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...

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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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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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...

The honour and the pleasure, all mine! Great discussion

Pablo Hernández Sau@hernandez-sau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, I am very honoured to present in a panel on immobility and imaginary travels with @mboluferp.bsky.social

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

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

- 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

🔮 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👇

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

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

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

🎨 Virginie Demont-Breton #Art #Pintura

Save the date and discover one of Florence’s hidden treasures! Join us for the #OpenDay at the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social!

Historical Archives of the European Union@eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📅 Save the date! 9 May 2026 🇪🇺✨ Spend a day at beautiful Villa Salviati 🌿🏛️ and discover where the memory of European integration lives 📜 🎭 Tours, music, performances & more 🎟️ Free entry 👉 https://loom.ly/isLtrz4 #EuropeDay #EUI50 @eui-eu.bsky.social

📣 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

Summer School - Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present

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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

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

European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚 One week. Four opportunities. The EUI Virtual Open Week gives you the opportunity to explore the full range of academic and professional paths at the European University Institute, across 4 days of live, online sessions. 👉 Register now and take the next step 🔗 https://loom.ly/50ZaVQM

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

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

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

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).

El próximo miércoles, 15 de abril, estaremos en la Universidad de Sevilla hablando de cimarrones y palenques en la historia de América Latina.

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

📖 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

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

🤔 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

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 ?

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...

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...

Tomorrow!!!

EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📚Exploring early modern transatlantic migration Join the book presentation by our researcher Alejandro Salamanca (@desvelandooriente.com) on the history of early modern migrants in the Spanish Atlantic and the networks they forged. 📅 4 February, 17:00 👉 Register: loom.ly/15ie5w4

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