Dr. Héctor Linares

Students of Global Humanities, enrolled in Prof. Linares' courses, visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today, discovering numerous primary sources for their final research projects.

Profs. Lasdow and Linares lead the annual Workshop on “How to apply to Graduate School,” which provides undergraduate students across the College of Arts & Sciences with insight into navigating the graduate school application process.

On Tuesday, October 7th, the Department of Global Humanities will celebrate its annual Open House! Please stop by to know our department, courses, majors, programs, and Faculty!

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The department is organizing a workshop to guide students to apply for Graduate School! All information in the poster below 👇

Please join us on September 23 from 12:30 to 2pm at Tremont 1102 for the research Seminar “Troubling the Bounds of Empire,” organized by Dr. Linares and with the participation of wonderful scholars such as Chase Smith (UCLA), Joe Bienko (PSU), and Keith Richards (Tulane).

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

My latest article on Barbara de Atahualpa explores the letters that a nine-year old Inca girl sent to Spanish monarch Philip III to revindicate the memory of Inca Atahualpa. @16csociety.bsky.social

Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific.

We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested

www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍
SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world.
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Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

What a month in Chicago! I spent 4 weeks as a fellow of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. I met so many nice people and found plenty of documents for my book! 📖

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Glad you like it! :)

Thank you, dear Mario!! ☺️

Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama - Volume 81 Issue 4

Historian @hectorlinares.bsky.social‬ traces Antón’s story through letters as well as legal and administrative records, showing how some Afro-descendants navigated colonial institutions to claim honor, status, and citizenship. 📝 Read more in Vol 81, Issue 4: bit.ly/3DXIucs

I just finished reading López Fadul’s wonderful book. She demonstrates the critical role of etymology in Spanish imperial building and governance, arguing that it served as an archive of knowledge.

CFP: 44th Annual Medieval Studies Conference
Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University
February 27-March 1, 2026

Theme: "Boundaries, Crossings, and Crossroads in the Medieval Iberian Worlds (500-1600)."

mvstconference.ace.fordham.edu/iberianworlds/

Backed by the Audiencia de Panamá and King Philip II, he not only received manumission but was also granted a royal pension and the right to bear arms. These privileges recognized his calidad (status) and subverted the colonial power dynamic between enslaved and enslaver.

Antón Zape, an enslaved African from Sierra Leone, secured his freedom in 1584 after years of military service to the Spanish Crown in Panama. His case reveals the many strategies of Afro-descendants "to live their own lives and achieve their own goals under imperialism."
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If you missed the #Slaveryarchive Book Club today (tonight) with our dear Chloe Ireton on her great book Slavery and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2025), you can watch the entire discussion on our channel www.youtube.com/live/oVrV5ah...

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Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an eighteenth-century library that crisscrossed the Atlantic This study examines the “life” of an eighteenth-century private library that migrated from Spain to New Spain in 1765 and returned, greatly reduced, back to Europe in 1772. The collection’s owner w...

My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My chapter on João de Sá, the African knight of the Order of Santiago in Chafariz del Rei, is now out in the new, marvelous Routledge Companion to Race and Visual Production. Through visual and documentary analysis, I demonstrate that João de Sá is indeed the Black knight depicted in this painting.

My chapter on João de Sá, the African knight of the Order of Santiago in Chafariz del Rei, is now out in the new, marvelous Routledge Companion to Race and Visual Production. Through visual and documentary analysis, I demonstrate that João de Sá is indeed the Black knight depicted in this painting.

📣 The RSA San Francisco 2026 Calls for Papers submission form is now open! Submit your CfPs by August 15 to organize sessions for our Annual Meeting being held February 19–21, 2026. The Public Index of Calls for Papers is also online: www.rsa.org/news/701177/... #RenSA26 #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Gratis books: I'm giving up to 3 copies of the paperback of `Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs' gratis to interested PhD students, ERC or Independent researchers.

Write a comment below: 1st-come, 1st-served basis.

(Happy to post UK &Abroad; postal expenses allowing).