Sandra Toffolo
@toffolosandra.bsky.social
Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
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November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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The second newsletter of our #COSTAction #PCPSce is now available! pcps-ce.eu/pcpsce-newsl... Follow us for more updates on early modern #PrintCulture and public spheres in Central Europe.
@costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC
@costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC
PCPSce Newsletter — Issue #2 | November 2025 — PCPS CE
The second issue of the PCPSce Newsletter (November 2025) features updates on projects, upcoming events, research highlights, and opportunities.
pcps-ce.eu
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The second newsletter of our #COSTAction #PCPSce is now available! pcps-ce.eu/pcpsce-newsl... Follow us for more updates on early modern #PrintCulture and public spheres in Central Europe.
@costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC
@costprogramme.bsky.social #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC
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Brown University - Early Modern European History | MEMOs
Brown University (Rhode Island, USA)
memorients.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
August 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
#AI and #history: this semester's programme of seminars on the use of AI for the discipline of history is out now! Both online and in person at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Join us: isig.fbk.eu/en/ai-and-hi... #skystorians
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#AI and #history: this semester's programme of seminars on the use of AI for the discipline of history is out now! Both online and in person at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Join us: isig.fbk.eu/en/ai-and-hi... #skystorians
Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians
August 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians
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📢Reminder: submit your dataset for the Vienna Hackathon, organised by #COSTAction #PCPSce! Deadline CFA: 31 July. This 3-day event will be held 10-12 December, exploring new ways of working with historical datasets. Info: www.pcps-ce.eu/reminder-sub...
#PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social
#PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social
Reminder: Submit Your Dataset For The Vienna Hackathon By 31 July! — PCPS CE
The deadline is fast approaching: 31 July 2025 is your last chance to submit a proposal for the PCPSce Vienna Hackathon, taking place from 10 to 12 December
www.pcps-ce.eu
July 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📢Reminder: submit your dataset for the Vienna Hackathon, organised by #COSTAction #PCPSce! Deadline CFA: 31 July. This 3-day event will be held 10-12 December, exploring new ways of working with historical datasets. Info: www.pcps-ce.eu/reminder-sub...
#PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social
#PrintCulture @costprogramme.bsky.social
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CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs
Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)
https://memorients.com/events/cfp-bound-for-devotion-the-prayer-book-as-object-and-practice-1300–1800-1-3-july-2026-leiden
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Posting again for Monday morning. Lecturer (fixed term) in Medieval & Early Modern Literature sought here in the School of Lit, Drama & Creative Writing at UEA. Email me (address in ad) with any queries. Please share widely. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodern
If you would like to come & be me for a year (in terms of employment) then we are advertising for a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Email me with any queries (address in ad). I assure you there are v few places as Med/Emod as Norwich. Pls share!
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
June 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Posting again for Monday morning. Lecturer (fixed term) in Medieval & Early Modern Literature sought here in the School of Lit, Drama & Creative Writing at UEA. Email me (address in ad) with any queries. Please share widely. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodern
29 April - Drew Thomas on visual and multimodal AI in the Digital Humanities. Both in person in Trento and online. Looking forward to it!
Giving a talk in 2 weeks on how AI is transforming historical image analysis. Illustrations, iconography, and algorithms collide. Join me!
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
📍From Text to Image
📅 29 April | 11:00-12:30
📡 Hybrid event at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
🔗 RSVP: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de...
From text to image: Visual and multimodal AI in the Digital Humanities
While text-based AI applications are well established, images present unique challenges: they are not inherently machine-readable, posing significant challenges for large-scale analysis.
isig.fbk.eu
April 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
29 April - Drew Thomas on visual and multimodal AI in the Digital Humanities. Both in person in Trento and online. Looking forward to it!
It was such a great experience being part of this. Many thanks again to @rmidura.bsky.social for including me! Looking forward to seeing where this research will go next!
📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...
April 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It was such a great experience being part of this. Many thanks again to @rmidura.bsky.social for including me! Looking forward to seeing where this research will go next!
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📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!
This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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🤔What are your hopes for the future of the EUI?
🤝 As alumni you are part of our lasting legacy, and we want to hear from you so we can build the future together.
✍ Share your vision by taking part in the AlumVoice survey: buff.ly/VS4v4AQ
Once EUI, always EUI.
#AlumVoice
🤝 As alumni you are part of our lasting legacy, and we want to hear from you so we can build the future together.
✍ Share your vision by taking part in the AlumVoice survey: buff.ly/VS4v4AQ
Once EUI, always EUI.
#AlumVoice
March 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🤔What are your hopes for the future of the EUI?
🤝 As alumni you are part of our lasting legacy, and we want to hear from you so we can build the future together.
✍ Share your vision by taking part in the AlumVoice survey: buff.ly/VS4v4AQ
Once EUI, always EUI.
#AlumVoice
🤝 As alumni you are part of our lasting legacy, and we want to hear from you so we can build the future together.
✍ Share your vision by taking part in the AlumVoice survey: buff.ly/VS4v4AQ
Once EUI, always EUI.
#AlumVoice
Interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship? The Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento is now accepting expressions of interest: isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta...
#skystorians
#skystorians
Call for Expressions of Interest for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
The Italian-German Historical Institute (ISIG) of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento is an advanced research centre that promotes research in early modern and contemporary history, with part...
isig.fbk.eu
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship? The Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento is now accepting expressions of interest: isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta...
#skystorians
#skystorians
Next Monday, 17 March at 9h30 CET, @marnieh-w.bsky.social will give an online seminar on 'AI safety with histories' in our seminar cycle on #AI and #history. Sign up here: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de... All welcome!
AI safety with histories
In this talk, Marnie Hughes-Warrington will illuminate history as source of particular tension in the global geopolitics of AI and argue for the value of seeking a new architecture for history making ...
isig.fbk.eu
March 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Next Monday, 17 March at 9h30 CET, @marnieh-w.bsky.social will give an online seminar on 'AI safety with histories' in our seminar cycle on #AI and #history. Sign up here: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/de... All welcome!
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As part of our #COSTAction General Meeting in February, some members of #CA23137 had the rare opportunity to visit the Kinsky Library within Prague’s Old Town Square.
The visit was much enjoyed and will no doubt inspire future research projects amongst our members!
#libraries #history #Prague
The visit was much enjoyed and will no doubt inspire future research projects amongst our members!
#libraries #history #Prague
March 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As part of our #COSTAction General Meeting in February, some members of #CA23137 had the rare opportunity to visit the Kinsky Library within Prague’s Old Town Square.
The visit was much enjoyed and will no doubt inspire future research projects amongst our members!
#libraries #history #Prague
The visit was much enjoyed and will no doubt inspire future research projects amongst our members!
#libraries #history #Prague
Very much looking forward to reading this!
I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️
February 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this!
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The Prague meeting for COST Action 23137 PCPSce has now begun!
We’re looking forward to three days of intensive networking and collaboration! Send us your pictures to: [email protected]
#COSTAction #earlymodernhistory #centraleurope
#printculture #publicsphere
We’re looking forward to three days of intensive networking and collaboration! Send us your pictures to: [email protected]
#COSTAction #earlymodernhistory #centraleurope
#printculture #publicsphere
February 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The Prague meeting for COST Action 23137 PCPSce has now begun!
We’re looking forward to three days of intensive networking and collaboration! Send us your pictures to: [email protected]
#COSTAction #earlymodernhistory #centraleurope
#printculture #publicsphere
We’re looking forward to three days of intensive networking and collaboration! Send us your pictures to: [email protected]
#COSTAction #earlymodernhistory #centraleurope
#printculture #publicsphere
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We are thrilled to start our social media profile for CA23137! Join us to know about our COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800).
Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply curious, we're here to keep you informed and inspired!
Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply curious, we're here to keep you informed and inspired!
February 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We are thrilled to start our social media profile for CA23137! Join us to know about our COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800).
Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply curious, we're here to keep you informed and inspired!
Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply curious, we're here to keep you informed and inspired!
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
'AI and history' - the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento is hosting a seminar cycle on the use of AI for the discipline of history. Both online and (in most cases) in person. Everyone welcome! isig.fbk.eu/en/ai-and-hi... #ai #skystorians
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
'AI and history' - the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento is hosting a seminar cycle on the use of AI for the discipline of history. Both online and (in most cases) in person. Everyone welcome! isig.fbk.eu/en/ai-and-hi... #ai #skystorians
Our programme for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history is now online! With Paul Nelles, Giovanna Ceserani, Mattia Corso, Giovanni Florio, Alessandro Metlica, Enrico Zucchi, Lucia Raggetti, and Stefania Montemezzo. Join us online or in person in Trento! isig.fbk.eu/en/events/ea...
January 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Our programme for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history is now online! With Paul Nelles, Giovanna Ceserani, Mattia Corso, Giovanni Florio, Alessandro Metlica, Enrico Zucchi, Lucia Raggetti, and Stefania Montemezzo. Join us online or in person in Trento! isig.fbk.eu/en/events/ea...
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My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...