And one more #JobPost for the ERC SCIGMA @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
If you're a student at a German university and have a bachelor's degree, you can apply for this position of a student assistant!
You can even work from #remote. Auf Deutsch or in English!
It helps if you have experience with #earlymodern #bookhistory #dh #digitalhumanities #religiousstudies #history of #theology #philosophy
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e16e39f94f26de32c7a0de89ad32eca8405295a70?ref=homepage
AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/
#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity
Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11
Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders' art, & subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879
#Scottish #literature #books #bookbinding #bookhistory #Bute #Rothesay
You can read a digitised version of the National Library of Scotland’s Kilmarnock Edition online
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https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74571150?mode=fullsize
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotslanguage #18thcentury #BookHistory #RareBooks
From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LzFCI1bNs
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotslanguage #18thcentury #BookHistory #RareBooks
Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published #OTD, 31 July 1786.
Copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio: Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotslanguage #18thcentury #BookHistory #RareBooks
Allan Young and I have just published the first-ever attempt to track down all surviving copies of Burns’s first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: Wilson, 1786), the Kilmarnock Burns. Mr Young started working on this project fifteen years ago, and I have been collaborating with him for the past two years. We […]
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