@mboluferp.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History at @eui-eu.bsky.social Former PI of CIRGEN (ERC 787015) https://cirgen.eu/ Now researching emotions, correspondence, gender and empire at @eui-history.bsky.social
Andrew S. Curran: ¿Quién es negro y por qué? Biografía de una idea peligrosa, clionauta.hypotheses.org/57943
¿Por qué la Ilustración llegó a tener opiniones tan racistas ?, ¿por qué estas ideas solo surgieron durante el siglo XVIII, más de dos siglos después del inicio de la trata ?
Happy to share my essay on how 18c defenses of gender equality combined Enlightenment arguments with others drawn from the Bible.
Now OA in German 🇩🇪
(Spanish version also on Cadmus, Italian and English ones forthcoming)
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Next week, on Thursday 12 February, we will discuss how to use archival material in our next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social seminar.
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Tomorrow!!!
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Just arrived! Ed. José M. Imízcoz, Andoni Artola & Javier Esteban.
I contribute w. a chapter on tensions and interplays between tradition and modernity, popular and elite culture in 18c Spain.
”El proceso de civilización y sus paradojas. Tensiones y diálogos culturales".
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Here the full programme.
👑King Arthur and his knights would be proud of it!
Honoured to be part of the programme of the Oval Table of Early Modern History, Istituto Italo-Germanico-FBK, Trento.
I'll talk next Thursday 29 Jan on
"Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence."
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Happy to have had this long conversation with PhD researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid about my career and experience. Always encouraging to feel so much passion and interest in early-career scholars.
¡Gracias, Alberto y Mario!
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La canción más triste/The saddest song.
Robe Iniesta (1962-2025), singer, poet and composer, left us today.
"He llorado tanto,/he llorado tan adentro,/he llorado tanto, tanto/que he apagado hasta el infierno".
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Two intense days of discussions on Letters and the Politics of Emotion ended yesterday in a convivial atmosphere.
Thanks to my co-organisers Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera, to Francesca Parenti, our guests, discussants & participants.
Grazie/gràcies/obrigada/gracias!
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#Tribune ✍️
📖 La famille Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens (Guillaume Calafat (@annales.ehess.fr), Isabelle Backouche (@crh.ehess.fr), Etienne Anheim (CRH), Christian Ingrao (@doccespra.bsky.social)…), pour rappeler l'incompatibilité du RN avec L’Étrange Défaite.
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✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires.
With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.
🚨 Save the date for this year's Ursula Hirschmann lecture which will be given by Dr Viviane Reding at the
@eui-eu.bsky.social!👇
A whiteboard covered in posters advertising seminars and announcing upcoming PhD defenses.
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.
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Thanks to Silvia Sebastiani for an incredible lecture last week at our Cultural History Seminar (co-convened with my colleague Carlotta Sorba) on the boundaries of humanity and the implications that 18c discussion on apes had on debates about gender, race and slavery.
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📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
Yesterday Carlotta Sorba and I were delighted to host Giulia Calvi as guest speaker at our Cultural History Seminar. Our PhD researchers discussed with her bodies and appearances as key to globalization and resistances, as well as how to interpret visual sources.
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Thks to Trashumante. Revista Americana de Historia Social for reviewing our book Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long 18c (Palgrave, 2024)
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The book is OA here:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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⏰ The deadline to apply for #EUI postdoctoral fellowship programmes is fast approaching!
Don't miss out on the chance to become part of a world-class academic community 👥📚
Apply now at: https://loom.ly/WmotZrE
Join us for the presentation (in Italian) of Giulia Calvi's book "Vestire il mondo. Una storia globale di abiti, corpi, immaginari"!👗👘👢🌍🌎🌏
🕔 6th Ottober, 17,30h
📍Biblioteca delle Oblate, Firenze
Already a (very full) year at the EUI and starting with pleasure the new academic year 2025-26.
1st-year researchers, fellows, faculty and staff will be meeting tomorrow at the Inaugural Workshop of the Departament of History:
www.eui.eu/events?id=56...
Don't miss it!
Equality conflicts, the history of pesticides, migrations and intimacy, early modern capitalism, and much more
🎓 📃 Check the programme of our Monthly Research Meetings 👇
and register to join us (in person or online) 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM
We are eager to engage in discussions on our ongoing research
Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity?
📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27
🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY
🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST
🚨 #postdoc
Happy and proud to share this news!
My friend the distinguished early modern historian María Ángeles Pérez Samper has received the Spanish National Award for Gastronomy Research and Innovation for her cutting-edge work on food history.
Felicidades/felicitats!
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Wonderful two days of discussions and happy conviviality around translation, exiles and migration in beautiful and sunny Wolfenbüttel. Thanks to Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social, to Thomas Munck and to HAB for their hospitality. Proud to make part of this group!
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The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
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🔎 Are you a senior #historian interested in pursuing a research stay with us?
⏱️ You still have 1 month to apply for our Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
🚨Learn more about the procedure and apply by 30 September 2025 👉 loom.ly/YU09tLg
📣 #fellowship #EUI #History
We could not be happier and more grateful to @global-ih.bsky.social and to @hernandez-sau.bsky.social !
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