FreedomoftheStreets

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

For all of our followers who read Dutch: this Autumn Bob’s marvellous book on Amsterdam street life will see the light👇🏻

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…

👉🏼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/Assist…

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)

👉🏼 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…

👇🏻⁦@MarieYasunaga⁩ discovers original drawings of the world famous Edo Meisho Zue in Sanko Library uva.nl/shared-content…

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/lecture.html

👇🏻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

👏🏼our very own @AWeissvB won the EAUH student prize for her paper on the topic of gender, class and mobilities in Berlin’s Tiergarten!

👉🏼 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.

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?

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

#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

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

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

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

Followed by a treasure hunt of Amsterdam street life and an urban picnic

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

A wonderful first day at #claimingthestreets with talks by @MonikaKuffer and Vikas Mehta @UC_DAAP