Ueli Zahnd
@uelizahnd.bsky.social
Professor at the Institute of Reformation History in Geneva, Switzerland. Intellectual historian, digital humanist. Bridging the gap between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation era #earlymodern #reformation @ihr-geneva.bsky.social
Now that's a new way of #catfishing - play to the academic's vanity and grab them by their self-love 😅
#skystorians
#skystorians
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Now that's a new way of #catfishing - play to the academic's vanity and grab them by their self-love 😅
#skystorians
#skystorians
Notre première semaine de cours d'été est lancée! @dsc66.bsky.social et Nathalie Szczech ouvrent leur semaine sur la "construction et diffusion des groupes évangéliques à l'époque de la Réforme"
June 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social
Looking forward to the rest of it...
#earlymodern #skystorians
Looking forward to the rest of it...
#earlymodern #skystorians
May 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social
Looking forward to the rest of it...
#earlymodern #skystorians
Looking forward to the rest of it...
#earlymodern #skystorians
It was great to attend the valedictory lecture of @dettwiler.bsky.social
Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)!
#academicsky
Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)!
#academicsky
May 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It was great to attend the valedictory lecture of @dettwiler.bsky.social
Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)!
#academicsky
Thank you Andreas for everything you have done for the faculty (and beyond)!
#academicsky
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Next Monday, our PhD candidate Christian Martens will present his thesis research “François Hotman (1524-1590): humanisme juridique, historiographie et engagement politique”. See you at 12 PM in Uni Dufour (U365), Geneva! Presentation in French. More details on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...
May 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Next Monday, our PhD candidate Christian Martens will present his thesis research “François Hotman (1524-1590): humanisme juridique, historiographie et engagement politique”. See you at 12 PM in Uni Dufour (U365), Geneva! Presentation in French. More details on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...
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🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪
(and, at the same time, my first one in Italian)
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btw, more than 80% are open access, see here:
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...
#earlymodern #skystorians
🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪
(and, at the same time, my first one in Italian)
🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳
btw, more than 80% are open access, see here:
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...
#earlymodern #skystorians
May 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳
🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪
(and, at the same time, my first one in Italian)
🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳
btw, more than 80% are open access, see here:
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...
#earlymodern #skystorians
🖊️🧪 Yeehaw, it is out: my 100th publication! 🖊️🧪
(and, at the same time, my first one in Italian)
🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳
btw, more than 80% are open access, see here:
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...
#earlymodern #skystorians
There are several job openings in Geneva you might be interested in:
- a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550)
- a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology
See the thread for links
#earlymodern 🗃️
- a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550)
- a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology
See the thread for links
#earlymodern 🗃️
April 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
There are several job openings in Geneva you might be interested in:
- a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550)
- a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology
See the thread for links
#earlymodern 🗃️
- a post-doc and a doctoral position as part of @giovannigellera.bsky.social 's project on John Mair (1467-1550)
- a lecturer position in Church history at the Faculty of theology
See the thread for links
#earlymodern 🗃️
Looking forward to welcoming @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social in Geneva in ten days!
The IHR team is delighted to welcome Jennifer Powell McNutt (Wheaton College) on the 31st of May for a conference entitled "Inscripturating Time: The Early Modern French Bible as Time Keeper" (6.15PM). Zoom link and information on our website: www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...
#earlymodern #scriptures
#earlymodern #scriptures
March 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Looking forward to welcoming @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social in Geneva in ten days!
🚨 Registrations for the 2025 Summer School are open until the 14th of April! The IHR offers 2 weeks of intensive courses (2-14 june) focusing on the treatment of sources and methodology. Subjects, registration forms and pratical information on our website: www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/ensei...
March 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
March 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Really useful, thanks for creating this!! #earlymodern #skystorians
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March 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Really useful, thanks for creating this!! #earlymodern #skystorians
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A G-rated impression from our recent PhD-Lunch: @jebbb.bsky.social presenting his research on #OriginalSin in #16thCentury exegetical debates, which we announced in such graphic detail that #bsky censored us (poor #Eve, but there is no such thing as prelapsarian fig leaves...)
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
March 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A G-rated impression from our recent PhD-Lunch: @jebbb.bsky.social presenting his research on #OriginalSin in #16thCentury exegetical debates, which we announced in such graphic detail that #bsky censored us (poor #Eve, but there is no such thing as prelapsarian fig leaves...)
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
Looking very much forward to listen to @julienleonard.bsky.social in Geneva!
Announcing our next conference: Julien Léonard will speak on François Véron (1575-1649) and heretics next Monday at 6.15 PM in Geneva. The presentation will also be available online. All the info on www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/accue...
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Looking very much forward to listen to @julienleonard.bsky.social in Geneva!
The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) readvertizes its portal on "Cultures and Societies": if you're interested in learning more about jobs, events and publications in the SSH (mainly, but not exclusively in a Swiss context), have a look at it: www.cult-soc.ch/en/cult-soc/ 🗃️
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The Swiss Society for African Studies aims to promote research on Africa as well as the organization of conferences to discuss issues related to African lifestyles and the diverse aspects of African s...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) readvertizes its portal on "Cultures and Societies": if you're interested in learning more about jobs, events and publications in the SSH (mainly, but not exclusively in a Swiss context), have a look at it: www.cult-soc.ch/en/cult-soc/ 🗃️
January 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reading and fuming 🤯😉I occasionally get angry with Aristotle. The man believed that women were a defect of nature. The audacity of suggesting that those that make life possible are defective! #research #earlymodern #feminist
December 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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#NRW hat neue Zahlen zur "Entfristungsquote der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten" an Hochschulen vorgelegt (Vorlage 18/3369). Und da staunt man nicht schlecht über das Eigenlob: der Anteil an Unbefristeten sei von 54% (2017) auf 70% (2023) gestiegen! -Wie das möglich ist? Lest selbst. #IchBinHanna
December 15, 2024 at 8:01 AM
#NRW hat neue Zahlen zur "Entfristungsquote der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten" an Hochschulen vorgelegt (Vorlage 18/3369). Und da staunt man nicht schlecht über das Eigenlob: der Anteil an Unbefristeten sei von 54% (2017) auf 70% (2023) gestiegen! -Wie das möglich ist? Lest selbst. #IchBinHanna
I've a problem with #emojis here on #bluesky: if I'm on the phone, I have to use the phone's set of emojis which are different from the standard bluesky ones (compare 🗃 with 🗃️). Some #feeds depend on the standard set, though, and posts written on the phone will not be loaded. Any #workaround?
December 18, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I've a problem with #emojis here on #bluesky: if I'm on the phone, I have to use the phone's set of emojis which are different from the standard bluesky ones (compare 🗃 with 🗃️). Some #feeds depend on the standard set, though, and posts written on the phone will not be loaded. Any #workaround?
I'm a bit confused about their opening statement:
"While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers."
Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃
"While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers."
Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃
Just in case any of you don’t know about the amazing resources PH have been putting out, including how to implement your own handwriting transcription program (for free for <5000 images/month) programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/t... 🗃️
December 18, 2024 at 11:24 AM
I'm a bit confused about their opening statement:
"While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers."
Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃
"While historians have been able to digitize physical typewritten documents using [...] (OCR), handwriting, with its individual styles, has until recently resisted recognition by computers."
Aren't we doing this for more than a decade now? #dh 🗃
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It's true students are less religiously literate nowadays. But the Reformation still has much to teach them about ideas, fights over ideas and consequences of ideas. Studying the social, cultural and political management of difference remains as relevant as ever. #reformazing
So, friends, I've been teaching early modern history for over 20 years and I feel like I can't teach the Reformation anymore. It's not that I don't think my lectures are effective, it's that I don't think the students have any connection to the subject. Has anyone felt this recently? #earlymodern
December 16, 2024 at 7:06 PM
It's true students are less religiously literate nowadays. But the Reformation still has much to teach them about ideas, fights over ideas and consequences of ideas. Studying the social, cultural and political management of difference remains as relevant as ever. #reformazing
One for the #Reformation experts: I reread #Luther ’s Assertio (1520) with the passage below on #FreeWill (🇬🇧 in the ALT text). Isn’t this a deliberate provocation of #Erasmus, four years before their famous dispute broke out? SecLit seems to be silent about it. Thoughts, hints?
#Earlymodern 🗃️
#Earlymodern 🗃️
![Luther, Assertio omnium articulorum, Wittenberg 1520, fol. h5r: "Scripture is abundant on the subject [of the bound will], but it has been so ravaged by out Nebuchadnezzar [=the pope] that the very form and knowledge of the letters is gone, and we need some new Esdras who will discover new letters/a new language and recover the Bible for us once more, which I hope is now being done as the Hebrew and Greek languages are flourishing all over the world."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4o5au5pggdxjknfw4puld5i/bafkreibhnkceb4zvaxrnzwobxwyv7d5kwkicbrs6mif44gpjoqprq7diiu@jpeg)
December 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM
One for the #Reformation experts: I reread #Luther ’s Assertio (1520) with the passage below on #FreeWill (🇬🇧 in the ALT text). Isn’t this a deliberate provocation of #Erasmus, four years before their famous dispute broke out? SecLit seems to be silent about it. Thoughts, hints?
#Earlymodern 🗃️
#Earlymodern 🗃️
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I've just come across a new-to-me category of #earlymodern convent employee. It's women who are entrusted w/carrying letters to and from the convent. They seem to be well-compensated. Wondering if any of you have ever come across something similar.
#nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives
#nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives
December 11, 2024 at 10:47 AM
I've just come across a new-to-me category of #earlymodern convent employee. It's women who are entrusted w/carrying letters to and from the convent. They seem to be well-compensated. Wondering if any of you have ever come across something similar.
#nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives
#nuntastic #conventhouseholds #archives
Okay, #skystorians #BrainsTrust, can anyone help me work out who this letter is to? It is from Georg Calixtus, dated 22 February 1635, and it is to a "prince" (it would be a duke/Herzog) with theological as well as political interests. (It includes biblical references and makes theological points.)
December 9, 2024 at 8:17 PM
The unmistakable effect of a three-day hackathon for #earlymodern 🗃️ PhD students:
+60 commits to our textbase
+60 new commentaries in the repertory
+750 lines of code for the web interface
-12l of coffee
-467 fruit gums
Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp
+60 commits to our textbase
+60 new commentaries in the repertory
+750 lines of code for the web interface
-12l of coffee
-467 fruit gums
Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp
December 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM
The unmistakable effect of a three-day hackathon for #earlymodern 🗃️ PhD students:
+60 commits to our textbase
+60 new commentaries in the repertory
+750 lines of code for the web interface
-12l of coffee
-467 fruit gums
Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp
+60 commits to our textbase
+60 new commentaries in the repertory
+750 lines of code for the web interface
-12l of coffee
-467 fruit gums
Check the additions and the new advanced search tool on ihr-num.unige.ch/rrp