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Carlos Iglesias Crespo

@iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social
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Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Writing a book on memory, Petrarchism, intellectual culture, and empire in early modern Spain.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026
Typos (not many considering how fast we’re working). Zaragoza, 1663.
Paragraph of errata headed “Erratas. No son muchas, para lo que và tan de prisa”.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Morning all. Week two of the fight back:
'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My Erasmus at Exeter changed my life. It introduced me to an exciting, interdisciplinary way of studying literature, which was the defining factor that led me to pursue my MPhil and PhD studies in the UK. The proposed cuts are barbaric. Please sign and help spread the word. c.org/9R6fRXpzg8
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What a lovely day to enjoy a new translation of some sixteenth-century Spanish verse
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thinking today about Hugo Grotius and the mare liberum polemic for apparently no reason.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Now that the ink is dry, it’s a great joy to announce that my book is officially under contract with the good people of Cornell University Press. I’m really elated and honoured to be writing for a press that has done so much for the study of Petrarchan lyric in early modern Europe. More soon!
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
W. H. Auden.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Ginzburg at Oxford.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New book out by my colleague (& PhD supervisor) Emma Gilby - on Descartes & the non-human, offering an ecocritical reassessment of Descartes' work & a timely discussion of how his work might help us navigate environmental crises today. Free to download for two weeks! 🌍 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Descartes and the Non-Human
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Descartes and the Non-Human
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...
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Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 at University of Oxford
Discover Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Today’s working spaces.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Today! Come join us at 4:30!
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you’re attending RSA this week, Pablo García Piñar has put together a very exciting panel on disability, bodily deviance, and poetry in the early modern Hispanic world—Do join us! I’ll be talking about the veteran poetics of the Dutch Revolt #RenSA24 #RSA #SRBHP
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
These are some crazy acknowledgments
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Esto está ya casi...
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Aldana, entre Dios y el insomnio.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🚨JOB | Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College | @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social | The Chichele Professor will play a leading role in researching and teaching Medieval History within the Faculty of History | Closes 3 March www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...
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Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Chichele Professorship of Medieval History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sharing this again because, in my experience of being a union branch leader during a massive, year-long onslaught of redundancy consultations, no one ever brought up the problem of the cost allocation death spiral. I wish I'd had this information in my arsenal. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...
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The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.
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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
CFP for the 'Sleeping Well' @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social end-of-project conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Taking place 9-10 June 2025 at JRRI, Manchester. Details on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel... Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!
Seventeenth-century painting of landscape with figures in foreground. Text reads Call for Papers: Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World. 9-10 June 2025. John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Around Oxford, this morning.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
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The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame
Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers
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Albert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Si no habéis leído aún _The Melancholy Void_ de Felipe Valencia, aquí quizá encontréis razones para hacerlo: www.revistaatalanta.com/index.php/AR...
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The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora | Atalanta. Revista de las Letras Barrocas
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Quote and tell me: what book are you currently reading which you’d recommend? I’ve been reading Colin Burrow’s Imitating Authors (OUP, 2019). Burrow re-introduces imitatio so lucidly that you’re left asking yourself how on earth you had not realised some of its conclusions before. A great book!
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m really excited about my lecture today.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New milestone: we're 110 now!🔥 Let me know if you want to be added.
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We're now 86 strong and growing––Iberianists and Latin Americanists, medieval to contemporary, in literature, culture, film, and history. If you want to be added to the starter pack, give me a shout!
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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Introducing myself to fellow early modernist and poetry types in here (and waving hi to some longtime friends: hi! hi!) by putting the word out that Amphion has now been published and is out and about in the world! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Amphion
A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own ...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/11/2024
of the many successors that emerged from the transformation of the Roman West/ Twitter, some failed quickly (Post/ Ostrogoths), others became insular & technocratic (Mastodon/ Visigoths), yet more became decadent (Threads/ Byzantium), while still others adapted & thrived (Bsky/ Franks) #medievalsky
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
If you see this and want to join, give me a shout!
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
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Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
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