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Martin van Gelderen
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intellectual historian • citizen -'old' republican • inspired by erasmus and grotius • member of the academia europaea • erasmianmartin.world

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · 2d
When a book arrives, it feels special: years of life, hard work,. passion.

This one feels very special, thanks to all contributors, Ivan Gaskell, Gert, and our book designer, Sigrid, who does wonders with chiaroscuro.

Last but not least, it feels special, because, well, it's about #Rembrandt!

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · 6d
No, not 'Waiting for Godot',
much worse, waiting for #LandRover ...
22-8: diagnosis ad blue tank to be replaced
End of August: #CyberAttack !
Since then: waiting, waiting, waiting...
70 days, and counting.
#Landrover in utter chaos.
Incompetence?
Waiting.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17d
Young man in a yellow robe, painted around 1630 by Jan Lievens. Today was his birthday.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 19d
Register now for Tolerance and Tension: New York and Amsterdam in the 17th Century, NNI's Annual Conference on Sat., November 15. View the program here: www.nyhistory.org/programs/new....

If you are a graduate students or have graduate students, be in touch for a registration deal.
Tolerance and Tension: New York and Amsterdam in the 17th Century | The New York Historical
A day-long conference brings together leading scholars, thinkers, and artists for a day of discovery and debate.
www.nyhistory.org

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 22d
A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists
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A photo of the title wall of the Rachel Ruysch art exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The title is in yellow text with the subtitle in white text, both presented against a dark floral still life painting in an arch set back slightly in a dark (black or very dark green) wall.

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · 24d
In the 18th century the University of #Göttingen was given a set of #Rembrandt prints--a wonderful treasure!
We've selected 33 for a special exhibition.
On show is an encounter between Rembrandt's fabulous engraving techniques and the wonders of modern scan/print technology.
Doors open: 13 November.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Oct 7
We will be running an ERC Consolidator Grant webinar on 24 November for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for the ERC Consolidator Grants. Find out more and register your interest: https://bit.ly/46RDnVV
A purple colour block banner with the words 'ERC Consolidator Grant webinar’ written on it.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · Sep 29
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Sep 26
De studie van de Nederlandse geschiedenis staat in Duitsland op een wel heel erg laag pitje, lager dan ooit. Het Haus der Niederlande is dus belangrijk en alle steun is welkom.
Er zou best nog zo'n Haus bij kunnen, in Postdam natuurlijk, bij het Holländerviertel.

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Chris Aalberts @chrisaalberts.bsky.social · Sep 26
Bij het werkbezoek van de koning aan Münster. Wat kun je daar als journalist nou eigenlijk mee? Antwoord: niet zo heel veel. Een verslag. chrisaalberts.nl/2025/09/26/r...
Royalty-verslaggeving: serieuze journalistiek? - Chris Aalberts
Internationale betrekkingen zijn belangrijk en daar kan ons staatshoofd een belangrijke rol in spelen. Dit brengt ons donderdag naar de Duitse stad Münster, waar koning Willem-Alexander een werkbezoek...
chrisaalberts.nl

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Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · Sep 26
Falmer House on the University of Sussex campus, September 2018

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · Sep 24
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/23/f...
Fra Angelico masterworks reunited for two-venue Florence exhibition
The exhibition brings together more than 140 works, including key altarpieces reconstructed with the help of some detective work
www.theartnewspaper.com

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Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social · Sep 6
Interesting job opportunity at my alma mater Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Sep 4
Revived and revamped my 'intellectual history blog'.
Info about recent and new projects, including:
Rembrandt Radiert
Exhibition + catalogue, a glorious one, exploring how Rembrandt engraved 'him Self, his Town, his Time'.
With Göttinger Verlag der Kunst.
erasmianmartin.world/2025/09/01/r...
rembrandt radiert
Weihnachten mit Rembrandt Eine Ausstellung in der Galerie des Göttinger Verlags der Kunst 12. November 2025 – 12. Februar 2026 Die Ausstellung Weihnachten mit Rembrandt zeigt Bilder aus der Götting…
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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Sep 1
Geldt voor alle wetenshappen:
www.parool.nl/columns-opin...
Opinie: ‘Newton en Fleming hadden in deze tijd nooit kunnen floreren: geef onderzoekers de ruimte om écht nieuwsgierig te zijn’
Wetenschappers worden te veel gedwongen om snelle onderzoeksresultaten te boeken en binnen de lijntjes te kleuren, schrijven vijf onderzoekers in dit opiniestuk. Ze pleiten voor meer ruimte voor nieuw...
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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Aug 31
Er is aardig wat literatuur over de Lorenzetti fresco's. Zie Quentin Skinner's artikelen (Vision of. Politics, vol 2) voor een mooi political thought perspectief; een prachtig kunsthistorisch perspectief vind je in het werk van Gerhard Wolf, die wijst op de centrale rol van de 3 dames in wit.

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Aug 30
Reopening on 1 September in #Siena: Lorenzetti's frescoes

-of the ideal of civic government
-and, to warn, of the reality of dreadful tyranny.

For all citizens to ponder--and act.

See: museocivico.comune.siena.it

Detail below: the citizens take the rope of/ from concord.
They hold it firmly.

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UCD School of Philosophy @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 29
Applications are invited for the post of temporary 48-month Postdoctoral Research Associate within #UCD School of #Philosophy. Further details, along with a link to apply, may be found at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilJobs #PhilSky #MoralPhilosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #BMoral #IrishResearch
ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Philosophy
www.ucd.ie

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Aug 23
A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries, with Jacqueline Coutré, Katrin Dyballa, Virginia Treanor, Maureen Warren & Laurien van der Werff

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol 17.1
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A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
Participants in the roundtable, April 2025 Jacquelyn N. Coutré (moderator and associate editor, JHNA), Eleanor Wood Prince Curator, Art Institute of This is the transcript of a conversation among four...
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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Jul 30
At best, poets in distress.
benwritesthings.bsky.social Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · Jul 27
1. History is not a science, it's poems about ghosts.

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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Jul 28
Voor de sefardisch-protestantse dialoog was juist het 17e eeuwse Holland van eminentbelang. Denk, wat Amsterdam betreft, bijv aan Menasseh ben Israel's vele geschriften, waaronder El Conciliador en Piedra Gloriosa uit 1654, geïllustreerd door een Amsterdamse kunstenaar (en bijna buurman), Rembrandt.

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PG Kroeger @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social · Jul 28
Eigenlijk wel ironisch dat @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu nu bekritiseerd wordt vanwege het feit dat zij niét kon optreden als een 'Superstaat', een Kaiserin Ursula, een dominant Brussel dat dicteert en geopolitiek als een Xi optreedt.
Krijgen ze die zo verlangde zwakke EU, is het weer niet goed

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Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social · Jul 28
This is exactly the point. The Commission played its cards terribly but only because this is what members states pushed it to do, with neither demonstrating vision of a strong and united Europe and the courage to defend it
alemanno.bsky.social Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · Jul 28
It's way too easy for EU national leaders to criticise @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for capitulating to Trump.

The EU-US deal reflects their lack of EU-wide vision as much as the transformation of the EU Commission into the secretariat of the EU Council #EUCO

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
www.theguardian.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · Jul 28
It's way too easy for EU national leaders to criticise @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for capitulating to Trump.

The EU-US deal reflects their lack of EU-wide vision as much as the transformation of the EU Commission into the secretariat of the EU Council #EUCO

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
www.theguardian.com

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Carel Stolker @carelstolker.bsky.social · Feb 7
Van die hele wet tegen internationale studenten, gaan we straks zo ongelooflijk veel spijt krijgen…

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Riding the nationalism wave requires a collective approach
Three higher education professionals from Denmark, the Netherlands and Ireland examine the effects of the current wave of nationalism in Europe on (in...
www.universityworldnews.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Jul 27
Reading Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust edited by James Cuno from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Broad appeal for any museum enthusiast but also asks important questions about rapidly changing funding models, looting, illegal exports, colonialism, museum as civic center and more.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · Jul 27
1. History is not a science, it's poems about ghosts.
benwritesthings.bsky.social Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · Jul 26
come at me
calthalas.bsky.social Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Jul 25
One like, one history opinion

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Ewoud Kieft @ewoudkieft.bsky.social · Jul 26
De 'joods-christelijke traditie': sinds 9/11 vaste slogan van rechtse politici. Het gekke is alleen: vóór WOII komt de term nauwelijks voor. Over de geschiedenis vh christelijke antisemitisme en de onvoorwaardelijke steun aan Israël schreef ik een essay in @groene.nl
www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...
De Maccabi-rellen, Douwe Bob: rechtse politici staan te dringen om de joods-christelijke waarden erbij te halen
Veel christenen voelen zich verbonden met de joden. Voor sommigen is Israël de plek waar de eindtijd zal plaatsvinden, anderen hechten aan de ‘joods-christelijke’ traditie – maar die miskent een lange...
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Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social · Jul 15
It's the year to commemorate the #Peasants'War of 1525.
#Freedom!
Not a Prussian affair, so not much in Berlin Museums, but all the more in Schwaben, in Allgäu, in Thuringia.
The finest academic event will be in Bad Frankenhausen:
www.historische-kommission-fuer-thueringen.de/fileadmin/Hi...

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · Jul 14
Five funded PhD positions (4 years each) at the Politics of Enlightenment research group at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social! Details here: polight.uni-halle.de/en/five-posi...