Richard Calis
historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor
@Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiast
- Lovely to see that two great podcasts about my book are now online. Maryam Patton interviewed me for the 'Ottoman History Podcast' and Sam Tchorek-Bentall for 'Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast'. www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/cali... open.spotify.com/episode/51ob...
- Reposted by Richard CalisSurprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
- Reposted by Richard CalisHa leuk, onze workshop in de PZC! Komen jullie ook? Op 19 september praten we met allemaal toffe mensen in de bieb in Middelburg over oral history en de verhalen van gewone Zeeuwen. Info & aanmelden: dezb.op-shop.nl/8592/verteld...
- Had a great time talking about my book with the wonderful Dimitri Gondicas, director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University #earlymodern #skytorians hellenic.princeton.edu/research/dir...
- Reposted by Richard CalisCome work with us! A 2,5 years postdoc on critical university heritage: you'll contribute to two curated heritage interventions, based on (1) physical anthropology collections and (2) botanical history. You'll join an international, interdisciplinary team. #skystorians #heritage #histofscience
- Reposted by Richard CalisThe position is part of COLUMN, a collaborative research project about Colonial Legacies of Universities, funded by the EU under their Horizon scheme. Feel free to reach out with any questions about this job! @richardcalis.bsky.social Gert-Jan Plets and I are happy to answer any questions!
- Had great fun talking about my new book for the Turkey Book Talk podcast #earlymodern #skystorians
- From last week 📚👇 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 🎧🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...
- Reposted by Richard CalisFrom last week 📚👇 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 🎧🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...
- Check out this Wonderful CfP!
- 🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)" Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself 4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome Deadline: 1 July 2025 Don't hesitate to apply & share widely ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...
- One for the Dutch university administrators
- Reposted by Richard CalisIn meme form:
- Reposted by Richard CalisNew episode 🚨🚨 Richard Calis (@richardcalis.bsky.social) on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (@harvardpress.bsky.social) 📌📌 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/05/13/r...
- Reposted by Richard CalisArtwashing AI includes such perverse efforts as this: using a tool whose energy needs are so extractive that it contributes to climate change, which threatens the survival of endangered species...in order to "really make ya think" about endangered species.
- Reposted by Richard CalisMeet author #BenjaminLeathley at the launch of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism in conversation with #PeterBisschop @richardcalis.bsky.social #JoanPauRubiés #CarolienStolte chaired by #JosGommans Curious to find out more? Event: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Book: lup.nl/publications...
- Reposted by Richard CalisMan, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
- Reposted by Richard CalisThe second international History of Knowledge Conference will be held in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is approaching: 1 May. newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
- Having fun preparing for today's Descartes Centre Colloquium. Eric Jorink and I will present our new books and reflect on how we can write histories of science. Date/location: 15:30-16:30 at the UniversityMuseumUtrecht - followed by drinks! www.uu.nl/en/events/de... #earlymodern #historyofscience
- *New University History Fellowship!* Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections? Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!
- Details: - Low-key application - 2000k p/m (max 2 months) - Wonderful intellectuel community - Amazing library collection - Deadline: 2 june 2025 uu.nl/en/news/call... #twitterstorians #universityhistory #historyofscience
- Please share if you can!
- Reposted by Richard CalisIt’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share! #Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus
- Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #earlymodern #skystorians
- Reposted by Richard Calisoh, this is good, ye #earlymodern folk and language nerds 🐦🐦
- ‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Richard Calis‘Crusius studied spoken Greek carefully, treating his visitors as crucial primary sources. Yet he regarded modern vernacular Greek as a corrupt version of its classical ancestor.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on the German cleric who invented modern Grecomania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- One week left to apply for this wonderful position in our #EU project on Botanical Gardens #skystorians #historyofscience Please share!
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Also very excited for later today when I get to see my book for the first time in the wild at the RSA book fair and the @harvardpress.bsky.social table with the fantastic Emily Silk! #RSA2025 #Ren2025 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
- And I just learned that @harvardpress.bsky.social is offering a 40% discount for #RSA2025 #Ren2025 attendees until March 31! You can scan the code at the HUP table!
- Join us today for a roundtable on 'embodied scholarship': on how the social lives of Renaissance scholars shaped their ideas! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
- I'll be reflecting on how we can think about households and university towns as important analytical frameworks for understanding #earlymodern scholarship #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
- We have a fantastic line-up: Hannah Marcus, Maryam Patton, Kirsten MacFarlane, Alex Bevilacqua and myself. Tony Grafton and Ann Blair will be chairing! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
- Hope to see you all at 2:30pm in the Regis Room! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
- Very excited for #RSA2025 to start! Join us for a series of panels on ‘Religion in the History of Scholarship’! #earlymodern #skystorians #RenSA25
- It’s a monstruous four-panel series serving all your ‘religion in the history of scholarship’ needs for the day! Panel 1: Personal Piety and Lived Erudition #RenSA25
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View full threadYou can find us in the 'Great Republic Room' (okay...) on the 7th floor of the Westin!
- Reposted by Richard Calis📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 Special issue of Galilæana edited by Raffaele Danna & Francesco Brusori: "Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)". More info here: shorturl.at/8IgM3
- Reposted by Richard CalisDon't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its index. (From my Inventing the Renaissance)
- Reposted by Richard CalisStill a few weeks left to submit an abstract for our wonderful conference in November! ☟ ☟ ☟ #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
- Reposted by Richard CalisJob alert! Two salaried PhD positions @uvahumanities.bsky.social in Amsterdam within the Daily Bread Project lead by my colleague @maartjegelder.bsky.social on food protests in the Early Modern Dutch Republic and Northern Italy ⬇️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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- Reposted by Richard Calisthe United States right now: HUMANITIES BAD - THROW IN TRASH Europe:
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisPostdoctoral Researcher role: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens...more below \/\/\/
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisA really interesting botanical humanities job.
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisAbsolute dream job here!
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisCome work with us on this project! We're looking for a postdoc interested in intellectual history, history of botany and/or colonial history. This project brings together Dutch and Surinam perspectives on botanical knowledge circulation. Drop me or Richard a line if you have any questions.
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisDream job alert!
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- The postdoc will will conduct research into the #colonialhistory of the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social University Botanic Gardens and explore in what ways this institution has contributed to colonial science, including collecting practices and botanical explorations.
- The position is part of COLUMN, a collaborative research project about Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations, funded by the EU under their Horizon scheme.
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View full threadJust realized @mette.bsky.social is on BlueSky! Join us, and Gertjan Plets, for this wonderful opportunity!
- Reposted by Richard CalisLooks like an amazing postdoc 🌺🌳
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Reposted by Richard CalisPostdoc Opportunity!
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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- Reposted by Richard CalisVery cool postdoc opportunity with @richardcalis.bsky.social!
- *Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- Donderdag 6 maart organiseert @athenaeum.nl een avond rondom mijn nieuwe boek "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece". www.athenaeum.nl/agenda/athen... Aanmelden kan via de website of door mij een bericht te sturen. Datum: donderdag 6 maart Start interview + discussie 17.00 Borrel 18.15 Einde 19.00
- Samen met David Rijser neem ik je mee naar de wereld van Martin Crusius. We praten we over de angst voor de vreemdeling en de zoektocht naar verwantschap. We hebben het over hoe moeilijk het is om werkelijk kennis over andere culturen op te doen en vooroordelen opzij te schuiven.
- Reposted by Richard CalisCollega-historici: de nieuwe website van het Stadsarchief Amsterdam wordt onbruikbaar voor historisch onderzoek. Geef dus alsjeblieft feedback! Voordat andere archieven besluiten dit voorbeeld te volgen.
- Reposted by Richard CalisKNHG lanceert fonds voor historisch onderzoek historiek.net/knhg-lanceer...
- Reposted by Richard CalisThis offers us a helpful deadline as well, removing ourselves collectively from X. From the 21st of February, we'll be only here, but just as enthusiastic about #EarlyModern things ever, if not more. #SkyStorians
- From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
- Reposted by Richard CalisGlad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?
- This offers us a helpful deadline as well, removing ourselves collectively from X. From the 21st of February, we'll be only here, but just as enthusiastic about #EarlyModern things ever, if not more. #SkyStorians
- Reposted by Richard CalisWe are advertising for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern History. The deadline for applications for this open-ended, full time post is 27th March 2025. For full details see the link below. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
