We are so happy to have won an Erasmus +ICM grant on a topic related to teaching gender history! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Thanks to Dorry and Tobias for their meticulous editorial work and deep intellectual engagement in the process! So proud to be part of this volume! Open access!

A wonderful position at the University of Leuven, application deadline 9/15. #ChineseStudies #Sinology academicpositions.nl/ad/ku-leuven...

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora. global.oup.com/academic/con...

Really wonderful effort by @postmedieval.bsky.social editorial team. We had the first meeting today and it was productive! Sometimes we forget how important it is to support first-time authors. But we have all been there!

We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)." Please send us your abstracts!

The Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, workshop to celebrate its launch! @asianlibrarynl.bsky.social

Congratulations to the editors of - and contributors to - Thinking Women and Art in the Long 18th Century: Strategic Reinterpretations Edited by Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann & Melissa Hyde www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social 2025

This week! On Wed, April 23 (7pm EST), Professor Stacy Fahrenthold joins Titas Chakraborty and Justin Jackson for a discussion of their new books with the @lawcha.bsky.social virtual series. Everyone is welcome and you can register at bit.ly/LAWCHAAprilBT

Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt has been Shortlisted for the Architectural History Book Award! Learn more about the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco....

Happy publication day to the first Japanese translation of The Second Sex! Curious how Beauvoir’s “most famous line”—“One is not born, but becomes, [a] woman”—was rendered into Japanese in 1953? See my latest website update: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/91a8...

🔸 In-person lecture about “Japanese Colonial Finance and Early Chinese Stock Exchanges” by Dr Bryna Goodman, (History Dept. at University of Oregon) ⏰ April 10 | 11:15 ~ 12:15 📍 Witte Singel 27A, Room 0.28, Leiden, NL 🌐 tinyurl.com/98v7des2 @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social

Such an original and fascinating research on Japanese colonial stock exchanges in China presented by Bryna Goodman at @iias.bsky.social today. Also fascinating to look at this history in this particular historical moment.

Coming up! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Why not attend, registration closes soon!🥂

Hier verheug ik mij op! Op 30 april organiseert studententijdschrift Leidschrift.nl een symposium www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/... over de rol van de universiteit in de maatschappij, vroeger en nu, en ik mag meedoen. Iedereen is welkom. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Posting for #Sinologists!

100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #openaccess @uofmpress.bsky.social

Annales English Version 📕 🏴‍☠️ 'Fighting #Pirates” as a Paradigm. Conflict, Competition, and #Criminalization in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Lübeck and the Northern European Trade' by Philipp Höhn 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2022.22

An insightful, informative and intellectually vigorous book review of my dear friend Paul Reitter’s new translation of Capital! Can’t wait to read it.

Is the #Sinology feed still a thing or are we all too distracted? Anyway, if you're free at lunchtime on Wednesday April 9 (east coast suppertime, European midnight snack), please join us for a conversation on medieval Chinese Buddhist images and their (im)materiality. 🀄📚

Join us for the launch of Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence, co-edited by @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, Samuel Ritholtz, and Andrew Delatolla (@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social). This event is open to all. 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4bAnPYI #LSEEvents #AcademicSky #PoliSky

The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15.

History graduate students! The AHA is seeking three student columnists to write a pair of columns for #AHAPerspectives this summer. Along with publishing your two articles, columnists receive an honorarium and a one-year AHA membership. We hope you apply! 🗃️

70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return! go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M

Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...

In the newly released CHINESE CHARACTERS ACROSS ASIA, @zevhandel.bsky.social tells a fascinating story of writing across cultures and time. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

The New Testament in Manchu In 2012, Mark T. Riley, professor emeritus of Latin at California State University, Sacramento, donated a curious volume to the Ricci Institute, then located at the University of San Francisco. Read more about this book at web.bc.edu/ricci/

Charlie Yi Zhang, author of "Dreadful Desires," stopped by the Duke University Press booth at @asianstudies.org Learn more about the book: www.dukeupress.edu/dreadful-des... and use coupon code AAS25 for 30% off!

Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies, a professional association for everyone interested in the history of the Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol worlds. We've made the move from Twitter and are excited to connect with new and familiar faces here

𝗩𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱 Marieke Liem (@unileiden.bsky.social) benadrukt bij #NemoKennislink het belang van zichtbaarheid van vrouwenmoord en de rol van de zogenaamde #Femicide Monitor. #internationalevrouwendag @fggaleiden.bsky.social #8maart

Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics- King's College London - Department of Political Economy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA388/l...

Lecturer in Ancient History University of Leeds #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA796/l...

Lecturer (Education Focused) in Early Modern Philosophy - AOAC2266RXLS University of St Andrews - Department of Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA458/l...

Bong Joon-Ho said "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." As many readers have discovered, the same is true for books! @xuetingni.bsky.social recommends 5 new translated Chinese SFF books! reactormag.com/beyond-liu-c...

@ubleiden.bsky.social Chinese Queer Collection at Leiden University Library will be officially launched. An amazing resource for research and teaching. If you are interested in joining the inaugural workshop and learning more, see the post below!

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RP7jxZWof7... Congratulations 🎉 to @tristangbrown.bsky.social Tristan Brown and to Haiyan Lee and Michael Ng, with @princetonupress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social . I am excited for the new & diverse directions in Chinese legal historical studies.

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Butcher in the Middle Ages! Or an Innkeeper or a Merchant https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/worst-jobs-middle-ages/ #medievalsky #jobs #history

Good morning! We’re looking for the next Director of @projectmuse.bsky.social. Is it you?

Few academics in the humanities want to re-think decades-old evaluation systems; nobody wants to re-do their years-old course designs. The real cost of this inertia and refusal to adapt will soon become all too clear.

#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Physicists are fascinated by knitting because there's a lot of applicable science. A simplified model of how yarns interact shows that a piece of knitted fabric can have many stable resting states depending on its history of deformation. physics.aps.org/articles/v17...

It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

History of property!

Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.

Zhongguo fojiao banhua quanji 中國佛教版畫全集 (84 vols) is now available at the UL. Thanks to Dr Noga Ganany from FAMES at Cambridge, not only supported us with generous funding , but also wrote a very nice article to introduce this new series: www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ser...

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!