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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · 25d

One of my favorite places in Belgium and on earth!

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Sep 4

#EarlyModern #16c #17c #18c
#reformazing #nuntastic #monkabulous #skystorians #academicsky

Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Sep 4

Enjoy this rich issue with lots of opportunities, CFPs, CFAs, events, publications and more!

We are pleased to welcome Gabrielle Hamelin to the @emodir.bsky.social team as the new social media manager, and thank @tntwining.bsky.social Twining for his generous service.

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Sep 4

🍂Out now!
EMoDiR’s September 2025 Newsletter
Featuring new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, fellowships, prizes & CfPs!
🔗https://emodir.hypotheses.org/files/2025/09/Newsletter-September-2025.pdf
🙌Compiled with care by @martinamampieri.bsky.social & Francesco Quatrini.

#Earlymodern

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

#AcademicSky #skystorians #jewishstudies #jewishlife #research #transcribing #academic #project #history

Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

🇮🇹 CALLING ITALIAN NATIVE (OR NEAR-NATIVE) SPEAKERS 🇮🇹
Are you fluent in Italian?
Join me in transcribing & editing Morais’s Italian materials—or share with your Italian-speaking students, friends & colleagues. It’s easy & fun! 🎉

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

This work also ties into my @ec.europa.eu #MSCA BookSHUK project at Modena and Penn. Especially fascinating: Morais’s exchanges with Marco Mortara (1815–1894), which illuminate Jewish book circulation, private libraries & Italian-American intellectual networks 📚🌍

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

Under the guidance of Laura Newman Eckstein & Arthur Kiron, my work involves transcribing and editing AI-generated transcriptions of Morais’s Italian letters.
These letters are preserved at Penn’s
@katzcenterupenn.bsky.social and digitized here ⬇️
fromthepage.com/upenn/morais...

Italian Language Materials from the Sabato Morais Collection | FromThePage

Italian Language Materials from the Sabato Morais Collection - collection overview.

fromthepage.com

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sabato Morais (1823–1897) was an Italian-American rabbi of Portuguese descent from Livorno, Hazzan in London’s Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Rabbi of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia from 1850. Educator, philanthropist & co-founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in NY

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’m delighted to share that I’ve joined the Sabato Morais Transcription Project @upenn.edu as part of my internship for the JTS/AJL Graduate Certificate in Hebraica & Judaica Librarianship.

Shout out to Paula Breger, Marjorie Lehman, @mmargolis.bsky.social, Naomi Steinberger & Aaron Taub!

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 5

@rsaorg.bsky.social! 😅

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 5

To purchase a copy of this meaninful book: www.pennpress.org/978151282287...

Writing Plague – Penn Press

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explo...

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 5

@pennpress.bsky.social

#bookreview #JewishStudies #EarlyModern #Plague #AcademicTwitter #RenaissanceStudies

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.academia.edu/143282050/Re...

Review of Susan L. Einbinder, Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in Renaissance Quarterly 78/2 (2025): 658-660

Ariadne, Niobe, Byblis, and Apollo. According to Migiel, the destabilization of these evocations presents interstitial spaces in which subject positions become overlaid with one another such that &quo...

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Aug 5

📚 Thrilled to share that my review of Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague (Penn Press, 2022) is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly!

A powerful study of how Italian Jewish communities responded to the 1630–32 plague—researched during COVID-19.

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jul 22

Deadline extended until August 3!!!
#RenSA26 #earlymodern #skystorians #academicsky #16thC #17thC #18thC #nuntastic #reformazing #monkabulous

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED: August 3, 2025
CfP | EMoDiR @ RSA San Francisco 2026 (Feb 19–21, 2026)
Theme: "The Devil and Dissent: Early Modern Perspectives"
📝 Submit your proposal by the new deadline!

#RenSA26 #earlymodern #twitterstorians #cfp

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jul 13

Just a few days left to apply!!!

#RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #religion #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jun 11

Sympathy for the devil in the early modern period? 😈

Submit your proposal for the next @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in San Francisco!

#RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jun 11

After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026.

Please circulate, and submit a proposal!

#earlymodern

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jul 8

Amazing! I hope you're doing well, Murray!

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm delighted to announce that my article "The Curious Case of the Jew Who Married a Buffalo: An Alleged Blood Libel in Hamburg (1687)" has been published in Cromohs 27 (2024): 76-95!

The full issue is digitized and available here:
oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cr...

#earlymodern #skystorians

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity
🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław

🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality
⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026

🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifte...

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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎤Pour célébrer les travaux de l’historien et résistant Marc Bloch, une première journée d’étude du cycle de conférences et tables-rondes "Actualité de Marc Bloch" est organisée.

📅 Jeudi 3 juillet
🕘 De 9 h à 18 h
📍 Centre Panthéon – Salle 6

En savoir plus sur le programme 👉 swll.to/CS8mj

Première journée d'étude du cycle de conférences et tables-rondes "Actualité de Marc Bloch" | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨 Last two days to send us your proposals !

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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 CFP "Forced Mobility and the Making of Knowledge (16c Naples, Rome & Venice)"

Organised by Fiona Lejosne, Oury Goldman and myself
4-6 March 2026 @ehess.fr
Proposals in French/English/Italian welcome
Deadline: 1 July 2025

Don't hesitate to apply & share widely

ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...

[AAC] Mobilités contraintes et production de savoirs sur le monde à Naples, Rome et Venise au xvie siècle - IHMC

Le colloque se tiendra du 4 au 6 mars 2026 au campus Condorcet (Paris-Aubervilliers). Date limite de soumissions : 1er juillet 2025

ihmc.ens.psl.eu

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jun 18

Organized by the @École française de Rome in the framework of the Mondo500 program. Proposals welcome in English, French, or Italian.

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 CFP 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹
Conference "Forced Mobilities and the Making of Knowledge about the World in 16th-Century Naples, Rome, and Venice"

📍 Paris-Aubervilliers | 🗓️ March 3–6, 2025
🔗 CFP (deadline: July 1): ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co...

#CFP #EarlyModern #Venice #Naples #Rome #skystorians #academicsky #16thC

[AAC] Mobilités contraintes et production de savoirs sur le monde à Naples, Rome et Venise au xvie siècle - IHMC

Le colloque se tiendra du 4 au 6 mars 2026 au campus Condorcet (Paris-Aubervilliers). Date limite de soumissions : 1er juillet 2025

ihmc.ens.psl.eu

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Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social · Jun 11

Sympathy for the devil in the early modern period? 😈

Submit your proposal for the next @rsaorg.bsky.social meeting in San Francisco!

#RenSA26 #academicsky #earlymodern #monkabulous #nuntastic #reformazing #16thC #17thC #18thC

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Jun 11

After a fantastic slate of papers at RSA Boston 2025, EMoDiR is delighted to announce our CfP for RSA San Francisco 2026.

Please circulate, and submit a proposal!

#earlymodern

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