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We are proud to announce that Associate Professor of History Aparna Kapadia (@KapadiaAparna) will be a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2025-26. Congratulations, Prof. Kapadia! @CullmanNYPL @nypl @WilliamsCollege

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We are thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Class of Cullman Center Fellows: https://t.co/lOshG5bK5J

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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. https://t.co/TcvaUm7WlM

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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. https://t.co/ERzsIX3FNQ

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Today is the last day to apply!

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Posted Today: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese History | Williams College https://t.co/SHeLCnkEQP

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Today is the last day to apply!

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Posted Today: Visiting Asst Prof in Late-Medieval/Early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World | Williams College https://t.co/0GuxSM5YXS

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Posted Today: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese History | Williams College https://t.co/SHeLCnkEQP

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The History Dept. @WilliamsCollege seeks a two-year Visiting Assistant Prof in late medieval/early modern Western European, Byzantine, or Islamic history, to begin fall '25. Course load is 2-2. For more info and to apply see: https://t.co/jwj7ysb3Iy Please help spread the word!

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Posted Today: Visiting Asst Prof in Late-Medieval/Early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World | Williams College https://t.co/0GuxSM5YXS

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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: https://t.co/gi3bRV47G2

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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: https://t.co/gi3bRV47G2

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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’: https://t.co/gi3bRV3zQu

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Always learn things from reading Alexander Bevilacqua: https://t.co/O4JqZAXIEx

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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: https://t.co/gi3bRV3zQu

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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."

[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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Lovely piece on Bombay by historians Aparna Kapadia and Prashant Kidambi #Tilak #Gandhi #nationalism #walking #memory

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A history on foot: How Mumbai’s cosmopolitan past shaped Indian nationalism https://t.co/L4F4M0x94A via @scroll_in

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

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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. https://t.co/iNKlrKyQOz #IndiaIndependence