Early modern women, queer, law, etc. Professing feminist history @kingshistory and historyworkshop.org.uk. Speaking personally.
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Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....
📣New blog Monday: check out the MMoR website today for @PariesOsei's blog on Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood in John Ogilby’s Africa (1670) bit.ly/3FKJwsZ @kingshistory
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The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
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Laura Gowing retweeted
10 Dec 2024
And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…
Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton
@marcy_norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti
@saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June
@TheJohnRylands Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…...
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Laura Gowing retweeted
13 Dec 2024
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) at King's College London invites applications for Hans Rausing Scholarships for MA and PhD studies in the history of science and technology. Deadline: 15th April, 2025. kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/fundi…
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CEMS Conference! Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory).
December 17th 2024
Sign up: buytickets.at/centreforearly…
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Laura Gowing retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Register: history.ac.uk/events/women-b…
@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB
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Laura Gowing retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Could not be more excited to see former @CemsKcl Jonathan Powell's work on fiction, law, and women's voices in print. The word groundbreaking gets overused, but for me this painstaking research and expansive conceptual innovation was truly revelatory doi.org/10.1093/res/hgae059
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11 Oct 2024
Today! Join us @ihr_history
2 Oct 2024
All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
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📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
For more information and details about how to apply:
buff.ly/47YhzYO
@exeterclio @UniOfExeterHASS @UniofExeterNews @LeverhulmeTrust @artsandculturex @CEMSexeter
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Laura Gowing retweeted
6 Oct 2024
Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?
This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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Laura Gowing retweeted
5 Oct 2024
We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ /@LeverhulmeTrust Senior Research Fellowships which give established scholars a year away from teaching and administration to complete a significant piece of research thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
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Laura Gowing retweeted
4 Oct 2024
New fixed-term job in King's CHOSTM/History! Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment, 1800 - 2000. Further details: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096146-lectur…
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All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
2 Oct 2024
Register: history.ac.uk/events/enslave…
@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick
ALT "An unidentified enslaved woman in a 1753 portrait of Mme Deurbrouq." Musée d'Histoire de Nantes
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Laura Gowing retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Come to my workshop on #materiality of #LetterWriting at UCL in November!
Check out the webpage for more:
Workshop on visual and material aspects of letter-writing in early modern Britain
22 Nov 9am–4pm @UCL_IAS with @livesandletters
This workshop, organised by @samklai, is designed to boost research in epistolary materiality through knowledge exchange
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
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Laura Gowing retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Fully funded PhD in History! Do check this out. I'm lucky to have amazing History colleagues, & their expertise covers a wide range of topics & regions, from early modern to contemporary.
24 Sep 2024
The History group is offering a funded PhD Studentship to work with any member(s) of the team. If you have an idea for a project please consider applying.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT631/phd-st…
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Laura Gowing retweeted
22 Sep 2024
OK, who had "Sandi Toksvig officiating at the wedding of Bjorn from ABBA" on their bingo card this weekend?
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Laura Gowing retweeted
20 Sep 2024
PUBLISHED: Natalie Zemon Davis’ critical autobiographical essay on politics, activism & the historian's craft & consciousness @HistoricalJnl @cambUP_History
👉🏾doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X240…
It was a real honour to write the foreword.
I am deeply grateful & humbled.
20 Sep 2024
📢Out now on #firstview!
'Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition' by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan HanĂź (@StefanHanss) (@UoMSALC)
#History #Politics #Activism #Academia
👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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