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The official Twitter account of the @WilliamsCollege History Department. #HistoryatWilliams

Williamstown, Mass. Katılım Ocak 2020
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Williams College@WilliamsCollege·
Burning questions about The Renaissance? History professor Alexander Bevilacqua's got answers. He joined joined @Wired's Tech Support series to answer the most popular inquiries, like those about hygiene and historically accurate Ren Faire drip. bit.ly/4hsirYJ
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In her new book "Tokyo" (January 2025, Cambridge University Press), provost and history professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer '97 takes readers through four centuries of the city's rich history and transformation. bit.ly/3XmzV1I
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AHA Career Center@HistoryJobs·
Posted Today: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese History | Williams College dlvr.it/THC2Y8
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AHA Career Center@HistoryJobs·
Posted Today: Visiting Asst Prof in Late-Medieval/Early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World | Williams College dlvr.it/THL2GH
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‘The very technology meant to guarantee holiness was at risk of undermining it. How to tell authentic sacral object from worthless counterfeit? Mass production sapped the “aura”, to use Benjamin’s term, of holiness.’ Alexander Bevilacqua: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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‘The workings of the godhead were inscrutable. If seeing is believing, then touching was receiving, and grinding up and drinking holy things the ultimate assimilation.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on a history of ingesting icons: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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‘The wardens of Loreto gave away the dust swept from the Holy House in the hope of preventing pilgrims from taking anything more valuable. The pilgrims made the dust into a beverage and drank it.’ Alexander Bevilacqua reviews ‘Iconophages’: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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‘It was plausible that a depiction might be vested with the properties of the thing depicted. And if wearing an amulet conferred power, how much more power might be gained by consuming it.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on a history of ingesting images: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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Associate professor Alexander Bevilacqua's latest article is now available in the journal @PastPresentSoc. The research for this paper inspired him to design the advanced tutorial Hist 492, "Making Race in Early Modern Europe."
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Aparna Kapadia
Aparna Kapadia@KapadiaAparna·
Historians/art historians, I came across this #gandhi shaped salt cellar while looking through a Gujarati newspaper from 1931. Is there academic work I can read about it or Gandhi related historical memorabilia? Would love suggestions. 🙏
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Neeti Nair
Neeti Nair@NeetiNair·
Lovely piece on Bombay by historians Aparna Kapadia and Prashant Kidambi #Tilak #Gandhi #nationalism #walking #memory
Aparna Kapadia@KapadiaAparna

Earlier this year, I walked in Mumbai with fellow historian, Prashant Kidambi. In my latest for @scroll_in I write about our perambulations & attempts to ‘excavate’ the links between the city’s cosmopolitan past & Indian nationalism. scroll.in/article/107190… #IndiaIndependence

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On the anniversary of Indian independence, take a walk through modern Indian history with @KapadiaAparna of @WilliamsCollege!
Aparna Kapadia@KapadiaAparna

Earlier this year, I walked in Mumbai with fellow historian, Prashant Kidambi. In my latest for @scroll_in I write about our perambulations & attempts to ‘excavate’ the links between the city’s cosmopolitan past & Indian nationalism. scroll.in/article/107190… #IndiaIndependence

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