Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoLeo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026Typos (not many considering how fast we’re working). Zaragoza, 1663. 113364
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Morning all. Week two of the fight back: 15225
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My 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/9R6fRXpzg8c.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 020
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-... 5344137
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoAlice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026What a lovely day to enjoy a new translation of some sixteenth-century Spanish verse 0113
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoRichard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Cardiff 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...you.38degrees.org.ukStop 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. 02117
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Thinking today about Hugo Grotius and the mare liberum polemic for apparently no reason. 020
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Now 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! 040
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoCarlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Tomorrow 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! 123
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Tomorrow 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! 123
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoAnnalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025New 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...doi.orgDescartes and the Non-HumanCambridge Core - Literary Theory - Descartes and the Non-Human 164
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoProf. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...jobs.ac.ukSir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 at University of OxfordDiscover 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. 01415
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If 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 062
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025These are some crazy acknowledgments 000
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Aldana, entre Dios y el insomnio. 010
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025chng.it/m8Nhxt7xYcchng.itSign the PetitionSave MLANG at Cardiff University! 010
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoOxford 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...jobs.ac.ukChichele Professorship of Medieval History at University of OxfordAn 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. 21110
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoProf Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Sharing 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...linkedin.comThe Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the UniversityThe 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... 56442
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoRob 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. 2116379
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoHolly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2024CFP 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! 16454
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoMargot 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. 1/2timeshighereducation.comThe academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-DameFive years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers 101101379
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoAlbert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Si no habéis leído aún _The Melancholy Void_ de Felipe Valencia, aquí quizá encontréis razones para hacerlo: www.revistaatalanta.com/index.php/AR...revistaatalanta.com The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora | Atalanta. Revista de las Letras Barrocas 082
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Quote 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! 140
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoJuan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hello 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 11191103
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I’m really excited about my lecture today. 0150
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024New milestone: we're 110 now!🔥 Let me know if you want to be added. 040
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024We'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! 291
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoLeah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Introducing 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...press.uchicago.eduAmphionA 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 ... 4268
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/11/2024of 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 22607143
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024If you see this and want to join, give me a shout! 010
Reposted by Carlos Iglesias CrespoCarlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I’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 5912149
Carlos Iglesias Crespo @iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I’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 5912149