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Josef Köstlbauer
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Historian, dad, feminist, garden enthusiast, builder, and whatnot. Researches slavery, serfdom, early modern missions, colonial borderlands, historical semantics, digital games, and the history of simulations.
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Josef Köstlbauer @jkoestlbauer.bsky.social · May 14
very proud to be included in a brand new special issue edited by Pia Wiegmink and @jennyleetsch.bsky.social! My paper explores the memoirs of enslaved or formerly enslaved members of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)
This article discusses two biographical accounts of enslaved members of the Moravian Church in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The first one is a brief posthumous memoir (Lebenslauf) of an enslave...
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jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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ihb-oeaw.bsky.social
RULING #DYNASTIES IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 1780-1850.
The #Conference will open with a #publiclecture by Dominic Lieven | #LSE. Prof. Lieven is historian of #EasternEurope and Fellow of #TrinityCollege at #CambridgeUniversity.
Interview with Prof. Lieven ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/der-wei...
Der weibliche Einfluss in Europas Dynastien
Welche Rolle spielten Frauen im Zeitalter der Revolutionen 1780-1850? Ein Workshop an der ÖAW nimmt diese Frage genauer unter die Lupe. Zu den Vortragenden zählt der renommierte britische Osteuropahis...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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univie.ac.at
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2026: 📖🏅
Mit dabei im Voting: Bücher von Oliver Jens Schmitt und Oliver Rathkolb! 👏

Hier geht's zum Voting: ⤵️
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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mpiwg.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️

The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds.

🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN

#HistSci #Sinology
Cover of the volume. On an orange and olive background, it features excerpts of two drawn maps, one with Spanish, one with Chinese inscriptions.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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stefanhanss.bsky.social
Breathtaking feather art on display at Museo Jose Luis Bello in Puebla, Mexico, crafted by @franciscoguevara.bsky.social in response to my research on #earlymodern featherwork!

interview w/ the artist 👉🏼 shorturl.at/5lvfl

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Mexican Artist Francisco Guevara Crafts Featherwork in Response to Research by Stefan Hanß: ‘De lo Bello a lo Invisible’ on Display at the Museo José Luis Bello y González in Puebla
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November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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dependencybonn.de
📣 #CfP: We're inviting paper proposals for the international workshop "Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture: Queen Emma’s Networks and the (Post)Colonial Anglo-German Pacific"

More: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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voetnoot.bsky.social
De gegevens van duizenden WIC-opvarenden zijn nu online te doorzoeken #wicopvarenden wic-opvarenden.dekok.xyz/browse
August 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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ktgerbs.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!
Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
August 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Konf: Österreich-Ungarn im weltweiten Kolonialsystem

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157014

Wien, 10.10.2025-11.10.2025, Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies, Universität
Wien; Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Collegium Hungaricum Wien; ELTE Forschungszentrum …
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August 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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lindaaburnett.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ihb-oeaw.bsky.social
#CallforPapers #CfP
AI AND ARTWORKS:
OBJECT DETECTION, IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND ICONOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Vienna, 16-17 April 2026
We address our call to all researchers and scientists. Proposal (approximately 300 words) and a short CV (maximum 100 words) by 31 October 2025 to indico.global/event/15085/
August 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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ihb-oeaw.bsky.social
The Institute for Habsburg and #BalkanStudies ist looking for a new DIRECTOR WITH TENURE (F/M/X). The successful candidate will bring expertise primarily in the
history of the #earlymodern #HabsburgMonarchy in its #CentralEuropean context.
For further information see: www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=xad3...
August 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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kbgraubart.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
rsaorg.bsky.social Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · Aug 5
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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bfworld.bsky.social
Is it possible to survive a violent system without becoming part of it?

Drivers—enslaved people forced to discipline others—walked this tightrope every day.

In Ep. 418, historian Randy Browne brings us into their world.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/418

#SlaveryStudies #EarlyAmerica #History
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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dependencybonn.de
🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Phil Withington, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube!

Follow the link 👉https://youtu.be/clxMJRv4GDM

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @sheffielduni.bsky.social
A poster showing the information of the new video recording from the Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Series, that can be found in Youtube: " The Semantcias of Slavery and Social Relations in Early Modern England" by Phil Withington from the University of Sheffield, UK.
July 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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dependencybonn.de
Congratulations to David Brandon Smith, who is the first one to complete the DEI Certificate offered by the BCDSS!

You can read his personal reflection here 👇
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
July 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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bfworld.bsky.social
Born free in 1766, James Forten helped build the nation—and challenged it to live up to its promises. 📜

Ep. 352 tells the story of one man’s fight for liberty, equality, and justice.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/352

#FoundingEra #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Revolution250
Episode 352: James Forten and the Making of the United States
Matthew Skic, a curator of Exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, joins us to investigate the life of the Forten Family.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy
Demain au #jeudi de l'institut avec Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (univ. Brême) : Entre altérité et intimité. L’#esclavage en Allemagne à l’#époquemoderne

Commentaire: Myriam Cottias (EHESS)

12 juin | 18h | format hybride | ALL-FR […]

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Jeanne-Charlotte d'Anhalt-Dessau, abbesse de l'Abbaye de Herford, avec Carl Heinrich Leopold, vers 1740 (musée de la ville de Herford, N° inv. 92/91)
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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dependencybonn.de
Don’t miss our #JCMM #Lecture with Marcy Norton on how colonial views of animals shaped understandings of Indigenous practices and their impact on communities before and after colonization.

🗓️17 June 2025
⏱️16:15 CET
📍In person: Adenauerallee 131, 53113 Bonn
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @upenn.edu
a poster that shows the title of the Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Series. and a picture of the person who is going to give the lecture. It says: On monday 17 June at 4.15 pm, Marcy Norton will give a lecture on " Taking up Company with a Beast": Familiarization in Mesoamerica, 1400 - 1650
June 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy
Enfances coloniales, apprentissages transculturels & trajectoires de vie dans l’#Atlantique français (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles).

Ulrike Krampl (univ. Tours) au prochain séminaire d'#histoiremoderne

17.06. | 16h | format hybride […]

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Bac sur le Rhin à Worms au XVIIe siècle; détail de Matthäus Merian, Topographia Palatinus Rheni et Vicinarum Regionum, Francfort sur le Main 1645 (archives municipales de Worms, Abt. 217 Nr. 1495), Wikimedia.
June 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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behnazmirzai.bsky.social
My book launch @dependencybonn.de on June 12 follows by a reception!! See you if you are around.
June 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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sallytuckett.bsky.social
It’s here! And it matches the colour of my living room! A huge thank you to everyone who helped get to this point. It is quite surreal to have it sitting on my shelf. If you, too, want a copy (matching walls not provided) head over to edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transat...
June 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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imogenhybrid.bsky.social
Call for Papers is out! I'm co-organizing a transdiciplinary workshop on "Officer Disobedience in Military Organizations across Epochs and Cultures" next year in Bonn (subject to funding coming through).
If you're working on this or know someone who does we'd be very pleased to hear from you.
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June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
Are you a student and would you like to work at the IISH? This is your chance! Apply now for one of our student assistant positions:

👉 Two Student Assistant Positions for Projects on Slave Trade in Maritime Asia: buff.ly/QEaj9HE
👉 Student assistant Travel Journals: buff.ly/6Z1Ok0l
June 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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dependencybonn.de
📚The latest addition to the #Dependency and #Slavery Studies book series has been released: "Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies: Contextualising Roman Legal Terminology."

More info: ow.ly/wgKV50VYL42

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM