A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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@hsmurphy.bsky.social
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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Our very own, most excellent Alice @ajt55.bsky.social talking about her amazing career and all its achievements, and, most importantly, our KCL Arts and Humanities doctoral school, which she has championed...
16.10.2025 13:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My absolute FAVOURITE thing we have done @kingshistory.bsky.social is our new research seminar. External speakers, but also, *mostly* our own colleagues and their research. So far we've had departing colleagues, new Microhistories, and ECRS - we're squeezed like sardines and it is WONDERFULποΈ
08.10.2025 15:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
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An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!
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A total privilege to hear @eicathomefinn.bsky.social's work on imperial family formation - representation, political manipulation, and the ambivalence of its legibility in the context of the EIC and Tipu Sultan. The perfect start to our @ihreurope1500.bsky.social year
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I mean, what a term?! What a term card.... So excited, and more excellence to come in the new year....
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And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social
23.09.2025 12:21 β π 9 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!
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2) A two year post on visual culture (leading to an exhibition)
19.09.2025 14:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!
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Genuinely incredible to work in an institution willing to invest in the future of PhD research in arts and humanities - this is a credit to our faculty leadership (@ajt55.bsky.social) and a testament to the vitality of our community...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.
25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"
26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"
Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
Screenshot of programme for day 1 of conference
Can hardly believe it is GO TIME for our Very Big, Truly Exciting, capstone project conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World. Looking forward to day one....
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Plantation sick houses and medical neglect - a new blog ahead of our closing conference, written by the extremely excellent Halle-Mackenzie Ashby. We've been following her progress since she participated in our summer school, and it's a true pleasure to see it develop.
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Unfortunately, it's not possible to live stream this time, so sorry...
01.05.2025 11:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Really looking forward to the βMedicine, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic Worldβ conference happening in two weeks @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, featuring yours truly, plus @alltoosuman.bsky.social, @meghankroberts.bsky.social, @claireweeda.bsky.social & so many more. Link to register below!
30.04.2025 20:05 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...
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If you couldnβt get the official zoom link, we can smuggle you in clandestinely. Just follow us, drop a picture of a cool tree, and weβll DM.
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For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
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Forgot to post due to travel: a GEM of a source, and an archival discovery by our very own Carolin Schmitz... an incredible inquisitorial record of five separate prosecutions and one very unique testimony by MarΓa Felipa, a sometimes free, sometimes enslaved Black healer on the Canary Isles...
28.04.2025 14:25 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Four hand-drawn, colored squares contain a person standing on a stag; a person with a nose and mouth in the chest, eyes in the shoulders, and no head; a person with a face in the chest and no head; and a person holding up a very long lip.
To mark tonightβs FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of π§΅), hereβs a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ π§΅
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Sending this book tour off in style at @kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social. There will be (non-alcoholic) drinks, there will be nibbles, there will be friendly conversation and questions aplenty... do come along!
28.04.2025 14:22 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0'a complex and contradictory text, which reveals much about proselytising work in Cartagena de Indias, the brutal realities of the trade in enslaved people, as well as the gradual emergence of the fixed categories of Blackness and Whiteness forged through these historical processes.'
01.04.2025 09:25 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I just wrote this small piece for the MMoR blog. Make sure to check out the rest of the posts too. Hannah, Carolin, and Becca have put together a great collection of primary source analysis there!
01.04.2025 13:14 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern ποΈ
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...
My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History.
Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I have seen a sneak peak of this paper and it is SO GOOD: Treasures, what is treasured, what should be treasured... and all the intimate ways in which early modern people thought about keeping and creating safety in a time of crisis.... Join us on Monday!
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