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CNRS Éditions @cnrseditions.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Le livre de @cecilefromont.bsky.social, "Kongo et Angola", publié dans la collection "Zéna" dirigée par François-Xavier Fauvelle, fait partie des quatre derniers finalistes du Prix de la Fondation Martine Aublet !

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

À paraître très, très bientôt @cnrseditions.bsky.social dans la belle collection Zéna (ዜና) dirigée par Marie-Laure Derat et François-Xavier Fauvelle #histoire #kongo #Angola #histoiredelart #earlymodern #Afrique

Couverture de livre montrant une rencontre entre un aristocrate africain et un frère Capucin

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Come think with us at the Alain Locke Gallery about Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia with a ✨✨ roster of speakers Program here 👉🏽 www-tinyurl.com/889850aa

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Le monstre qui se montre et nous dévisage sans visage.

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Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences @gsas.harvard.edu · 02/04/2026

By studying the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern Atlantic world, Professor Cécile Fromont, PhD '93, uses art and visual culture to interrogate what societies choose to see—or ignore.

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The Power of Looking

Inspiring students and scholars to look at questions, imagery, and themselves in new ways is central to Professor Cecile Fromont’s research and teaching at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.…

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

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CALL FOR TEN (10) PARTICIPATION GRANTS | Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)

International Conference — 16–18 September 2026 Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK-ISIG) Trento, Italy

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Call for Applications: Three [3] Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History. Apply by May 8. www.rsa.org/news/724450/... #earlymodern #RenTwitter @toffolosandra.bsky.social

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Renaissance Society of America members, @rsaorg.bsky.social: today's newsletter has All The Things describing the two-part call for nominations for Board, Council, and committee positions over the coming months. Do check it out and consider nominating yourself! #renaissance #earlymodern

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RSA Calls for Nominations

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New website, new and old content, and including my piece on 🪶 🪶🪶🪶🪶 www.materialintelligencemag.org/feathers-col...

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A spiral path — Material Intelligence

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 02/03/2026

UPDATED DUE DATE! 📣✨ 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. (1/5)

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

✨Félicitations!! ✨Looking forward to seeing it in the world!

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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.

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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/

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Hoping there is a book in there somewhere #writing

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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

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. 🇭🇹

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).

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Picture embroidered & signed by Martha Hollis, England, 1660. Aged 10. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨🚨🚨 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! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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 jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

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Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · 25/09/2025

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.

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · 25/09/2025

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! framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expos…

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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...

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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…

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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 🏛️

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.

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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.

Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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.

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a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track

ALT: a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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.

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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. 😬)

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Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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.

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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: doi.org/10.1017/rqx....

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Apply for a 2026 Research Fellowship! For the 2026 cycle, the RSA will award fellowships of $2,000–$3,750 to scholars working in the field of Renaissance studies (1300–1700). The deadline for applications is September 16, 2025. Details here: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern #RenTwitter

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Hey historians of all stripes: the Forum on Early-modern Empires & Global Interactions (FEEGI) is hosting its 2026 conference at Rutgers U. on April 10-11. This time we're teaming up with PEAES & The Library Company..its gonna be great. Check out the CFP! #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians

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Conferences

We are pleased to announce that the 2026 meeting of the Forum for Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions will be held April 10-11th, 2026 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Interested...

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

There's £1k going to some deserving early career art historian for an unpublished piece of work on things South Netherlandish 1400-1800. Deadline to get it in is 1 September www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Here's a good write-up on universities in Sudan surviving against all odds, with some tips on what we could do to support higher education there, and for its displaced diasporas by my former student, and now dear friend, Rebecca Glade, and Muna Elgadal. www.cmi.no/publications...

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Sudanese higher education in crisis

Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Two years later, it still feels surreal that I had the (quite literally) once-in-a-lifetime honour of giving a keynote at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. Turning that talk into an essay—whose proofs arrived today—is just the icing on the absurdity cake.

Screenshot of page proofs for an essay titled «So, Who Killed the Elephant?». Tracing African-European Entanglements in the ‘Global Middle Ages’, Verena Krebs, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Global early Americanists--check out this great opportunity! The June 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop is convened by Alison Games on the topic of "Global Early America before 1700". Call for Papers is below; apps due by Sept. 15. @gamesaf.bsky.social #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica

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WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC

Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A thoughtful guideline for AI use in History Education by @historians.org insisting on the fundamental role of expertise, uncertainty, & creativity in historical work *BUT* the guideline approves « Ask[ing] generative AI to produce a historical image for a paper or presentation » This is an issue.

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Shoutout for the #Humanities! Humanities majors age 23-32 are highly employed, compensated equally from their life/social science peers, and in satisfying careers.

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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