Meet our #SummerSchool convenors M'hamed Oualdi and Alexia Yates! 👉 loom.ly/2Pz1AZA
Check their profiles and apply for our #SummerSchool 👇
Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present
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📆 16-18 Sep 2026
🌐 Online
👩🎓 For MA students or recent MA graduates
⏰ Apply by 3 May
Interested in learning more about our #PhD opportunities, but don't know who to ask?
On 25 May, meet our researchers and faculty at the EUI Virtual Open Week!
Register on the link below 👇
🎓 #historysky #skystorians
Some pics yesterday at the symposium celebrating the 300th anniversary of B. J. Feijoo's "Defense of women" (1726) in the first volume of his essay-collection 'Critical Theatre of Common Errors'. Enlightening discussions of traditions & modernities, receptions & reuses.
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Just arrived in Madrid to participate in this symposium on Benito J. Feijoo's "Defense of women de las mujeres" (1726), its context and uses, organised by colleagues in Philosophy (20-21 April, UAM).
I'll talk about its transnational circulation and reinterpretations.
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Tomorrow I will be talking from this beautiful island about islands and imaginary travels through letters and reading at yet another historical venue, palazzo Ingrassia.
I can never get enough of Sicily!
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Today it was my pleasure to inaugurate the series "Pensare la storia moderna" at Università di Catania with a lecture on women, Catholicism and Enlightenment, at a very appropriate venue: "le Verginelle", in the 17c a school for girls. Great debate! Grazie, Cinzia Recca.
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El próximo viernes, 17 de abril, el Equipo HISTOPIA organiza su taller online sobre "Utopismo en las culturas originarias de América y África", en el marco del proyecto de investigación DeColtopia ("Descolonizar la utopía: utopismo no occidental, anticolonial y decolonial", PID2024-157039NB-I00).
El próximo miércoles, 15 de abril, estaremos en la Universidad de Sevilla hablando de cimarrones y palenques en la historia de América Latina.
In a few days I will be in Catania with two lectures (in Italian) for master's students and colleagues on women, Enlightenment and Catholicism, and on islands and imaginary travels.
Do join us if you happen to be in the city on 16th and 17th April!
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📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY
📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature
What role can history play in reimagining knowledge beyond Eurocentric perspectives?
🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Join the debate at our #SummerSchool :
Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present
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📆 16-18 Sept 2026
🌐 Online
👩🎓 Open to MA students or recent MA graduates
⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026
🤔 What do we really mean when we call something “natural”?
Join our researchers and faculty grappling with this question at La Storia in Piazza, a public history festival co-organised by our own Carlotta Sorba
🗓️ 26-29 March 2026
📍 Genoa, Italy
📜 Programme (in Italian) 👉 loom.ly/QElzI2k
Andrew S. Curran: ¿Quién es negro y por qué? Biografía de una idea peligrosa, clionauta.hypotheses.org/57943
¿Por qué la Ilustración llegó a tener opiniones tan racistas ?, ¿por qué estas ideas solo surgieron durante el siglo XVIII, más de dos siglos después del inicio de la trata ?
Happy to share my essay on how 18c defenses of gender equality combined Enlightenment arguments with others drawn from the Bible.
Now OA in German 🇩🇪
(Spanish version also on Cadmus, Italian and English ones forthcoming)
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Next week, on Thursday 12 February, we will discuss how to use archival material in our next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social seminar.
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Tomorrow!!!
Just arrived! Ed. José M. Imízcoz, Andoni Artola & Javier Esteban.
I contribute w. a chapter on tensions and interplays between tradition and modernity, popular and elite culture in 18c Spain.
”El proceso de civilización y sus paradojas. Tensiones y diálogos culturales".
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Here the full programme.
👑King Arthur and his knights would be proud of it!
Honoured to be part of the programme of the Oval Table of Early Modern History, Istituto Italo-Germanico-FBK, Trento.
I'll talk next Thursday 29 Jan on
"Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence."
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Happy to have had this long conversation with PhD researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid about my career and experience. Always encouraging to feel so much passion and interest in early-career scholars.
¡Gracias, Alberto y Mario!
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La canción más triste/The saddest song.
Robe Iniesta (1962-2025), singer, poet and composer, left us today.
"He llorado tanto,/he llorado tan adentro,/he llorado tanto, tanto/que he apagado hasta el infierno".
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Two intense days of discussions on Letters and the Politics of Emotion ended yesterday in a convivial atmosphere.
Thanks to my co-organisers Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera, to Francesca Parenti, our guests, discussants & participants.
Grazie/gràcies/obrigada/gracias!
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#Tribune ✍️
📖 La famille Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens (Guillaume Calafat (@annales.ehess.fr), Isabelle Backouche (@crh.ehess.fr), Etienne Anheim (CRH), Christian Ingrao (@doccespra.bsky.social)…), pour rappeler l'incompatibilité du RN avec L’Étrange Défaite.
✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires.
With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.
🚨 Save the date for this year's Ursula Hirschmann lecture which will be given by Dr Viviane Reding at the
@eui-eu.bsky.social!👇
A whiteboard covered in posters advertising seminars and announcing upcoming PhD defenses.
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.
Thanks to Silvia Sebastiani for an incredible lecture last week at our Cultural History Seminar (co-convened with my colleague Carlotta Sorba) on the boundaries of humanity and the implications that 18c discussion on apes had on debates about gender, race and slavery.
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📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
Yesterday Carlotta Sorba and I were delighted to host Giulia Calvi as guest speaker at our Cultural History Seminar. Our PhD researchers discussed with her bodies and appearances as key to globalization and resistances, as well as how to interpret visual sources.
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