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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen

@kreskildsen.bsky.social

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History of sciences, humanities, and universities. Interested in alternatives and experiments in higher education, and likes old stuff. Author of "Modern Historiography in the Making" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/eskild

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Nov 13

‘At the root of the march of progress in the West,’ the Japanese scholar Kume Kunitake noted, ‘is a profound love of antiquity.’ I am currently working on a book, trying to explain this odd passion (and modernist conviction). The Egyptian Room at the British Museum, visited by Kume in 1872.

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · 25d

My workplace ...

Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 25d

Roskilde University was founded by a surprising alliance of parliamentary parties and radical student movements both trying to reform the old universities. It was an experiment characterized by interdisciplinary and collaborative problem-driven approaches to learning and radical ideas. 1/3

Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 25d

Roskilde University is a reform university founded in 1972 as an experimental educational institution, which emphasized student-led and problem-driven pedagogy. Historically it was very left-leaning, but that unfortunately does not hold true today, only in the right-wing’s imagination.

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sad story. The University of Chicago is, or was?, a unique institution. In related news, their program in history of science has just paused accepting new graduate students. Maybe they should make some spots available for studying the recent history of the University of Chicago?

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Aug 16

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Mar 5

Lost El Dorado. Figure of ruler of the Muisca, bringing gold offerings to the Gods on Lake Guatavita. Photo from the collection of Salomón Koppel and his wife, Bogotá, around 1880. The figure was bought by Adolf Bastian and disappeared in a warehouse fire in Bremen. Museo Nacional de Colombia.

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ph.D. scholarship (by international standards, very well paid) available in my department. If anyone, or anyone's student, should be interested, please let me know. I would be especially happy supervising topics relating to the history and theory of humanities.

PhD Positions at The Department of Communication of Arts, Roskilde University

The Doctoral School of Communication and Arts (DCA), Roskilde University invites for a number of PhD positions. The scholarships are fully funded for 3 yea

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Feb 16

In Danish! The question would probably surprise most Danes. Not really something we talk about (but the answer is yes!)

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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · Feb 3

Are you interested in the entangled history of humanities and science?

Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.

Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.

Deadline: 1 June 2025

vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Vossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications - Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences

The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2025 for fellowships in 2026.

vossius.uva.nl

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Jan 31

Danish superstructure?

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Jan 16

Great idea, thank you for sharing! I just passed on it to the Board of Events of the Society for the History of Humanities, suggesting that we do something similar.

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Jan 8

Beware of your Greenlandic dreams. Ruins of Medieval Church at Qaqortukulooq, in one of the Scandinavian settlements. After hundreds of years in Greenland, the settlements died out in the 15th century, for unknown reasons.

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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · Dec 19

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨

Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

Pot with branch from dead plant in a windows sill. Next to it is another plant and a watering pot. Bellow, a sign is stuck on the wall reading - Artist: unknown. Dead plant, 2024. Glass, plastic, wood and misc. organic material. The precise placement of this piece among a collection of living plants allows the unknowns artist to remind the viewer of the inescapable cycle of life and death, as well as the capricious nature of the Ava rage house plant.

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Dec 17

It is labelled "Classics of the Humanities II" because it is a follow-up to another (Eurocentric) volume, edited by Rens Bod and me, in 2019:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2019...

History of Humanities | Vol 4, No 2

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Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social · Dec 17

Exiting! New volume of History of Humanities, with introductions to texts that you can use to teach the history of the humanities in Africa.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...