Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

"If I’ve learned one thing this year, it’s that we need recenter the human part of the university: the student-teacher relationship." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

CFP: Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (In-Person) PAMLA, Seattle, November 12-15, 2026 Contact: Matthew Warshawsky, University of Portland ([email protected]) Organizers are still seeking submissions for this panel. Abstracts may be submitted until June 30th.

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

[article] Arsić, Ivana. “Music and Dance as Forms of Dissent: Crypto-Religious Resistance in the Premodern Crown of Aragon.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 0, no. 0 (2026): 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/1463....

[article] Méndez-Oliver, Ana L. “Animal Imagery and Racial Marking in Coplas Del Perro de Alva.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 56, no. 2 (2026): 371–93. doi.org/10.1215/1082....

Plaza (TU-162-25) para una profesora titular en el Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad de Sevilla. www.boe.es/diario_boe/t...

Pascua-Echegaray, Esther, and Pablo Sánchez-León. “Reappraising the Origins of Exclusion in Late Medieval Castile: Across the Boundaries Between Religion, Politics and Customs.” www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/6/...

[book] Open Access: "Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music: The Case of Hispanic Epic Themes" by Amaranta Saguar García intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

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CFA: 2027 Baron Young Scholars Awards. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21447

CFA: Queen’s University – Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. Deadline: 10 June 2026. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21467

Job: Department of Classics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Salzburg; Tenure Track Position “Jewish Studies.” #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21481

Another late-breaking postdoc in Humanities Leadership at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. The person in charge has said they will begin reviewing applications June 13 (which means the deadlines on this posting are to be ignored)

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Amazing - and important! - opportunity to keep #Ladino alive. And you can get paid to implement your creative ideas! Learn more at americanladinoleague.org/programs/amb...

I just presented on Aljamiado for Foreign Langs and Intl studies day for Oregon high school students. Some said they were interested in learning about the "Reconquest," so here is your reminder to point students to Carlos Ayala's accessible treatment of the issue www.alandalusylahistoria.com?p=4634

JOB: early modern global history jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Doctoral School “Comparative Diplomatics. The Medieval Written Word in the Mediterranean Basin,” October 5–9, 2026, Toledo. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21271

An article by Talya Fishman: "Images of Crusaders, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem in Medieval Jewish Subcultures." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21299

In halakhic texts "Re'uven" and "Shim'on" are like "John Doe" and "Jim Doe." Are there female equivalents? A student asked this and I have no idea.....

“It’s worth the trip.”

Pleased to announce the publication of my contribution to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, "Frametale literature" academic.oup.com/edited-volum... for a copy if you don't have institutional access (I don't either 😎)

My chapter, “The Quixotic Sensorium,” is forthcoming soon in this beautiful volume. A small contribution on the history of the senses and Don Quixote. Kudos to Nick and Paul for putting together such a great volume! Description and ToC here: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650047...

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Sunday Apr 5 I'll be Alejandro Acero Ayuda's guest on Enkontros de Alhad eSefarad.com (in Ladino, online): “Sefarad: Desde la edad medyeval fin al prezente”

F*&G^&* ProQuest

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Sephardi Spaces Project, an innovative digital initiative dedicated to exploring and preserving the rich tapestry of Sephardic Jewish identity through the ages. sepharad.miami.edu #sephardic

Timely article on Moriscofobia in the 16th c. al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al...

[seminar] Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills workshop (with me 😎): Intro to #sephardic culture. Remote, July 6-9, 2026 Deadline to apply Apr 26

The deadline for this one has been extended until April 1. I’m on the search committee and happy to answer questions as far as I can/is appropriate.

“On Edge” Summer School on Jewish Studies University of Antwerp, July 5-10th, 2026. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20821

[webinar] Bodies Outside the Law: Syphilis, Deviance, and Jewish Literary Resistance in the Early Modern World CPS Event: Hernán Matzkevich (Spanish & Portuguese Studies, UMN) Friday March 20 cla.umn.edu/premodern/ne...

My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

Administration at DePaul in Chicago has unilaterally decided to permanently close the DePaul Museum as a cost-cutting measure. Please consider signing this letter opposing this short-sighted decision openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...

Today in class we had a lively discussion of Juan Latino's "De natali serenissimi" (1572), reading from the edition/translation of Elizabeth Wright available at the Open Iberia/América website: openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/02/05/j...

We're hiring! Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!! Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP968/p...

Con toda seguridad, otro gran libro sobre el #aragonés de Guillén Tomás Fanci «En nuestra lengua aragonesa». Testimonios documentales de la conciencia lingüística en la Edad Media 👇 #MedievalSky #LenguaAragonesa #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

Has anyone seen כפולות as a Hebrew translation of 'doblones' in Early Modern texts? @perurealfonso.bsky.social ?

Do you have a favorite activity to do with students to help them develop solid thesis statements?

The #MLA Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a guaranteed panel on anti-authoritarianism. Abstracts are due March 15! We invite proposals on literary and cultural responses to authoritarianism across Spanish-speaking peripheries mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

Spanish teacher friends - any level - have you experimented with project-based learning instead of traditional exams? I would *LOVE* to hear about what has worked well for you and what has presented problems. Here are a couple of questions and observations that I'm struggling with at the moment:

Job in my department, one year renewable for three, early modern Iberian Atlantic world. I’m on the committee, happy to have a conversation/answer questions as far as is appropriate. March 15 deadline. apply.interfolio.com/181565?utm_s...

Ibn Verga's 'Shevet Yehudah' is full of great schtick: Here's a bit from no. 8: “Our Lord King! I fear God and I will before him tell you what I know!” “It’s possible that you fear God,” the King observed, “but you also love money. Speak, for you will immediately receive a great reward.”

In our fall issue, Edan Dekel and David Gantt Gurley published their 3rd essay tracing the literary roots of the Golem legend. Now on the JQR blog, they reflect on the path their research took. Peruse their conversation and read all 3 essays for free! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...