Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez

It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️

CFP Inter-Revolutionary Latin America: Radical Literature and Internationalism from 1910 to 1959.

Excited to share the CFP for this fantastic volume co-edited by my colleague @pavelandrade.bsky.social. More details in the link below, and please share widely and consider submitting your work!

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One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social!

Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥

So looking forward to this tomorrow!

Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!

Join us in Toronto, in January 2026, for one of these exciting panels at the MLA Conference. Please do send us your proposals before March 20th.

Congratulations!!🎊

The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!

My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?

Interpreting slavery: translation, bondage, and alienability in the early colonial Andes Between 1561 and 1563, the mestizo interpreter Antón Ruiz was accused of inciting a series of protests that took hold of Cuzco in the context of ‘the perpetuity controversy’—a conflict over the per...

In the latest issue of CLAR, I publish an article about the fuzzy word of colonial translation, early modern debates about slavery and the encomienda, and the story of a mestizo interpreter who allegedly caused a riot for mistranslating one word (!). doi.org/10.1080/1060...

Speaking of the ongoing fight, healing and truth telling, don’t forget to RSVP! @bibliophilenick.bsky.social @sierramatute.bsky.social www.kjcc.org/event/to-cer...

Qué frío tenemos por aquí, pero siempre en buena compañía 🫶

My new article is out!
Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core -
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Learn about Atlantic Studies Learn about Atlantic Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

I joined the editorial board of the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. It is great to be part of such a fantastic scholarly team (I admire my Atlanticist colleagues so much!). If you write about the Atlantic world, send us your work!
😃👍🏾#Skystorians www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...

This is a photo of the covers of three books: 1/ Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Hispanic Atlantic; 2/ Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature 1500-1750; 3/ Cervantine Blackness

Something is cooking: will soon be in conversation w/ magnificent & inspiring @bibliophilenick.bsky.social & Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, reading & discussing each other's new books & value of interdisciplinary convos. More details soon, but if you happen to be in Madrid on 25 Feb, save the date!

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Volume 33, Issue 3 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Out now with free-access review dossier "Asia-Latin America: a critical corpus" guest-edited by Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Check out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c... #LatinAmerica #Asia #culture #journals

If you’re attending AHA in NYC, please join us for a discussion on mobility, legal mobilization, and race in the early modern Iberian Pacific-Atlantic, with Jane Landers, Juan Manuel Ramirez and Diego Luis. 1:30pm! @historians.org

Morning coffee with dearest Kathy McKnight in ABQ, catching up on life and the field of colonial Latin American literatures ❤️

Will you attend the AHA conference in NYC? If so, and you are interested in mobility, political negotiation, and resistance in the early modern Iberian world, please attend my panel, “Global Mobilities,” with Jane Landers, Diego Luis, and Juanma Ramirez on January 3 at 1:30 pm! @historians.org

First “tweet” on this app: What a beautiful exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado

🚨Job alert! We're hiring a director of the Portuguese language program. I'm not on the committee but am happy to answer any general questions about the dept, uni, etc.
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Esculent Food Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly

New #food podcast alert 🚨Our very first episode of the Thinking Food show is live! Our amazing postdoc Elizabeth talks to Chef Martin Draluck about the history of slavery, African American cuisine, and speculative cooking. Give it some love! 😍🐔

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Qué emoción! Súper bien merecido, Dr.!🤩🥳😍

Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds This book is an interdisciplinary edited collection that seeks to recognize the radical importance of sound, and centre it in discussions in the field of early modern studies.   Bringing together a co...

One month to go! Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds hits the shelves soon!

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Enhorabuena, querido Víctor!🤩🥳

Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: Debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: Debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales

El número más reciente de ‘Hispanic Issues On Line’ está dedicado a las #HumanidadesMédicas. Participo con un artículo sobre pérdida y duelo en el filme ‘Hijo de monarcas’. #accesoabierto. cla.umn.edu/hispanic-iss...

Biocosmism – Vanderbilt University Press Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, ...

“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP!

It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.

www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...

Interested in studying and researching the Latine/a/o, Caribbean, or Latin American world? Apply for an MA in El Instituto: Institute of Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies in the University of Connecticut.

Interested in studying and researching the Latine/a/o, Caribbean, or Latin American world? Apply for an MA in El Instituto: Institute of Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies in the University of Connecticut!

I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join!

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