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Miriam Franchina

@barlafuess.bsky.social
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Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan. Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪 independentresearcher.academia.edu/…

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
MPIDR@ALAP2026 Last day of the conference. Last MPIDR presentation. Don't miss! Friday 29 August | 🕑 8:30 am📍 Educon A309 🗣️ Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Measuring the Overlap with Ancestors Throughout the Life Course of the Swedish Cohorts 1751—2000 #ALAP2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026
Friday 29 August | Viernes, 28 de Agosto
🕑 8:30 am📍 Educon A309
🗣️ Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Presentation
Measuring the Overlap with Ancestors Throughout the Life Course of the Swedish Cohorts 1751—2000
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#Kunstgeschichte -Comm. Kann jmd diesen emaillierten #Glasbecher mitm Wappen des Kronprinzen Jacques-Victor Henry einordnen? (1826 aus #Haiti nach 🇮🇹 mitgebracht.) Vermutung: #Ranftbecher aus dem Umfeld Gottlob S. Mohn & Anton Kothgasser. Jeder Hinweis wäre hilfreich. Danke! #Glaskunst #Biedermeier
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz @kulturspk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Am 7.6. steht die Museumsinsel Berlin im Zeichen der Demokratie. Gemeinsam mit @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, der Hertie-Stiftung, der Stiftung Berliner Mauer, dem Schwulen Museum und weiteren Partnern sprechen wir über Freiheit, Weltoffenheit und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Programm: www.mi200.de
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#CfP for #skystorians "Negotiating African Christian Pasts in #Renaissance Europe: Transcontinental #KnowledgeProduction, Representation, and Power" 🗓️ 10–11 June 2027 📌 Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz (🇩🇪) ➡️ Deadline: 31 July 2026 ⬅️ tinyurl.com/4rc3cafj
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CfP: „Negotiating African Christian Pasts in Renaissance Europe: Transcontinental Knowledge Production, Representation, and Power“ - Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)
This conference, organised by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, focuses on how knowledge about African Christianities was transmitted and circulated within the intellectual landscape...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tomorrow for zoom: events.gbz@hu-berlin.de
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🗓️Wed. 20 May, from 2pm 📍@humboldtuni.bsky.social Centre for British Studies, Berlin (or online) I'll be discussing my last paper (when I still wore the historian's hat) ➡️ Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DYGZK... ⬅️
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz @kulturspk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Neben Museumsinsel, Kulturforum und den Museen Dahlem hat Berlin nun einen vierten Kultur-Hotspot: Die #MuseumsMeileMitte - Hamburger Bahnhof, Naturkundemuseum, Futurium und Medizinhistorisches Museum haben sich vernetzt. Erste Aktion: Das Nachbarschaftsfest am 13. Juni mit freiem Eintritt
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MuseumsMeileMitte: Gemeinsame Initative von Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Medizinhistorischem Museum und Museum für Naturkunde
Gemeinsam mit internationalen Unternehmen vor Ort vernetzt sich der Stadtteil zu den Themen Wissen, Kunst, Zukunft.
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Humandifferenzierung @sortingpeople.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wie hat die spanische Monarchie Menschen nach Religion und Ethnizität unterschieden, um Einwanderung in ihre amerikanischen Kolonien zu kontrollieren? Thomas Weller untersucht, welche Rolle ethnische und religiöse Zuschreibungen für diese Menschen spielten, (1/2)
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Per piccoli italo-crucchi, italofoni, italofili alla ricerca di superpoteri : appuntamento venerdí 8 maggio alle 16:00 con #Supersdentata Fumetti, disegni, parole con Margherita Riccardi
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#ItalianResearch in 🇩🇪 has strong figures: - 10,000+ students - 355 professors - 4,500+ scientists & is now gearing up to build even stronger networks. Stay tuned to see what’s next. Made in Italy, made it (quasi) in Germany? #GiornatadellaRicercaItaliananelMondo tinyurl.com/35mpsuzc
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Scienziati italiani e tedeschi in Ambasciata per la Giornata della Ricerca italiana nel mondo (23.04.2026)
Con gli Stati generali della Ricerca italiana in Germania e un’iniziativa dedicata alle tecnologie quantistiche l’Ambasciata italiana celebra la IX edizione della Giornata della Ricerca italiana nel M...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How did #Courtiers shape the #PublicSphere in #18thCentury #France? Explore the free #database by @papaerc.bsky.social on the interdependencies & collaborations among aristocrats, authorities, authors, printers. Feedback: @benoit-carre.bsky.social @1simondagenais.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2w3ybxpd
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Pamphlets and PatronsHow courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
📚 #CallForContributions for an hashtag#EditedVolume: "Lost in their Words: Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the #FarRight" 🖋️12 chapters, each 4,000 - 5,000 words 🗓️ Deadline: 3 May #PoliticalTheory #Concepts #DiscourseAnalysis #Ideology #altright #skystorians tribes.hypotheses.org/4957
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Call for Contributions: “Lost in Their Words. Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the Far-Right”
Over the past three decades, Far-right actors have profoundly reshaped their political language turning familiar words like freedom, democracy, or solidarity into tools of redefinition and legitimatio...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
CfP for #skystorians: "So Far Apart, So Close. #Italy, the #Mediterranean and #Africa from the #14thC to the #20thC"; Rome 19-21 Oct 2026. #earlymodern & #modern history Deadline: 15 June tinyurl.com/5338f7zx
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Call for Participation: CALL FOR PAPERS | VIVE - Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia
for the international research conference:
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Wie ein Angsthase bin ich durch #Redewendungen über Angst und den Aberglauben drumherum im Deutschen und Italienischen gehüpft. #italienisch #deutsch #italienischlernen
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#BlackHistoryMonth anche in 🇮🇹. #Afrodiscendente è 1dei termini possibili x una ricchezza culturale dal continente africano alle Americhe. Grazie a @nlwillson.bsky.social, entro fine2026 anche BG rifletterà su questa parte del ns presente e futuro, ma anche del ns passato. tinyurl.com/mphd6typ
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Il Black History Month in Italia: gli eventi di febbraio 2025 tra musei e istituzioni culturali
In occasione del Black History Month, diverse città e istituzioni culturali in Italia organizzano nel mese di febbraio rassegne e appuntamenti volti a diffondere la produzione culturale nera e la cono...
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KULTweet @kultweet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📣 The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) seeks to appoint a Publications Manager (m/f/d), 19.5 hours per week | #Berlin 📅 February 28, 2026 👉 www.kultweet.de/jobs/MPIWG_P... #Job #humanities #socialsciences #history #regionalstudies #Wissenschaft @mpiwg.bsky.social
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Conference "Deprovincializing German Racism: Exploring and Teaching #LatinAmerican & Global Entanglements, 1500-Present" 🗓️ 25-17 Feb. 📍 @iaiberlin.bsky.social (@kulturspk.bsky.social) Organizers: @unitrier.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EarlyModern #LatAm tinyurl.com/3h7uhp6a
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Deprovincializing German Racism: Exploring and Teaching Latin American & Global Entanglements, 1500-Present
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🗓️ 6 Mar, 2-6pm CET @papaerc.bsky.social's grand finale. Find out how this @erc.europa.eu project has shaped perceptions of the #FrenchRevolution — & how its networking has sparked new ideas for future research. #skystorians For online participation: @1simondagenais.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3bf9mpkw
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Workshop: Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons – Pamphlets and Patrons
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Os habéis topado alguna vez con el término “otermano” como grafía de “atamán” (cosaco)? No le encuentro ningún otro sentido en esta línea, pero quizá ojos más listos que los míos sí. También leo “Can” y pienso en “Khan”, en relación con el levantamiento de Pugachёv (1773–75). Gracias! #skystorians
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Good to see the corrections and additions to this article, including the contribution of independent researcher Dawnanna Kreeger. Bit of a missed opportunity though to also elaborate on the original researcher, Cathey O'Neill.
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Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
2/2 Uns fehlt ein Bild! "...ruft die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz deshalb alle Berliner*innen auf, zu Hause in ihren Fotoalben und Fotosammlungen zu schauen." www.ghwk.de/de/blog/samm...
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Uns fehlt ein Bild: Sammelaufruf Deportationen Berlin | Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Die Gedenkstätte dokumentiert die Wannsee-Konferenz und setzt sich mit Ausstellungen, Bildungsangeboten und einer Bibliothek mit dem Holocaust auseinander.
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Per chi si trovasse a #Roma, una giornata di studi da non perdere. "Scambi materiali e immateriali fra #Mediterraneo allargato e #Africa in #EtàModerna" (parte del progetto Così lontani, così vicini: Italia, Mediterraneo e Africa 22 Ott., 9.30 - 18.30 Palazzo Venezia tinyurl.com/59zempaz
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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
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Slavery & Abolition
Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Long shot: any1 ever come across a #Laight family in #NewYork in the 1820s, with ties to #Haiti? Tiny info I have: father=Henry, daughter=Maria. She's not a native writer of French, requests orange jams (!) from Modeste Pigeon in Port-au-P., is v. religious. Thanks #skystorians 's hivemind!
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gens de #Paris: une amie cherche une chambre en #colocation ou un micro-appartement. Idéalement pas loin de la Sorbonne — pourquoi ne pas rêver ? — mais il suffit que ce soit bien connecté. Merci de me contacter si vous avez des pistes! #LocationParis, #ChambreParis, #ParisHousing, #LogementParis
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A toast to you and your project — virtually, with this glass! Looking forward to plotting things together, and enjoying polenta with a Caribbean twist.
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KULTweet @kultweet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
📣#Praktika des DHI Rom (Externes Angebot | Anzeige) 📅 Frist: 14. September 2025 ➡️ application.dhi-roma.it?fbclid=IwZXh...
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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
How did the staggering pensions secretly paid to nobles—& their exposure—contribute to bringing down the #Bastille & the 🇫🇷 Crown? @benoit-carre.bsky.social takes #skystorians on a journey through neglected archives to reconstruct the fiscal system at the dawn of the #FrenchRevolution.
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Check out this double conference: #Colonial Objects: "Material Culture of #Italian Colonialism" Deadline: 5 Sep. Venues: @bhmpi.bsky.social, Rome & Italian Academy, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, NYC #skystorians
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🎓The Chair of #EarlyModern History at the University of Trier is hiring a doctoral researcher!🎓 NB: German is nice to have, but not required! - Starting October 2025 for 3 years - Deadline: July 7, 2025 #PHD www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#skystorians 🗃️#c18th
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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 04/06/2025
#Histoire #Haïti 🇭🇹 "Haïti, 1825 : de l’indépendance à la #dette" 📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Antoine Lilti, titulaire de la chaire Histoire des Lumières, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. ⏰ 12 → 14 juin 2025 👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
CfP #earlycareer "Reforming #Religion, #Morality & Society in #Afro-#Eurasia: Intellectual & Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global #18thCentury" (by @isecs-sieds.bsky.social ) @unitrier.bsky.social, 17- 19 June, 2026 Deadline: July 1st, 2025 tinyurl.com/fjax5xm2 #skystorians #areastudies 🗃️
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Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century
This Early Career Seminar of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) aims to explore the history of intellectual and cultural connections in Eurasia and parts of Africa and to ...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Interested in developing a postdoc project in #EarlyModern global religious #history & applying for a #MSCA? A colleague at the Uni of Teramo (🇮🇹) is looking for candidates & offers supervision + support with the application process. Feel free to get in touch #skystorians
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
King Henry of #Haiti might say "told u so". He advocated for #Afrodescendants to access the priesthood. While the Holy See ignored his pleas, he had clergy: of mixed descent from #LatAm, & European critical of the Church's silence on #slavery. #CreolePope
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Come visit us! While Berlin takes days off for a long weekend, we in Brandenburg make science fun&accessible. Over 40 institutions have organised activities, below ours. Info: potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de
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Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften 2025 | Startseite
Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften, 10. Mai 2025
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This year, the government had another subtle way of trying to silence Liberation Day. Despite the widespread obsession with the funeral of a foreign head of state, many took to the streets to honor freedom and democracy, and remember the Partigiani's fight. #25Aprile taz.de/Tag-der-Befr...
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Tag der Befreiung in Italien: Bella ciao!
Mit Staatstrauer wollte die rechte Regierungschefin Meloni Feiern zum Tag der Befreiung unterdrücken. Doch die Antifaschisten triumphierten.
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Vor Ort in Berlin oder im Online-Streaming: ein ganztägiges Forum zur 𝐀𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 #𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐬. Programm, Infos und Anmeldung : 👉 calendar.boell.de/de/event/con... #Skystorians #Kolonialgeschichte #Erinnerung @boell.de
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Connecting the Dots Zur Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte
Die Aufarbeitung des deutschen Kolonialismus hat dank unzähliger und oft hartnäckiger zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen und Advocacy zunehmend öffentliches und politisches Interesse erhalten. Wissen...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Fellow #historians forever hunting for a #Postdoc: Want to try for a position within the @maxplanck.de ? There are several institutes (not only in 🇩🇪 ) that indulge lovers of dusty manuscripts, jammed microfiche readers & poorly digitized gazettes. (Deadline: May 13) tinyurl.com/5xtph3sc
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Max Planck Postdoc Program
Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 17/03/2025
La vita impossibile ad Haiti. Negli Stati Uniti torna il morbillo. Ascolta la nuova puntata del Mondo con Lucia Capuzzi, Elena Boille e Alessio Marchionna.
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
2 #postdocs for #skystorians of #earlymodern. 8 months each, @unitrier.bsky.social with @papaerc.bsky.social . Deadline: Apr. 1
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
#AfroCuban #Aponte (executed in 1812 for an #antislavery rebellion) used Catholic-inspired arguments: 1)in connection with Catholic abolitionism in #Cuba 2)drawing inspiration from Christian #Ethiopia & 3) contemporary #Haiti as examples of Black sovereignty. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex
In 1812, the trial of the insurgents involved in an antislavery rebellion in Cuba centred on a book of images found in the home of its author and alleged leader, José Antonio Aponte. As a unique an...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
King Henry of #Haiti requested that the #HolySee recognize a 🇭🇹 Church & #BlackClergy. He challenged #slavery = spreading of faith. These (failed) negotiations:1)undermined #Eurocentric notions of #civilization; 2)bolstered claims to #African roots; 3)inspired #Afrodescendants tinyurl.com/yx2f5mrs
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‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)
This article reconstructs King Henry I and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s appeals to the Holy See during Haiti’s early independence (1808-1825) to establish the significance of a Catholic national i...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Oct.1796: enslaved Africans took over the #BocaNigua plantation ( #SantoDomingo). The revolt was crushed in48h. Jesús Ruiz links this episode to transcaribbean&transimperial #Afrocatholic #royalism =ideals & practices of enslaved resilience o in the #AgeOfRevolutions tinyurl.com/4y3a4f8x
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Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion
Using a microhistorical approach to offer a novel interpretation, this article situates the 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt in Spanish Santo Domingo as an Afro-Catholic anti-slavery and freedom movement. Bu...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Was French #abolitionism secular, unlike its well-known (and self-proclaimed unique) British counterpart? @papaerc.bsky.social (Damien Tricoire) & Jeremy Popkin (Un. of Kentucky) connect the French #Enlightenment to a longer history of Catholic-informed #Atlantic #antislavery 1/3
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
How were criticisms of #slavery by missionaries received by the multinodal Roman curia? At every passage through bureaucracy, these sporadic but profound denunciations were reduced to ineffective guidelines. They also reveal #BlackAgency in shaping, appropriating, & interpreting them 1/3
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Fellowship Opportunity! Dartmouth College seeks a Mellon Teaching Fellowship in Religion whose research addresses questions in African American Religious Traditions. Degree may be from African American Studies, History, or other related disciplines. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It's out! I edited " #Catholicism & #Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the #Atlantic World" & authored "New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith. Visions of an #Abolitionist #Black Catholic Church in Early #Haiti (1808-1825)🇭🇹" Previews soon #earlymodern #slaveryarchive tinyurl.com/3w68jkax
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Slavery & Abolition
Forum: Catholicism and Antislavery: Connecting Histories in the Atlantic World. Guest Editors: Damien Tricoire and Miriam Franchina. Volume 46, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition
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