Philip Hahn
philiphahn.bsky.social
Philip Hahn
@philiphahn.bsky.social
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
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BOTH of E. Natalie Rothman's books on Venetian-Ottoman intersections:

📖 Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

📖 The Dragoman Renaissance
Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism (BONUS: OPEN ACCESS!)
The Dragoman Renaissance by E. Natalie Rothman | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman....
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
April 24, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World, edited by Paul Nelles & Rosa Salzberg, is published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World,

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

View the table of contents here:
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World
This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged ...
www.aup.nl
April 25, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral
Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary...
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Prägnanter Artikel von Daniel Stähr und Simon Sahner über unsere überwiegend unbewusste Sprache des Kapitalismus in @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-...
Kapitalismus: Die Sprache des Geldes
"Verdient" man seinen Lohn? Und "gibt" der Arbeitgeber Arbeit? Im Kapitalismus ist eine besondere Sprache entstanden, und die führt bisweilen ganz schön in die Irre.
www.zeit.de
April 21, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Our project blog is back for a THIRD series, showcasing #earlymodern source material on medicine, slavery, and race-making. So far Ana Struilou has written about 'berberisco' practitioners in Seville and Barbara Di Gennaro Splendor has shared new work on galleys, slavery and expenses in Venice.

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Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
www.mmor.co.uk
April 10, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Werkstatt Geschichte Heft 89:
Die Macht der #Farben in rassistischen und vergeschlechtlichten Diskursen. Wie bestimmte Farben im Zusammenspiel ihrer Materialität und Symbolik historisch wahrgenommen und genutzt wurden, um Bedeutung zu generieren: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6... #OpenAccess
WerkstattGeschichte
Die Macht der Farben – ein Überblick über historische Diskurse um Geschlecht und »Rasse«.
www.transcript-verlag.de
March 23, 2024 at 12:23 AM
How shameful and unfair
“Several [male academics] said they actively didn’t respond to emails, or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service.”
- Danish study on academic citizenship
shorturl.at/dmpt4
Women end up doing the academic housework
kifinfo.no
April 9, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Helvecia in Brasilien, Natur in künstlicher Befruchtung, planetare Grenzen im frühneuzeitlicher Forstwirtschaft? Dies und vieles mehr in der neuen traverse zum Thema „Natur“, die ich gemeinsam mit Sabine Pitteloud und Stephanie Ginalski herausgeben durfte. revue-traverse.ch
April 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Every history dissertation title, searchable in one place: The AHA’s Directory of History Dissertations contains over 57,000 titles of dissertations completed or in progress at 204 history departments in the US and Canada. 🗃️
Directory of History Dissertations
Browse through the AHA's Directory of History Dissertations.
secure.historians.org
April 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Still current.
April 7, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues
@rozanneversendaal.bsky.social and Natalia Petrovskaia are looking for a PhD candidate in the project ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Candidate ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’
We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate to study the role of multilingual books in Western Europe in the sixteenth century.
www.uu.nl
April 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM