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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Aug 27

A wonderful position at the University of Leuven, application deadline 9/15. #ChineseStudies #Sinology

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Tenure track professor in Chinese Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven) - Academic Positions

The East Asian and Arabic Studies Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in Chinese Studies....

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Aug 8

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
global.oup.com/academic/con...

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Aug 8

Really wonderful effort by @postmedieval.bsky.social editorial team. We had the first meeting today and it was productive! Sometimes we forget how important it is to support first-time authors. But we have all been there!

postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · Feb 11

/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English.

👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...

Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English

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CEMERS - Binghamton University @cemersbinghamton.bsky.social · Jan 21

We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."

Please send us your abstracts!

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, workshop to celebrate its launch! @asianlibrarynl.bsky.social

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations to the editors of - and contributors to -

Thinking Women and Art in the Long 18th Century: Strategic Reinterpretations
Edited by Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann & Melissa Hyde
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social 2025

A book cover featuring a C19th painting of a dark-haired, white-skinned woman with her arms crossed in front of her, holding a brush or stylus in her right hand.

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · Apr 21

This week! On Wed, April 23 (7pm EST), Professor Stacy Fahrenthold joins Titas Chakraborty and Justin Jackson for a discussion of their new books with the @lawcha.bsky.social
virtual series. Everyone is welcome and you can register at bit.ly/LAWCHAAprilBT

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Apr 20

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Geadopteerd uit China, terug als journalist: ‘Ik wil de stereotypering doorbreken’

Haar hele leven wilde de geadopteerde Cindy Huijgen terug naar haar geboorteland China. Inmiddels is de alumnus Chinastudies en Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media er correspondent.

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Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social · Apr 18

Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

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Maintaining the Faith in Global Decolonization

Historians of decolonization tend to present the moment of independence as the culmination of nationalist struggles, and the achievement of political sover

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Apr 10

Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt has been Shortlisted for the Architectural History Book Award!

Learn more about the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco....

Book cover of Yuan: Chinse Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

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Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social · Apr 10

Happy publication day to the first Japanese translation of The Second Sex! Curious how Beauvoir’s “most famous line”—“One is not born, but becomes, [a] woman”—was rendered into Japanese in 1953? See my latest website update:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/91a8...

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IIAS @iias.bsky.social · Apr 7

🔸 In-person lecture about “Japanese Colonial Finance and Early Chinese Stock Exchanges” by Dr Bryna Goodman, (History Dept. at University of Oregon)
⏰ April 10 | 11:15 ~ 12:15
📍 Witte Singel 27A, Room 0.28, Leiden, NL
🌐 tinyurl.com/98v7des2
@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Apr 10

Such an original and fascinating research on Japanese colonial stock exchanges in China presented by Bryna Goodman at @iias.bsky.social today. Also fascinating to look at this history in this particular historical moment.

Cartoon depicting stock exchanges in old China

Partial list of the exchanges established by the Japanese military and non military entities in China

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · Apr 3

Coming up! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Why not attend, registration closes soon!🥂

Programme

See below for the full programme. Abstracts will be available after 7 April.

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Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hier verheug ik mij op! Op 30 april organiseert studententijdschrift Leidschrift.nl een symposium www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/... over de rol van de universiteit in de maatschappij, vroeger en nu, en ik mag meedoen. Iedereen is welkom. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Leidschrift symposium

In het kader van het 450-jarig bestaan van Universiteit Leiden organiseert Leidschrift op 30 april een symposium met als thema: 'Wereldverbeteraars of zolderkamergeleerden? De rol van de universiteit ...

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Apr 2

Posting for #Sinologists!

University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...

Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors

As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its appa...

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Apr 1

100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan
Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #openaccess @uofmpress.bsky.social

100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan: Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline

<P> The University of Michigan has been at the forefront of archaeological research for more than 100 years, since 1922, when the Museum of Anthropology (now the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology)...

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Mar 30

🤣 by now we have all got used to the impracticality of the building.

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · Mar 27

Annales English Version 📕

🏴‍☠️ 'Fighting #Pirates” as a Paradigm. Conflict, Competition, and #Criminalization in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Lübeck and the Northern European Trade'

by

Philipp Höhn

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2022.22

Iceland in the Carta marina of 1539.
Source: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mapp. 8.1; Olaus Magnus, Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum ac mirabilium rerum in eis contentarum diligentissime elaborata anno dni 1539.

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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · Mar 28

An insightful, informative and intellectually vigorous book review of my dear friend Paul Reitter’s new translation of Capital! Can’t wait to read it.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Mar 28

‘Among scholars of “Capital” the question of what Marx meant is burdened with added importance: a proper translation of “Capital” can tell us how capital works.’

Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx’s ‘Bible of the working class’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of Marx

One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and...

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Mar 28

Is the #Sinology feed still a thing or are we all too distracted? Anyway, if you're free at lunchtime on Wednesday April 9 (east coast suppertime, European midnight snack), please join us for a conversation on medieval Chinese Buddhist images and their (im)materiality. 🀄📚

Scholarly Dialogue: Transparency and Projection in Medieval Buddhist Sculpture – Center for Chinese Studies

manoa.hawaii.edu

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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us for the launch of Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence, co-edited by @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, Samuel Ritholtz, and Andrew Delatolla (@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social). This event is open to all.

🔗 More info: bit.ly/4bAnPYI

#LSEEvents #AcademicSky #PoliSky

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Mar 24

The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15.

Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for Undergraduate Articles – AHA

The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student.

www.historians.org

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · Mar 24

History graduate students! The AHA is seeking three student columnists to write a pair of columns for #AHAPerspectives this summer. Along with publishing your two articles, columnists receive an honorarium and a one-year AHA membership. We hope you apply! 🗃️

Want to Write for the AHA? – AHA

Submit your application by Monday, April 21!

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Jan 20

70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines

Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return!

go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M

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