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Fado in the Tiny Desk! With no less than Carminho (daughter of great Fado artist Teresa Siqueira) and an excellent Fado and Brazilian bossa nova artist. What a wonderful find as I write about public rituals in Portugal and the former Portuguese empire www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdc...

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The paperback of 'Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs' is out (Routledge, 2024) co-edited with Fernando Checa in 2015. It's lovely that the book is read and cited after a decade and that the publisher thought it merited a paperback edition. www.routledge.com/Festival-Cul...

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Many thanks to @leverhulme.bsky.social for including our ongoing call for volunteers (especially those who can read 16th-century handwriting) in their latest bulletin! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Transcribe on Zooniverse here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

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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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An avid novel reader in the past, I rarely read novels anymore. I read poetry & memoirs instead when reading for work allows. Elif Shafak's 'There are Rivers in the Sky', is a masterpiece I've long admired the accuracy of her prose and beautiful metaphors. www.penguin.co.uk/books/316776...

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The paperback of 'Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs' is out (Routledge, 2024) co-edited with Fernando Checa in 2015. It's lovely that the book is read and cited after a decade and that the publisher thought it merited a paperback edition. www.routledge.com/Festival-Cul...

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#EarlyModern #BookHistory Psst kids, the ebook is free, gratis!

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Please share with any postdocs in the History of the Americas who would like to join the brilliant and eclectic bunch of historians at Edinburgh University - 3 years, mainly research. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Honoured! A reading group in the Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX-The College of Mexico) has invited me to discuss chapter 1 of Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire: 'A World, An Empire, Under Construction: Domestic Architecture and Spanish Imperial Authority'. www.psupress.org/books/titles...

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Very sad news, Enrique Valdivieso, professor emeritus in the history of art-University of Seville has passed away. He was one of my brilliant professors in Seville. An expert in early modern Sevillian painting. I’ve some of his books in my collection. www.lavozdelsur.es/ediciones/se...

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I've been 'lightly' organising the digital archive of photos (architecture, art, material culture)& archival copies I have gathered re. cities and regions in the Americas, Spain, Portugal and India (Goa). I will work next on my late& uber talented brother's collection: www.javierfergo.com

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A new gallery has opened in San Luis de los Franceses, Seville. I lived near San Luis for a while as an undergraduate student. I used to walk into San Luis on my way to class to take refuge from the heat and catch my breath. I cannot wait to see this next time I visit! elpais.com/cultura/2025...

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And if you're into history (of all types), here's a #starterpack of historians in Britain! I'm a medical historian and my latest book, THE FACEMAKER, is about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WW1. Find all sorts on this list! go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvr

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I think it’s impossible not to fall a little bit in love with New Orleans. Whether the sun beams or the snowstorm of a lifetime unfolds, there is something intoxicating about the warmth and cadence of this city Photos of the Sculpture garden in the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Amazing collections in the Latin American Library at Tulane. A lovely morning working so far. Their current exhibition is extraordinary

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Sunrise, Snow & New Orleans ❄️

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Wow everything is blanco now ❄️ #snow #neworleans

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Snow in New Orleans! ❄️

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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En route to Tulane-New Orleans to work on the Emilio Harth-Terrén collection. I have spent three summers exploring the Lima collection and cannot wait to see what Tulane holds! Excited also to see @periodeye.bsky.social and Barbara Mundy and meeting other colleagues and students.

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The University of Glasgow History Department has just advertized a tenure track position in early modern and modern Asian history with a strong interest in Chinese and East Asian history: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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New Special Collection at Bibliotheca Hertziana: 900 open-access photos of more than 400 works of art and architecture in Bolivia, from the pre-contact era to the present. View the presentation (https://buff.ly/3XT81Lw), or access the collection directly (https://buff.ly/4ewWAhR).

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Fellowship Opportunity! CfA: "First Research Article” fellowships! Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems & Collective Life." 🗓️Deadline: Feb 16, 2025 🔗bit.ly/4eDRUq4

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Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

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🚨🚨 TU hiring a post/predoc fellowship for up to 2 years - do you want to help us launch a new interdisciplinary MA in Africana studies and art history? We plan to offer hands on mentorship and travel to conferences etc. Spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/161071

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A reminder - I’m working with Olenka Horbatsch (Brit Museum) and Ed Wouk on this new edited volume - there’s been so many fab drawings exhibitions reconsidering Netherlandish drawing lately, hope folks have been inspired hnanews.org/call-for-pap...

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Very sad news for art history... RIP Rudolf Preimesberger. (h/t @ikonotaph.bsky.social over at The Other Place). www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Domestic devotions 1/3 ‘Relicario vitrina’ likely from a convent, found in the Cadiz province (Spain) for domestic use Most of the elements are from the early 20th C (the etching might be a little bit older) as it resembles the kind of silver/metal work produced in Andalusia at the time.

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Domestic devotions 1/3 ‘Relicario vitrina’ likely from a convent, found in the Cadiz province (Spain) for domestic use Most of the elements are from the early 20th C (the etching might be a little bit older) as it resembles the kind of silver/metal work produced in Andalusia at the time.

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Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp

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@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

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Andalusian colours, textures and street vistas for the end of this year.

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Just pub’d and immediately added to my reading list: @nancyum.bsky.social’s “Scholarly Writing in the Face of Generative AI: A View from Art History” journals.publishing.umich.edu/ars/article/...

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Architecture, Design History Theory at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Architecture #Art www.acsa-arch.org/job/assistan...

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