Elke Papelitzky
@elkelitzky.bsky.social
Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
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I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
cfopitt.taleo.net
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
A bit more than a week left to apply for this TT job in contemporary Chinese society in Oslo!
My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182) | University of Oslo
Job title: Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A bit more than a week left to apply for this TT job in contemporary Chinese society in Oslo!
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Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️
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Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Imago Mundi
Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).
Planned Research Projects
Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.
www.lmu.de
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).
My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182) | University of Oslo
Job title: Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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i am going to say something very mean
if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem
if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem
September 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
i am going to say something very mean
if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem
if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem
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Wikipedia is hands-down one of the most authoritative, accurate, transparent, & full-cited informational sites in the observable universe, and has been since like 2015.
And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…
And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…
Like my college professors on both the undergrad and graduate level, I am not going to take wikipedia as a source. Its no more reliable than asking Chat GPT
September 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wikipedia is hands-down one of the most authoritative, accurate, transparent, & full-cited informational sites in the observable universe, and has been since like 2015.
And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…
And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…
Such an excellent book, great to see it out as paperback!
September 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Such an excellent book, great to see it out as paperback!
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Postdoc Opportunity!
Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Postdoc Opportunity!
Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.
Chinese History: A New Manual, Seventh Edition
www.pleco.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.
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new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue
Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast emp...
www.fulcrum.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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📣We are delighted to announce that Sara Caputo (@saracaputo.bsky.social) has been appointed as an Editor of The Historical Journal!
Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘
Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘
July 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📣We are delighted to announce that Sara Caputo (@saracaputo.bsky.social) has been appointed as an Editor of The Historical Journal!
Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘
Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘
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Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert!
"The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert!
"The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Job 📣
3-year funded PhD position in modern Chinese history with a broad focus on crime/Qing legal history)
Part of an ANR team led by colleagues at EFEO, Academia Sinica, and Université Nice Côte d'Azur, and based in Paris, France.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
3-year funded PhD position in modern Chinese history with a broad focus on crime/Qing legal history)
Part of an ANR team led by colleagues at EFEO, Academia Sinica, and Université Nice Côte d'Azur, and based in Paris, France.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Job 📣
3-year funded PhD position in modern Chinese history with a broad focus on crime/Qing legal history)
Part of an ANR team led by colleagues at EFEO, Academia Sinica, and Université Nice Côte d'Azur, and based in Paris, France.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
3-year funded PhD position in modern Chinese history with a broad focus on crime/Qing legal history)
Part of an ANR team led by colleagues at EFEO, Academia Sinica, and Université Nice Côte d'Azur, and based in Paris, France.
Deadline: May 30, 2025
How did early modern Chinese navigate? What tools did they use? And did they exclusively rely on the compass? Check out my newest article for some answers: doi.org/10.1017/jch....
Sailing the Waters of East and Southeast Asia: Chinese Navigators and their Material and Mental Tools | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Sailing the Waters of East and Southeast Asia: Chinese Navigators and their Material and Mental Tools
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
How did early modern Chinese navigate? What tools did they use? And did they exclusively rely on the compass? Check out my newest article for some answers: doi.org/10.1017/jch....
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🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
Listen to Mario Cams and me talk about our edited volume "Remapping the World in East Asia" on the New Books Network! newbooksnetwork.com/remapping-th...
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Listen to Mario Cams and me talk about our edited volume "Remapping the World in East Asia" on the New Books Network! newbooksnetwork.com/remapping-th...
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Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word wǎsī '(natural) gas'? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a typical Chinese compound word. What's a roof tile got to do with gas?
Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油!
1/
Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油!
1/
a yellow cat with its eyes closed and a fist in its mouth .
Alt: GIF of cartoon cat fiercely crying "加油"
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word wǎsī '(natural) gas'? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a typical Chinese compound word. What's a roof tile got to do with gas?
Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油!
1/
Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油!
1/
Where is tianxia?
In an article that was just published in Modern Asian Studies, I looked at the titles of maps from the fifteenth to eighteenth century to try to get closer to an answer to that question.
It's open access thanks to the University of Oslo!
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
In an article that was just published in Modern Asian Studies, I looked at the titles of maps from the fifteenth to eighteenth century to try to get closer to an answer to that question.
It's open access thanks to the University of Oslo!
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Where is tianxia?
In an article that was just published in Modern Asian Studies, I looked at the titles of maps from the fifteenth to eighteenth century to try to get closer to an answer to that question.
It's open access thanks to the University of Oslo!
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
In an article that was just published in Modern Asian Studies, I looked at the titles of maps from the fifteenth to eighteenth century to try to get closer to an answer to that question.
It's open access thanks to the University of Oslo!
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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My article on C18th/19th experiences of lightning at sea is out with Transactions.
This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.)
TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended!
#histmed #histSTM
bit.ly/4jz7RSf
This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.)
TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended!
#histmed #histSTM
bit.ly/4jz7RSf
January 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My article on C18th/19th experiences of lightning at sea is out with Transactions.
This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.)
TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended!
#histmed #histSTM
bit.ly/4jz7RSf
This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.)
TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended!
#histmed #histSTM
bit.ly/4jz7RSf