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Richard Calis
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historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · Jan 14

📕Publication Day 🥳

Get your copy of "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece" now at
@harvardpress.bsky.social or at your favorite place to buy books! #earlymodern #skystorians

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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jessiewhchen.bsky.social
Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon!

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#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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annepetterson.bsky.social
Ha leuk, onze workshop in de PZC! Komen jullie ook? Op 19 september praten we met allemaal toffe mensen in de bieb in Middelburg over oral history en de verhalen van gewone Zeeuwen. Info & aanmelden: dezb.op-shop.nl/8592/verteld...
September 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Had a great time talking about my book with the wonderful Dimitri Gondicas, director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University #earlymodern #skytorians

hellenic.princeton.edu/research/dir...
Director's Bookshelf with Richard Calis
hellenic.princeton.edu
July 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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mette.bsky.social
Come work with us! A 2,5 years postdoc on critical university heritage: you'll contribute to two curated heritage interventions, based on (1) physical anthropology collections and (2) botanical history. You'll join an international, interdisciplinary team. #skystorians #heritage #histofscience
Postdoc Critical University Heritages
Are you interested in developing interventions addressing the coloniality of physical anthropology collections and botanic gardens? Apply now!
www.uu.nl
July 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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mette.bsky.social
The position is part of COLUMN, a collaborative research project about Colonial Legacies of Universities, funded by the EU under their Horizon scheme. Feel free to reach out with any questions about this job! @richardcalis.bsky.social Gert-Jan Plets and I are happy to answer any questions!
July 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Had great fun talking about my new book for the Turkey Book Talk podcast #earlymodern #skystorians
May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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turkeybooktalk.bsky.social
From last week 📚👇

Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social)

🎧🎧

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Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
Turkey Book Talk #244 – Richard Calis, assistant professor in cultural history at Utrecht University, on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranea…
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May 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Check out this Wonderful CfP!
anastruillou.bsky.social Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · May 21
🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)"

Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself
4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr
Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome
Deadline: 1 July 2025

Don't hesitate to apply & share widely

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[AAC] Mobilités contraintes et production de savoirs sur le monde à Naples, Rome et Venise au xvie siècle - IHMC
Le colloque se tiendra du 4 au 6 mars 2026 au campus Condorcet (Paris-Aubervilliers). Date limite de soumissions : 1er juillet 2025
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May 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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One for the Dutch university administrators
qmucu.bsky.social QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 8
In meme form:
May 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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qmucu.bsky.social
In meme form:
the it might work for us meme. A guy is explaining to a blond woman: Managers everywhere merge academic schools under the pretence it's an answer to the problems in the sector. woman: "well, did it work for those people?" guy: "no, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." guy: "but it might work for us."
May 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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turkeybooktalk.bsky.social
New episode 🚨🚨

Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social)

📌📌

turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...
Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
Turkey Book Talk #244 – Richard Calis, assistant professor in cultural history at Utrecht University, on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranea…
turkeybooktalk.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Artwashing AI includes such perverse efforts as this: using a tool whose energy needs are so extractive that it contributes to climate change, which threatens the survival of endangered species...in order to "really make ya think" about endangered species.
Screenshot of a NYTimes Headline, which reads, An Artist Honors Extinct Plants and Animals at New York’s Swiss Institute In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument. Link to the paywall bypassed version here: https://archive.ph/h17bJ#selection-509.0-513.153
May 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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leidenup.bsky.social
Meet author #BenjaminLeathley at the launch of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism in conversation with #PeterBisschop @richardcalis.bsky.social #JoanPauRubiés #CarolienStolte chaired by #JosGommans
Curious to find out more? Event: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Book: lup.nl/publications...
April 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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johanostling.bsky.social
The second international History of Knowledge Conference will be held in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is approaching: 1 May.

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
The History of Knowledge Conference
Lund University, 8–10 October, 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical …
newhistoryofknowledge.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Having fun preparing for today's Descartes Centre Colloquium. Eric Jorink and I will present our new books and reflect on how we can write histories of science. Date/location: 15:30-16:30 at the UniversityMuseumUtrecht - followed by drinks!

www.uu.nl/en/events/de...

#earlymodern #historyofscience
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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*New University History Fellowship!*

Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections?

Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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It’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share!

#Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#earlymodern #skystorians
Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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oh, this is good, ye #earlymodern folk and language nerds 🐦🐦
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Mar 26
‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’

Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’

Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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One week left to apply for this wonderful position in our #EU project on Botanical Gardens #skystorians #historyofscience

Please share!
March 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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*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
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Join us today for a roundtable on 'embodied scholarship': on how the social lives of Renaissance scholars shaped their ideas! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
March 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
richardcalis.bsky.social
Also very excited for later today when I get to see my book for the first time in the wild at the RSA book fair and the @harvardpress.bsky.social table with the fantastic Emily Silk! #RSA2025 #Ren2025

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece — Harvard University Press
The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe’s foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western im...
www.hup.harvard.edu
March 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM