The Early Modern Commons

Congratulaitons to Darlene Abreu-Ferreira for winning ASPHS’s 2019 A.H. de Oliveira-Marques Prize for “Women and the Acquisition, Transmission, and Execution of Public Offices in Early Modern Portugal,” Gender and History 31/2 (2019):...

Here are the early modern panels in Barcelona this week (wish I could be there!): Thursday, July 11: 9:00-10;30 SESSION 1. Reconstructing “Moors” and “Moriscos”: Materiality, Text, Practice (Sala de graus A. Calsamiglia –...

I am getting to this belatedly, but: congratulations to Max Deardorff and Fabien Montcher! Deardorff won the Best Early Career Article Prize for “The Ties That Bind: Intermarriage between Moriscos and Old Christians in Early Modern Spain, 1526-1614″...

The regional meeting of the ASPHS will be held at UC San Diego on Jan 19. The speakers will be: Allyson Gonzalez (Post-doc Yale): “Who is a Jew?  The Lost Library of Rafael Cansinos and the Politics of the Modern Marrano.” Renee Jennifer...

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article published in 2017 or 2018 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar....

Conferences 50th Anniversary Conference – Barcelona 2019 Call for Papers The 50th Annual Conference of the ASPHS will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from July 10 -13, 2019 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, hosted by the Institut d’Història...

ASPHS has two prize submissions due on Nov 21: the Best First Book Prize in Iberian History and the A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize: The Best First Book Prize in Iberian History The committee for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies’s...

ASPHS Newsletter, Vol 8 (Fall, 2017): Jessica A. Boon, “The Study of Religion as Social History: Imagining the Passion in Post-Convivencia Castile, c. 1500.” Timothy D. Walker, Report on “Tracking the Early Modern Drug Trade in...

A belated congratulations to Adam G. Beaver, whose “Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History” in After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity, ed. Mercedes...

This is very late – I had a busy spring semester! – but to try to offer a more or less complete picture of the current landscape of early modern Spanish history I’m post the early modern panels of this past March’s ASPHS conference...

The Spanish history Symposium (a regional ASPHS meeting) will meet at UCSD on January 21, 2017, from 10AM-4PM.  The format is discussion of pre-circulated papers, beginning with breakfast and including lunch. If you would like to attend and/or be...

Obviously this is late; sorry, I forgot about ASPHS since I wasn’t going and instead I’ve been frantically readying myself for the RSA this week. But in the interests of being able to sort through previous posts and see what people have been...

The committee for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies’s Best First Book Prize in Iberian History invites submissions for this year’s competition. First books on Iberian history published between 1 January 2013...

CALL FOR PAPERS 47th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE HISTORICAL STUDIES, MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, MARCH 17-20, 2016   SPONSORED BY: THE MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO and...

We read the ASPHS program so you don’t have to. My observation: the growing prominence of Portugal continues – good! See you in Baltimore! Friday, March 20 8:30-9:50 SESSION 2 (GILMAN 219) Insiders and Outsiders: Identity and Power in Three...

Best First Article Prize: The committee for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies’s Best First Article Prize in Iberian History invites submissions for this year’s competition. Articles on Iberian history published in 2012,...

CALL FOR PAPERS: 46th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE HISTORICAL STUDIES THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD MARCH 19-22, 2015 SPONSORED BY: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Departments of History and History of Science...

For those of you who missed the announcement, the ASPHS confernence in 2015 will be held in Baltimore. Erin, you have one job: make sure there is enough food at the banquet…

ASPHS deadline extended to January 31, 2014.

This was on Espora, but in the interest of being comprehensive: Call for Papers: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical studies 2014 conference in Modena, Italy The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical...