@janalena
Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Some one recently told me they had dated a person who ate apple cores to build up a resistance to arsenic poisoning. You know, just in case.
If this was you, please talk to me. I need some details so I can close the door to this room in the memory palace.
Made rum with the American Women's Club. Was very cool.
It feels like a major victory.
It is a groundbreaking book; what a fresh perspective for study!
What a great book! Wonderful chat with Saundra Weddle @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat about The #Brothel and Beyond: An #UrbanHistory of the #SexTrade in #EarlyModern #Venice @psupress.bsky.social #Skystorians #HistSex #Venetianist
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#Witches? Oh yes! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Alison Rowlands about the new edition of her classic @manchesterup.bsky.social #Witchcraft Narratives in #Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652.
#skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky
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Somehow “I want Greenland because you don’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize for being the best at Peace” makes total sense for such an incredibly childish and petty despot.
Another from the vault: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Sara Petrosillo about Hawking #Women: #Falconry, #Gender, and Control in #Medieval Literary Culture @ohiostatepress.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalist
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Hot @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @elwinhofman.bsky.social about @leuvenup.bsky.social The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of #Europe. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Pieter VanHees, eds. #skystorians #HistSex #Belgium
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Sam Fullerton joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about the paperback release of @manchesterup.bsky.social Sexual Politics in Revolutionary #England. Learn a lot you did not know about #Stuart discourse. #skystorians #EarlyModern #HistSex
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@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙
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Interessante column van Europakenner Hendrik Vos: de EU is veel sterker dan het zelf denkt, en Trumps brute optreden is geen teken van kracht maar van zwakte.
Make it viral.
Connections
Puzzle #942
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I know this account isn't about this, but I just need to tell someone when I get the reverse rainbow.
Ted Karamanski joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his @uofmpress.bsky.social Great Lake: An Unnatural History of #LakeMichigan. She's the best lake and I love her with my whole heart. #skystorians #Michigan #EnvHist
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Academic superwoman Ulinka Rublack joined me for an @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview about #Durer 's Coats: #Renaissance #Men and #MaterialCulture of Social Recognition @routledgebooks.bsky.social
#skystorians #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #Medievalists
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This was one was so fun! Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Bradley Borougerdi about @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #Cannabis: A #GlobalHistory #skystorians #anthropology #FoodHistory #
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Joseph Harley joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his and Vicky Holmes' fantastic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social volume Objects of #Poverty: #MaterialCulture in #Britain from 1700.
#skystorians #BookSky 📚💙 #anthropology
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![[highlight] Hello, Reader! Thank you for being here. [end highlight] These footnotes are a place of nuance and politics, where the protocols of gratitude and recognition play out (sometimes also called citation), [highlight] where warnings and care work are carried out (including calling certain readers aside for a chat or a joke), [end highlight] and where I contextualize, expand, and emplace work. The footnotes support the text above, representing the shoulders on which I stand and the relations I want to build. They are part of doing good relations within a text, through a text. Since a
main goal of Pollution Is Colonialism is to show how methodology is a way of being in the world and that ways of being are tied up in obligation, these footnotes are one way to enact that argument. Thank you to Duke University Press for these footnotes.
[highlight] For this first footnote of the introduction, we have a simple citation: Stouffer, “Plastics Packaging,” 1–3. Don’t worry. They’ll get better. [end highlight]
2 Packard, Waste Makers; Strasser, Waste and Want; M. Liboiron, “Modern Waste as Strategy.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:haaq7phs6kn67qhdlwk32ijt/bafkreicthxbr5wmqew4s7uft7mc57aeamttc3shvit5wqwhgnktalwydtu)
[highlight] Hello, Reader! Thank you for being here. [end highlight] These footnotes are a place of nuance and politics, where the protocols of gratitude and recognition play out (sometimes also called citation), [highlight] where warnings and care work are carried out (including calling certain readers aside for a chat or a joke), [end highlight] and where I contextualize, expand, and emplace work. The footnotes support the text above, representing the shoulders on which I stand and the relations I want to build. They are part of doing good relations within a text, through a text. Since a main goal of Pollution Is Colonialism is to show how methodology is a way of being in the world and that ways of being are tied up in obligation, these footnotes are one way to enact that argument. Thank you to Duke University Press for these footnotes. [highlight] For this first footnote of the introduction, we have a simple citation: Stouffer, “Plastics Packaging,” 1–3. Don’t worry. They’ll get better. [end highlight] 2 Packard, Waste Makers; Strasser, Waste and Want; M. Liboiron, “Modern Waste as Strategy.”
Reading Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" for my engineering ethics class and what an excellent first footnote.
Another one from the vault! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Taylor McCall about The Art of #Anatomy in #Medieval Europe @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Enjoy my new @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Patricia Anne Simpson of @unlincoln.bsky.social about her @routledgebooks.bsky.social #EarlyModern Women's Work: #kinship, #community, and #SocialJustice. #skystorians #GenderHistory.
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Peak academia.
My annual traveling turkeys post! What do you do when a New World bird visits the Mughal court? Paint it in miniature, of course! This essay by Neha Vermani follows the Muslim reception of our feathered friends.
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