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Mario Graña Taborelli

@mgrana.bsky.social

PhD. Fellow. Centre for Empire Studies. Universitat Munster. Germany. He/Him Political and legal cultures. Frontiers. Globality, locality, and their tensions. Early Modern Iberian Worlds. Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social

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In the latest publication of our Canoa, María Jesús Benites, professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, invites us to explore the European imagination on the Río de la Plata and its connections with the Strait of Magellan and Patagonia.

31.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance, by Bernd Roeck and translated by Patrick Baker

The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance, by Bernd Roeck and translated by Patrick Baker

Bernd Roeck’s “ambitious, powerful global history of the European Renaissance" The World at First Light is reviewed in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

28.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We invite you to the colloquium "Penser le monde, écrire pour dominer? Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas et l’entreprise géo-historiographique des Habsbourg d’Espagne (1580-1625)", on November 6th and 7th, in Paris. Some members of Geopam will participate in the event. Check it out!

28.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.

It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

27.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 38    🔁 42    💬 0    📌 2
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Court Cultures, 1000-1900. Experiences, Entanglements, Environments The series " Court Cultures, 1000–1900 " invites interdisciplinary proposals – from disciplines such as, but not limited to, history, art history, literature, archaeology, political science and diplom...

“Court Cultures, 1000-1900: Experiences, Entanglements, Environments”, De Gruyter-Brill.
CfP: degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
#courtculturesbookseries #courtstudies #degruyterbrillpublishing

22.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Le formulaire d'inscription pour assister à la journée « Marc Bloch, l'historien dans la cité » est désormais accessible :
www.eventbrite.fr/e/marc-bloch...

22.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Had problems all weekend, Amanda. Either it doesn't load the files or loads them partially. It is very annoying....

06.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico with Martin Nesvig Spotify video

A podcast with HAHR author Martin Austin Nesvig discussing witchcraft and the Inquisition in 16th-century Mexico. open.spotify.com/episode/7FRy...

06.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Fellowships – The Rhode Island Historical Society

Research fellowships at the Rhode Island Historical Society! Come spend some time in Providence in 2026. Applications due 12/23/25

05.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 15    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.

Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
link.springer.com/referencewor...

05.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Funded Research Fellowships Pursue your research with the Warburg Institute’s world-renowned collections.

Applications are open for our funded fellowships!

📚 Long- and short-term fellowships in cultural, intellectual & art history
🎨 New Frances A Yates Curatorial Fellowship
📚 Joint fellowship with Villa I Tatti

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...

#ResearchFellowship #CulturalHistory

01.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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What should I read about French and English economic policy (“mercantilism”) in the second half of the seventeenth-century, particularly regarding (what else?) sugar and tobacco? I’ve read some old and new works, but I’m sure I’m missing many. @wadehistory.bsky.social @roperlou.bsky.social

30.09.2025 10:57 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

30.09.2025 08:27 — 👍 252    🔁 70    💬 12    📌 9
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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

29.09.2025 07:44 — 👍 26    🔁 47    💬 0    📌 1
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Say hello to INSIDE ABSTRACTION: INTERPRETING INKA VISUAL CULTURE, on shelves now! 🧵

This exploration of #Inka visual culture takes a new stance, and proposes that Abstract Inka art is not meant to be decoded, nor does it have hidden messages.

#booksky

29.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

29.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 2596    🔁 1634    💬 40    📌 177
Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

22.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

27.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 58    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 7
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm 
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ 
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

25.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 51    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 5
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🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

26.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 62    🔁 46    💬 0    📌 0
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History’s role in guiding NC students - Public Ed Works EDITOR’S NOTE: The State Archives of North Carolina will host a free public discussion among four distinguished UNC-Chapel Hill historians on teaching the Foundations of American Democracy from 5:30-7...

“Our students need … deep context to fulfill their role as citizens, and to feel that they have a stake in the future of the country we share.” www.publicedworks.org/2025/09/hist...

25.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

🐝 Beekeeping was a staple of early modern how-to books. A new blog post by @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the changing tone of English apicultural books...

#beekeeping #bookhistory

24.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Image of badges with caption: 'I know the value of history', plus text: We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognises the scholarly contribution of historians  working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

Image of badges with caption: 'I know the value of history', plus text: We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognises the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge.

We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

24.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 26    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

24.09.2025 08:36 — 👍 51    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Shakespeare family will found by historian - The National Archives Red sealing wax seal and string on 1642 parchment will of Thomas Nash

I found a Shakespeare record. I'm trying to be cool about it (but it is pretty exciting). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/s...

04.09.2025 16:25 — 👍 40    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 3
The image has pink and brown design elements, the JCB logo, and the text "Fellowship opportunities- Apply now!"

The image has pink and brown design elements, the JCB logo, and the text "Fellowship opportunities- Apply now!"

We have just launched our new application cycle for long- and short-term fellowships at the JCB!

Details at jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

23.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 10    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

19.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 64    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1
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Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

21.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 56    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 4
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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

Academia.com account gone... unfortunately, they have changed the terms and conditions in such a manner that authors will be left with almost no rights over their works, etc

20.09.2025 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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