@altibel
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Archival document documenting human remains, with caption in Spanish
Working with sensitive archives or difficult histories? Join us next week for a workshop on “Methodological Approaches to the Margins of Violence.”
Book via the link here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Thx, no results :(
The job of executives could prolly be done with a random phrase generator from biz speak. You don't even need an LLM!
What is hilarious about this is that colleagues at my univ and other univs have told me they are not able to voice their real opinions about AI cause a) they have no permanent contract; or b) their bosses are enthusiasts who openly make fun of critics (as irrational, fearful, luddites, etc).
Also: the text extruding machines are using text written by humans. Have them write it from nada and if they manage to pull out a Cortazar-like, I'll get you a cup of premium fermented cocoa from Oaxaca (with chilli).
Handwritten text in Spanish Dos Tomos Padre Catané de san Nicolas en seis r
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #ReligiousStudies folk
I am trying to find this book which I suspect is in French but the scribe, well. It is 2 volumes of Padre Catané de San Nicolas, so Pere C/Q...? Saint Nicolas. Any ideas? I have searched already several catalogues for San/Saint Nicolas but no success.
DE MARÍA SANTISSIMA 169 Palestina, que antes de la veni- da de Christo al Mundo corría con copioso caudal todos los seis dias de la semana, y solo se secaba el Sábado, como refiere Plinio en su Historia ( 1 1 ), des- pues de la venida de Christo, y
From the 1717 edition of "Corona de flores" by Juan Antonio de Oviedo, printed in Madrid by la viuda de Juan García Infançon. On a river in Palestina which would flow 6 days and dry on Saturdays.
BNE's copy: bnedigital.bne.es/bd/card?id=5... #BookHistory
Cool. At first I thought it was the size of the Open Press, ha. I'm personally eyeing one from Ritualis
www.ritualispress.com/collections/...
It frustrates me that people who are so reluctant to accept that there are other species capable of complex cognition or sentience, yet so quick to assign it to their fancy autocorrect.
Dus ik moet elk jaar aangeven wat mijn inkomsten en bezittingen precies waard zijn, maar bij superrijken is dat ‘te ingewikkeld’? Maak dat hun eigen probleem, niet dat van de gemeenschap.
#EarlyModern
Thick from the commission when our president (von der Leyen) & vice-president (Kallas) are actively supporting a rogue state + its leaders, ignoring international law for the sake of the arms industry, effectively aiding into the oppression + murder of countless women. Let's talk about that.
Goed overzicht van veelal symbolische pogingen van VVD om demonstratierecht in te perken. Deze zullen stranden in rechtbanken.
Ook symboliek heeft echter een functie: na rechterlijke ‘nee’ het publiek rijp maken om op een andere manier @xrnl.bsky.social en Pro-Palestina betogingen te verbieden. >>
Voor @nlboekengids.bsky.social schreef ik een essay over de Roemeense schrijver Iulian Bocai, over zijn debuutroman, in vertaling van Charlotte van Rooden.
Ook ben ik erg verheugd te kunnen melden dat ik sinds kort redacteur ben bij de Nederlandse Boekengids.
Stuk te lezen via onderstaande link.
Volt begrijp niet waarom het vrouwendag is 🥲
Not in a celebratory mood today. Patriarchy is decimating the earth & ALL her inhabitants.
#InternationalWomensDay
CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.
Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Hi all, if you are doing research on (d)evil-related histories 🗃️ I have just the thing for you: a conference in Leuven on 4 + 5 June!
Send me your abstracts in the next two weeks:
“vibe learning”
*eye roll*
Oh, they are describing most Dutch restaurants (which are owned by 5 guys or so) 🫠
Dit kan geen ‘luchtvaartlobby’ meer genoemd worden, dit soort praktijken lijkt meer op maffia. PVV-minister schuift belang honderduizenden omwonenden en rechtelijke uitspraken rücksichtslos opzij en kiest tot chagrijn ambtenaren vól voor KLM en Schiphol.
En kabinet-Jetten? Gewoon door op dit spoor.
Some of the key science was done by the oil and gas companies themselves. This means the actual solution – fossil fuel phase out - which has been staring us in the face all this time, still represents the surest route to safety. 8/11
Alleged sighting
@davekarpf.bsky.social is here!
This scribe is the gift that keeps giving: Mirenver for Nieremberg 🥲 #Booklists #BookHistory
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@denhaagcentraal.bsky.social 👆
"Autocratic states (...) see an opportunity to surveil their own population or a neighboring rival."
"Western democracies are also looking at Israeli-made drones to bolster their militaries or for domestic policing and monitoring immigration." It is to target all of us, you dombos 😖
Winni de Pooh with black curly hair, lashes, lipstick and long black nails, looking in disgust as they read something in their phone
