Thank you @hsmurphy.bsky.social and @cemskcl.bsky.social for hosting me - what a great evening!

TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️

Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members. Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded). 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern Join/renew your membership to register. www.rsa.org/events/Event...

A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping.... 🗃️

Our very own, most excellent Alice @ajt55.bsky.social talking about her amazing career and all its achievements, and, most importantly, our KCL Arts and Humanities doctoral school, which she has championed...

My absolute FAVOURITE thing we have done @kingshistory.bsky.social is our new research seminar. External speakers, but also, *mostly* our own colleagues and their research. So far we've had departing colleagues, new Microhistories, and ECRS - we're squeezed like sardines and it is WONDERFUL🗃️

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history! #EarlyModern 🗃️

A total privilege to hear @eicathomefinn.bsky.social's work on imperial family formation - representation, political manipulation, and the ambivalence of its legibility in the context of the EIC and Tipu Sultan. The perfect start to our @ihreurope1500.bsky.social year #EarlyModern 🗃️

I mean, what a term?! What a term card.... So excited, and more excellence to come in the new year.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Genuinely incredible to work in an institution willing to invest in the future of PhD research in arts and humanities - this is a credit to our faculty leadership (@ajt55.bsky.social) and a testament to the vitality of our community... www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Can hardly believe it is GO TIME for our Very Big, Truly Exciting, capstone project conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World. Looking forward to day one.... 🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed

Plantation sick houses and medical neglect - a new blog ahead of our closing conference, written by the extremely excellent Halle-Mackenzie Ashby. We've been following her progress since she participated in our summer school, and it's a true pleasure to see it develop. 🗃️

Really looking forward to the “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World” conference happening in two weeks @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, featuring yours truly, plus @alltoosuman.bsky.social, @meghankroberts.bsky.social, @claireweeda.bsky.social & so many more. Link to register below!

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 🗃️

If you couldn’t get the official zoom link, we can smuggle you in clandestinely. Just follow us, drop a picture of a cool tree, and we’ll DM. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3: www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...

Forgot to post due to travel: a GEM of a source, and an archival discovery by our very own Carolin Schmitz... an incredible inquisitorial record of five separate prosecutions and one very unique testimony by María Felipa, a sometimes free, sometimes enslaved Black healer on the Canary Isles...

To mark tonight’s FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of 🧵), here’s a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ 🧵 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

Sending this book tour off in style at @kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social. There will be (non-alcoholic) drinks, there will be nibbles, there will be friendly conversation and questions aplenty... do come along!

'a complex and contradictory text, which reveals much about proselytising work in Cartagena de Indias, the brutal realities of the trade in enslaved people, as well as the gradual emergence of the fixed categories of Blackness and Whiteness forged through these historical processes.'

I just wrote this small piece for the MMoR blog. Make sure to check out the rest of the posts too. Hannah, Carolin, and Becca have put together a great collection of primary source analysis there!

Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...

My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I have seen a sneak peak of this paper and it is SO GOOD: Treasures, what is treasured, what should be treasured... and all the intimate ways in which early modern people thought about keeping and creating safety in a time of crisis.... Join us on Monday! #EarlyModern 🗃️

New blog post!!! Claudia Geremia on amulets, materiality and syncretic medicine in the early modern Canaries... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/the-mat...

Deadline for submissions this week!!!

Important developments afoot! 🗃️

Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Final week for abstracts. We've had some incredibly exciting proposals already, this is shaping up to be an outsized conference..... #EarlyModern 🗃️

So excited! Do apply!!! 👇

📢The Joyce Youings Annual Memorial Lecture 2024/5 will be delivered by Professor Catherine Hall📢 'Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic' 📆Weds 5 March, 15:30 📍Peter Chalk Centre, Newman Red lecture theatre / Zoom 🧍All welcome! Register: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #EarlyModern 🗃️

European race- & empire-making *as well as* African sovereignty, woven into the extraordinary details of a French Baroque tapestry #earlymodern #slaveryarchive #workinprogress

We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern

Still thinking today about the vivacity of the networks traced by @anastruillou.bsky.social , linking North Africa with port cities across Europe, thinking through the work of material goods, the mobility of people and practice, and the contingence of our notions of 'importance'...

EXCITING! #EarlyModern ists! 🗃️people! Follow @cemskcl.bsky.social for new research, exciting opportunities, and all that is happening at King's....

New term, new year, new research! Join us to learn about @anastruillou.bsky.social's work into the history of American goods in North Africa, 15th-17th centuries... I, for one, cannot wait...

It's a wrap for 2024, (for work at least...) For a look back at what we've been up to with my project at King's, and a glimpse of the year ahead, check out our holiday update www.mmor.co.uk/news/christm... Wishing everyone a very restful winter break.... 🗃️#EarlyModern

About to find out where we are with scholarship on #EarlyModern state and society! That’s A Programme.

So much to take away from this fabulous conference: ‘Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain’. A series of generative panels building to an excellent roundtable and closing remarks from Prof. Michael Braddick. Many thanks to the organisers! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...

Can't remember the last time I was at a conference where everyone was in their seats, panellists and all, eight minutes *before* it's due to start... Keen to rethink state and society in #EarlyModern Britain! 🗃️

A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

I’m guessing that some of that might come out of this fab-sounding conference on 17 December. Though that’s still focusing on state and society (which, admittedly, is encompassing).