First visit to Verona and for an #earlymodern conference - a great way to go places you’ve never been before. #history #renaissance
Caroline Fish
@historyfishphd.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Purdue - early modern Spain, women and diplomacy, social network analysis, aristocratic women and political power – and probably something about equitable inheritance. https://caroline-fish.com/.
First week of post-grad school teaching done! Gonna go lie down now #academia #earlymodern
Something I'm trying to emphasize in my history classes this semester is exploration, discomfort, and imagination as part of the analytical process. acknowledge the blank spots, speculation and narrative grounded in evidence. The central theme: history is FUN! #earlymodern #Renaissance
Canvas stuff completed and published - finally accomplished
Looking for a third presenter (or respondent) for a panel on health and illness and em/Ren diplomacy for RSA 2027 in Philly. #Renaissance #earlymodern #diplomacy If interested contact at: fishc@miamioh.edu. Especially open to any papers about travel, intrastate diplomacy, non-European contexts
I will be joining the Department of History at Miami University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in August, teaching medieval and early modern history! Move to Ohio imminent #academia #earlymodern #Renaissance #medievalhistory
A fantastic time (as always) at #RenSA26 San Francisco. Heard some great papers, saw friends and colleagues, and met interesting people. Exhausting + invigorating? Possible. #earlymodern #Renaissance #womenshistory #diplomacyhistory #earlymodernwomen
And immediately after the roundtable join us for an exciting panel on elite women's practices, examining material culture and exchange, equestrian practices and communication of royal majesty, and the roles of ambassadorial daughters in Spanish embassies! #RenSA26 #Rsa2026 #earlymodern
Join us today at #RenSA26 #RSA2026 for a roundtable on #earlymodern materiality, material culture, and emerging methodologies! What am I going to talk about? Diplomacy and women (what else?) but questioning how transportability and movement impacted gift-giving.
Legit, who wants to work on a women-through-prehistory timeslip computer game with me? I HAVE IDEAS 🏺🎮
Game designers bring Scotland's mysterious Picts to life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A primer for next week's presentation #renaissance #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen #sixteenthcentury #earlymoderndiplomacy #genoa
Just revisiting a friend from my undergrad days - from a class i took in 2015 😳 #earlymodern #renaissance #queens
For all those #skystorians hispanohablantes (please excuse my Spanglish 😉) interested in #earlymodern diplomacy, here the CfP for the workshop "Más allá de los embajadores" iehm.uib.es/actividades/... 2026 - Seminario diplomacia - Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad
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"Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque" at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin
The Spanish Golden Age expands its borders in Texas
A new exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin features works by Velázquez and El Greco, alongside others made in America during the same period, to redefine the boundaries of the artistic mo...
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Tudor Times Royal Marriages summit, a three-part series bit.ly/45piHEd in which historians will talk about key marriages of 16th century, Tudor & European. The summits will be live, with Q & A, available to purchasers until 31 December. Individual or combined tickets.
Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!
#CFP #CallforPapers Still seeking a third panelist for "Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World" panel for #RenSA2026. Networks broadly defined: patronage, material, economic, social, political, etc. DM if interested. #womenshistory #medieval #earlymodern #Renaissance #skystorians
Last day (Aug 4) to submit proposals for Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Economic, familial, social, political - global and transnational. #RenSA2026 #medieval #earlymodern #womenshistory #digitalhumanities #dh #renaissance #CFP #SNA #skystorians #Callforpapers
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
rsa.org
draft writing challenge of the day #1 - 1,222 words remaining or 4 pages. Based on the number of graph figures I want to include, the page limit will probably bite me first.
Five days left (!) to submit proposals for Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Networks broadly conceived - econ, familial, dynastic, political. Submit by Aug 4! #RenSA2026 #earlymodern #medieval #CFP #digitalhumanities #womenshistory #Renaissance #dh
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
rsa.org
Panel CFP: Women's cross-border networks. Engaging with network construction and maintenance, economics, diplomacy, politics, familial, gendered. Digital Humanities and global perspectives! Deadline for abstracts August 4! #earlymodern #RSA2026 #medieval #DigitalHumanities #womenshistory
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
rsa.org
#16thC #16thcentury #CFP extended! We are still looking for a panelist/roundtable discussants #Renaissance #medieval #earlymodern #skystorian for the 16th C Conference in Portland in Oct/Nov - #womenshistory and #diplomatichistory #queens #Europeanhistory #worldhistory #academicsky
#CFP #CallforPapers LAST CALL #skytorians: Still looking for panelists/roundtable about women + diplomacy for #16thc #16thCentury Society 2025 in Portland! #Renaissance #earlymodern women and poli strategy in practice and in the archives. proposals: fish9@purdue.edu #digitalhumanities #dh
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns
"The Nobility My Children Will Inherit: The 1604 Testament of Seraphina de Braganza," RSA 2025 Boston, MA, March 22, 2025 #Renaissance #skystorians #RSA2025 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns
Reading for teaching and for fun - work-life balance 😇 #skystorians #renaissance #earlymodern #medieval
Any fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skytorians of women's #diplomatichistory interested in participating in a panel on diplo strategy or a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and EM diplomacy in archives and documents at #16thCentury Society in Portland? Details below
Interested in testaments, inventories, and women’s agency? Well why not?! There will be art, networks, cool documents… Join us at 11:00 at the Westin, 7t floor Parliament Room. #Ren2025