Looking for contributions on colonial legacies in contemporary cultural production from a transatlantic perspective.

Topics include slavery, empire, colonial archives, public memory, and plantation legacies.

If this resonates, feel free to reach out — happy to share more details 👇

The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico Art historian Barbara Mundy discusses the Newberry’s renowned first known map of the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlán.

"The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico" -- online and in-person talk with Barbara Mundy at the Newberry Library; May 7th at 6:00 p.m. CST, register here: www.newberry.org/calendar/cor... #HistSTM #earlymodern

Looking forward to this today!
It will be live-streamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs

The Grammar of Angels: Propulsive new account of Renaissance controversies about language, knowledge and the occult Focusing on the life of Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, this is a superbly written effort to capture the power of language to transport us

Delighted to be back in the Irish Times with a short review of The Grammar of Angels, Edward Wilson-Lee's propulsive new book about Pico della Mirandola and Renaissance controversies over language, knowledge and the occult.

🌍🌱 Want to explore the intersection of EM Iberian narratives on China and Southeast Asia with the rise of environmental conflicts driven by Spanish imperialism? 📚 Check out Chapters 1 & 4 of Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives. #earlymodern #envhist

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

CFP: “Faking It - Forgery, Fraud, Deception and Dissimulation in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean”
Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2025 Workshop (Tuesday 10 April & Friday 11 April 2025: Cleveland)

Absolutely! I’m still not ready to see them go 😂

Things they never told you about finishing your PhD: you have to return them 🥴

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De toda la vida se había dicho mariposear, pero no seré yo quien se ponga en plan purista 🌈

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MA-RI-POS-TE-AR 😌

Lovely poster. "Health and social assistance". The old world of charity fading in the background.
By Valencian artist Vicente Ballester Marco for the CNT, 1937

¡Muchas gracias! Ahora me toca hacer múltiples viajes a la biblioteca 😁

Muchas gracias 😊

Thank you 😊

Muchas gracias 😊

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Welp, I’ve successfully defended my dissertation 🫣

Looking forward to it!

#AcademicSky: Please share w/ your networks these ten tips for academics getting started on the Bluesky social network. I'd emphasize "Use ALT TEXT." And I'd add: Don't be afraid to repost your own skeets. Since people only see posts in chron. order, reposting increases their visibility.

Though I couldn’t find a better name, I’ve created this starter pack of scholars working on the "Colonial Transoceanic Hispanophone" and related fields to keep myself updated. Happy to share it with others, just let me know if you'd like to be added!

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