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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · 19d

Seconded!

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 23d

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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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · 29d

One of my favorite places! Enjoy! 🤩

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Sep 4

"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 @thetudortimes.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social · Aug 12

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!

Promotion poster with photographs of Devoney Looser and George Justice and of the book cover of Wild for Austen for event on Weds, Sept. 10th at 7 p.m. at Magic City Books.

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Aug 8

Borders also broadly defined including political, civic, intergenerational, cultural, religious, class. #DH #Digitalhumanities #RSA2026 #ArtHistory #MaterialCulture #PoliticalHistory #Nobility #premodern

Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Aug 8

#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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

www.rsa.org

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.

Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

www.rsa.org

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Jul 30

How do we know what we know about the past? That history is not just memorizing facts and dates, but interrogation of the sources, the context, and how they impacted real people who made real decisions. Then grappling with sources, text or otherwise, their gaps, contradictions, translation

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

www.rsa.org

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to the archives.

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Apr 16

#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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Apr 9

#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: [email protected] #digitalhumanities #dh

Proposal for the Sixteenth Century Society 2025 conference in Portland. Locating early modern women and diplomacy in the archives; methodology and approaches.

Proposal for Sixteenth Century Society 2025 conference in Portland. Early modern women and diplomatic strategy.

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Apr 7

#CallforPapers #CFP

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland.

Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 31

"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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 26

Reading for teaching and for fun - work-life balance 😇 #skystorians #renaissance #earlymodern #medieval

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 24

Opportunity to chat about some of our favorite historical people and how we spend our time in the archives (or elsewhere) unlocking documents' misteries. Performance, networks, art collecting, family, space, mediation, correspondence... endless possibilities. Email [email protected] if interested

Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 22

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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 12

#Renaissance #skystorians putting together a proposal for a roundtable on methodologies and approaches to women and diplomacy in #earlymodern for SCS #16th Century in Portland 2025. Foci include royal women, diplomats, unofficial agents, brokers, health, etc. Leave a comment if interested - cfp tba

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