historian of the early modern world | Assistant Professor @Utrecht University | JRF @Trinity College Cambridge | PhD @ Princeton U | animal lover + cocktail enthusiasthttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3m7njf4qurc2fLovely to see that two great podcasts about my book are now online. Maryam Patton interviewed me for the 'Ottoman History Podcast' and Sam Tchorek-Bentall for 'Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast'. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/calis.html https://open.spotify.com/episode/51obOoIrsd7nhZkkhBigyG?si=6FfkKAD_RDu2xqdnNfSFFQ&nd=1&dlsi=3a7b94431a82487d10 Dec 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7njf4qurc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lumson5jgs2rHad a great time talking about my book with the wonderful Dimitri Gondicas, director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University #earlymodern #skytorians https://hellenic.princeton.edu/research/directors-bookshelf23 Jul 2025 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lumson5jgs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lposirfnms25Had great fun talking about my new book for the Turkey Book Talk podcast #earlymodern #skystorians [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lposirfnms25https://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lposd53zp225Check out this Wonderful CfP! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2025 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lposd53zp225https://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lp7hzlecec2sOne for the Dutch university administrators [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2025 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7hzlecec2shttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lmtkxiahfk2pHaving fun preparing for today's Descartes Centre Colloquium. Eric Jorink and I will present our new books and reflect on how we can write histories of science. Date/location: 15:30-16:30 at the UniversityMuseumUtrecht - followed by drinks! https://www.uu.nl/en/events/descartes-centre-colloquium-with-eric-jorink-and-richard-calis #earlymodern #historyofscience15 Apr 2025 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmtkxiahfk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lmqvjckgc22m*New University History Fellowship!* Are you interested in university history? Do you want to explore the history of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and its collections? Apply for this new #fellowship that we managed to create with support of the University Library and the Descartes Center!14 Apr 2025 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmqvjckgc22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lmemt6ign22iThrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/alexander-bevilacqua/can-we-speak-greek #earlymodern #skystorians09 Apr 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmemt6ign22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3ll6vf64ghs2xOne week left to apply for this wonderful position in our #EU project on Botanical Gardens #skystorians #historyofscience Please share! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2025 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll6vf64ghs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3ljjzyvurjk2r*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-colonial-history-of-botanic-gardens #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens04 Mar 2025 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljjzyvurjk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lkvfwxdbxc2tJoin us today for a roundtable on 'embodied scholarship': on how the social lives of Renaissance scholars shaped their ideas! #RenSA2025 #RSA202521 Mar 2025 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvfwxdbxc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lksozhzem22pAlso very excited for later today when I get to see my book for the first time in the wild at the RSA book fair and the @harvardpress.bsky.social table with the fantastic Emily Silk! #RSA2025 #Ren2025 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067429273420 Mar 2025 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksozhzem22phttps://bsky.app/profile/richardcalis.bsky.social/post/3lksoigxgys2pVery excited for #RSA2025 to start! Join us for a series of panels on ‘Religion in the History of Scholarship’! #earlymodern #skystorians #RenSA2520 Mar 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:pnfq5tdskbxgitczhsxralsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksoigxgys2p