Rellegint #SergiPàmies.

In practically a wink, thanks to clunky but reliable Wordpress, I have moved all of my publications from the repository I had used to archive and organize them since I was in grad school to a new site: websites.umass.edu/lloret/

#JosepPla #CosesVistes

Muy contento de haber podido contribuir a este número de Hispanic Review, que nos obligó a releer un texto clave. La cultura del Barroco, de José Antonio Maravall, @guerraenlauni.bsky.social @ucm.es @filologiaucm.bsky.social @santiperezisasi.bsky.social @cesarr muse.jhu.edu/issue/55575 @eldiario.es

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

Call for Papers 5th Summer Seminar - V Seminari d’estiu North American Catalan Society Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona July 1, 2026 - 9.30-14.30

Call for Contributions: postmedieval cluster, “Approaching Premodern Critical Race Studies in Iberia and Latin America” Titles, format of submission, and abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by October 15th, 2025. #CFP #postmedieval #medievalsky #criticalracestudies

Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....

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La corónica invites book reviews for the following books. Contact David Arbesú, (see lcclacoronica.org/journal/book... )

2026 NACS Award. Nominate monographs, editions, translations... Deadline 12/1/25.

Our latest Hispanic issue just printed and will be up on @projectmuse.bsky.social very soon. Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer

You hear stories about what an academic household does to children but today at bedtime my precocious rising kindergartner said “father will you read me a story about university leaders who believe LLM-based chatbots have made language teaching irrelevant?” and fortunately I had just the thing

In June, while gathered @ the Medieval Modernities seminar in Olot, we visited the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.The local TV station wanted to know what had brought us there & what it was like to study & teach medieval Catalan culture & its modern legacies in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...

CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, The State University of New York at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025 @berlihe.bsky.social

Obre-la per la pàgina que vulguis. Traducció de pedra picada. Registre, lèxic, fluïdesa. #RamonFarrés, #StefanZweig.

Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds. Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.

where do the pages fall open when you prop a book lightly? this precious copy of Soledades de Buçaco at the National Library of Portugal has a “desire part” on romance X — a poetic rendering of discalced carmelite monastery life. the pages are also more translucent. #FLAD #BNP #FLADBNPfellowship

Correcting proofs: space, presence, and lyrics from the Catalan Baroque. The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!

Rereading my notes on this amazing book and finding passages like these:

Accepting proposals until June 10.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Llatí de primer de primer carrera. Troncal de filologies. Anual. A més de traduir, examen de mites segons la versió de les Metamorfosis. Anava identificant on començava el mite mentre llegia per repassar per a l’Examen.

New issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Vol. 14, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54736 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Big Data & Manuscript Studies: Some Reflections on a Methodology @leoba.bsky.social @danielsawyer.bsky.social @julialilinoe.bsky.social

if anyone has tips about short-term rent in Lisbon, anything that may help a grad student who’ll be getting by on a low fellowship stipend, it’ll be most welcome :) (still deciding whether to go in the summer or beginning of fall – or even mid-December, a less likely option but still an option)

My department (Spanish and Portuguese @ CU Boulder) is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor/Continuing Ed Liaison -- super quick turn around because you know how sometimes those things go. Deadline to apply May 8, 2025

What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"

S'entaulen @jordinopca.bsky.social i @rgsait.bsky.social i en surt una conversa interessantíssima amb perles com ara: "Auden té una frase que diu: 'El perill de l'art és que el confonguem amb la màgia'" "Jesús està dient que ve a destruir la família". llegim.ara.cat/128_51bd21?u...

Analogy is a weak instrument of historical thinking. Metahistory at its best in a 2008 essay by Gabrielle Spiegel. www.historians.org/perspectives...

For the April episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum Editor in Chief @tinariversryan.bsky.social interviews @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social about how a medievalist became interested in AI, the role of AI in the divestment from public and higher education, and more. www.artforum.com/video/sonja-...

Contra l'espoli d'obres, la precarització laboral, l'empobriment de la llengua, la robotització del pensament i les pràctiques opaques per enriquir uns pocs, reivindiquem una traducció humana, sensible i conscient. Els lectors no mereixen altra cosa.

2025 ICMS is fast approaching. La corónica is sponsoring several events of interest. #Kzoo2025 Please join us!

@mourelle.bsky.social and I have been busy organizing this three-day seminar, which will take place at the FaberLlull Residency in Olot (Catalonia), from June 12-15. If you happen to be nearby and would like to come listen to us or say hi, do let us know! faberllull.cat/en/residenci...

La llegenda de Sant Jordi, recollida i copiada al segle XV per l'arxiver Pere Miquel Carbonell:

Charlé un rato con @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social sobre los comuneros para @elsaltodiario.com. Feliz Villalar a todo el mundo! ⚡🌱🟪 www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...

Happy 2778th birthday, Rome! 👶👶🐺 [Giovanni Paolo Pannini, View of the Forum Looking towards the Capitol, 1751, Oil on canvas, 58 x 94 cm (Private collection)]

When I seemed to display an embarrassing lack of self-knowledge, that was actually a first person narrator. I assure you that I, the author, am fully in on the joke

Fan dels poetes del segle XV que els agradava guerrejar, aquí a Jordi de Sant Jordi embarcant-se a Barcelona amb 4 homes d'armes al seu servei per anar a combatre a Nàpols l'any 1420.

The Politics of Historical Interpretation

Obra maestra. Pantomima Full youtu.be/goe1BCNck6Y?...

📢 Predoctoral post at the @univgirona.bsky.social ! We are looking for a candidate for predoctoral post at the ILCC-UdG. Research is focused on short verse narrative in the Crown of Aragon. 📝 Contact: [email protected]. 🔗 Further information: buff.ly/2VnsWTw @udglletres.bsky.social

Come over if you are in the area!

In TL 7.2, Paula Plastić (U of Adelaide) edits & studies a copy of a royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)—a decree that contributed to the construction of the late queen’s public image. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Beginning Chapter 3 while reading, annotating, and culling references.

I can think of many reasons to read a book in translation #l’aurquil’environa