Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Or by scrolling down the thread👇

My own contribution 'Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean' examines mobility between the North Africa & Iberia through talismans preserved in inquisitorial records brill.com/view/journal...

The 'Archives & Objects' special issue of the JEMH @earlymodhistory.bsky.social is out ! 🥳 Edited by Y. Glazer-Eytan/G. Marcocci, this multi-authored conversation centres non-textual artefacts in records & broader intersections between the archival and material turns brill.com/view/journal...

August issue of the JEMH now available! This one on "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue" #earlymodern

The 'Archives & Objects' special issue of the JEMH @earlymodhistory.bsky.social is out ! 🥳 Edited by Y. Glazer-Eytan/G. Marcocci, this multi-authored conversation centres non-textual artefacts in records & broader intersections between the archival and material turns brill.com/view/journal...

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

Our latest virtual issue on: "Immobility" curated by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social, Malika Zehni and Lamin Manneh Can be read below and is free to access: academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

📣 Thinking about applying for a #PhD in History? Our fully-funded EUI PhD programme focuses on global connections within Early Modern and Modern European History. 🗓️ Save the date: Applications open in November 2025! Find out how to start the intellectual adventure of a lifetime loom.ly/pvk17dc

⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️

🌊 Mediterranean & Materiality at #RenSoc25 🌊 ! Don't miss panel 8.5 tomorrow (11-12:30) put together by the amazing @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social and Marissa Smith-Bose @Cambridge

Collections de L'Histoire 108 - Le terrorisme Des anarchistes aux djihadistes Vient de paraître

Excited to be co-organising this conference on early modern nonconformity. Please submit an abstract or share with anyone who might be interested in doing so! Open to researchers of all career stages! ✨

🚨 Last two days to send us your proposals ! 👇

The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility" by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh Is now out in full and free to access academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

🚨 The Morisco diaspora and the Morisco networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean by @gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal is now available OPEN ACCESS ! brill.com/display/titl...

Check out this #CfP #historyofknowledge

🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)" Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself 4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome Deadline: 1 July 2025 Don't hesitate to apply & share widely ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...

New on advance access: "Immobility" by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social, Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh Free to access doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️ academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires0- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...

Un lecteur anonyme de la BNF vs. Roger Le Tourneau sur la « civilisation urbaine » du Maghreb (1954)

🌍 Annales English Edition 'Captive #Objects. Catholic Artifacts across the Early Modern Western #Mediterranean' by Daniel Hershenzon (@uconn.bsky.social) 👇 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)" Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself 4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome Deadline: 1 July 2025 Don't hesitate to apply & share widely ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...

With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

Bon, je suppose que c'est officiel maintenant 🥳

Le @festivalhistpop.bsky.social‬ met la fête à l’honneur pour sa 2e édition du jeudi 22 au samedi 24 mai à Créteil ! Piloté par l’association « La Boîte à Histoire » et des chercheurs de @upecofficiel.bsky.social il propose un large panel d’activités. www.lhistoire.fr/agenda/festi...

📣 Le Festival d'Histoire Populaire, c’est cette semaine ! 📅 Rendez-vous à Créteil du 22 au 24 mai pour 3 jours de conférences, de spectacles et de jeux ! Pensez à vous inscrire avant qu’il ne soit trop tard : 👉 festivalhistoirepopulaire.fr @festivalhistpop.bsky.social @upecofficiel.bsky.social

CFP: Thematic special issue of Renaissance Studies, “Diasporas of Sefarad and al-Andalus: Iberian Questions beyond Iberia.” Final drafts of articles (ready for submission for peer-review) will be due Monday, July 21, 2025. #CFP #Andalus #Sefarad #diasporas #moriscos #Sephardic #medievalsky

Réponse au cordeau de John Tolan (via H. Laurens sur fb : www.facebook.com/share/p/1BnV...) qui mérite d’être lue et diffusée très largement

🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨 Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025. You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻 orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...

One of the exceptional postdocs in architectural history up for grabs! #architecture #architecturalhistory #earlymodern

I have just been sent this wonderully witty 'funding' statement at the end of a book review. The state of things! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal's new edited volume on Moriscos is *finally* advertised 🥳 Contributors include @hchachia.bsky.social @barbarabejarano.bsky.social, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Tijana Krstić, myself and many others 👇 Out next July! brill.com/display/titl...

📣Intersyndicale ESR : 📣 - Accueil des chercheur·ses internationaux en France : De qui se moque-t-on ? Le 5 mai Emmanuel Macron organise un ersatz de cérémonie d’accueil pour « les chercheurs du monde entier » qu’il appelle... la suite cgt.fercsup.net/.../intersyn....

Macron vient d'annoncer que supprimer des programmes de recherches aux Etats-Unis était une erreur et ouvre le programme "Choose Europe for Science" en investissant 100 millions Il y a une semaine, le gouvernement annonçait couper 493 millions de crédits pour la recherche et l'enseignement supérieur

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

The School of History at Leeds is offering a BAME Doctoral Scholarship starting in October 2025! Potential postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups who are eligible for the Home/UK rate of tuition fees can read more and apply here:

Prof. Yaacob Dweck (@Princeton) on "Wealth and Learning in the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora" tomorrow 5pm UK time @ox.ac.uk - Accessible online for those not in Oxford ! 🥳 Registration via: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hi #skystorians This is a long shot but I am looking for any discussion of Muslim prayer beads/misbaha *especially North African* by art historians (or any work dealing with shape/styles/materials) 🙏 I have seen some catalogues but nothing that really goes in depth into the topic

MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic 28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians

Past and Present is launching an e-newsletter. It will be published quaterly in-line with the journal's publishing schedule. The first issue will be published in May 2025. Subscribe below, and please share with your network: pastpresentsoc.substack.com/about

Rendez-vous les 25 & 26 avril 2025 à l'Université Paris-Est Créteil & à l'Université Paris-Saclay pour le colloque « L’Empire des sens. Une histoire sensorielle des empires coloniaux (XVe-XXe siècle) » 🌍👃👂👀 @upecofficiel.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @crhecu.bsky.social

Come do a fully-funded PhD with me! The 4-year scholarship is open to all UK, EU and international students. Very happy to answer any questions, do share with your students and colleagues.

🥳 Le festival d'histoire populaire fait son retour le 22, 23 et 24 mai et vous invite à la fête, le thème de la 2ème édition. 40 activités gratuites parmi lesquelles blind-test, carnaval, expos, chorale, spectacles, tables-rondes interactives, prix du jeu de société historique. 200 participant.e.s !

Début du Colloque "Ressources et empires. La construction sociale des écosystèmes impériaux", un match Groupe d'études ibériques v. Groupe d'études en histoire environnementale du CRH/EHESS ! Ca promet :) crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9916

Teaching Associate in Early Modern European History (Temporary Cover) University of Cambridge - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU965/t...

Very excited to be speaking today at 4:30 @ox.ac.uk’s Iberian Seminar & to be part of their fantastic line-up for the term 🥳 If you are in town, please consider stopping by! iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/ana-st...

Avec une intervention d'Ana Struillou, membre associée de l'IHMC, et une session modérée par Hélène Blais...