Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Jan Machielsen
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I worked at a Vodafone call centre as a student in the early 2000s welcoming new customers to the network.
I left when they started ranking us by the number of calls we made, because predictably the *quality* of those calls went down sharply.
AI is new but managers on efficiency drives are not.
Ahead of being moved into shared offices, I boxed up my books, or at least those books I think (/hope/pray) may still fit in the new space...
Now what are the odds that at least one of these boxes will go missing in this gigantic merry go round? 🤔
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Heute vor 100 Jahren wurde der Historiker Raul Hilberg geboren. Sein Buch „Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden“ ist ein Grundlagenwerk der Holocaustforschung.
Doch als Hilberg es 1955 fertigstellte, fand er sechs Jahre lang keinen Verlag.
Sign outside our current Airbnb.
"Is there life after death? Enter and you will find out."
(The dogs are lovely!)
Not a very common scene in #earlymodern religious art, I think, but one close to my research interests: the fall of Simon Magus.
1658 painting by Sébastien Bourdon in Montpellier cathedral.
The second is entitled "Execution and Martyrdom in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
The idea behind these four sessions would be to explore what historians of religion and crime can learn from each other.
The deadline is 24 July. Please get in touch! 😊
It took this Holocaust historian six years to find a publisher... A good reminder that sometimes one can be right and it's the world that is wrong.
Good morning from the Provence! Long hike to Nîmes today. 😊
Jan Machielsen
Jan Machielsen
The shop sign exhibition in the Musée Carnavalet really is a marvel of #earlymodern #18c and #19c life. Highly recommend (and it's free!)
As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27.
The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Amazing. Amazon shuts down leaderboard designed to incentivize employees to use AI because employees used AI to cheat in the contest www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...
Jan Machielsen
Jan Machielsen
🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Jan Machielsen
Jan Machielsen
Heute vor 100 Jahren wurde der Historiker Raul Hilberg geboren. Sein Buch „Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden“ ist ein Grundlagenwerk der Holocaustforschung.
Doch als Hilberg es 1955 fertigstellte, fand er sechs Jahre lang keinen Verlag.
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
