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Haohao Zhang (they/he)
@karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social
🔭Household Optics; Generational Craft; Early Modern–Victorian Metrology; DH; Photograph-ie; Analogia

📜Archival Marginalia & Dust Enthusiast

🤫Tracing a Jungian–Eranosian–Warburgian-Physician (😂) in interwar London

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-8121
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Happy to share the latest recorded lecture:

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞

Serena Mambriani

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...

#CSMBR #Astrology
THE BODY AND THE STARS IN THE VITALI ARCHIVE - S. Mambriani (Parma)
YouTube video by CSMBR Pisa
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Ooh, Simon Schaffer reader coming down the pike. I blogged through a good chunk of his oeuvre back in the day, which was really illuminating. Too bad they didn't include "The Show That Never Ends" (on perpetual motion), which is probably my favorite: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #HPS
Working Knowledge
Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today.  Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coautho...
press.uchicago.edu
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library:

photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
photooxford.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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We are happy to share with you all, that the programme for our international workshop "Managing the Ruler in the Office" (hybrid; 4.-5.Nov. 2025) is now online and registration is open until the 31st of Oct.
manmax.hypotheses.org/5918
@imafo-oeaw.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
#ManagingMaximilian
04–05.11.2025 │ International Workshop “Managing the Ruler in the Office – New Perspectives to the Practice of Chanceries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times”
Based on its work on the wealth of Maximilian I’s documents and records, the SFB-sub-project “Writing Maximilian” dedicates this workshop to one of the most important instruments of late medieval and ...
manmax.hypotheses.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Have you seen Black Atlas yet?

Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
photooxford.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Short course: Visual History of European Alchemy
15–19 Dec 2025 | 2–4pm (Online)

From medicinal alchemy in China to Jungian dream analysis, trace how alchemy shaped European art, science and symbolism.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Alchemy #HistoryofScience #ArtHistory
Visual History of European Alchemy
This course opens a window onto the development of European visual culture and the history of science by tracing the evolution of alchemy and its artefacts.
www.sas.ac.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Awesome double-exposure ghost!

Anaglyph version for red/blue glasses.
Freeview vesion in the comments
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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We are celebrating 8.000 downloads of the app “Hidden Hamburg”, 2.000 downloads of the open access book about the app trail, and some more 250.000 clicks on the #AppleMaps “Time Jump” of Hamburg 1686.

A thread with updates, esp. for #earlymodern #skystorians.

#digitalhistory and #publichistory

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May 6, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Le programme du séminaire « Archives normaliennes » est en ligne
➡️ ihmc.ens.psl.eu/-archives-no...
Il se tiendra le vendredi, de 10h à 12h, à @normalesup.bsky.social (s. IHMC), sauf pour la prochaine séance, qui sera la journée d'études « Marc Bloch, l'historien dans la cité », vendredi 14 novembre
🏛️Marc Bloch, l’historien dans la cité
(@ehess.fr, @normalesup.bsky.social, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social ; IHMC / @labo-lamop.bsky.social)

🗓️Vendredi 14 novembre 2025, de 9 h à 18 h 45

➡️Salle Dussane
ENS-PSL
45 rue d’Ulm, Paris 5e

Accès sur inscription (lien à venir)

ihmc.ens.psl.eu/marc-bloch-h...
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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"What distinguishes Suther’s Hegel is how embodied this most absolute of German Idealisms appears: rational and conceptual all the way down—yet thoroughly biological."

New in review, Christopher Gortmaker on Jensen Suther's True Materialism: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/christopher_...
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social

is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...

The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿

Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.

www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
www.biblhertz.it
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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
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
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Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
www.dukeupress.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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'Naoroji believed that significant autonomy was the only remedy for poverty in his homeland.'

Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji, the first Indian elected to the House of Commons
Truth teller of Empire
www.the-tls.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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This week we have a special article in which we share our thoughts about the History of Knowledge and what it means to us.
It was great fun to write and we hope you will find it thought provoking!
#skystorians #historyofknowledge
scilicet.org.uk/what-is-the-...
What is the history of knowledge? | Scilicet
Scilicet is a blog dedicated to the history of knowledge. In the broadest terms, we’re interested in what people in the past knew, what it meant to know things, and what we as historians can learn abo...
scilicet.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Lorraine Daston reviews Sadiah Qureshi's Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction @lrb.co.uk 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...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026.

We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches.

womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...
Artist Open Call | Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow Women’s Library is seeking expressions of interest from artists with intersectional and socially engaged practices.
womenslibrary.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM