Natacha Klein Käfer
natachakafer.bsky.social
Natacha Klein Käfer
@natachakafer.bsky.social
Historian of healing practices, witchcraft, and death. Assistant Professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies (University of Copenhagen)
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On 8–10 October 2025, LUCK will organise the second international History of Knowledge Conference.

Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
February 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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And a whole section of #petdragons too www.loc.gov/free-to-use/...
December 3, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)"
Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Our virtual special issue, ‘Contesting Monuments’ is out!

Read the introduction, ‘Contesting Monuments: Heritage and Historical Geographies of Inequality’, written by the issue editor @stephenlegg11.bsky.social, here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Take a look at the issue’s contents below 🧵

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November 27, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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‘Negotiating Danish identity with(in) Copenhagen’s postcolonial landscape of commemoration’, by Doron Eldar.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

(Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)
November 27, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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I've been thinking a lot recently about how reconstruction makes you think about history differently. Here's an article I wrote with the soft matter physicist, Wilson Poon. It's about how materials affect human categorisation across time (it's open access!)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Renaissance Goo: Senses and Materials in Early Modern Apothecary Taxonomies and Soft Matter Science
This essay brings together research in the history of science and soft matter physics to consider how early modern Italian apothecaries organised and communicated their knowledge from the fourteent...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Next Monday! I will be talking about enslaved women, intimate violence, and Catholicism in the very interesting series about Patriarchal Violence that Columbia's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life is hosting.
[QR code has link to register for Zoom if you are interested!]
November 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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permanent job alert! And a great place to work (my alma mater). #skystorians #JobFairy
JOB KLAXON: We are hiring a Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health (FT & permanent); we're encouraging applications from colleagues with expertise in history of mental health & mental illness. Please share and repost.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych
Lecturer in History of Medicine and Health (Teaching and Research):Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 8:09 AM