@deborahhamer.bsky.social
Director of the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, archives rat, #VastNewNetherland
The NNI's Scholars Seminar is meeting this Wednesday at noon to discuss Agnes Trouillet's paper "Reinstating Indigenous Sovereignty on 17th-Century Maps of the Delaware Valley."
Drop me a note if you would like to join!
Full seminar schedule: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
Drop me a note if you would like to join!
Full seminar schedule: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
NNI Scholars' Seminar :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The NNI's Scholars Seminar is meeting this Wednesday at noon to discuss Agnes Trouillet's paper "Reinstating Indigenous Sovereignty on 17th-Century Maps of the Delaware Valley."
Drop me a note if you would like to join!
Full seminar schedule: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
Drop me a note if you would like to join!
Full seminar schedule: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
That thought did cross my mind.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
That thought did cross my mind.
Swedes, is this a reputable podcast: Vetenskapsradion Historia? I can't read Swedish well enough to tell...
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Swedes, is this a reputable podcast: Vetenskapsradion Historia? I can't read Swedish well enough to tell...
totally agree.
February 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
totally agree.
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BCMH New Researchers is Maritime History conference will be in Southampton on 17/18 April this year -CFP now open - details and submission link here www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritimehistory
February 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
BCMH New Researchers is Maritime History conference will be in Southampton on 17/18 April this year -CFP now open - details and submission link here www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritimehistory
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Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n
January 29, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n
I wish I could be there!
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I wish I could be there!
I hate virtual learning with the heat of a million suns.
January 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I hate virtual learning with the heat of a million suns.
I know someone at IISH who might be able to find someone for you. Let me know if you want me to put you in touch.
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I know someone at IISH who might be able to find someone for you. Let me know if you want me to put you in touch.
Can't wait to dig into this!
New acquisition: the oldest known map of Dutch trading post Dejima.
Houses, warehouses, wells, a mooring, and even a stable: this map, created around 1720, shows the tiny island in Nagasaki bay designated as the only place from which Dutch merchants could trade with Japan.
➡️ edu.nl/tnqv6
Houses, warehouses, wells, a mooring, and even a stable: this map, created around 1720, shows the tiny island in Nagasaki bay designated as the only place from which Dutch merchants could trade with Japan.
➡️ edu.nl/tnqv6
January 22, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Can't wait to dig into this!
This is not a drill: my kid is reading Johnny Tremain in English class!!!
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
This is not a drill: my kid is reading Johnny Tremain in English class!!!
Great lineup for the Low Countries Seminar this Spring!
Also quite pleased with how we've got #MedievalSky, #EarlyModern #EighteenthCentury, #NineteenthCentury, AND present-day museums in there.
That a lot to pack into a tiny plot of land reclaimed from the sea (for now...)
That a lot to pack into a tiny plot of land reclaimed from the sea (for now...)
Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Great lineup for the Low Countries Seminar this Spring!
also for the Berks prize!
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
also for the Berks prize!
Jaap Jacobs has a great new blog post (in Dutch) about how he uses the Geïntegreerde Taalbank van het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (gtb.ivdnt.org/search/) for his translation work.
neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/wann...
neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/wann...
Wanneer is stracx?
En enkele andere vertaalproblemen waarvoor het WNT de oplossing bood
neerlandistiek.nl
January 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Jaap Jacobs has a great new blog post (in Dutch) about how he uses the Geïntegreerde Taalbank van het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (gtb.ivdnt.org/search/) for his translation work.
neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/wann...
neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/wann...
Just now watching getting around to watching The Last of Us and it is gutting.
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Just now watching getting around to watching The Last of Us and it is gutting.
Submit your recently defended (last 2 years) dissertation on New Netherland and/or the Dutch in North America to be considered for the Hendricks Prize. More info here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awa... (self nominations welcome)
Annual Hendricks Award :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Submit your recently defended (last 2 years) dissertation on New Netherland and/or the Dutch in North America to be considered for the Hendricks Prize. More info here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awa... (self nominations welcome)
Save the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026.
We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
January 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Save the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026.
We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
NNI's Scholars Seminar is meeting this Wednesday at noon to discuss Marian Leech's paper "Possession" from her dissertation Wampum, Furs, and the Making of Possession, 1579-1713. Drop me a note if you would like to join.
Full seminar schedule:
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
Full seminar schedule:
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
NNI Scholars' Seminar :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
NNI's Scholars Seminar is meeting this Wednesday at noon to discuss Marian Leech's paper "Possession" from her dissertation Wampum, Furs, and the Making of Possession, 1579-1713. Drop me a note if you would like to join.
Full seminar schedule:
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
Full seminar schedule:
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...
Great looking CFP!
CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2026. With support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals now due 1/24. Please help spread the word! 🙏
January 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Great looking CFP!
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Hey! Guess what?
The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st!
You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏
www.swaan.org/workshop
The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st!
You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏
www.swaan.org/workshop
Women and the Sea Workshop — SWAAN
SWAAN will host the Woman and the Sea Workship on 29 April to 1 May 2026 at Memorial University's Maritime History Archive in St. John's NL. To imagine a future for women in maritime industries, we mu...
www.swaan.org
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Hey! Guess what?
The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st!
You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏
www.swaan.org/workshop
The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st!
You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏
www.swaan.org/workshop
Our friends at the Albany Institute of History & Art are looking for an associate curator. Albany is a great city and the Institute has an amazing collection: www.albanyinstitute.org/about/employ... (scroll down past the development position, though that's a great position, too!)
Albany Institute of History & Art
The Albany Institute of History & Art connects diverse audiences to the art, history, and culture of the Upper Hudson Valley through its collections, exhibitions, and programs.
www.albanyinstitute.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Our friends at the Albany Institute of History & Art are looking for an associate curator. Albany is a great city and the Institute has an amazing collection: www.albanyinstitute.org/about/employ... (scroll down past the development position, though that's a great position, too!)
Early modernist colleagues: check out the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize (submissions due Jan. 31).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 Article Prize Submission Form
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awards two annual article prizes in the following categories:
• An article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.
• An article...
docs.google.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Early modernist colleagues: check out the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize (submissions due Jan. 31).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks, Johan!!
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Thanks, Johan!!