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Mónica Bolufer Peruga

@mboluferp.bsky.social
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Professor of Early Modern History at @eui-eu.bsky.social Former PI of CIRGEN (ERC 787015) cirgen.eu Now researching emotions, correspondence, gender and empire at @eui-history.bsky.social

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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
International Seminar for Early- Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars, Teruel, 7-10 July 2027: "Books, letters and empires in the age of Enlightenment". Still a few days left to send proposals (until 30 Sept.)! All information here: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/early-car... @eui-history.bsky.social
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International Seminar for early-career eighteenth-century scholars – 17º Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de estudios del siglo XVIII
Imagen: José Luis Mieza, vía Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A new academic year begins at the European University Institute—a warm welcome to all new and returning members of the EUI community! As the Institute marked its 50th anniversary this year, we invite you to explore an online exhibit of the EUI's visual history 🔗 loom.ly/MgP5mYE #EUI50
View of the Badia Fiesolana in the early 1970s. Photo: Unknown author / HAEU.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Out! 📙 Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment, the English expanded version of my book published in 1998 in Spanish, translated and edited by Betsy Lewis, with new presentations and historiographic essay. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Come discuss Books, Letters and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment! CFP open, International Seminar for early-career scholars, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), July 7-10, 2027, that I coorganise. Deadline 30 September 2026. www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/early-car...
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International Seminar for early-career eighteenth-century scholars – 17º Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de estudios del siglo XVIII
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My book "Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment" already has a cover! Coming out in the fall at Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press. A fruitful collaboration with Elizabeth Franklin Lewis. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Constructions of femininity in eighteenth-century Spain | Home
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis is Professor of Spanish and Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Mary Washington, USA, specializing in women and gender in Spain’s Enlightenment period. She is the author of Women Writers in the Spanish Enlightenment (Ashgate 2004) and co-editor with Catherine Jaffe of Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839 (LSU Press 2009), and of Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment (2019) with Mónica Bolufer Peruga and Catherine Jaffe.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Spanish University names buildings after 18c women of letters who wrote about: - The pleasure of reading -Knowledge bringing immortal glory - Unequal education as cause of dependence - Women's right to use their intellect They'll smile in their graves! 😉 www.upo.es/diario/insti...
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La Universidad Pablo de Olavide visibiliza a mujeres ilustradas con la denominación de cuatro edificios del campus – DUPO – Diario de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The honour and the pleasure, all mine! Great discussion
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ATLANREX @atlanrex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
SEMINARIO (In)movilidades, experiencias de movimiento y estasis en los mundos ibéricos modernos desde una perspectiva de género interseccional 🗣️ Pablo Hernández Sau y Cristina Hernández Casado 📅 20-21 de mayo ⏰ 10:00-15:45 🏛️Sala de Grados 02, Biblioteca-CRAI, @pablodeolavide.upo.es
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In Seville for a workshop on mobilities & immobilities in early modern Iberian empires: female migrants, slaves, Roma, armchair travellers... With Ofelia Rey, Amélia Polónia, Amelia Almorza, Pablo Hernández Sau, Cristina Hernández and many other colleagues. 15 and 16 June. @eui-history.bsky.social
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
- 1 week to the EUI Virtual Open Week! Want to learn more about our #PhD programme and meet our researchers, faculty and Alumn*? Join us on 25 May, 15.00 CEST, at the @eui-eu.bsky.social PhD Open Day 👉 Register now and take the next step 🔗 loom.ly/dwy0i2Q 📣 #PhDJourney #PhDResearch #HistoryPhD
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🔮 Can we study the history of Europe’s futures? On May 15, our research seminar will bring together scholars to explore different disciplinary approaches to futuring Europe. ✍️Register: loom.ly/9MtRCf8 Check the full programme👇
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
From 27 to 30 Juny, join us in beautiful, green and cool Santander, for this summer course on women, history and heritage: from writing, reading, science and erudition, to art, music, dance and cooking (theory & practice!). uimp.es/agenda-link.... @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-qfg.bsky.social
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Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo. UIMP
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our scholars also brought the historical perspective to two interdisciplinary panels this morning at #EUIdeas 🍃 Glenda Sluga on the role of expertise in shaping Europe’s climate transition 📖 Aurora Hamm on the role of culture in shaping Europe’s future and its place in the university of tomorrow
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How do narratives of WWII, the Cold War, empires and revolutions shape current politics? This morning, our faculty and researchers engaged the #EUIdeas participants in a lively quiz-style discussion on how Europe’s past is used to understand the present and imagine possible futures #EUI50
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Ameskoa @ameskoa.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🎨 Virginie Demont-Breton #Art #Pintura
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Save the date and discover one of Florence’s hidden treasures! Join us for the #OpenDay at the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social!
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📣 One week left to apply for our Summer School ! 📣 Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present 👉 loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 September 2026 🌐 Online 🎓 Open to Master's student or recent Master's graduates ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026 📣 #SummerSchool #skystorians #historysky
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Summer School - Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present
strongThe Summer School will take place online from the 16th of September to the 18th of September 2026strongbrWhat does it mean to decentre Europe in histori
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Meet our #SummerSchool convenors M'hamed Oualdi and Alexia Yates! 👉 loom.ly/2Pz1AZA Check their profiles and apply for our #SummerSchool 👇 Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present 👉 loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 Sep 2026 🌐 Online 👩‍🎓 For MA students or recent MA graduates ⏰ Apply by 3 May
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Interested in learning more about our #PhD opportunities, but don't know who to ask? On 25 May, meet our researchers and faculty at the EUI Virtual Open Week! Register on the link below 👇 🎓 #historysky #skystorians
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Some pics yesterday at the symposium celebrating the 300th anniversary of B. J. Feijoo's "Defense of women" (1726) in the first volume of his essay-collection 'Critical Theatre of Common Errors'. Enlightening discussions of traditions & modernities, receptions & reuses. @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just arrived in Madrid to participate in this symposium on Benito J. Feijoo's "Defense of women de las mujeres" (1726), its context and uses, organised by colleagues in Philosophy (20-21 April, UAM). I'll talk about its transnational circulation and reinterpretations. @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today it was my pleasure to inaugurate the series "Pensare la storia moderna" at Università di Catania with a lecture on women, Catholicism and Enlightenment, at a very appropriate venue: "le Verginelle", in the 17c a school for girls. Great debate! Grazie, Cinzia Recca. @eui-history.bsky.social
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Juan Pro @juan-pro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
El próximo viernes, 17 de abril, el Equipo HISTOPIA organiza su taller online sobre "Utopismo en las culturas originarias de América y África", en el marco del proyecto de investigación DeColtopia ("Descolonizar la utopía: utopismo no occidental, anticolonial y decolonial", PID2024-157039NB-I00).
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Juan Pro @juan-pro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
El próximo miércoles, 15 de abril, estaremos en la Universidad de Sevilla hablando de cimarrones y palenques en la historia de América Latina.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In a few days I will be in Catania with two lectures (in Italian) for master's students and colleagues on women, Enlightenment and Catholicism, and on islands and imaginary travels. Do join us if you happen to be in the city on 16th and 17th April! @inthiseui.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities? Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY 📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What role can history play in reimagining knowledge beyond Eurocentric perspectives? 🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Join the debate at our #SummerSchool : Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present 👉 loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 Sept 2026 🌐 Online 👩‍🎓 Open to MA students or recent MA graduates ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🤔 What do we really mean when we call something “natural”? Join our researchers and faculty grappling with this question at La Storia in Piazza, a public history festival co-organised by our own Carlotta Sorba 🗓️ 26-29 March 2026 📍 Genoa, Italy 📜 Programme (in Italian) 👉 loom.ly/QElzI2k
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Anaclet Pons @clionauta-ap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Andrew S. Curran: ¿Quién es negro y por qué? Biografía de una idea peligrosa, clionauta.hypotheses.org/57943 ¿Por qué la Ilustración llegó a tener opiniones tan racistas ?, ¿por qué estas ideas solo surgieron durante el siglo XVIII, más de dos siglos después del inicio de la trata ?
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Happy to share my essay on how 18c defenses of gender equality combined Enlightenment arguments with others drawn from the Bible. Now OA in German 🇩🇪 (Spanish version also on Cadmus, Italian and English ones forthcoming) @eui-history.bsky.social @inthiseui.bsky.social cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...
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Ein Streit, so alt wie die Welt : Josefa Amar (1749-1833), die Bibel und die 'Querelle des femmes'
In the eighteenth century, the debate on the moral and intellectual capacity of women, their education and their eventual admission to the public sphere was even more lively than in the past, spreadin...
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Next week, on Thursday 12 February, we will discuss how to use archival material in our next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social seminar. www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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Shaping Archives into Evidence – an interactive discussion
Early career scholars Alice Zamai, Jonah J. Berger and Maria Sole Barbieri discuss challenges and strategies in archival research.
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Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez @desvelandooriente.com · 03/02/2026
Tomorrow!!!
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just arrived! Ed. José M. Imízcoz, Andoni Artola & Javier Esteban. I contribute w. a chapter on tensions and interplays between tradition and modernity, popular and elite culture in 18c Spain. ”El proceso de civilización y sus paradojas. Tensiones y diálogos culturales". @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here the full programme. 👑King Arthur and his knights would be proud of it!
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Honoured to be part of the programme of the Oval Table of Early Modern History, Istituto Italo-Germanico-FBK, Trento. I'll talk next Thursday 29 Jan on "Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence." isig.fbk.eu/it/events/de...
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Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence
How did people who did not travel frequently or widely imagine the world and contribute to the growing awareness of globality in the eighteenth century? This paper engages with discussions on the form...
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Happy to have had this long conversation with PhD researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid about my career and experience. Always encouraging to feel so much passion and interest in early-career scholars. ¡Gracias, Alberto y Mario! @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
La canción más triste/The saddest song. Robe Iniesta (1962-2025), singer, poet and composer, left us today. "He llorado tanto,/he llorado tan adentro,/he llorado tanto, tanto/que he apagado hasta el infierno". youtu.be/0jG_BTf-o0Y?...
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Robe - La Canción Más Triste (Directo en el Teatro Romano de Mérida)
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Two intense days of discussions on Letters and the Politics of Emotion ended yesterday in a convivial atmosphere. Thanks to my co-organisers Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera, to Francesca Parenti, our guests, discussants & participants. Grazie/gràcies/obrigada/gracias! @eui-history.bsky.social
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EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales @ehess.fr · 04/11/2025
#Tribune ✍️ 📖 La famille Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens (Guillaume Calafat (@annales.ehess.fr), Isabelle Backouche (@crh.ehess.fr), Etienne Anheim (CRH), Christian Ingrao (@doccespra.bsky.social)…), pour rappeler l'incompatibilité du RN avec L’Étrange Défaite.
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« Non, Jordan Bardella, on ne peut pas citer Marc Bloch pour alimenter le rejet des étrangers en France »
TRIBUNE. La famille de Marc Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens et répond au président du RN, qui citait récemment les propos du résistant, exécuté en 1944 et qui entrera au Panthéon en juin 2026.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires. With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨 Save the date for this year's Ursula Hirschmann lecture which will be given by Dr Viviane Reding at the @eui-eu.bsky.social!👇
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.
A whiteboard covered in posters advertising seminars and announcing upcoming PhD defenses.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thanks to Silvia Sebastiani for an incredible lecture last week at our Cultural History Seminar (co-convened with my colleague Carlotta Sorba) on the boundaries of humanity and the implications that 18c discussion on apes had on debates about gender, race and slavery. @eui-history.bsky.social
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026! What to know more? Meet us on our: 🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM 🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
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Doctoral Programme in History and Civilisation
strongImportant note: The deadline to apply for the 202627 academic year is 15 January 2026 at 14:00 CET Time in Italy Later applications will not be accepted
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Yesterday Carlotta Sorba and I were delighted to host Giulia Calvi as guest speaker at our Cultural History Seminar. Our PhD researchers discussed with her bodies and appearances as key to globalization and resistances, as well as how to interpret visual sources. @eui-history.bsky.social
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thks to Trashumante. Revista Americana de Historia Social for reviewing our book Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long 18c (Palgrave, 2024) revistatrashumante.com/avada_portfo... The book is OA here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @eui-history.bsky.social @inthiseui.bsky.social
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Reseñas 2025
Enzo Traverso. Pasados singulares. El «yo» en la escritura de la historia. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2022, 224 pp. Yubely Vahos Valeria Coronel, La última guerra del Siglo de las Luces. Revolución...
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
⏰ The deadline to apply for #EUI postdoctoral fellowship programmes is fast approaching! Don't miss out on the chance to become part of a world-class academic community 👥📚 Apply now at: loom.ly/WmotZrE
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Join us for the presentation (in Italian) of Giulia Calvi's book "Vestire il mondo. Una storia globale di abiti, corpi, immaginari"!👗👘👢🌍🌎🌏 🕔 6th Ottober, 17,30h 📍Biblioteca delle Oblate, Firenze
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Already a (very full) year at the EUI and starting with pleasure the new academic year 2025-26. 1st-year researchers, fellows, faculty and staff will be meeting tomorrow at the Inaugural Workshop of the Departament of History: www.eui.eu/events?id=56... Don't miss it!
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Inaugural workshop of the History Department
Incoming PhD researchers at the EUI Department of History are invited to join this year
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Equality conflicts, the history of pesticides, migrations and intimacy, early modern capitalism, and much more 🎓 📃 Check the programme of our Monthly Research Meetings 👇 and register to join us (in person or online) 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM We are eager to engage in discussions on our ongoing research
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