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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Have zoom link, can sneak you in still!

Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Join us tomorrow! We'll be in the @ihr.bsky.social from 17:30 to talk all about English Imperial Formation. Join us, either in Bloomsbury or on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyMdoern #Skystorians

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The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664

Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Seminar

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This coming Monday! Excited to be welcoming @roperlou.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social for a paper on “The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664” MON, 11 June, 17:30, in person or inline —sign up for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #earlymodern #skystorians

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The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We’re OFF! Excitedly listening to Mélanie Lamotte’s introduction of the volume.

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today! I am so delighted to be celebrating and discussing Mel's new book.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This coming Monday! Very excited to have teamed up with the French History seminar for a discussion of Mélanie Lamotte's By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (@harvardpress.bsky.social) MON, 18 May, 17:30, zoom & in person @ihr.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians

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Panel discussion | By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Seminar

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Blighty is officially warned that I will be 'gracing it w/my presence at the end of the month @thiagokrause.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social 🙃

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern

programme Europe and the world:
18 May: By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire with Mélanie Lamotte (Duke), as well as Lenny Hodges (Durham) and Julie Hardwick (Univerdsity of Texas at Austin).
1 June: The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664 with Lou Roper

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

TONIGHT! We can still sneak you in on a clandestine zoom link if you want! Or join us in Bloomsbury which is even more glorious in Springtime #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

(booked 😁)

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

MONDAY! Join us for an exciting paper about the Early Atlantic Slave trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality by Pablo Gómez! 23 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

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The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We still can smuggle you in if you didn't sign up for the official zoom link on time! Or make your way to Bloomsbury to come and enjoy the paper in real life. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #HistMed #HistSTM

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

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Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Keen to listen! And if this tastes of more: come and listen to a conversation about it @ihreurope1500.bsky.social & the French Seminar @ihr.bsky.social with Mélanie Lamotte, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @lrhodges.bsky.social. Bound to be fascinating! 18 May, 17:30 (UK Time), in person & online

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And we’re OFF! Excited to hear from Federica Gigante!

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

TONIGHT! Join us in Bloomsbury or share a cool early modern titbit to get the zoom link clandestinely...

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

NEXT SESSION COMING UP! Federica Gigante will talk about "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the #EarlyModern Mediterranean" MON 16 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom -- sign up for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

*Reposted CFP with alt text* III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved London, 11-12 June 2026 Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026 Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history

Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved

Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026

We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to:

• Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims.
• The exchange of goods and knowledge.
• Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions.
• Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city.

This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡ Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history! 📆 Wed 11 February 🕔 5pm

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Lightning Talks at The London Archives - IN PERSON

Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?

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Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We're delighted to announce our event @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social 8 March 2026, London, 2-4pm: "18th-Century Women, Struggle, Fame or Fortune". Talks will be in the Picture Gallery (free with Museum admission). Full list of speakers via link: foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/women-... /1

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18th-Century Women: Struggle, Fame or Fortune - Foundling Museum

For International Women's Day, join us for a series of talks in collaboration with the Women's Studies Group, 1558–1837.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar
12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf
16 February: Frederica Gigante on "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social ! Mondays, 17:30 (UK time). Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

FIRST SEMINAR TODAY! We'll hear from Yahya Nurgat about "The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf" Join us in Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModen #SkyStorians www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Definitely sign up for the zoom link if you're not in London. But if you're joining in person, could you also register via the in-person link? We obviously will welcome everyone -- enthusiastically -- but it helps in showing numbers of participation.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

PROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP! Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

screenshot of the IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar
12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf
9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Social media manager is embarrassingly late, but delighted to have to sit on the floor because of HOW MANY PEOPLE are here to come and listen to the brilliant @araujohistorian.bsky.social

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

THIS COMING MONDAY! The fab @araujohistorian.bsky.social presents on "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the #EighteenthCentury" with comment by Toby Green. All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

HUGELY looking forward to @araujohistorian.bsky.social’s paper in a week’s time! (So much so that we’re going to ignore that that means *IT’S DECEMBER IN A WEEK’S TIME*) Join us in lovely Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

WE’RE OFF! excited to hear from @rogerleejesus.bsky.social Also check out the exciting ERC project he is part of on law & land I the iberian empire (beyond property) iberland.eu

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

MONDAY! Looking forward to welcoming @rogerleejesus.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social seminar for a talk on "Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 17 Nov, 5:30, hybrid (register for zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern

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Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia (16th-17th Centuries)

The paper aims to analyze how resistance and local agency shaped colonialism in Goa, India, under Portuguese rule in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩 #NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

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Hamilton_Book award - Durham University

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 04/11/2025

We look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 today: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We're one of 70 exhibitors making this an ideal opportunity to discover new resources and archives to support your research. Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social & @senatehouselib.bsky.social for making this possible #Skystorians

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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

CFP: Tolerance and Dissent Deadline for abstracts 15 January 2026 Conference: 24-26 June 2026, University of Fribourg Travel grants available for graduate students #EarlyModern #SkyStorians all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/tolera...

Tolerance and Dissent
University of Fribourg (Switzerland), June 24, 2026 - June 26, 2026
Deadline for submission/application: January 15, 2026

9th biennial conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies

We are inviting abstracts for 20-min papers or complete panels in the field of medieval and early modern English studies or adjacent disciplines for the 9th biennial conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES), which will be dedicated to the topic of ”Tolerance and Dissent.” The conference will take place at the University of Fribourg, from 24-26 June 2026.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (c. 250 words + a short bionote of max. 100 words) is 15 January 2026. Please send your abstract, or any other conference-related query, to the following email address: samemes2026[at]unifr.ch. Select papers presented at this conference will be published in the open-access and peer-reviewed Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL) in 2027. More information on the conference, travel recommendations, travel grants, etc. is available under www.samemes2026.com.

Please send your abstract, or any other conference-related query, to samemes2026[at]unifr.ch. We would be delighted to welcome you to Fribourg in June 2026!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social Deadline: 20 December 2025 Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
European University Institute, Florence, May 22, 2026 - May 22, 2026
Deadline for submission/application: December 20, 2025

Call for Papers

Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni

Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Violence puts the gender roles in a society firmly on records. Although we can never fully grasp the motives behind past acts of violence, through them we can gauge what was tolerated or sanctioned in any given society. Historical violence can suggest which meaning early modern people had of assault and abuse, whether physical, verbal or psychological. This brings us to the fundamental methodological question of how modern categories can capture past social realities. In this regard, the aim of the workshop is to offer a more precise picture of gender violence, with a quantitative study on survivors, their witnesses, and the negotiating process.

This gathering aims to promote a discussion on how to defy certain stereotypes around gender-based violence by investigating how women and men in the past viewed and talked about their roles within the abusive act. While some treated the violence suffered as an intimate matter, charged with shame and danger and therefore difficult to articulate, others saw it as a matter to be publicly outed and put into words.

This workshop invites proposals for short papers (4,000-5,000 words) on any aspect of gender and violence in early modernity. Papers that investigate the possibility to offer significant input for the study of what we would regard as psychological/physical trauma; dynamics of power; for understanding responses to assault; to investigate the status and forms of victims and perpetrators. The past can share its feelings as violent acts are always initially expressed through language and shaped by specific social and cultural norms.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

EXCITED FOR OUR NEXT SESSION! Sari Nauman on "Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the #EarlyModern Baltic Sea". Monday, 10 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social NB02 and on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #SkyStorians #MovingHistory #HistoryOfMigration

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