Eduardo Fernández

New wine into new wineskins! Joining the conversation on late medieval / early modern religious history, book history and cultural history with a strong philological focus. Currently looking at the intellectual collaboration between Ethiopians & Europeans in the 16th c.

Feels like every day we are hearing bad news about the humanities, but this stat is pretty shocking. Graduate research production has roughly declined by half in 10 years.

A very cool #earlymodern #jewishstudies conference in #Amsterdam: The Converso Condition and the Reformation Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Time: 13:00-17:30 Venue: Uilenburger Synagogue, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91 mbii.nl/the-converso...

On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action. With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back. Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready.

Does anyone have tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry between 5-8 December that they would like to resell?

Ethiopia in Visigothic Spain? A teenager buried in the 7th century in the mountains near Madrid carried a mtDNA lineage (L3h2) found mainly in the Horn of Africa, and practically absent from western Europe at the time elpais.com/cultura/2026...

Last Thursday, the students in my History of Colonialism and Decolonization course #uniroma3 visited the National Central Library of #Rome, including my favorite reading room, which houses the collection of the former Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO).

More than the easy criticism against Princeton, and despite the dire academic landscape we live in, I find this deeply inspiring. Tene rem: the rest will follow.

📢 5-year Research Associate in European Religious History (16th–20th c.) position at the IEG (Leibniz Institute for European History), Mainz. Such a great place, I can't recommend it enough. Very good German (and English) required. Deadline: 10 Nov 2026 www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/karriere/ste...

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

We still have some files to QC, but overall, we can announce it: we have finalized a first version of DTS-ready TLG CD, based on Diogenes earlier work, called the CLLG Freed Corpus. Git: gitlab.inria.fr/almanach/cll... Static reading environment: freed-corpus-bae861.gitlabpages.inria.fr/index.html

Dear Metal Studies colleagues: Neomedieval, a Spanish scholarly journal devoted to everything neomedieval, is looking for contributions on the topic "Between Medieval History and Medievalist Fantasy: On Neomedievalism in Metal Music". Many languages accepted! revistas.urjc.es/index.php/ne...

Have you recently started your PhD in history and/or a related discipline? Would you like to hear more about the incredible resources the IHR has to offer history students in the heart of Bloomsbury? Join us on 7 Oct! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social

I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

Learned today: andouille is not 'nduja.

No better encouragement to seriously rethink the tension between writing for one's peers and doing it for one's audience than reading the labels and explanations at the Biennale.

🔴DIRECTO | Miles de manifestantes recorren Madrid en protesta por la crisis de la vivienda: “Fuera rentistas de los barrios” 📹️Mónica Luengo social.elpais.com/u4s…

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Os autors han publicau as transcripcions d'os textos en alchamiado aragonés-hebreu medieval revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RF... h/t @esforigador.bsky.social 👇

For more information on Hill Museum and Manuscript Library’s partnerships with Ethiopia, see the website here hmml.org/about/global...

A new guide is available for Hill Museum and Manuscript Library’s photographic collections of Ethiopian manuscripts, including information on repositories, digitized and cataloged manuscripts, and how to view the manuscripts. hmml.org/assets/pdf/H...

Here's my blog on how to leverage the stochastic nature of VLMs to identify areas of potential divergence (most likely areas for errors). Read more here! wjbmattingly.com/blog/where-t...

La BNE publica una guía temática que explora la colección de exlibris, con más de 70.000 ejemplares www.bne.es/es/noticias/...

Kommende Woche findet die #Handschriftenportal Summer School statt. Im Rahmen dieser laden wir zu zwei öffentlichen Vorträgen in die @stabiberlin.bsky.social 👇(1/3)

Apply to BSA Fellowships by December 2, 2026 The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/apply-to-bsa-fellowships-by-december-2-2026/

🚨🚨 Job Alert: Johns Hopkins Dept of History is accepting applications in Mediev European and/or Mediterranean History, 400-1500, associate or advanced assistant rank: apply.interfolio.com/193938. 🚨🚨

So much talent wasted from the great applicants who don't get them. So much effort and resources required to evaluate these. So much dread and imposter syndrome for many of those who consider applying Something needs to give.

Talking with @ciarab.bsky.social about archives, silences and the limits of digital solutions @universitypress.cambridge.org @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/absence-in-t...

"The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset."

Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern

We are excited to host Jeroen Verrijssen (Ghent University) next Thu 10 Sept, at 10 AM CET. The topic of his paper is •Towards a Typology of Onomastic Transmission: The Names of the Watchers in 1 Enoch and Its Versions• If you are interested in attending, pls register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Congrats to @sophiademue.bsky.social for winning an ERC StG! "Beta Esrael Heritage and Texts - a multilayered approach to the literary and manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Jews" For a preview, you may wish to check out her TeTra talk – incidentaly one of the most viewed talks on our channel!

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.

Reminder 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀'𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Lawrence M. Principe To register for this lecture: form.jotform.com/262003398456... #CSMBR #MedicalHistory #MedicalAlchemy #MiddleAges

Job Opportunity! Isaac Newton Trust and Sir John Plumb Academic Career Development Fellowship in Latin American History (Fixed Term) University of Cambridge - Faculty of History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DST509/i...

Upcoming conference: Join our next EHS conference online on 9 January 2027. The theme is 'The Church and Race'. Our call for papers will open soon, mark your calendars in the meantime! #skystorians #history

Please circulate! Calling all PhDs and ECRs working on themes related to health, welfare, and community in the early modern maritime world: submit abstracts by 30 September to join this one-day workshop at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on 14 January 2027. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

As every year, we are organizing Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources! This time it is virtual (5 afternoons in November/October), with 7 language/script groups (2x Latin, Greek, Syriac, Church Slavonic, Icelandic, German). Call for applications: indico.global/e/htr-2026 . #htr #atr

Maybe @eui-eu.bsky.social can spare the library a few TV screens and buy this instead!

"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this". Leaving hatred for Anthropic and capitalism for later, the only way to survive this is scanning books and sharing them ourselves. An unjust (copyright) law is no law at all. futurism.com/future-socie...