Aquesta setmana / this week!

In vol. 8, no. 2, Lluís Cabré and Jaume Torró (ILCC-U de Girona) reflect on the casuistry of error in the transmission of poetry while emending a number of passages in medieval Catalan verse. DOI: doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

📢 El pròxim 14 d'abril se celebrarà una sessió de #SLIM. Jordi Bossoms presentarà «Sobre les malalties agudes: estudi i edició del conjunt d’obres atribuïdes a Arnau de Vilanova basades en el 'Regimen auctorum' d'Hipòcrates». 📅 14.04 ⏲️ 18 h 🔗 buff.ly/Zoe55hg

Isaac Asimov, writing in 1957, was strangely prescient about the debates regarding the impact of AI on intellectual work.

Coming up soon...

CFP: La literatura en societat als segles XV-XVI: autors, lectors i impremta / La literatura en sociedad durante los siglos XV-XVI: autores, lectores e imprenta, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Propostes fins el 25 de maig de 2026. literaturaensocietat.uji.es

I’ve always disliked large conferences bc they’re overwhelming. But I go for a number of reasons including my favorite: moments like this one where I found myself w a beloved colleague poring over the Medieval Academy Fellows’ book & squealing w delight as we got to the page w Panofsky’s signature.

A couple of photos from the 101st Meeting of the MAA. It's been an amazing experience of teamwork that has lasted for months. Kudos to all! My special thanks go to Jen Adams for her leadership and to Jesús Rodríguez Velasco for an outstanding plenary and dedication during the event.

In honor of the Medieval Academy of America's conference here, UMass's Special Collections & University Archives has mounted an exhibition, co-curated by Abby Klug & Genny Dorgan (I helped a little), and featuring some of the wonderful work done by students in my manuscripts seminar last year!

CFP: Conditional Emancipation or Emancipatory Restrictions in Medieval Iberian Literature 2027 MLA Annual Convention LLC Medieval Iberian Forum Paper proposals due Friday, March 20th #CFP #medievalsky #medieval #emancipation #MLA #MLA2027 #Iberian #literature

Aquest no sé si posar-lo amb els altres boccaccios o amb les altres traduccions del Pau. Vosaltres com ho feu?

My first foray into disciplinary reflection coming up soon in this volume: brill.com/display/titl...

New deadline to submit proposals, March 15, 2026.

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

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

I'm very grateful to Emily C. Francomano, Sol Miguel-Prendes, and @albertlloret.bsky.social for their thoughtful responses to _Alone Together_ in the latest issue of La corónica. It's hard to express the feeling of being read with such sensitivity and critical acumen. I learned a lot about my book!

It was a long-simmering and deepening dismay with what this post describes that motivated me and @cnygren.bsky.social to propose this as one of our four frictions. www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Pésimo título, que no os distraiga. Un poco escrito a lo Isabel Gómez Melenchón. www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2026021...

I see that it just appeared in Spanish. But the English version is very much true to their podcast: 21st-Century Baroque prose full of sassy pop twists.

Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

Rellegint Homenots 2a sèrie més de 20 anys després, em sorprenen aquestes col·laboracions generoses i profitoses gràcies a compromisos polítics o ideològics per interessos comuns (Coromines estudiant amb Menéndez Pidal; F.B. Moll treballant amb mossèn Alcover).

Muntar una impremta per publicar un diccionari. Muntar una empresa per finançar-ne la impressió.

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

"In this essay I will" - spoilers - over-confident - rigid, boring "In this essay I *might*" - creates suspense - nonchalant - adventurous, fun

In the first article of vol. 8 (2026), Daniel Álvarez Gómez (U Europaea, Andorra) edits and studies Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation into Latin of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_ . doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Miquel Joseph i Mayol fue un impresor y exiliado catalán que publicó un interesante manual de Com es fa un llibre: Diccionari de les arts gràfiques (1979) que incluye un amplio vocabulario técnico en catalán. Resuelve dudas como 'Cuántas letras entran en una línea de composición'

L‘estudi de les llengües romàniques la universitat americana. Les magnituds han canviat, però el judici és exacte.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

We are now accepting submissions for volume 8 (2026).

As 2025 draws to a close, let’s take a look at the research Translat Library has published over the past year. 👇👇👇

The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”. ‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin. Pairs like this are called doublets. Episode 7 of my series: Catalan. Next: Galician.

Catalans abonyegats, us ho diuen a vosaltres:

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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months. We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd

I translated a couple of texts from 16th-C. Spanish for this anthology on “Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765,“ edited by my colleague in the Philosophy Department, Julia Jorati. The entire book looks terrific. Take a look: academic.oup.com/book/61633

Working on this was a lot of fun! Kudos to @translatlibrary.bsky.social for the wonderful editorial process.

In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

💥Han entrevistat al Mésnit de @3catinfo.bsky.social a Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, autora d'UN NOSALTRES SENSE ESTAT! Aquí teniu l'entrevista completa:

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Doctoral funding opportunities here at the University of Birmingham: “We are delighted to launch our PhD funding opportunities for arts, humanities and law doctoral study at the University of Birmingham.

CFP: Les Metamorfosis d’Ovidi a través del temps: paratextos, traduccions i iconografia (Universitat de Barcelona, July 2-3). Deadline: January 15, 2026.

REMINDER -- CFP Hispanic Studies - Medieval, Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, 16-19 Apr. 2026. For more information, contact Christina Ivers ([email protected]) or Isidro Rivera ([email protected]) or click on the following link: lcclacoronica.org/announcement...