Thinking today about Hugo Grotius and the mare liberum polemic for apparently no reason.

Now that the ink is dry, it’s a great joy to announce that my book is officially under contract with the good people of Cornell University Press. I’m really elated and honoured to be writing for a press that has done so much for the study of Petrarchan lyric in early modern Europe. More soon!

W. H. Auden.

What’s the title?

Ginzburg at Oxford.

Would love to!

Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!

Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!

Descartes and the Non-Human Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Descartes and the Non-Human

New book out by my colleague (& PhD supervisor) Emma Gilby - on Descartes & the non-human, offering an ecocritical reassessment of Descartes' work & a timely discussion of how his work might help us navigate environmental crises today. Free to download for two weeks! 🌍

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Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 at University of Oxford Discover Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800
University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...

Today’s working spaces.

Today! Come join us at 4:30!

If you’re attending RSA this week, Pablo García Piñar has put together a very exciting panel on disability, bodily deviance, and poetry in the early modern Hispanic world—Do join us! I’ll be talking about the veteran poetics of the Dutch Revolt #RenSA24 #RSA #SRBHP

Sí! Intervengo el sábado por la tarde, en un panel con Nick Jones y Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla sobre poesía y discapacidad. En cualquier caso, nos tomamos algo!

Pintaza! Nos vemos

These are some crazy acknowledgments

Esto está ya casi...

Aldana, entre Dios y el insomnio.

Muchas felicidades, Héctor! Y todo lo mejor en esta nueva aventura

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Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at University of Oxford An opportunity for an academic position as a Chichele Professorship of Medieval History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

🚨JOB | Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College | @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social | The Chichele Professor will play a leading role in researching and teaching Medieval History within the Faculty of History | Closes 3 March

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The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...

Sharing this again because, in my experience of being a union branch leader during a massive, year-long onslaught of redundancy consultations, no one ever brought up the problem of the cost allocation death spiral. I wish I'd had this information in my arsenal. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...

[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.

Seventeenth-century painting of landscape with figures in foreground. Text reads Call for Papers: Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World. 9-10 June 2025. John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester.

CFP for the 'Sleeping Well' @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social end-of-project conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Taking place 9-10 June 2025 at JRRI, Manchester. Details on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!

Around Oxford, this morning.

The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

Brian Stock in “Augustine the Reader”

Si no habéis leído aún _The Melancholy Void_ de Felipe Valencia, aquí quizá encontréis razones para hacerlo:
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