Belangrijk punt van mijn collega’s: Sociale veiligheid is een systemische kwestie. “Mensen voelen zich niet per se onveilig door die ene collega die een keer een ongepaste opmerking maakte, maar door een organisatiecultuur (…)” voxweb.nl/nieuws/tiental…

A student gave me this card at the start of class today. Week made!! (Obviously put it in the book for safe keeping)

Boekhistorici en Neerlandici! Nog tweeënhalve week om te solliciteren naar onze promotieplek over humor en materialiteit. Begeleiders: ⁦@LotteJensen14⁩ Ivo Nieuwenhuis en ikzelf! ru.nl/werken-bij/vac…

So sorry to hear this - Natalie Zemon Davis's work was incredibly influential, demonstrating that you could do rigorous and readable 'history from below'. She really was inimitable and it is hard to imagine that she is no longer with us now.

So disappointed in the Dutch election results…

Graduation is always such a joyous occasion! So proud of all the BA graduates!

OMG. I assumed people were wildly misinterpreting this when they said the archives would be destroying the physical copies after a digital copy was made. But nope: 'The consultation is seeking views on keeping hard copies for about 25 years'. Scholarly opinion: This is bananas.

Being an early modern lit person on dating apps means answering this every 3-9 months

👇👀👇 Take a look through the fantastic Performance Reviews section of Shakespeare Bulletin 41.3, which was the first edition Hailey Bachrach and I oversaw as co-editors and was a joy to put together 🥳 A smorgasbord of productions covered by our truly brilliant authors!

Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues Rozanne Versendaal and Natalia Petrovskaia are looking for a PhD candidate in the project ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

brill.com/display/title/… My book has its own page on the Brill website, so it'll actually exist! 'Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522-1546)' will be published coming November, in open access! #firstbook #inreadershands

oh, hang on, the IHR seminar convenors will be drawing up programmes for next year again! If your a non-UK-based #earlymoderni-ist planning to pass by the UK for a bit next academic year, let people know you're coming: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/vis… #twitterstorians

Our Special Issue is here! With an introduction by Rozanne Versendaal and me on the materiality of text, and an article I wrote about modern Bible journaling and premodern Bible use. See below for the link! #materialtext #bookhistory

De Universiteit Utrecht komt met dramatische maatregelen. Zes opleidingen worden opgeheven: Religiewetenschappen, Islam en Arabisch, Frans, Duits, Keltisch en Italiaans. Ook o.a. honoursprogramma's en PhD-programma's moeten eraan geloven. 1/4 nos.nl/r/571079

Utrecht University has decided to shut down six BA programmes in the fields of religion, language, and culture. Join the protest agaist the goverment's budget cuts in higher education, on 14 November in Utrecht! aob.nl/en/actueel/cam…

SIX!!! UTRECHT! Dear god, the devastation these populists are wrecking. Again, no international academics can stick their head in the sand over this: we all work with Utrecht colleagues and it's one of the big ones for exchange programmes. Please co-sign: change.org/p/stop-cuts-on…