Cécile Fromont

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📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣

Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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✨Félicitations!! ✨Looking forward to seeing it in the world!

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Sharing some work (long) in progress today at @hutchinscenter.bsky.social Also in livestream Join us if you can!

I want to say a bit more about our initiative to hire scholars to 3yr Research Associate positions.

None of us know what the twinning of humanities research support and employment will look like in another 5(?) years. But we do know that we need it. As a matter of social and cultural health. 1/

Hoping there is a book in there somewhere #writing

Original broadside printing of the Haitian Declaration of Independence. The document is titled "Liberté ou la Mort" and "Armée Indigène," and it is held by the National Archives of the United Kingdom (call number MFQ 1/184).

On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹

Picture embroidered & signed by Martha Hollis, England, 1660.
Aged 10.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Sammy Baloji and Cécile Fromont, “Rethreaded Indies”, part of the exhibition ‘Shapeshifters: On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation’ (2025) at @framerframed.nl Photo: Maarten Nauw

Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola So calm was the river that the glassy surface coolly mirrored the straight reeds growing on its desolate shores. Not a breeze shuffled the plants or ruffle

Yes. Woolens in Kongo for sure. Some qualitative thoughts on that here doi.org/10.1111/1467... and in uncpress.org/978146964124...

💫 so great to hear! And in the best of best companies too 💫

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs

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From 15-10 to 11-01, we proudly present 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝑂𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, an exhibition examining how colonialism shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood, revealing the (im)material scars imposed by systemic violence.

The artists use their work as a device to unsettle fixed narratives, confront entrenched systems of power and open space for alternative ways of knowing, relating and being in the world. Join us for the opening on 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫!

https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/

Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:

bit.ly/4q4UGvD

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

Oh, yes, please!! Wish I could see it.

Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros.

Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine.

The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap

Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.

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Friday, 3pm. Having more or less caught up with the most pressing pending tasks, the researcher can now turn to their attention to own research and writing for the week.

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

Application deadline for these @rsaorg.bsky.social fellowships coming up next week! 👇 #Renaissance #earlymodern

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Outre-mer. Can’t wait to read it!

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.

I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
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