JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

What was John Locke doing, as he eagerly learned about, bought, and read contemporary works of biblical scholarship? My latest article looks at a less familiar side of Locke's life, suggesting it reveals an underappreciated early modern world of 'everyday erudition'. #earlymodern #skystorians

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #skystorians #histknow

#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...

The cluster on the Greek Fathers in the new JHI includes an article by Christa Lundberg: "Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite" muse.jhu.edu/article/959039

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles, "Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers." The introduction by organizer Paolo Sachet is now available open access: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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The discussion continues in the Early Modern Scholarship & Religion seminar @camhistory.bsky.social this Friday (2 May) at 4pm! For details and online participation, see www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Excited to share my new article in JHI! It's a deep dive into how Lefèvre d'Étaples didn’t just adopt a humanist Latin rendering of Ps.-Dionysius—but rewrote it in dialogue with medieval translators. Thanks to Paolo Sachet for putting together an amazing special issue! muse.jhu.edu/article/959039

My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

CFP: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change On May 14 my Uppsala department will be hosting a workshop on the role of scholarly institutions in the history of science. Follow the link for the whole call. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you! I'm looking very much forward to joining the History dept. in Lund as a Pro Futura Scientia fellow this fall.

Joining us today at the Monday Seminar is Mikkel Jensen (Halle-Wittenberg) who is presenting on Amthor and the reception of Thomasius’s political thought at the University of Kiel, followed by comments by Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge).

The Early Modern Scholarship & Religion Seminar in Cambridge is back this term with four talks on Friday afternoons. Our first session is with Jonathan Nathan (Pharos foundation, Oxford), who will talk speak on ‘the problem of unbelief in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries' on 7 February at 4pm.

Are you a PhD student interested in the history of knowledge? Apply for the Lund summer school this August. Under the guidance of @bjornlundberg.bsky.social and others. I taught it in 2020 and 2021, great fun. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/01/28/2...

And it’s out! My book is now available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe. #Skystorians

Joining us today for the final seminar of the year is Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM-Tunis) who is presenting on decolonisation, translation, and knowledge production in Algerian literature and sociology, with comments by Kaoutar Ghilani (Cambridge).

Canada getting serious on AI copyright theft. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/w...

I've just received confirmation that all four of my books with Routledge have been flogged to Microsoft to train AI. This is a horrible betrayal. Here is my letter to my publisher:

How are the histories of universities written nowadays? What are the trends and tendencies? In a new article in the Nordic Journal of Educational History, I try to chart the landscape.   Open access here: doi.org/10.36368/nje...

I'm very excited to speak in the Warburg Work in Progress seminar tomorrow (Wed) at 2pm. Sign up here to attend in person or online: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/work-...

Some big news for academic publishing: De Gruyter to acquire Brill & will become De Gruyter Brill www2.brill.com/webmail/3190...