New chapter on Llull, Pico della Mirandola, and the geneaologies of universalism. [Link to book in comments; DM for whole thing; en español.]

Very happy to be coorganizing this panel at ICMS 2027, with Wiktoria Bryzys. Interested in the literary aljama beyond questions of representation, or in notions of medieval Iberian sociocultural autarky and interdependence, among related topics? Please submit yr abstract and join us at Kalamazoo!

It's here!

Noel Blanco Mourelle@mourelle.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

this is what genocide looks like

Comparto nuevo artículo en Huellas. 👇 A partir de una lectura de David Turnbull (siglo XIX), analizo cómo la cultura del vapor funcionó no solo como promesa de progreso, sino también como un dispositivo racializado que vinculó modernización, blanquitud e imperialismo. turia.uv.es/index.php/hu...

¿Cómo se lee --y practica-- la política española desde Estados Unidos? Hablo en @lamarea.com con @vrupu.bsky.social. "Lo que se consiguió en España se ha visto con mucha más admiración desde fuera que desde dentro". @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social @cbamadrid.es www.lamarea.com/2026/06/01/v...

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo: “En política conviene no moralizar demasiado” | lamarea.com

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo, autor de 'Un país entre dos tiempos', ha combinado su trabajo académico con un continuo compromiso político.

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RIP to a giant

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.

What a lovely day to enjoy a new translation of some sixteenth-century Spanish verse

The very smart bookplate of distinguished architect and art historian Luis Cervera Vera (1914-1998).

I'm organizing a panel on African and Afro-Diasporic Food Labor Across Empires for @rsaorg.bsky.social next year. Send me your abstracts! Deadline is July 27st. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Anybody who cares about history and public discourse in Spain should read this article. It is truly phenomenal historia-actual.org/Publicacione...

Just a reminder a 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat spent more time in jail than any billionaire pedophile on Epstein's client list.

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death. www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...

Three Pages of Don Quixote

Here was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy.

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Aquesta setmana / this week!

Join AAUP for these two discussions of the future of our university this week and next

RIP James Gadson, drummer. Working with everyone from Marvin Gaye to Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin to Justin Timberlake, his career spanned 6 decades. He played on over 500 gold records, including Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Herbie Hancock's "Manchild"

Putting together a panel for LASA Africa 2026 (Dakar, 4–7 November) on colonial legacies from a transatlantic perspective — slavery, capitalism, memory, museums, and literature. Deadline: May 7. If relevant to your work, feel free to send me a DM 👇 africa.lasaweb.org/es/call-for-...

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Karl Galle@karlgalle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Forthcoming new book by Ann Blair on authorship & collaboration, from @princetonupress.bsky.social: 👀 📗 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EarlyModern #HistBookChat

My wife just saw me reading the FAZ Habermas obituary and said: "a veces Habermás y a veces Habermenos." It feels like the kind of even keeled statement he would have approved of. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Jürgen Habermas gestorben: Der Mann einer ganzen Epoche

Er hoffte auf die aufklärerische Kraft der öffentlichen Vernunft, wandte sich aber zum Lebensende wieder dunkleren Aussichten zu – ein Nachruf auf den Soziologen und Philosophen Jürgen Habermas.

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Saiu no Journal of Lusophone Studies meu artigo sobre a criação de Parceiros do Rio Bonito e a dívida do Candido com a aristocracia rural paulista.

Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Antonio Candido is known as Brazil's foremost literary critic of the 20th century. But he started his career as a sociologist. In this new article, I argue his sociological work, despite its progressive politics, relied on conservative social structures and reproduced to some extent their worldview.

"et stellae de caelo ceciderunt super terram, sicut ficus emittit grossos suos cum a vento magno movetur" (Beatus of Saint-Sever, Paris, BNF, MS lat. 8878, f. 116r.)

Delighted to announce this new book series, "Perspectives on Cultural History," with CEU for Amsterdam University Press. For more information, see here. Proposals should be sent to the commissioning editor. www.ceupressauthorhub.com/perspectives...

Vol. 52.2 is now available on Project Muse. Featuring articles by Giles, Talavera Pagán, Udaondo Alegre, Cárdenas-Rotunno, and a special forum on Henry Berlin's "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia." For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu... #projectmuse

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is