Yesterday, the news broke that the Flemish government will end funding for @iobua.bsky.social in just 3 months! This risks students’ futures, 32 staff careers, & undermines a cornerstone of Belgium’s hard-won international scientific reputation. A short-sighted decision with lasting consequences...

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Earlier this year, Vicky Holmes published 'Living with Lodgers. Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England'. It is a great book that not only rescues the lodger from the mists of history, but also invites us to question Victorian household ideals. Highly recommended!👇

Loved the Pfälzer Wandermusikanten workshop @ Kusel! The Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde brilliantly connected 'academic' with 'local' historians. The castle setting and hearing the music performed live by the Kusel Music Academy were unforgettable experiences. A 🧵 following soon..

🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal! Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...

🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last? Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden. 🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Voor diegenen die denken dat de systematische afbouw van onderzoek en hoger onderwijs enkel een zorg is voor de humane wetenschappen 👇

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

What is the difference between a historian and a sociologist? A long time scale and bad data. Perhaps a bit reductive but on point what the data concerns 🤣 Sam Bass Warner being interviewed by Bruce Stave in the first issue of Journal of Urban History in 1974

From the editor's desk... ... if anyone is thinking about writing an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger, we would love to see it.

🖋️ For the Social History Blog, I wrote a piece on the often banal reasons that research (and especially PhD)-projects pivot, and the implications this has for our craft. Hopefully this can also offer some reassurance for new PhD-students.. A lodging house guy's reflection 👇

Uhu Ok 👍

New Microsoft study estimates that historians are the *2nd* occupation whose tasks AI can mostly cover, based on a large database of its Copilot users & their reported satisfaction. That AI makes a poor historian is imo not a debate, but the fact that so many turn to LLMs for history is concerning.

One like, one history of poverty opinion

Reading that even Mozart found it difficult to find time to write gives me hope in difficult times 🥲 Seen at the Mozart Geburtshaus in Salzburg.

🗣️ Public lecture On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd

📢Vacature: PhD-student gezocht Geïnteresseerd in geschiedenis, migratie, pendel en/of transport? Het @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social zoekt een voltijdse (100% - 4 jaar) doctoraatsstudent voor het BOF-Impuls-project "verstedelijking voorbij gravitatiemodellen". Solliciteren kan nog tot 30 juni!

New Open Access Article written by Sigrid Wadauer on 'Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century' Check it out via the link below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lodging housekeepers occupy a dual role in history: they are well established in key debates on housing, work, and migration, yet they are rarely the main subject of historical analysis. A small 🧵 on what studying this group teaches about this subject based on my new article in #SocialHistory

"Talrijke problemen die de hoofdstad vandaag geselen (vluchtelingenopvang, bendegeweld, verpaupering, de zwaar verloederde stationsbuurten) worden maar al te graag als exclusief Brussels voorgesteld. Dat zijn ze allerminst". Historicus Anton Jäger scherp in De Morgen. www.demorgen.be/meningen/een...

Laat nog maar eens zien hoe belangrijk de strijd om concepten is in het publieke debat rond migratie. Deze strijd wordt voorlopig nogal eenzijdig gevoerd.

Doen alsof België geconfronteerd wordt met een ontzettend hoog aantal asielaanvragen uit Moldavië en dat 'asieltoerisme' bestempelen is toch wel écht van een mug een olifant maken. Toch straf dat bijna niemand zich daar kritische vragen bij lijkt te stellen.

So last week in a conference paper I (rather arrogantly) came up with a definition for "historical bullshit", building on Frankfurt and good work on LLMs so far. I explained why I think that's all an AI piece of "history content" can ever be {bullshit}. Here you can find the full text of my talk:

🔍Did you know that in 1559 people in Antwerp placed bets on the next pope? CSG-member Jeroen Puttevils wrote a blogpost on it. Go check it out! www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Vandaag publiceert @amnesty.org hun rapport 'Unhoused and unheard – How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights'. Het is vrij ongezien dat Amnesty een rapport uitbrengt over een EU-lidstaat. www.amnesty.org/en/documents... 1/2

🌐 From March 26-29, the 15th European Social Science History Conference took place in Leiden, with over 1,500 speakers—including many CSG members! Special shoutout to Jasper Segerink, whose paper earned an honorary mention for the Leslie Page Moch prize! Congrats to Jasper and all CSG speakers! 👏

Very honoured to have received an honourable mention for the Leslie Page Moch-prize. Her work has inspired me since the start of my PhD so this is is really cool 😁 And congrats to Çiğdem for receiving the award with an excellent paper! 👏

👏👏 Waarom zouden we migranten laten werken, als we dit ook gewoon door kinderen kunnen laten doen, en daarmee hun hele schoolcarrière op de helling zetten?

"Als de wereld versnelt, moet het denken vertragen". David Van Reybrouck over klimaat, defensie, en de nood aan planetaire en vérdenkende discussies om onze wereld draagbaar te houden voor onze aarde. Rol van historici is hier noodzakelijk...👇

"Creating a financial crisis in universities gives leverage to those who want to ensure that universities serve power, rather than critique it"

📢Publication horn: happy to see my new article '"The police in every hotel"? Hospitality governance in Antwerp during the long nineteenth century', is now published online in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social. 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0261... A short🧵 on its findings (1/5) Thoughts welcome!

In de weekendbijlage van @gazetvanantwerpen.bsky.social verscheen een stuk over mijn doctoraatsonderzoek. De stad is vandaag enkel wat ze is omdat zoveel Antwerpenaren in de 19de eeuw hun deur openstelden voor arbeidsmigranten. Met drie in één bed, of met 10 op één kamer, was geen uitzondering.

Epidemics hit harder for those already struggling. New article by colleague @stefespeel.bsky.social maps the impact of medieval plagues on household budgets. Very interesting🧵 below 👇

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

Urban historians don't just work in the past. At a fundamental level, they are inspired by contemporary developments, regardless of whether parallels between past and present are fitting or not. Excellent blog by @historywill.bsky.social 👇

Wanneer de staat zijn geheugen verliest. Een belangrijke noodkreet van de Belgische departementen geschiedenis en de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis over de desastreuze gevolgen voor de onderfinanciering van het Rijksarchief.

I DID A THING/K! #PhDone

"Von Duitschland nach Amerika und zurück". @lordoftheringsfp.bsky.social-fans, the original "There and back back again" was not written by Tolkien, but by Reinhold Libau. His diary describes his journey from a village near Leipzig to America in 1887. A🧵 on transit-migration and cities in history 👇

🚨Publication alert! In the latest issue of Urban History, CSG-members @jsegerink.bsky.social and Kristof Loockx explore lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in Antwerp’s harbour district in the late 19th century. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Binnenkort de verdediging van mijn doctoraat: "Het Logementshuis en de Stad", over migratie en verstedelijking in 19de-eeuws Antwerpen. Van harte welkom! 👇

📢CSG member @jsegerink.bsky.social gladly invites you to the public defence of his doctoral dissertation, "The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914." 🗓️ 14/02, 15:00 📍 Auditorium FelixArchief (Oude Leeuwenrui 29)

Soon... in a messy map on a computer near you containing 467.000 other unread pdfs... "The Lodging House and the City" The PhD is finally #PhPrinted! 😁

Slowly waking up from my winter slumber and getting back into it. To help me in this process is history's muse Clio, whom I had the pleasure to meet in the Vatican. Looking forward to start posting some more here 👀

📢 #vacancies A PhD-position at our History Department at University of Antwerp has come up! It deals with female informal cross border trade in DRC and Uganda from late 19th C till today. Interested? Application until 15 January. 👇

omgaan met overstromingsrisico vergt meer dan alleen maar de aanleg van nieuwe buffergebieden. Er is ook een mentaliteitswijziging nodig, waarin we leren samenleven met water. Mijn kijk in kennismakers.be/wat-als-we-w...

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