2026-2027 Ricci Institute Doctoral Fellowship (Boston College): memorients.com/news/2026-20...

Spanish Habsburg cliché alert. Last night Jon Stewart brought up Carlos II as an example of a bad king. Ironically, as incompetent and unprepared as he may have been, historians now believe his reign was one of modest recovery compared to the pits that was the end of his father’s reign, Felipe IV

We will have two stellar scholars visiting Suffolk next week! Dr. Hannah Abrahamson and Dr. Juan M. Ramirez! We are very excited about your visit!

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

CFP: Growing Up in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-gro...

The Jamaica pond is so frozen! 🥶

Today!

Join The Suffolk Historical Society for its annual Mardi Gras Masquerade!! Our students really know how to have fun! 🤩

My good friend and admired colleague, Prof. Jamie Andreson, will be visiting Suffolk University next week. Lecture is open to the public, please come!

Boston right now ❄️

Forthcoming academic conference! "Military Orders IX: Documents and Monuments" Organised by Professor Emanuel Buttigieg and Dr Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta) For more information see below:

Wonderful reunion with some Penn Staters at the American Historical Association in Chicago.

I am very happy to share the updated Spring 2026 program for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars! They are open to the public! If you are in the Boston area, please do not hesitate to attend!

I am very happy to share the updated Spring 2026 program for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars! They are open to the public! If you are in the Boston area, please do not hesitate to attend!

Beautiful Granada

The marvels of baroque Seville

$9,50 for a medium vanilla latte. Boston, you are killing me! ☕️

We are delighted to share the Spring 2026 Schedule for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars! Individual posters will be circulated in January!

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...

So honored to have been part of this amazing series!

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

If you’re in Portland this week for SCSC conference, please stop by two panels Héctor Linares Gonzalez & I have co-organized on saints, relics, and religious self-fashioning in the Iberian world! I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels 🥳

@hectorlinares.bsky.social 🥳

My latest chapter has been just published in a wonderful collection of essays on the Duke of Lerma and his term as the royal favorite of Philip III of Spain! In this piece, I explore the role of Lerma as a stateman within the military orders, where he disguised himself as an efficient bureaucrat.

Boston is ready for Halloween! 🎃

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

Join us on October 23 for a new session of the Suffolk Early Global Studies Seminar. In this occasion we will be conversing about hospitals, charity, and medicine in the premodern Hispanic world. Dr. Restrepo will be sharing his research on hospitals in 17th century Colombia! Zoom option available!

@juanmaramive.bsky.social visited my class on Global Migrations and gave a wonderful lecture on Women and migration in the Spanish Atlantic. My students absolutely loved it. Thank you for coming to Suffolk University!

Students of Global Humanities, enrolled in Prof. Linares' courses, visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today, discovering numerous primary sources for their final research projects.

Profs. Lasdow and Linares lead the annual Workshop on “How to apply to Graduate School,” which provides undergraduate students across the College of Arts & Sciences with insight into navigating the graduate school application process.

On Tuesday, October 7th, the Department of Global Humanities will celebrate its annual Open House! Please stop by to know our department, courses, majors, programs, and Faculty!

The department is organizing a workshop to guide students to apply for Graduate School! All information in the poster below 👇

Please join us on September 23 from 12:30 to 2pm at Tremont 1102 for the research Seminar “Troubling the Bounds of Empire,” organized by Dr. Linares and with the participation of wonderful scholars such as Chase Smith (UCLA), Joe Bienko (PSU), and Keith Richards (Tulane).

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍 SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. (1/7)

What a month in Chicago! I spent 4 weeks as a fellow of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. I met so many nice people and found plenty of documents for my book! 📖

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Historian @hectorlinares.bsky.social‬ traces Antón’s story through letters as well as legal and administrative records, showing how some Afro-descendants navigated colonial institutions to claim honor, status, and citizenship. 📝 Read more in Vol 81, Issue 4: bit.ly/3DXIucs

I just finished reading López Fadul’s wonderful book. She demonstrates the critical role of etymology in Spanish imperial building and governance, arguing that it served as an archive of knowledge.

CFP: 44th Annual Medieval Studies Conference Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University February 27-March 1, 2026 Theme: "Boundaries, Crossings, and Crossroads in the Medieval Iberian Worlds (500-1600)." mvstconference.ace.fordham.edu/iberianworlds/