Hannah Murphy
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
- Plantation sick houses and medical neglect - a new blog ahead of our closing conference, written by the extremely excellent Halle-Mackenzie Ashby. We've been following her progress since she participated in our summer school, and it's a true pleasure to see it develop. 🗃️
- FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️
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- Unfortunately, it's not possible to live stream this time, so sorry...
- Forgot to post due to travel: a GEM of a source, and an archival discovery by our very own Carolin Schmitz... an incredible inquisitorial record of five separate prosecutions and one very unique testimony by María Felipa, a sometimes free, sometimes enslaved Black healer on the Canary Isles...
- Sending this book tour off in style at @kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social. There will be (non-alcoholic) drinks, there will be nibbles, there will be friendly conversation and questions aplenty... do come along!
- To mark tonight’s FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of 🧵), here’s a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ 🧵 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
- Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...
- I have seen a sneak peak of this paper and it is SO GOOD: Treasures, what is treasured, what should be treasured... and all the intimate ways in which early modern people thought about keeping and creating safety in a time of crisis.... Join us on Monday! #EarlyModern 🗃️
- New blog post!!! Claudia Geremia on amulets, materiality and syncretic medicine in the early modern Canaries... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/the-mat...
- Deadline for submissions this week!!!
- Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️
- For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern
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- Many! We are actually doing a sourcebook! Until it hits the printers, see travel lit in particular- Ania Loomba and Jonathan Burton's sourcebook gives a good overview. For non-English sources Surekha Davies, Renaissance Ethnography, & for medicine and climate, Suman Seth, Difference and Disease
- Important developments afoot! 🗃️
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- This is AMAZING. Congratulations Philippa.... Can't wait to follow this....
- Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...
- For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern
- Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️
- Final week for abstracts. We've had some incredibly exciting proposals already, this is shaping up to be an outsized conference..... #EarlyModern 🗃️
- NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
- NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
- Still thinking today about the vivacity of the networks traced by @anastruillou.bsky.social , linking North Africa with port cities across Europe, thinking through the work of material goods, the mobility of people and practice, and the contingence of our notions of 'importance'...
- EXCITING! #EarlyModern ists! 🗃️people! Follow @cemskcl.bsky.social for new research, exciting opportunities, and all that is happening at King's....
- KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies is on Bluesky! Give us a follow for updates on our upcoming events. kingsearlymodern.co.uk @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
- New term, new year, new research! Join us to learn about @anastruillou.bsky.social's work into the history of American goods in North Africa, 15th-17th centuries... I, for one, cannot wait...
- It's a wrap for 2024, (for work at least...) For a look back at what we've been up to with my project at King's, and a glimpse of the year ahead, check out our holiday update www.mmor.co.uk/news/christm... Wishing everyone a very restful winter break.... 🗃️#EarlyModern
- Can't remember the last time I was at a conference where everyone was in their seats, panellists and all, eight minutes *before* it's due to start... Keen to rethink state and society in #EarlyModern Britain! 🗃️
- A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️
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- Not sure if there are publications from this yet, but John Mark Philo's project on the Global Library directly engages these themes and has a blog, which might be good if this is teaching related? www.globallibrary.net/blog
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- That's a very good place to be though!
- THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!
- My very excellent colleague Joan Redmond is also currently updating the "Very Short Introduction" to Stuart Britain and Ireland, though maybe that's not giving the instant gratification of the already-published!
- Foundling hospitals offering a history of a carefully managed distribution of harm, in which #EarlyModern logics of the "legitimate family" see infant mortality as acceptable collateral damage @erinmaglaque.bsky.social's paper was riveting and devastating, and I can't wait to see it in print. 🗃️
- And coming up this Monday 25th November, for all you lovely #EarlyModern ists, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in person and online, speaking about foundlings, mortality, gender, politics, and anger. Erin is one of my favourite writers, and I cannot wait to hear this new work... Online and in person! 🗃️
- Today!!! Join us for this sure-to-be incendiary seminar by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social with a response by John Henderson - online or in person. You can email us for a link if you haven't signed up!
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- If you can extinguish fire with modestly priced wine....
- And coming up this Monday 25th November, for all you lovely #EarlyModern ists, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in person and online, speaking about foundlings, mortality, gender, politics, and anger. Erin is one of my favourite writers, and I cannot wait to hear this new work... Online and in person! 🗃️
- Real scholarly generosity here, #Earlymodern library and research fellowships for all!
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- Thank *you* for your hard work and for sharing!
- An incredible opportunity to shape the future of #EarlyModern studies...
- *VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
- TONIGHT! @lilachambers.bsky.social speaking on "Insurgent Spirits: Property, Authority, and the Politics of Alcohol in the Leeward Islands Plantation Complex". Online or in-person, you are equally welcome!
- Fun/intimidating/inspiring to return to my long-running side hustle on early modern calligraphy in the wonderful company of @komldsp.bsky.social, hopefully more soon....
- Our IHR Seminar Europe and the World, 1500-1800 starts October 7 with Colin Jones and then continues with a feast of early modernists: Toby Green, Lila O'Leary Chambers, Erin Maglaque, Ana Struillou, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Allison Stielau, Michael Aidan Pope and more...
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- There is! Though obviously I have no idea how to join it... (turns beseechingly to @onslies.bsky.social)
- It's that new term, term-card kind of feeling. Here are few upcoming things for our project at King's (Medicine and the Making of Race) featuring: Katherine McKittrick, Julie Hardwick, and Jennifer Morgan. #EarlyModern 🗃️
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- I've always used Grimm's Dictionaries, back in the day my supervisor gave them to me on CD-Rom.... dwb.uni-trier.de/de/
- KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies hasn't made the leap here yet, so sharing a CFP for a conference "Rethinking State and Society" organised by our wonderful colleague Jonah Miller... #EarlyModern 🗃️
- So excited to celebrate this highly diverse, incredibly interesting shortlist. I've read them all and I don't envy our prize panel this difficult choice - it's a real testament to the vibrancy and vitality of interdisciplinary early modern studies...
- Our project blog is back for a THIRD series, showcasing #earlymodern source material on medicine, slavery, and race-making. So far Ana Struilou has written about 'berberisco' practitioners in Seville and Barbara Di Gennaro Splendor has shared new work on galleys, slavery and expenses in Venice. 🗃️
- Giuseppi Marcocci @ihr.bsky.social in person on 11 March, aka next Monday! Political iconoclasm and visual dissent, which should make for angry images, provoking ideas, and contentious history, albeit in the most genial of company...
- Including one #earlymodern PhD scholarship on "Crafting the Reformation" supervised by Suzanna Ivanic and myself - knowledge, belief, artisans and making, and lots of wonderful conversation, all in the offing...
- London #earlymodern people (and anyone London adjacent), an in-person event not to be missed!! An evening with Urvashi Chakravarty discussing the exhilarating Fictions of Consent, how it has changed our work and how it might have changed itself two years (and a paperback publication) on... 🗃️
- Online seminar this time, which is apt to bring far-away people to discuss geolocating apps and the negotiation of urban space, discovery, and hiddenness! Do sign up....
- A[n academic] lifetime ago I was lucky enough to work briefly on this project with Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer, Margaret Pelling, Patrick Wallis, Alun Withey and Justin Colton. I learned so much about collegiality, collaboration, and generosity from the team. Excited to see this out in the world...
- It's the start of 2024! Come celebrate with us on Monday 15th January @ihr.bsky.social as @emilymayvine.bsky.social reflects on letters and localised bodily experience - the perfect subject for these cold winter days.
- Flashback to my PhD dissertation's happiest place... 🗃️
