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Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

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Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Final week for abstracts. We've had some incredibly exciting proposals already, this is shaping up to be an outsized conference..... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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So excited! Do apply!!! 👇

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📢The Joyce Youings Annual Memorial Lecture 2024/5 will be delivered by Professor Catherine Hall📢 'Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic' 📆Weds 5 March, 15:30 📍Peter Chalk Centre, Newman Red lecture theatre / Zoom 🧍All welcome! Register: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #EarlyModern 🗃️

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European race- & empire-making as well as African sovereignty, woven into the extraordinary details of a French Baroque tapestry #earlymodern #slaveryarchive #workinprogress

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We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

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NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A stellar roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern

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Still thinking today about the vivacity of the networks traced by @anastruillou.bsky.social , linking North Africa with port cities across Europe, thinking through the work of material goods, the mobility of people and practice, and the contingence of our notions of 'importance'...

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EXCITING! #EarlyModern ists! 🗃️people! Follow @cemskcl.bsky.social for new research, exciting opportunities, and all that is happening at King's....

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New term, new year, new research! Join us to learn about @anastruillou.bsky.social's work into the history of American goods in North Africa, 15th-17th centuries... I, for one, cannot wait...

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It's a wrap for 2024, (for work at least...) For a look back at what we've been up to with my project at King's, and a glimpse of the year ahead, check out our holiday update www.mmor.co.uk/news/christm... Wishing everyone a very restful winter break.... 🗃️#EarlyModern

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About to find out where we are with scholarship on #EarlyModern state and society! That’s A Programme.

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So much to take away from this fabulous conference: ‘Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain’. A series of generative panels building to an excellent roundtable and closing remarks from Prof. Michael Braddick. Many thanks to the organisers! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...

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Can't remember the last time I was at a conference where everyone was in their seats, panellists and all, eight minutes before it's due to start... Keen to rethink state and society in #EarlyModern Britain! 🗃️

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A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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CEMS @ KCL is hosting a conference - Rethinking State and Society in #earlymodern Britain - on 17th Dec. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller. Come along! Full details and sign up: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe... @hsmurphy.bsky.social

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Foundling hospitals offering a history of a carefully managed distribution of harm, in which #EarlyModern logics of the "legitimate family" see infant mortality as acceptable collateral damage @erinmaglaque.bsky.social's paper was riveting and devastating, and I can't wait to see it in print. 🗃️

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TONIGHT! Our final session of this term, and what a way to end: the spectacular @erinmaglaque.bsky.social! Talking about Foundlings in #EarlyModern Catholic Europe. (Counter) #Reformazing insights galore! www.history.ac.uk/events/morta...

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this afternoon! 5:15 at the IHR – or online.

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Today!!! Join us for this sure-to-be incendiary seminar by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social with a response by John Henderson - online or in person. You can email us for a link if you haven't signed up!

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#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.

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Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

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And coming up this Monday 25th November, for all you lovely #EarlyModern ists, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in person and online, speaking about foundlings, mortality, gender, politics, and anger. Erin is one of my favourite writers, and I cannot wait to hear this new work... Online and in person! 🗃️

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Real scholarly generosity here, #Earlymodern library and research fellowships for all!

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spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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An incredible opportunity to shape the future of #EarlyModern studies...

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Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

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🎺🎺It’s taken a while, but I finally got the go ahead today: my book The Word made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 will be out on Routledge early next year.🎺🎺 Excited to share it, excited to explore new things! #EarlyModern

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For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern

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Late to give thanks for two wonderful invitations in London, to talk about two aspects of my new project to this IHR seminar and to @hsmurphy.bsky.social's workshop at Kings the previous day. Thanks to everyone who came for the amazing enthusiasm and the wonderfully generative discussions.

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TONIGHT! @lilachambers.bsky.social speaking on "Insurgent Spirits: Property, Authority, and the Politics of Alcohol in the Leeward Islands Plantation Complex". Online or in-person, you are equally welcome!

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Delighted to share this job announcement: the Department of #History at Stony Brook University (State University of New York) is seeking to hire an Assistant Professor of #EarlyModern or Modern #EasternEurope/ #Eurasia. Area of specialization is open. December 15 deadline. 1/

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First #LowCountries seminar coming up! Excited we get to welcome Wxuan Li for a talk about "Decoding Painters' Playbooks in #earlymodern Amsterdam: A Spatial and Digital Approach" Cool #ArtHistory! Friday 18 Oct, 17:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom: history.ac.uk/events/decod... #skystorians

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Fun/intimidating/inspiring to return to my long-running side hustle on early modern calligraphy in the wonderful company of @komldsp.bsky.social, hopefully more soon....

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Historian-writer Blueskies! @leahredmondchang.bsky.social and I are offering an online workshop, "Creative and Narrative Nonfiction: What, How, and Why," via the Renaissance Society of America on Weds Oct 2, 12 noon-1pm ET! 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #authors Links in thread. 1/n

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Our IHR Seminar Europe and the World, 1500-1800 starts October 7 with Colin Jones and then continues with a feast of early modernists: Toby Green, Lila O'Leary Chambers, Erin Maglaque, Ana Struillou, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Allison Stielau, Michael Aidan Pope and more...

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Come work with me! I have a #PhD #vacancy for a cultural historian/historian of science/knowledge in my ERC CoG project PRESERVARE: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

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During Covid, I kept track of interesting lecture recordings. I also added Pre-/post-Covid years. It's mostly #earlymodern or #medievalsky, & includes #histsci #histtech #arthistory #bookhistory #HistSTM 🗃️ 📜 In case anyone finds this helpful, here it is: shorturl.at/7Fpom Feel free to share!

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I'm honored and thrilled to be sharing some of my new work with Hannah and London colleagues next month!

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