@Freedom_Streets

Research Project on Gender and Urban Space in Eurasia 1600 - 1850. Funded by NWO. Hosted by University of Amsterdam.

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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We kunnen niet wachten: over iets meer dan drie weken verschijnt Bob Pierik’s prachtige boek over het Amsterdamse straatleven in de vroegmoderne tijd! @ACUH_UvA @UvA_Humanities
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For all of our followers who read Dutch: this Autumn Bob’s marvellous book on Amsterdam street life will see the light👇🏻
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Please join us for our next work in progress session with papers by our very own Vany Susanto and @AWeissvB! More information: acuh.uva.nl/content/events/2…
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👉🏼Another 5 days to apply for our new #digitalhistory post! Come work with us @UvA_Humanities History department and our wonderful #humanitieslabs @CREATE_UvA @4DRL1 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Ass…
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👉🏼 New book on street life in preindustrial Europe with contributions from @FJNevola @MelissaCalaresu @ProfCatherineR @Maartje_Gelder @SuzannaIvanic @MarionPluskota @smuurling & Anne Montenach. routledge.com/Early-Modern-S…

Early Modern Streets: A European Perspective

For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped...

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Includes chapters on historiography, sources & methods, visual & textual representations, senses, politics, crime, religion and work, with over 50 illustrations (with many thanks to @chrmeijer for excellent editorial assistance)
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👇🏻⁦@MarieYasunaga⁩ discovers original drawings of the world famous Edo Meisho Zue in Sanko Library uva.nl/shared-content/facult…
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Marie Yasunaga@MarieYasunaga5 Jan 2023
My upcoming online lecture on 'Gender and Urban Space in Early Modern Edo through the Original Sketches by Hasegawa Settan' will be on Monday, January 9th. It's part of @sankotoshokan Library's lecture program to celebrate the 120th year of its foundation! sanko-bunka-kenkyujo.or.jp/l…
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👇🏻NEW BLOG POST! Thanks to @BobPierik we know how women moved through Amsterdams streets on a daily basis, but what about mobility over the life course? Judith Kraamwinkel, one of our @UvA_Humanities MA students, explores: tinyurl.com/m7m4kw6y
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👏🏼our very own @AWeissvB won the EAUH student prize for her paper on the topic of gender, class and mobilities in Berlin’s Tiergarten!
EAUH2022Antwerp@eauh20227 Sep 2022
The winners of the student prize are known...🥁... @CockingOlivia: Inequality studies and urban history Lena Lorenz: Multi-disciplinarity, heritage or urban theory @AWeissvB: Premodern urban history Črtomir Lorber: Modern urban history Congratulations to all! 🏆
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👉🏼 NEW PUBLICATION: @MarieYasunaga published an article in the July issue of Ukiyo-e Art on her discovery of the original sketches for Edo’s most famous collection of cityscapes Edo Meisho Zue.
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Looking forward to @eauh2022! Join our sessions from tomorrow onwards: ★ S26 @retro_conflicts: Merchants' and makers' marks ★ M37 @Freedom_Streets: Gender, space and everyday mobility ★ M38 @KleijNathan: The city as a broadcasting system ★ M41 @TimVerlaan: Who owns the city?
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NEW PUBLICATION 👉🏼 @AWeissvB showcases her research on how gender ideology intersects with eighteenth-century garden theory 🪴🌳🌻👩‍🌾 in Eighteenth-Century Studies: muse.jhu.edu/article/858175
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Day 3 of #claimingthestreets focused on future streets & exchanges between academia & practice. What do we imagine future streets to look like? How do we get there? Ideas on coffee cups, speed dating and @dirkbertels on how we engage secondary school children
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Day 3 #claimingthestreets continued with a panel with Suzi Hall @LSECities @pablo_sendra @AWeissvB @lbertolini63 & @BobPierik on how insights from history, urban planning and sociology can contribute to enhancing street life
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#claimingthestreets ended with a workshop creating zines with our shared ideas for the imagined streets of the future, and making plans for our platform claimingthestreets.space 👈🏻 keep an eye out for future initiatives! Thanks to @NWO_SSH @_ISRF @ACUH_UvA @CUSAmsterdam @AHM_UvA
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On the second day of #claimingthestreets we discussed the rights to the street in for the enslaved, migrant domestic workers and girls kicked off by talks by @ACMosterman @CaterinaVillan7 and Tove Levonen @HerCityToolbox claimingthestreets.space @_ISRF @NWO_SSH
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Followed by a treasure hunt of Amsterdam street life and an urban picnic
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In the second panel of the day @Plij3 @clairemacrae_17 Christian Ernsten @maasuniversity & Dorina Pojani @UQ_sees reveal the layered character of the street - above @ below ground, in memory & experience and through planning & digital innovations
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A wonderful first day at #claimingthestreets with talks by @MonikaKuffer and Vikas Mehta @UC_DAAP
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