Volker Schröder 🌎

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Early modern literature and culture (especially 17th-century France). Late-career academic (newly retired). Particular interests in #bibliography, #bookhistory, #manuscripts, #printmaking, #illustration, #libraries, #archives, #collections, #poetry, #satire, etc. Professional affiliation: Department of French and Italian, Princeton University (USA). Occasional blog posts about research in progress at http://anecdota.princeton.edu.
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Volker Schröder 🌎Nov 15
ODÉON THÉÂTRE DE L'EUROPENov 14

L’Odéon fait son entrée sur la scène Mastodonienne !

Suivez-nous pour en savoir plus sur les coulisses, l’actualité du théâtre, la programmation, les répétitions et les anecdotes de notre histoire.

🔗 Pour en savoir plus sur @theatreodeon : https://www.theatre-odeon.eu/

#introductionfr et #introduction

Volker Schröder 🌎Nov 8
Dr Lucas HaasisNov 8

What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" organized by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project. Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom. I am happy to host this series together with my colleague Nele Popp from Oldenburg University.

10 November 2025 – 30 March 2026 – on Zoom.

We start with an absolute highlight: The Amity Papers, 1690 – A Roundtable with Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer, Prof. Tom Truxes and Prof. John Shovlin.

Monday, 10 November 3-4pm (!), 9-10am EST due to the time difference.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seafaring-15001800-tickets-1931080938069

#histodons @histodons #History #Seafaring #Ships #MaritimeHistory

Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800

An online lecture series organized by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project (Prize Papers Talks Special Edition)

Eventbrite
Volker Schröder 🌎Sep 10, 2025
Michel de MontaigneSep 10, 2025
Hermodorus le poëte avoit fait des vers en l'honneur d'Antigonus, où il l'appelloit fils du Soleil : et luy au contraire : Celuy, dit-il, qui vuide ma chaize percée, sçait bien qu'il n'en est rien.
Volker Schröder 🌎May 12, 2025
John OverholtMay 12, 2025
Extremely niche huge news--the English Short Title Catalogue, the definitive database of books printed in the English-speaking world before 1801, lost in the British Library cyberattack, is reborn (in beta) as a CERL database. https://datb.cerl.org/estc/
English Short Title Catalogue

Volker Schröder 🌎Apr 19, 2025
John OverholtApr 19, 2025
Professor Henry Louis Gates announces a major database of records of the transatlantic slave trade will come to Harvard. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/slave-trade-database-moving-to-harvard/
(Via @researchbuzz )
Slave trade database moving to Harvard

Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.

Harvard Gazette
Volker Schröder 🌎Jan 14, 2025

The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires

Article by Kelly Crow in the Wall Street Journal (gift link):
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/getty-museum-los-angeles-fires-villa-center-1f600dae?st=Y4HRZD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#museums #fire #california

Volker Schröder 🌎Jan 9, 2025

The Flying Maestro: A Top Conductor Moonlights as an Air France Pilot

Long article on Daniel Harding's dual career in the New York Times (gift link):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/music/daniel-harding-conductor-air-france.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n04._9E1.6rCQmZklgWS_&smid=url-share

#classicalmusic #aviation #AirFrance

The Conductor Daniel Harding Moonlights as a Pilot for Air France

Daniel Harding scaled the heights of classical music. Then he set out to conquer the skies.

The New York Times
Volker Schröder 🌎Jan 1, 2025
Show threadSamuel PepysDec 31, 2024
I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep according to the letter of the oath which I keep by me.
Volker Schröder 🌎Dec 26, 2024
WikipediaDec 26, 2024

Lots of talk about donating money, which is great, but donating time is equally as impactful — we always need more editors, and it's these volunteers who create and curate our content! 

--sf

Volker Schröder 🌎Dec 25, 2024

Explaining why he was in demand to give readings of his work, he said: “In France there are plenty of places that will take in a poet. It’s much cheaper than getting a singer or an opera or a theater group.”

New York Times obituary of Jacques Roubaud (gift link):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/books/jacques-roubaud-poetic-master-of-form-and-whimsy-dies-at-92.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE4.wOIC.m65-YuTY5Wzu&smid=url-share

#poetry #OuLiPo #poesie

Jacques Roubaud, Poetic Master of Form and Whimsy, Dies at 92

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

The New York Times