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Jamie Gemmell

@jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
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Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️‍🌈 | jamiegemmell.com

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really excited for this event later this month! Join us if you can.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Expanded chronologies, cross-confessional empathy, and Irish history in a European and global perspective. Some of the many themes from last night's wonderful celebration of Dr. Joan Redmond's new book, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649. Thanks to those who came along!
A photograph of the front cover of Dr. Redmond's new books, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649.A photograph of Dr. Redmond and Prof. John Morrill, speaking to a packed room.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👑 What was life like for the women courtiers of Charles II? @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social, @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social, Dr Hannah Dawson and Catharine MacLeod examine how women embraced travel, consumerism and libertinism at this @cemskcl.bsky.social event on 22 October. buff.ly/H0MXfq5
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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversation on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...
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Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak
Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's week 1 and that means the start of a new @crems-york.bsky.social semester of #earlymodern delights! 🗃️ Many of which are hybrid and open to all: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CREMS Events Programme Semester 1 26/27.docx
Seminars, Conferences, Events (Semester 1 26/27) Hybrid CREMS Seminars start 15 minutes after the advertised start time. Wednesday 30 September 5pm-7pm CREMS INTRODUCTORY SHINDIG! All Welcom...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us in a few hours to discuss Dr. Mira 'Assaf's (@miramiraculous.bsky.social) work in progress! If you need the paper/Zoom details, please send us an email and we can send it over!
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join us on 30th September to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond's ( @kingshistory.bsky.social) first monograph, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649 (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/relig...
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond’s first monograph, Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649 .
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're looking forward to discussing @miramiraculous.bsky.social's paper next Monday! Still time to sign up if you'd like to receive the paper and join the session.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Delighted that we're hosting another seminar series. Sign up below to receive the WIP. First session, 21st September.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are delighted to be hosting another series of the 'Race and the #earlymodern' seminar with @folger.edu. This term we will be hosting three WIP sessions with Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf, Aman Williams, and Rebecca Adusei, respectively. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/upcoming-sem...
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Upcoming Seminars — CEMS KCL Blog
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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨CFP: SRS, London, 30 June-3 July 2027 The deadline is TOMORROW! #EarlyModern friends and colleagues, don't forget to apply to contribute to our panel proposal for the 2027 SRS Conference (@srsrensoc.bsky.social)! 👇
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference poster for the Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds featuring an image of birds and an image of a nest in a tree as well as the JCB logo and text.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The joys of Chancery...
A photograph of a *very big* Bill of Complaint from Chancery.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Always interested to see more research on parish registers and what they can evidence about Black life and slavery. This entry for Indiana Mundi is relatively detailed, although this is by no means unusual. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England
A parish entry reveals an argument that proved pivotal to the abolitionist cause, at a time when an estimated 20,000 Black people were living in the country
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Event on funding in medieval and early modern studies, organised by QMUL! Featuring panels on UKRI, the ERC, and the Leverhulme Trust. Tuesday 23rd June, 15:00. Full details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaining-ex...
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Gaining External Funding for Research in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Learn how to score funding for your medieval and early modern research.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are 1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
CFP: @reforc.bsky.social's #Reformazing annual conference 7-9 June 2027, in Zurich Deadline: 15 February 2027 all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #Reformazing
REFORC2027
Date: 7 June 2027 – 9 June 2027

Deadline: 15 February 2027

Location: Faculty for Theology and the Study of Religion, Kirchgasse 9, 8001 Zurich

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The call for papers for the Sixteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, hosted by the Swiss Institute for Reformation History, is open. The conference will take place in Zurich, June 7-9, 2027.

The organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers (individual or panels) across disciplines, and are open to themed and general topics in Early Modern Christianity (ca. 1400-1700).

Join an interdisciplinary, international dialogue and submit your proposal!
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW BOOK SERIES with @dgb-history.bsky.social: "Connected Worlds in Early Modernity" with series editors Christina H. Lee and Julia Schleck. Send proposals to the fabulous @erikagaffney.bsky.social All info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
New book series: Connected Worlds in Early Modernity
Deadline: 4 June 2028

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Series Editors: Christina H. Lee, Princeton University, and Julia Schleck, Colorado State University

Connected Worlds in Early Modernity explores the cultural, literary, artistic, and devotional works emerging from global networks that interconnected Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa during a transformative era marked by heightened and swift transoceanic exchanges (1450–1700). The series examines how individuals and communities across multiple continents cultivated distinctive, transcultural expressions through connections forged via conquest, trade, diplomacy, and religious contestation. The series publishes monographs and essay collections from across disciplines and methodological approaches.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What a week it's been.... Yesterday fresh scholarship from interdisciplinary experts pushed us to think about 'the' #EarlyModern in terms of race, environment, interregional connections, adaptions, eschatology, stop-start technological change and the 'slash' in the early/modern
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
And to conclude our week of CEMS events... A rountable reflecting on periodisation and the early/modern! Thanks to all who've joined us today and over the course of this week.
A photograph of one of our organisers - Dr. Hannah Crawforth - drawing together today's event in front of a PowerPoint slide depicting Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. Trompe l'oeil. The Reverse of a Framed Painting. (c. 1670).
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Later today! Come along online or in person if you can.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A week of CEMS events... including PGR lightning talks, our first article workshop, a book launch, and our annual CEMS Colloquium. Full details in the thread below! Join us if you can! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events
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Events — CEMS KCL Blog
'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Join us on Wednesday 10 June at 5:30pm for Jamie Gemmell (KCL) speaking on 'John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship'. Free and open to the public in person at the IHR in Bloomsbury or online on Zoom. Please register (link below). #Skystorians
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John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our final session of 'Race and the Early Modern' will take place next Monday! We're hosting three PGR lightning talks on Merlin, witches, and slave law. Join us if you can. We have just released more tickets... @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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PGR Lightning Talks - 8th June — CEMS KCL Blog
The Race and the Early Modern seminar invites Postgraduate Research Students to present 10-minute lightning talks on their research. The seminar will take place virtually on June 8th 2026 . To apply...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our Annual Colloquium is next week! Join us on Thursday 11th June for a series of panels and a roundtable on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
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Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Next week! Join us for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's new book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Wednesday 10th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
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On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Delighted to be delivering a paper at the @long18thsem.bsky.social next Wednesday. I'll be speaking about racemaking, citizenship, and London's Black presence through the case of John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship. Come along if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/05/2026
The Society is pleased to publish the Shortlist of its 2026 First Book Prize for early career historians: bit.ly/4dARJO1 This year's list includes eight monographs published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two prize winners will be announced in July #Skystorians
Image of books with text: Royal Historical Society First Book Prize, 2026. Shortlisted Titles.
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social Colloquium: "Periodizing the Early/Modern", 11 June 2026, King's College London rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #IsItEarlyModernThough
Annual KCL CEMS Colloquium: Periodizing the Early/Modern

Date: 11 June 2026

Location: King's College London

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This year’s colloquium is on ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern and organised by Dr. Hannah Crawforth, Dr. Sarah Lewis, Prof. Lucy Munro, and Dr. Hannah Murphy. The colloquium will take place on Thursday 11th June at King’s College London and will consist of a series of panels and a roundtable.

A provisional schedule is available here: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-periodizing-the-earlymodern-annual-cems-colloquium

Colloquium Theme

When does early modernity begin and end? How do we understand the relation between the early modern and the historical periods that precede and follow it? Is it important to how we construe of early modernity that it be thought of as a boundaried entity, complete in itself? Or might the early modern be less a historical period and more a mode of thought? Much has been written about periodization in relation to the early modern. The Medieval/Renaissance divide (or lack of divide) has been theorized by a range of scholars, most notably perhaps Margreta De Grazia. But this symposium will consider the question of periodizing the early modern in a more forward-looking way, situating this temporal and theoretical construct in relation to our own contemporary moment.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Join us on 11th June to consider periodisation and early modernity. Is early modernity a bounded entity or a mode of thought? I'll be trying to think through of some of this in my own work on race...
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And we're off... halfway through our first panel on Enslavement and Forced Mobilities. Grateful to @anastruillou.bsky.social for organising such a great workshop!
A photograph from our workshop on North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Photograph shows a seminar room and a PowerPoint presentation on ritual knowledge.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We're delighted to be launching Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book - On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Join us on 10th June at 17:30. Full details below. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
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On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'll be discussing some of my work on John Satia and London's 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship next Monday. If you'd like to attend, get in touch and I can forward along the Zoom details and the work in progress.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'll be discussing some of my work on John Satia and London's 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship next Monday. If you'd like to attend, get in touch and I can forward along the Zoom details and the work in progress.
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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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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Join UCL's Early Modern Exchanges to celebrate the launch of 'The Radical Spanish Empire' by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters. 13th May @ 6pm. Full details below!
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Three - yes three! - medieval & #EarlyModern events at Birkbeck soon. Weds May 6th ‘Women, History and the Stage: Creative Encounters with the Medieval Past’, playwright Sarah Dickson, medievalist @mpdavies.bsky.social, with performance of ‘The Will of Ellen Langwith’: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Really great to attend today's Festival of Social History, featuring two great panels and an excellent keynote by Naomi Tadmor on poverty and the legal history of settlement. @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
A photograph of the Festival of Social History. A conference room with a PowerPoint presentation displayed.
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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Looking forward to discussing this paper next week. Still time to sign up and receive the WIP...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We are pleased to be supporting the "Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions Between the Iberian Atlantic and the Magreb" workshop Taking place 22 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social For programme and registration see: pastandpresent.org.uk/registration...
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Registration and Programme for the "Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib" Workshop - Past and Present
received from Dr. Ana Struillou (King College London) and Dr. Kaja Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London) Date and Times: 22 May 2026 (09:00 – 18:00) Format: his will be a hybrid workshop. The on...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us next Monday at 17:00GMT/12:00EST for our next 'Race in the Early Modern' seminar. We're delighted to be joined by Dr. @hassanamoosa.bsky.social. Dr. Moosa's WIP will be circulated later this week. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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What’s in a Name: Slave-Slurs in Early Modern English Drama - Dr. Hassana Moosa - 20th April — CEMS KCL Blog
On 20th April at 17:00(GMT)/12:00(EST), we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled ‘What’s in a Name: Slave Slurs in Early Modern English Drama’ by Dr. Hassana Moosa (University of Cape Town). Duri...
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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
/// WORKSHOP // Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib Co-organised by Kaja Cook and I @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on 22 May Supported by @cemskcl.bsky.social and @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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Select tickets – Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib - A Workshop
Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib - A Workshop, Fri 22 May 2026 - Join CEMS on Friday 22nd May for a one-day workshop on interacti...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us on May 22nd for a workshop on early modern North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Online and in person!
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic & the Maghrib", 22nd May 2026, London. Join @cemskcl.bsky.social on for a one-day workshop on interactions between the Iberian Atlantic & North Africa. #EarlyModern #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
Event Overview

Pre-modern Maghribi societies have so far been marginalised in Atlantic history and predominant global history narratives, being perceived as static and backward. Building on important scholarship on the African diaspora and Muslim presence in the Americas that has greatly contributed to enriching the picture of the early modern Atlantic and the Spanish Empire in particular, this workshop will explore how North Africans actively participated in, and helped constitute, the Iberian Atlantic world, be it as corsairs raiding the Iberian Islands of Madeira and the Canaries or as enslaved and free communities shaping the culture of the early modern Spanish Americas.

At the same time, this workshop reverses the perspective of this scholarship by considering how African societies, particularly North African ones, were far from indifferent to Spanish colonial expansion into the Atlantic and how they were shaped as a result of the new ideas, commodities, and people crossing the Atlantic.

Several papers will be specifically dedicated to uncovering material circulations between North Africa and the Americas. In recent years, a number of scholars have emphasized the intellectual engagement of the Muslim world with Spanish overseas possessions by studying Ottoman maps and ethnographical writings on the Americas. However, research has mostly concentrated on learned communities active in Constantinople. This workshop will enrich understandings of the relations between the Muslim world and European overseas possessions by investigating the tangible circulation of American goods in the Maghrib, rather than solely intellectual knowledge. This shift will uncover engagement with the Americas within the Muslim world, at a much deeper social level and beyond imperial capitals.
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