📢New Publication! Thrilled to announce that one key project publication is finally coming out: “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of 'Exile', 'Asylum', and 'Refugee' during the 18th and 19th centuries” in Itinerario, edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social. See 🧵👇
First view of my article in an issue edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social on Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries doi.org/10.1017/S016...
As mentioned in the previous message, this wonderful article by @thomasmareite.bsky.social is part of our special issue in Itinerario. In it, Thomas shows how French refugees from the Haitian Revolutions negotiated their status to receive aid from Cuban authorities...
I am glad to see that the introduction to our special issue has been published. In it, @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I seek to further historicize the category of “refugee.” Early historiography on this topic focused primarily on its modern definition as established by...
... underscoring the malleable nature of Spanish subject status, strategically claimed by some French exiles. The article brings together the social history of exile, the history of imperial governance, and a reflection on the political construction of belonging and rights in the Atlantic world.
It shows how such aid contributed to reconfiguring—and effectively reasserting—colonial regimes of difference within a socially heterogeneous exile population. The analysis highlights the close interplay between imperial belonging, political loyalty, and subjecthood, ...
✍️ Happy to share the publication of this article. It examines the relief policies implemented in Cuba for Spanish subjects from Santo Domingo and former French colonists from Saint-Domingue who remained loyal to Spain, after Santo Domingo's cession to France (1795)
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🗣️ New publication!
In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ...
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@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social @jkeindorf.bsky.social @salmahargal.bsky.social, Sibylle Fourcaud, Jan C. Jansen and ourselves. #RefugeeHistory #MigrationHistory #Exile #Asylum
before its modern legal definition (Geneva convention), as both a tool of governance and as means to claim protection and differentiated rights. We are delighted to bring together in this special issue contributions by @meganmaruschke.bsky.social @annikabaerwald.bsky.social ...
🗣️ New publication!
In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🗣️ J'ai le plaisir de présenter à l'université de Grenade le 26 mars prochain, à 18h15, le fruit de mes recherches actuelles sur les projets de refonte des espaces impériaux français et espagnols dans les Caraïbes à l'âge des révolutions. Lien visio en description👇 #empires #révolutions #Caraïbes
Oh no I just left on Friday, would have love to meet in person, have fun!
« A ver, yo solo conocía la calle »
Interaction ordinaire avec un madrilène autour de la statue du général Martínez Campos (vétéran des guerres espagnoles à Cuba et en Afrique au 19e s.) dans le parc du Retiro à Madrid
🗣️ J'ai le plaisir de présenter à l'université de Grenade le 26 mars prochain, à 18h15, le fruit de mes recherches actuelles sur les projets de refonte des espaces impériaux français et espagnols dans les Caraïbes à l'âge des révolutions. Lien visio en description👇 #empires #révolutions #Caraïbes
Vous pensez que la société française est malade ? Vous avez malheureusement raison… (€)
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Nouveau séjour d’archives à Séville et vraiment la ville est magnifique en toutes saisons 🌞
L’opération actuelle de normalisation voire béatification de l’ultradroite violente est proprement écœurante. À dérouler.
Very happy to see this great article published! 🥳
A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
Un Superbowl Halftime Show anticolonialiste qui s'ouvre sur une image plongeant directement dans la mémoire de l'esclavage à Porto Rico : c'est ce que Bad Bunny a donné au monde dimanche soir. 1/15
Cher•e•s ami•e•s, j’ai le plaisir de vous partager l’appel du colloque « MARITIMITÉ(S) CARAÏBE » que je coorganise avec Jean-Sébastien Guibert et Boris Lesueur ! Nous attendons vos propositions pour le 1er avril !
...showing how a range of local idioms—each carrying distinct legal, political, and sociocultural meanings—shaped inclusion and exclusion, with profound consequences for those caught within them. More contributions are forthcoming, stay tuned! 5/5
... Co-edited by Nicolás and myself over the past three years, the issue will be published online in the coming weeks. Its contributions collectively seek to historicize the category of “refugee” in an age of revolutions and imperial crises.... 4/5
... At stake are larger questions: when does exile truly end, and how are refugees able to reintegrate their communities of departure? This piece is part of a broader special issue on categories of exile and refuge—and their material effects on populations subjected to them (18th & 19th c.)... 3/5
..and how those so designated sought either to embrace or to distance themselves from this label in their efforts to regain full citizenship in Colombia. At stake are larger questions: when does exile truly end, and how are refugees able to reintegrate their communities of departure ?... 2/5
Nicolás’s article makes a major contribution to the study of political exile in newly independent Colombia during the 1820s. It asks who was labeled emigrados by republican authorities, with what concrete legal and political consequences.... 1/5
Pedro Sánchez afirma que España no reconoció al régimen de Maduro, “pero tampoco reconocerá una intervención que viola el derecho internacional”
BONUS: avant les fêtes, Jon Stewart et son équipe démontrait comment les créatures trumpiennes recyclaient le discours neocon de 2002/03 à propos de l’Irak…pour justifier une intervention au Venezuela !
youtu.be/C5QGzYFjVaU?...
📢#CfP for #PhD and (early) #postdoctoral researchers in #refugee #history: "Historicizing the Refugee Experience (17th-21st Centuries): Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies", Vienna, 25-28 Sep 2026! Extended deadline: 15 Jan. 2026! Apply now