¿Cómo se lee --y practica-- la política española desde Estados Unidos? Hablo en @lamarea.com con @vrupu.bsky.social. "Lo que se consiguió en España se ha visto con mucha más admiración desde fuera que desde dentro". @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social @cbamadrid.es www.lamarea.com/2026/06/01/v...

RIP to a giant

What a lovely day to enjoy a new translation of some sixteenth-century Spanish verse

The very smart bookplate of distinguished architect and art historian Luis Cervera Vera (1914-1998).

I'm organizing a panel on African and Afro-Diasporic Food Labor Across Empires for @rsaorg.bsky.social next year. Send me your abstracts! Deadline is July 27st. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Anybody who cares about history and public discourse in Spain should read this article. It is truly phenomenal historia-actual.org/Publicacione...

Just a reminder a 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat spent more time in jail than any billionaire pedophile on Epstein's client list.

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death. www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...

Aquesta setmana / this week!

Join AAUP for these two discussions of the future of our university this week and next

RIP James Gadson, drummer. Working with everyone from Marvin Gaye to Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin to Justin Timberlake, his career spanned 6 decades. He played on over 500 gold records, including Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Herbie Hancock's "Manchild"

Putting together a panel for LASA Africa 2026 (Dakar, 4–7 November) on colonial legacies from a transatlantic perspective — slavery, capitalism, memory, museums, and literature. Deadline: May 7. If relevant to your work, feel free to send me a DM 👇 africa.lasaweb.org/es/call-for-...

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My wife just saw me reading the FAZ Habermas obituary and said: "a veces Habermás y a veces Habermenos." It feels like the kind of even keeled statement he would have approved of. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Saiu no Journal of Lusophone Studies meu artigo sobre a criação de Parceiros do Rio Bonito e a dívida do Candido com a aristocracia rural paulista.

"et stellae de caelo ceciderunt super terram, sicut ficus emittit grossos suos cum a vento magno movetur" (Beatus of Saint-Sever, Paris, BNF, MS lat. 8878, f. 116r.)

Delighted to announce this new book series, "Perspectives on Cultural History," with CEU for Amsterdam University Press. For more information, see here. Proposals should be sent to the commissioning editor. www.ceupressauthorhub.com/perspectives...

Vol. 52.2 is now available on Project Muse. Featuring articles by Giles, Talavera Pagán, Udaondo Alegre, Cárdenas-Rotunno, and a special forum on Henry Berlin's "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia." For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu... #projectmuse

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

“Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.” Walter Benjamin, “Understanding Brecht.”

If you're in Chicago and want to understand what it's all about, don’t miss my brilliant colleagues discussing all things Benito!

Of course generating more exploitation was always the plan.

What a day to be a teacher of Spanish in this country. 🥲

At the center of our new comp lit issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

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Felices de compartir esta convocatoria. Happy for sharing this call for a fellowship!

Christine Turner’s documentary about the Afro-Futurist band who lived in Germantown for decades screened at the Black Star Film Festival last year.

Can't wait for this one. The OG covered by the New G.

Huge congratulations, Noel. A beautiful cover, and an exciting invitation to begin the art of knowing everything.

Since I first listened to Noel talk about Llull years ago, I've been waiting for this book to come out. Very excited it's here!

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parabéns, Noel

Esto va a ser grandísimo. Corran.

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

Horrible nouvelle, pas encore dans la presse, mais confirmée par des sources sûres dans le monde de la musique : Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie) est décédé cette nuit. RIP LEGEND

Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism

Pavos, el problema es “por qué fue INEVITABLE la guerra civil española, por qué fracasó la Segunda República”, no lo que haga o deje de hacer un escritor. Nos la estamos comiendo entera. Otra vez.

"Altogether, these lies amounted to a single, great untruth: the uprising never occurred and can never occur again. But the spirit of history moves in strange ways. What is dead never quite dies."

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...

Escribo en @elsaltodiario.com sobre la captura de Maduro como síntoma del agotamiento del imperialismo fósil. Una reflexión sobre el paso a formas postliberales de poder, donde el orden fósil deja de producir estabilidad y deriva hacia la coerción. www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...