driving, riding.
-
Horses and social status/class
-
Animal agency, more-than-human perspectives.
-
Horse geography: Fields, stables, streets and roads
-
Comparing urban/rural horse experiences
-
History of veterinary medicine

Text of a Call for Papers: The Horse in History: Animal Agency, Labour and Mobility, c. 1500-1900 Call for papers for a panel for the ESSHC 2027 in Lyon, FR. April 21-24 Bob Pierik (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) Humans and horses have shaped each other's histories during an intense symbiosis of millennia. From the Columbian Exchange to industrialization, during grand transformative moments in history as well as during more structural longue durée shifts, the horse was not just there, but was a crucial piece of the puzzle, a co-constitutive actor that supplemented human bodies with strength and mobility. McShane and Tarr famously characterized horses as ‘living machines.’ But horse history is not just a story of practical utility. Horses were deeply ingrained in social and cultural fabrics. Through thousands of years of Eurasian history, one's relation to horses shaped and signified one's social status. The social, economic and cultural status of the horse (or in fact of different types of horse) reveals a lot about a given historical society and is in fact an underappreciated lens to ‘read’ historical societies through. Going even further, in recent decades, human-animal studies have challenged us to think beyond anthropocentric perspectives and accentuate animal agencies. This session is aimed at bringing together scholars with an interest in the horse as historical subject. It invites perspectives that consider human-horse symbiosis from a social, economic and/or cultural angle. Proposals are invited to consider themes such as: - The working horse, horsepower and horse labour. - Mobility, carriages, driving, riding. - Horses and social status/class - Animal agency, more-than-human perspectives. - Horse geography: Fields, stables, streets and roads - Comparing urban/rural horse experiences - History of veterinary medicine

Proposals for other topics that fit the broader theme of the history of the horse are also very welcome. I am open to changing accents of the session theme if that is constructive to the overall goal of bringing scholars interested in this broader theme together. I am myself working on Europe in the long eighteenth century, but promising abstracts from other periods and places are very welcome.
Submit your abstract (max. 500 words) as soon as possible and before the 11th of April to bob.pierik@vub.be
Image: Archives Municipales Lyon. Plan scénographique de Lyon, chevaux tractant des embarcations le long de la Saône: gravure NB par Seon et Dubouchet (1872-1876, cote : 2SAT/6/32, pl. 24, détail)

Proposals for other topics that fit the broader theme of the history of the horse are also very welcome. I am open to changing accents of the session theme if that is constructive to the overall goal of bringing scholars interested in this broader theme together. I am myself working on Europe in the long eighteenth century, but promising abstracts from other periods and places are very welcome. Submit your abstract (max. 500 words) as soon as possible and before the 11th of April to bob.pierik@vub.be Image: Archives Municipales Lyon. Plan scénographique de Lyon, chevaux tractant des embarcations le long de la Saône: gravure NB par Seon et Dubouchet (1872-1876, cote : 2SAT/6/32, pl. 24, détail)

Hey #skystorians! In case you are working on the history of horses directly or indirectly, or know someone who is: Check out my CfP for a session for the @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon 2027.

Link to PDF:
drive.google.com/file/d/1HRab...

2 weeks ago 5 7 1 0
Cover of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

Cover of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

If this seems like your sort of thing, you can read the whole thing for free #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

3 weeks ago 31 16 1 1
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Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️

Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

3 weeks ago 44 19 1 3
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Vanmiddag de boekpresentatie van Cultural History for a Changing World, onder redactie van mij en collega @jochenhung.bsky.social, maar met bijdragen van onze hele afdeling. Wij pleiten voor een cultuurgeschiedenis die urgente issues als post-truth, klimaatverandering, en dekolonisatie bespreekt.

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We are being pulled into an immoral and illegal war without a clear end goal in order to secure oil. It’s 2003 all over again.

1 month ago 27 8 1 1
PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE

PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE at Leiden University.

careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...

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Such lovely news! 🤩

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Very excited to be traveling to York next month to discuss #worms, #bedbugs, and other unwanted critters 🪱🪳 #animalhistory

1 month ago 10 2 1 0
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Aanpak van winkeldieven stokt door gebrekkige medewerking van de politie Justitie: Duizenden winkeldieven ontlopen ‘een boete’ van 181 euro vanwege organisatorische problemen bij de politie. Die moet gegevens van de dieven doorgeven aan winkeliers, voor de aansprakelijkste...

Internationale Vrouwendag Girlboss tip: als je dan weigert te betalen moeten ze de politie laten komen en loopt de administratie verder vast: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.

1 month ago 17 15 1 1

Ha, dankjewel :)

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Extra bijzonder: Marietje van Winter, de 98-jarige oprichter van het Prof. Van Winterfonds, was daar ook bij en sprak enkele woorden alsof ze nog altijd vol energie elke week een publiek toespreekt.

2 months ago 3 0 0 0
Beeld van mijn dankwoord tijdens de uitreking. In een historische zaal van het Gasthuis spreek ik het publiek toe en vertel ik wat over het boek.

Beeld van mijn dankwoord tijdens de uitreking. In een historische zaal van het Gasthuis spreek ik het publiek toe en vertel ik wat over het boek.

De historsiche gevel van het Bartholomeus Gasthuis in Utrecht. Bovenaan een klok en in de gevel zelf hoge historische ramen.

De historsiche gevel van het Bartholomeus Gasthuis in Utrecht. Bovenaan een klok en in de gevel zelf hoge historische ramen.

Gisteren mocht ik in het Bartholomeus Gasthuis in Utrecht de Prof. Van Winterprijs 2025 voor beste lokale geschiedenisboek in Nederland in ontvangst nemen voor mijn boek 'Zo veel leven voor de deur'. Ontzettend bedankt aan de jury voor het toekennen van deze prijs en de lovende woorden.

2 months ago 30 4 4 1

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

4 months ago 1876 526 20 22

Daarom ook wel benieuwd naar meer 'best practices' om studenten nog wel 'handmatig' essays te laten schrijven. Schrijven in het klaslokaal? Met track changes en versies die we vergelijken? Of gewoon meer enthousiasmeren ipv controleren?

4 months ago 3 0 1 0
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Ik denk dat het essay doodverklaren de schrijfvaardigheid van studenten gaat schaden en daarmee ook cognitieve vaardigheden die alleen maar schaarser worden in tijden van AI. Maar daarom des te beter dat het doodverklaarde essay stiekem nog levensvatbaar blijkt icm mondelinge overhoringen ;)

4 months ago 3 0 1 0
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In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

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Geweldig om bij bezoek aan Nederland nog snel even naar het @rijksmuseum.bsky.social te kunnen voor 'Thuis in de 17de eeuw'! Een mooi feest van herkenning én nieuwe verwondering. Zalen gevuld met bijzonder gewone materiële cultuur. Mijn favoriet was op het einde: een dubbele deur op een kier.

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Hoger onderwijs in opstand: besparen op kennis, betalen voor crisis Universiteiten en hogescholen slaan alarm: jaar na jaar krijgen ze minder geld per student, terwijl de regering opnieuw hard snoeit in onderwijs en onderzoek. De druk op personeel en studenten wordt o...

Wie meer wil lezen over de besparingen waar de Vlaamse universiteiten voor staan én vooral gevolgen daarvan: www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...

4 months ago 2 1 0 0
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Kennis, onze enige duurzame grondstof. Besparen op onderwijs en onderzoek treft iedereen! Dank aan de collega's voor de slogan, de banner en de foto.

4 months ago 8 1 1 0

Ga ik in de gaten houden! Dankje

4 months ago 1 0 1 0

Nice! ook al ergens online?

4 months ago 1 0 1 0
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Ik heb afgelopen paar jaar veel verbreding gevonden in onderwijs. Bij @utrechthps.bsky.social kon ik tussen 2022 en 2024 twee jaar werken aan onderwijs over de geschiedenis en filosofie van de Aard- en klimaatwetenschappen, waarmee mijn proefschrift een hele brede context kreeg. 1/

5 months ago 9 2 1 0
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Rafelranden van Amsterdam (2025-3) - Holland Historisch Tijdschrift De bijdragen van Ranjith Jayasena, Janna Coomans, Bob Pierik, Janneke Gemmeken, Annemarie de Wildt en Jouke Turpijn nemen ons mee van de vroegste fysieke grenzen van Amsterdam, via het leven van mense...

'Amsterdam is gebouwd op palen, tot in het IJ. De palen in het IJ gaven de grens van de stad aan. Daar speelde zich een complex spel van surveillance
en smokkel af.'
Voor ons themanummer 'Rafelranden van Amsterdam' schreef @bobpi.bsky.social een zeer lezenswaardig artikel.
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5 months ago 10 5 0 0

2 Bretagnes better than 1? Maybe not.

Don't use genAI to make maps.

5 months ago 11 3 1 0
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