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Carlos Spoerhase

@spoerhase.bsky.social

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d

‘The earliest documented European text printed with movable type was not a two-volume Bible but a single-leaf, 31-line indulgence, printed on vellum by Gutenberg and Peter Schoeffer in 1454.’

Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg’s books.

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

Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention

Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...

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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 9d

Mit einem großartigen Vortrag machte uns Ulrich Johannes Schneider, ehemaliger Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig @ubleipzig.bsky.social und Professor für Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Leipzig @unileipzig.bsky.social mit der "Kultur der Zettelkataloge" vertraut.

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Sjang ten Hagen @sjangtenhagen.bsky.social · 9d

Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva

This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...

link.springer.com

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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 16d

Der aktuelle #CASSchwerpunkt unter Sprecherschaft von Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social und Sina Steglich @sinasteglich.bsky.social hinterfragt die Wirkmächtigkeit von #Maßstäben aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Perspektive.
www.cas.lmu.de/de/programme...

Zentrale Entwicklungen in den Geisteswissenschaften der letzten Jahrzehnte haben viel mit veränderten Maßstäben zu tun.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22d

The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.

Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English)

with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23d

‘Maimonides did have some influence on the Jewish tradition of Kabbalah, but he was no mystic. Instead, he argued that we can learn a lot about something by issuing denials about it.’

Peter Adamson on the 13th-century Jewish philosopher.

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

Peter Adamson · Five Hundred Parasangs: Maimonides works it out

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 24d

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 25d

We warmly welcome Gisèle Sapiro @giselesapiro.bsky.social who is back in Munich to work together with the members of the #CASResearchFocus “Scales”.
On 29 October she will give a masterclass about “Jewish Authorship in the „Vormärz“ on a Transnational Scale”.
www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...

Jewish Authorship in the „Vormärz“ on a Transnational Scale: Applying Gisèle Sapiro’s Theory of Literary Engagement

Masterclass with Prof. Gisèle Sapiro (CAS Fellow/EHESS/CNRS Paris).

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 27d

adamsmyth.substack.com/p/abandoned-...

Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list

[This is an updated version of the original from 2021.]

adamsmyth.substack.com

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 29d

Next week in Berlin.

All welcome.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Oct 20

‘The events that punctuate our imagined history of the Earth like exclamation marks are in fact phases in processes that unfold over a timescale of thousands or millions of years.’

Lorraine Daston on extinction:

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

Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction

Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Oct 19

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

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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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · Oct 15

For the JHI Blog, Rose Facchini interviewed Gisèle Sapiro about her latest book, "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational" (Seuil, 2024), which studies the role of intermediaries, translators, and mediators in the making of world authorship.
@rosefacchini.bsky.social

Literature’s Circulation Across Fields and Nations: An Interview with Gisèle Sapiro

by Rose Facchini

web.sas.upenn.edu

Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · Oct 15

Zwei Vorträge zur Poetik des Pronomens im Münchner Philologicum @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Reposted by Carlos Spoerhase, Christine Kooi, Judith Pollmann

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · Oct 5

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

press.princeton.edu

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Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · Sep 22

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

Geplante Forschungsprojekte

Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.

Reposted by Carlos Spoerhase, Ben Kaden

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · Aug 18

„Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will große Teile des Zettelkatalogs entsorgen lassen. Ein einzigartiges Monument der Wissensgeschichte ginge verloren.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek will den Zettelkatalog entsorgen lassen

Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will große Teile des Zettelkatalogs entsorgen lassen. Ein einzigartiges Monument der Wissensgeschichte ginge verloren.

Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · Aug 17

« Il faut savior penser la politique par oxymore. »

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Florian Meinel @meinel.bsky.social · Aug 17

Wenn man die gegenwärtige Lage mit Weimar vergleicht, dann sollte man es nicht unterhalb des Niveaus von Johann Chapoutot tun @franceculture.fr open.spotify.com/episode/5rU2...

Comment l'extrême centre a mis l'extrême droite au pouvoir (en Allemagne, en 1933)

La Suite dans les idées · Episode

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Goethe Wörterbuch @gwoerterbuch.bsky.social · Jul 28

Um die Mitteilsamkeit einer Person zu beschreiben, sagen wir oft „redselig“, „maulfaul“ od „schreibfaul“. Bei unserem #GoetheWortderWoche „schreibselig“ handelt es sich doch um eine passende Ergänzung, oder? www.woerterbuchnetz.de/GWB/schreibselig #GoethesWortuniversum #GWb #Akademienunion

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 20

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Carlos Spoerhase, Eric Hayot

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions

Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

Reposted by Dagmar Hoffmann, Carlos Spoerhase, Ludger Schwarte

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 18

Twelve PhD positions (E13, 65%, 48 months) in our new interdisciplinary @dfg.de research training program "Aesthetics of Democracy" @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt. Application deadline November 14, 2025. Program start April 1, 2026. Drop me a note if you need further info.

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Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · Jul 18

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Christoph Möllers! www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Christoph Möllers wird Rektor des Wissenschaftskollegs

Ein Rechtsgelehrter mit praktischem Verstand und fast unbegrenzter Neugier auf die Künste: Christoph Möllers folgt auf Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger an der Spitze des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Jul 16

Cultural Journalism in Germany, 1815–1848 , edited by Sean Franzel and Michael Swellander is the first critical anthology of major programmatic texts of cultural journalism from the crucial period known in Germany as the Vormärz, the time before the March Revolutions of 1848. buff.ly/irOVTzE

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jul 2

Exciting news: @univie.ac.at created new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna!

We’ve just opened our first call for applications — for both senior and junior fellows. If you’re working on something bold, interdisciplinary, and timely, take a look: vicas.univie.ac.at

Center for Advanced Studies

Center for Advanced Studies

vicas.univie.ac.at

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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tonight, 6.30, at CAS LMU:
Andrew Hui (#CASFellow/Yale-NUS College, Singapore) will reflect on the "The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries".
www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our celebratory issue 10.1 of History of Humanities is out!

We are keenly aware that we celebrate this milestone at a time of crises. But if the history of the humanities has revealed anything, it is our shared commitment to humanistic values.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2025...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · Jun 16

Zeit für das Adam Curtis Bingo!