Jacomien Prins
@jacomienprins.bsky.social
Musicologist and Philosopher
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New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...
Rethinking the Renaissance: Ada Palmer on Myths, Power, and the Future We’re Fighting For
Uncover the reality of the renaissance through conversations with Ada Palmer. What does it reveal about our current struggles?
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...
On Monday 17 November (17.30-18.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “The Renaissance Theatre of Human Affections: Medical and Moral Reflections Adapted to the Musical Stage” at the conference “Theatre and Medicine in the European Renaissance” hosted by the University of Trier. Be welcome!
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
On Monday 17 November (17.30-18.30) I’ll be giving a talk entitled “The Renaissance Theatre of Human Affections: Medical and Moral Reflections Adapted to the Musical Stage” at the conference “Theatre and Medicine in the European Renaissance” hosted by the University of Trier. Be welcome!
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wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱
Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
In 1922, Brancusi created a dance costume for Lizica Codreanu and invited her to perform a dance to Satie’s Gymnopédies in his studio, surrounded by his sculptures.
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In 1922, Brancusi created a dance costume for Lizica Codreanu and invited her to perform a dance to Satie’s Gymnopédies in his studio, surrounded by his sculptures.
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20.9.2025 - 18.1.2026, H’ART museum, Amsterdam). www.hartmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...
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This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
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October 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
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#SomethingBeautiful illuminated capital from a Renaissance songbook in San Marco, Florence
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#SomethingBeautiful illuminated capital from a Renaissance songbook in San Marco, Florence
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Our public seminars return next week, at the new time of 3pm on Thursdays! On 23 October, we're looking forward to hearing from Professor Carolyn Abbate (@harvard.edu) for her talk titled 'Bourgeois Vacation Spot'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our public seminars return next week, at the new time of 3pm on Thursdays! On 23 October, we're looking forward to hearing from Professor Carolyn Abbate (@harvard.edu) for her talk titled 'Bourgeois Vacation Spot'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-10-...
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Emily Dickinson's stunning ode to resilience, animated www.themarginalian.org/2018/09/18/w...
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark: Emily Dickinson’s Stunning Ode to Resilience, Animated
A timeless serenade to finding light amid the “Evenings of the Brain.”
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October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Emily Dickinson's stunning ode to resilience, animated www.themarginalian.org/2018/09/18/w...
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Artus Quellinus brought mythic grandeur to the town hall of Amsterdam – now the Royal Palace – with his dramatic carvings, writes Antonia Boström
The mighty sculptures of Artus Quellinus
The Flemish master brought mythic grandeur to the town hall of Amsterdam with his dramatic carvings, writes Antonia Boström
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October 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Artus Quellinus brought mythic grandeur to the town hall of Amsterdam – now the Royal Palace – with his dramatic carvings, writes Antonia Boström
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Heart eyes! A loving bird flaps its wings in the bottom margin of f. 311v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Heart eyes! A loving bird flaps its wings in the bottom margin of f. 311v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
🔗: https://bit.ly/4gNmqRc
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47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 38 of 2025
A total of forty-seven manuscripts were digitized in the past week, which is slightly above average when comparing to recent weeks. Also in-line with the patterns of recent weeks, the most manuscripts...
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September 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
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I'm giving a lecture:
THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:
shorturl.at/Myvgp
THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:
shorturl.at/Myvgp
September 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm giving a lecture:
THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:
shorturl.at/Myvgp
THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:
shorturl.at/Myvgp
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It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge
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ESEMP Conference: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today?
ESEMP Conference: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today?
Following our Call for Abstracts last November, I am now happy to report that the Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) runs it’s seventh conference at Hagen University, the place where…
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September 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
ESEMP Conference: Why and How Do We Study Early Modern Philosophy Today?
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Ontdek Constantijn Huygens als dichter, musicus, diplomaat én parfumeur op het Huygens festival in de Oude Kerk in Voorburg op zaterdagavond 20 september. Met muziek van La Sfera Armoniosa olv Mike Fentross en verhalen van Ineke Huysman @huygensknaw.bsky.social www.huygensfestival.nl/nl/programma...
August 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ontdek Constantijn Huygens als dichter, musicus, diplomaat én parfumeur op het Huygens festival in de Oude Kerk in Voorburg op zaterdagavond 20 september. Met muziek van La Sfera Armoniosa olv Mike Fentross en verhalen van Ineke Huysman @huygensknaw.bsky.social www.huygensfestival.nl/nl/programma...
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Met het thema ‘museumkunst?’ agendeert het Utrechtse Festival Oude Muziek de vraag wat oude muziek nog kan bijdragen aan de ervaringshorizon van nu. Stel dat het antwoord pijn doet. En dat doet het.
De oude-muziekcultuur is en blijft een vlucht in een verloren paradijs
Met het thema ‘museumkunst?’ agendeert het Utrechtse Festival Oude Muziek de vraag wat oude muziek nog kan bijdragen aan de ervaringshorizon van nu. Stel dat het antwoord pijn doet. En dat doet het.
buff.ly
September 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Met het thema ‘museumkunst?’ agendeert het Utrechtse Festival Oude Muziek de vraag wat oude muziek nog kan bijdragen aan de ervaringshorizon van nu. Stel dat het antwoord pijn doet. En dat doet het.
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We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
August 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...
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Why did Renaissance thinkers retreat into rooms of one’s own—and what did they hope to find there?
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self
warburg.sas.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Why did Renaissance thinkers retreat into rooms of one’s own—and what did they hope to find there?
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
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Our Bach display at Blackwell Hall in the Weston Library celebrates our recent acquisition of an autograph manuscript of J.S. Bach, his cantata for Ascension Day 1725, and looks at the impact #Bach had on the life and work of his No.1 fan, #Mendelssohn.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/bach-a....
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/bach-a....
Bach: A Composer’s Obsession
Celebrate our recent acquisition of an autograph manuscript of J.S. Bach
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our Bach display at Blackwell Hall in the Weston Library celebrates our recent acquisition of an autograph manuscript of J.S. Bach, his cantata for Ascension Day 1725, and looks at the impact #Bach had on the life and work of his No.1 fan, #Mendelssohn.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/bach-a....
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/bach-a....
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A woman's touch in an #earlymodern handwritten book?
This 17th-century manuscript belonged to M. Josephine, a woman who seems to have left her mark in a unique way, by pasting in 28 different engravings, that speak to individual expression within the pages of the book.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
This 17th-century manuscript belonged to M. Josephine, a woman who seems to have left her mark in a unique way, by pasting in 28 different engravings, that speak to individual expression within the pages of the book.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A woman's touch in an #earlymodern handwritten book?
This 17th-century manuscript belonged to M. Josephine, a woman who seems to have left her mark in a unique way, by pasting in 28 different engravings, that speak to individual expression within the pages of the book.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
This 17th-century manuscript belonged to M. Josephine, a woman who seems to have left her mark in a unique way, by pasting in 28 different engravings, that speak to individual expression within the pages of the book.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
Reveil & Revolte tells the story of Sour Cream, a wonderful recorder trio that performed more than 100 times between 1971 and 1990. See:
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
May 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reveil & Revolte tells the story of Sour Cream, a wonderful recorder trio that performed more than 100 times between 1971 and 1990. See:
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
A handmade icosahedron. Plato assigned this geometric solid to water. See: www.britannica.com/science/Plat...
May 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A handmade icosahedron. Plato assigned this geometric solid to water. See: www.britannica.com/science/Plat...
On Friday 25 April I will give a keynote lecture titled “’Disguised as a Pythagorean’: Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Timaeus“ at the conference ‘The Pythagorean Way’ in Italy. For the conference programme, see: magnagraecia.net/THE-PYTHAGOR...
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
On Friday 25 April I will give a keynote lecture titled “’Disguised as a Pythagorean’: Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Timaeus“ at the conference ‘The Pythagorean Way’ in Italy. For the conference programme, see: magnagraecia.net/THE-PYTHAGOR...
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In today’s think piece, Jacomien Prins considers the gendered conceptions of cosmic harmony and the power of music in Niẓāmī's Haft Paykar.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
Gendered Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony and the Power of Music in Niẓāmī’s Haft Paykar
by Jacomien Prins Last year, I presented a paper on music, harmony and gender in Niẓāmī’s Haft Paykar at the conference ‘Femininity and Masculinity in Persian Classical Romances’ (Utrecht University, ...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In today’s think piece, Jacomien Prins considers the gendered conceptions of cosmic harmony and the power of music in Niẓāmī's Haft Paykar.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...