Joe Clark
@jmhclark.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at University of Kentucky. Early modern Atlantic world. Also here to follow climate, urbanist, and baseball stuff.
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
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CLAH's Colonial Studies Section is thrilled to announce that it will be hosting a book launch with Ana María Silva Campo for The Inquisition's Gambit: Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias (@pennpress.bsky.social) on November 19 via Zoom. Register here: uky.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
September 22, 2026 at 5:48 PM
CLAH's Colonial Studies Section is thrilled to announce that it will be hosting a book launch with Ana María Silva Campo for The Inquisition's Gambit: Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias (@pennpress.bsky.social) on November 19 via Zoom. Register here: uky.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
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A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections
Brace for the opening of the exhibition:
🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636
📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027
📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
Brace for the opening of the exhibition:
🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636
📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027
📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
October 2, 2026 at 1:25 PM
A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections
Brace for the opening of the exhibition:
🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636
📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027
📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
Brace for the opening of the exhibition:
🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636
📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027
📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
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Coming up Tues, 6 Oct -
Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World
Speaker: Elsje van Kessel
Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group
To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr...
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Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World
Speaker: Elsje van Kessel
Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group
To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr...
#earlymodern
September 29, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Coming up Tues, 6 Oct -
Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World
Speaker: Elsje van Kessel
Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group
To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr...
#earlymodern
Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World
Speaker: Elsje van Kessel
Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group
To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr...
#earlymodern
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We are excited to be hosting the 18th annual JAS-Med conference on 9/25-9/26! With the mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for their research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and organized. jashistofmed.wordpress.com
June 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
We are excited to be hosting the 18th annual JAS-Med conference on 9/25-9/26! With the mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for their research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and organized. jashistofmed.wordpress.com
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Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf
With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
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September 22, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf
With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
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JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece
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Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece
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September 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece
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Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece
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The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
Call For Proposals:
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
August 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
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Call For Proposals:
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
August 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Call For Proposals:
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds
April 15-17, 2027
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf)
Details at:
forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
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A spell in a 15th-century grimoire for summoning a demon to find buried treasure. Sloane MS 3849, f. 18r. #medievalsky
September 15, 2026 at 10:13 AM
A spell in a 15th-century grimoire for summoning a demon to find buried treasure. Sloane MS 3849, f. 18r. #medievalsky
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I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton.
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...
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September 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton.
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
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Coming up next month! I'll be presenting a paper on witches, mná feasa, and fairies
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Magic and witchcraft conference 2025 - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
Join us (online or in-person) for this three-day conference. The event will
approach this thorny question from a range of angles, including legal, historical, literary,
psychological and colonial to n...
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May 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Coming up next month! I'll be presenting a paper on witches, mná feasa, and fairies
www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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Join us in #Atlanta for 'Oceanic Risk in the Early Modern World' at the next @saaupdates.bsky.social conference. Our seminar examines how seafaring informs early modern conceptions of risk, while also exploring how models of mind were shaped by the hazards associated with oceanic travel. #shax2027
September 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Join us in #Atlanta for 'Oceanic Risk in the Early Modern World' at the next @saaupdates.bsky.social conference. Our seminar examines how seafaring informs early modern conceptions of risk, while also exploring how models of mind were shaped by the hazards associated with oceanic travel. #shax2027
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The program for the April 2026 conference of the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) is live. This year is extra special because we've teamed up with the Program in Early American Economy & Society. Join us! #earlymodern #globalhistory #earlyamerican @csschmitt.bsky.social
Conferences
View the 2026 Conference Program here . Register for the 2026 conference here .
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February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
The program for the April 2026 conference of the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) is live. This year is extra special because we've teamed up with the Program in Early American Economy & Society. Join us! #earlymodern #globalhistory #earlyamerican @csschmitt.bsky.social
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REGISTRATION OPEN!
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.
Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
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Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Recasting the Silver Fleet, or The Propaganda of Piracy in the Dutch Caribbean | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 3
In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore
of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating
the battle and providing...
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September 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica?
My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
September 8, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica?
My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
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My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
September 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
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Did the metropolitan suburbs have a distinctive 'petitioning culture' due to the their social and administrative growing pains in the 17th century? 🗃️
*New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...
*New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...
September 7, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Did the metropolitan suburbs have a distinctive 'petitioning culture' due to the their social and administrative growing pains in the 17th century? 🗃️
*New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...
*New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...
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El País publishes two letters from Pope Francis in which he accused Opus Dei of engaging in political intrigues like an organized crime syndicate and suggested he was prepared now to ban the organization outright. The organization now exercises extraordinary influence in one country: the US.
El Opus Dei asegura que no se apropió “clandestinamente” de la virgen del siglo XI que le reclama el obispo de Barbastro
La Obra difunde un comunicado horas después de que EL PAÍS publique dos cartas inéditas del papa Francisco en las que muestra su apoyo al prelado oscense
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September 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
El País publishes two letters from Pope Francis in which he accused Opus Dei of engaging in political intrigues like an organized crime syndicate and suggested he was prepared now to ban the organization outright. The organization now exercises extraordinary influence in one country: the US.
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Short-term grants to research at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Don't be shy...
Fellowships – The Rhode Island Historical Society
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September 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Short-term grants to research at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Don't be shy...
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Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.
Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
September 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.
Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
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Conference Announcement:
The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster
The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month!
More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578
The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster
The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month!
More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578
August 26, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Conference Announcement:
The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster
The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month!
More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578
The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster
The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month!
More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578
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Hoy publica en abierto @infolibre.es la introducción del nuevo libro que escribimos @htejero.eurosky.social y yo. ¿Se converirá España en un desierto?
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'España contra el desierto': convertir la emergencia climática en un gran proyecto de prosperidad
infoLibre adelanta un fragmento de este libro de Emilio Santiago y Héctor Tejero, que llega a las librerías el 2 de septiembre de la mano de Arpa
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August 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Hoy publica en abierto @infolibre.es la introducción del nuevo libro que escribimos @htejero.eurosky.social y yo. ¿Se converirá España en un desierto?
www.infolibre.es/cultura/espa...
www.infolibre.es/cultura/espa...