Aaron Larsen

CALL FOR PAPERS

Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March 📜 the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined 🌦️🌛🌍

Please send your abstracts to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com !
@drdebsmoretti.bsky.social

I am a tyrant at conferences. I want papers to be polished and well-timed.

Utterly devastated to see the tragic news out of Tumbler Ridge, a community close to my hometown who have suffered an unimaginable tragedy. Keep Northern BC in your hearts and donate if you can.

Senior Research Officer at University of Essex An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

A page with a printed image from the book "Ertz-Hertzogliche Handgriffe Deß Zirckels und Linials: Oder Außerwählter Anfang zu denen Mathematischen Wissenschafften" (SLUB Dresden, Math.407). The image shows two identical drawings in different sizes.

How to draw to scale in 1698 Germany? You see a page from a book that teaches, among other "Feldmesserey" stuff, the art of reducing or enlarging an image accurately in size. #bookhistory #maths

Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416

It's a couple of months late since I always forget I have Bluesky, but I'm incredibly excited to be a part of the History Department at Mount Allison University. Not only is it wonderful to be at Canada's top undergrad university, but it's a gift to be back in Canada after four years in Oxford.

Amidst the madness of getting married, moving house, and leaving the UK likely for good, I'm finally PhDone. Well, after revisions I'll be PhDone. Or DonePhil because Oxford always has to be extra.

ArtBot: An Exploration into AI’s Potential for Guiding Art Analysis | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Amidst the busiest, wildest, and most whirlwind four month period, I forgot to share my latest article, co-authored with a wonderful scholar and friend in the Computer Sciences, rethinking how AI LLMs can be used ethically and educationally to explore art history: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

First page of Michaela Kalcher's article: ‘The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, History Workshop Journal

Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025):

Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).

bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians

Thank you so much!! I'm so glad you enjoyed. Olivia and I are delighted to present a modern vision of witchcraft trials for all who are interested

A screenshot from the frontpage of the blog nemos.hypotheses.org

With new followers from history joining, I’d like to promote our blog Network of Early Modern Senses 👉 nemos.hypotheses.org.
It is young, but already features some fascinating articles. Interested in publishing your own work on sensory history (review + DOI!)?
Reach out: l.wodzicki@fu-berlin.de!

History Rec! Senses and landscapes are one of my favorite research interests, and I’m thrilled that @double-a-larsen.bsky.social has written this fantastic article on vision (the sense!) and the witches’ sabbath for nemos, the blog portal on #sensoryhistory I co-edit. Highly recommended reading!

“Seeing the Unseen World” In this article, Aaron Larsen explores different landscapes in the context of narratives of the witches' sabbath. He shows how the understanding of these different spaces was not entirely built upon v...

Hi all, I wanted to share my latest publication through the new Network of Early Modern Senses run by my friends and colleagues from Frei-Üniversitat Berlin, on how vision or lack of it affected understandings of landscape in early modern cases of the witches sabbath. nemos.hypotheses.org/2364

Maybe the sky is bluer on this side? Hi all, I'm a final year DPhil at Oxford History, studying the Landscapes of the Witches' Sabbath in early modern Europe! My work combined spatial, environmental, and landscape history with histories of witchcraft in France, Switzerland, Germany, and beyond. 🧙‍♀️🗺️