Margaret Schotte
Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteWe look forward to our next (in-person) seminar, Feb. 27, 4-6pm @ UofT. Prof. Andrew Jainchill will present on "A Radical Reformer in the Old Regime: the marquis d'Argenson." (More details & registration coming soon.) #18C #frenchhistory
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteSee you this afternoon! Nous vous verrons cet après-midi !
- Revolution! Riots! A wealthy boss trying to cut workers' wages! Join us for a close reading of the 1789 « affaire Réveillon » by Pascal Bastien @pbastien.bsky.social. In person @UofT, Jan. 30, 4-6pm EST munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/lorage... #frenchhistory
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- All going well w winter weather, etc., next week I'll be presenting new research at the Huntington: some material #maritimehistory that inverts our view of European-Asian trade. If you'd like to attend in person on Feb. 6, rsvp by tomorrow! calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e... #18c
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteHow do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteHYBRID LECTURE! "The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky February 12 @ 5:15pm EST More details and RSVP here: bit.ly/4qkdSoN
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteSave the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026. We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
- Livestream will be here: #bookhistory #earlymodern
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week! Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small! Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime... #booksky 🗃️📜📚
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteHey #maritimehistory and #historians more generally. I want to make sure I'm not missing anything in the realm of modern seafarers' burials, or even maritime burials more generally. Anyone have works they like, consider essential, or otherwise want to talk up about death and maritime culture?
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteRevolution! Riots! A wealthy boss trying to cut workers' wages! Join us for a close reading of the 1789 « affaire Réveillon » by Pascal Bastien @pbastien.bsky.social. In person @UofT, Jan. 30, 4-6pm EST munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/lorage... #frenchhistory
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteExcited for this spring's Rosenbach Lectures by historian Joan Judge
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteHey Everyone! Two Things! Reminder: Accepting submissions until Jan 31st! Still lots of time! Correction: Nobody noticed the email was wrong on the CFP!🥴 I apologize deeply for the error, and if your email went awry, please resubmit to swaanproject[at]gmail.com or j.connellstryker[at]gmail.com
- Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026! www.swaan.org Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteI love these folks at the Jackman, a cosy corner of @utoronto.ca . They bring Humanities research to the fore! Some of their events are online, just in case you don't fancy a visit up here to frozen Toronto. ☃️🌬🎓
- Reposted by Margaret Schotte🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteTwo more things.... (1) IP rights have to be part of the convo on genAI. (2) There is a big problem with the umbrella term of AI. It's hard to be precise about AI w/ a character limit. Saying we don't want writing undermined is not the same as saying we don't want improved cancer detection.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteYou all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThis will set tongues wagging www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe research is the point. The reading is the point. The indecipherable handwriting is the point. The marginalia is the point. The weird quirks of penmanship are the point. The finding of the thing you didn’t even know you were looking for is the point
- I consider myself a baby DH-er — learning as quickly as I can so that my project can get out in the world. I teach some aspects of DH in all my courses. So I am not refusing everything computer aided — but when it comes to reading & writing, I am increasingly vocal in my refusal.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteIt's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!
- Where does this leave those of us who do not want to "use the latest paid models regularly"? I was more open to learning about gen AI a few years ago but...
- ... my opinions have grown much harsher. I am seeing waves of student 'essays' roll in that were written by this supposedly wonderful technology, each riddled with errors: fabricated quotes, completely incorrect citations. Asking us as educators and historians to spend money and time ...
- ... shaping and even critiquing this toxic technology is shameful. We are seeing students who have no clue about the content of papers they have "written", and passing courses without opening a single reading. It's not just that they have no idea of the content or historical events....
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View full thread... including intellectual property, water and energy use, but most of all, the hard, slow work of learning to develop ideas and express oneself. And *that* is why my new, up-to-date position is to ban gen AI in my courses.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThis is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteOur tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe @contingent-mag.bsky.social ’s book list 2025 is now published and it includes e.g. @mtoiv.bsky.social ’s ”Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka” and Brian Harnetty’s ”Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives” to name 2/39 🤩
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/... Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThank you to @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for the latest 'Academic process and Digital Humanities' Post where she discusses her use of GIS in her archaeological studies
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe winter holidays are here, and PEN America is ready to celebrate them in our favorite way — curled up with a good book! But this year — as our holiday season Banned Books Reading List shows — even heartwarming holiday tales aren't safe from bans: bookshop.org/lists/happy-...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteDefy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.
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- Reposted by Margaret SchotteI took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.
- My worry here is that tabular, numerical info is much easier to decipher and standardize, so it gets turned into a dataset without…
- … the related narrative documents. My experience w trying to read 18C French business records shows that the all-important context for certain events is often in a completely different ledger, and …
- …filled not just w numbers but w names, which as we know, are some of the toughest things to read w/o context. So yes, there may be reasons to let a computer help ‘read’ your mss., but it cannot properly interpret them. These datasets need historians & guidelines & context!!
- In this ex. it's relatively easy to make out the #s, so you could carry out financial analysis but have no idea what they refer to. 'This guy's total debts were X'. Fine, but only the tip of the iceberg! (PS I would *love* to have help, mechanical or otherwise, with docs like this one!)
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- Reposted by Margaret SchotteCrew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 10: Disappearance I promised it would get worse for our poor seafarer yesterday. #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory Previous entry was fro Feb 3, 1869, buddy had been sick since Jan 17th, next entry comes Feb 6th: "Last night Carl Fred Johannsen had the cook
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- Reposted by Margaret SchottePlease share widely, & consider attending, all levels of training & fields of study welcome - you don't have to be a 'maritime historian'! We also welcome those interested in marginalized identities broadly conceived - gender is just one intersectional consideration! See the CFP: #maritimehistory
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteAnnouncing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026! www.swaan.org Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteSolidarity with British Library workers on the picket line!
- Reposted by Margaret Schottethis is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
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- Reposted by Margaret Schottet's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteOn 7 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET, @mrfw17thc.bsky.social is speaking on "Time Apart in the Early English East India Company" as part of @movedapart.bsky.social's Gendering Global History seminar series. Contact cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se for the Zoom link. #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteA chapter in the new womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores creative #printmaking in protest, including in women's Civil Rights activism & zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....Art below left by LaToya Hobbs of Black Women of Print bookshop.org/beta-search?...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteThe Louvre heist got all the fanfare so I missed this Oakland museum theft a few days later, which included a number of precious Native baskets and other items.
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteIt’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd. Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteA fun #DHmakes type project at the intersection of text, textiles, fonts, and making!
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteHumankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades. 75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteCrew Agreement Advent Calendar '25 Day 3: Who is doing what now? Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew? Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory
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- Piggybacking to note that my Sailing School is also on sale! 50% off! #maritimehistory #bookhistory
- If anyone wants a personalized, signed book plate, DM me and I am happy to mail one to you! ⛵️https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12204/sailing-school
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteJoin us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads. Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
- Reposted by Margaret SchotteToday's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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- Reposted by Margaret SchotteAll Dutch- & Flemish- themed Art Herstory note card wallets are on sale at a 35% discount! Dutch- & Flemish- themed 6-packs are 30% off Dutch- & Flemish- themed individual cards are 25% off Shop in our online store, artherstory.net/shop/
