Agnes Gehbald
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Agnes Gehbald
@agnesgehbald.bsky.social
postdoc @uniBern
#bookhistory author of A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (CUP 2024) bit.ly/3NEXFbA
#migrationhistory: return migration from the Americas
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Since it’s an online event: Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the Online Enlightenment Club to discuss
‘Beyond Voltaire: A Community of Readers across the Atlantic’.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Exhibition review:
Agnes Gehbald paints in her review an impressive picture of the art-science exhibition «Naming Natures - Natural History and Colonial Legacy», currently on display in Neuchâtel: www.infoclio.ch/de/node/1901...
June 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Our Special Issue "Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900" in the journal Comparativ, co-edited by @agnesgehbald.bsky.social, Philipp Horn and me is online! With a coda by @sfahrenthold.bsky.social : www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...
Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900 | Comparativ
www.comparativ.net
May 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This Friday on port cities as points of passage! See more in the programme: www.hist.unibe.ch/e11168/e5169... With @agnesgehbald.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1. Professorin: 1909 war die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin an der Universität Bern weltweit die erste Frau, die zur Professorin ernannt wurde.
#unibern Festakt heute Abend und Ausstellungseröffnung zu ihrem 150. Geburtstag
www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...
Anna Tumarkin: In Bern wurde sie erste Professorin der Welt
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es weltweit keine einzige Professorin – bis sie kam: die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin.
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February 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New article:
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
Project MUSE - Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press
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January 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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So @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me will publish an article titled "Paper Regimes of the Publishing World: A Bird’s Eye View on the Materiality of Global Book History" in the journal Globalgeschichte / Global History, volume 3.2 (2025).

More news soon #GlobalBookHistory #GlobalHistory #Paperhistory
January 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
December 4, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Neuerscheinung: Band 64 des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte #AfS mit dem Rahmenthema "Migration in der Moderne. Wege – Orte – Erfahrungen" ist nun erschienen. Die Einleitung von Friedrich Lenger ist hier abrufbar [PDF]: library.fes.de/pdf-f...
October 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
For those of you in and around Bern 🇨🇭, I am excited to announce my book launch on 27 February at 17:00 @histunibern. Do come and join our discussion!
February 19, 2024 at 8:31 PM
first post – first book:
a NEW BOOK about books
 
A Colonial Book Market:
Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
bit.ly/3NEXFbA
 
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#Globalbookhistory
#Colonialbookmarket
November 30, 2023 at 9:37 PM