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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 8h

Heute ist @andrearapp.bsky.social bei uns!! Freue mich!

SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten @sfb1567.bsky.social · 1d

Wir freuen uns, Andrea Rapp zur Distinguished Lecture Series begrüßen zu dürfen.
www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/di...
#Morgen

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! I noticed it too, haha. But this is a very good answer.

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 6d

Medieval and early modern historians, or others who use digital collections! 🍁

When using a digital library/collection for research, are you more focused on individual (digital) manuscripts/books or on the broader context of the library?

What does a (digital) library mean to you?

Answers are 💕

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 15d

not a reference many people get, even our Dutch friends!

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 16d

Aagje and Betje are not entirely impressed... (yet!)

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 16d

Danke dir! Wir sehen uns bald in Bochum!🤗

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · 16d

Came home from traveling and found this in my post!!

What a strange feeling to finally have the actual published book in my hands. 🤯

brill.com/display/titl...

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Aug 8

Did you vote yet? There's still a few days left!

Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗳️ ELECTION TIME! 🗳️
Digital Medievalist community - it's time to choose your next Executive Board!
What's happening:
- 5 Executive Board positions up for elections (2025-2029 term)
- 10 amazing candidates to choose from
- YOUR voice matters in shaping our future!
#Digitalhumanities #Medievalsky
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a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower

ALT: a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower

media.tenor.com

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SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten @sfb1567.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lena Ciochon beschreibt im Virtuellen Objekt des Monats August, wie trotz schlechter Quellenlage die Figur des St. Stanisław in VR zur Aufführung kommt und welche Rolle Digitalisierungsprozesse und Gamification-Ansätze für die Geschichtsvermittlung spielen.

www.virtuelle-lebens...

Collage aus vier Bildern: Zwei Ansichten eines 3D-Modells einer Kirche, zwei In-Game Screenshots einer Bischofsfigur aus der Supertotale und der Totale vor einer Kirche.

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Jul 28

🗳️ ELECTION TIME! 🗳️
Digital Medievalist community - it's time to choose your next Executive Board!
What's happening:
- 5 Executive Board positions up for elections (2025-2029 term)
- 10 amazing candidates to choose from
- YOUR voice matters in shaping our future!
#Digitalhumanities #Medievalsky
⤵️

a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower

ALT: a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower

media.tenor.com

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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · Jul 16

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026

The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time

Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland
Submission deadline: 1 September 2025

The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle.

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time
Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time
Digital editions of computus texts
Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time
Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches
Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives
Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data
Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation
Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures
Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities
Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments
Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism

Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual).
Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.

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Katharina Mersch @katha-m.bsky.social · Jul 16

Auch das Bochumer Spätmittelalter verteidigt Vielfalt (news.rub.de/hochschulpol...). Von Manuel Kamenzin und Suzette van Haaren. ❤️

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Klaus Oschema @kpo.bsky.social · Jul 5

Looking forward to #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! Proud to present our session on the "Virtual Middle Ages" (8 July, 4:30-6) with @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social - thanks to @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social and @sfb1567.bsky.social at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Not to forget @dhi-paris.fr ... 😎

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · Jul 4

Perfect preparation for our session about virtual reality and the Middle Ages at Leeds next week! ✨

Come listen to @lenaciochon.bsky.social, @blairapgar.bsky.social and Daniel Jaquet about virtuality, technology and the Middle Ages.

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · Jul 4

My article about VR manuscripts in Madoc is finally out 🤲

A short overview of manuscript depictions in virtual reality, and their relation/non-relation to materiality and touch.

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Het virtuele handschrift | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Abstract ‘BLADER DOOR BOEK’ luidt de instructie boven het handschrift op de lessenaar. Het is een rare ervaring: ik verwacht perkament te voelen tussen mijn vingers maar voel alleen mijn eigen vingert...

www.aup-online.com

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · Jul 1

Session of my dreams 🙌

(except that it starts at 09:00... so maybe literally my dreams)

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Jul 1

Travel with our Programme Co-ordinator, Hayley Smith, to the incredible Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library...

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/treasu...

Treasured

Free exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. See some of the stand out objects from our collection and discover what makes a treasure

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ik als Duits lees:

Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · Jul 1

ik raakte net overprikkeld omdat ik te veel hoofdletters zag

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Jun 19

📣 Digital Medievalist calls for nominations for the next Executive Board elections!

➡️ If you are interested in standing for election or recommending a candidate, please complete the nomination form: tinyurl.com/3xwjbe9p

✅ You must be a DM member and focus on digital medieval studies to apply.

Digital Medievalist 2025 Executive Board Election: Nominations

Digital Medievalist invites nominations for five members to join its Executive Board for a four-year term starting August 2025. This form may be used for self-nominations or to recommend a candidate. ...

tinyurl.com

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · May 29

I'm looking at you @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Perhaps booking some of these DJs for this year??? 😄

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · May 29

Totally up for this trend!

mixmag.net/feature/bard...

Go bard or go home! Why are UK club nights going medieval?

Hardcore music and medieval aesthetics might not seem an intuitive pairing, but an internet trend and music genre that took off in lockdown has infiltrated the real world via alternative club nights p...

mixmag.net

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing a moment of the printing process: two men are lifting the paper from the woodblock. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing the giant woodblick, and the giant printed paper open air. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

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Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social · Mar 13

AAAAAAAH-nouncement!

brill.com/display/titl...

The Digital Medieval Manuscript

"The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 25 Sep 2025 by Brill.

brill.com

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · Mar 4

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens

Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

www.uu.nl

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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web!

We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022:

16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...

The details!

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 645

parker.stanford.edu

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