Mónica Bolufer Peruga
mboluferp.bsky.social
Mónica Bolufer Peruga
@mboluferp.bsky.social

Professor of Early Modern History at @eui-eu.bsky.social
Former PI of CIRGEN (ERC 787015) https://cirgen.eu/
Now researching emotions, correspondence, gender and empire at @eui-history.bsky.social

History 29%
Art 25%

Just arrived! Ed. José M. Imízcoz, Andoni Artola & Javier Esteban.
I contribute w. a chapter on tensions and interplays between tradition and modernity, popular and elite culture in 18c Spain.
”El proceso de civilización y sus paradojas. Tensiones y diálogos culturales".
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📚Exploring early modern transatlantic migration

Join the book presentation by our researcher Alejandro Salamanca (@desvelandooriente.com) on the history of early modern migrants in the Spanish Atlantic and the networks they forged.

📅 4 February, 17:00
👉 Register: loom.ly/15ie5w4

Here the full programme.
👑King Arthur and his knights would be proud of it!
Our new programme for this semester's seminar cycle on #earlymodern #history is now online! All seminars can be followed both online and in person. Full programme: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/ea... Join us! #skystorians

Honoured to be part of the programme of the Oval Table of Early Modern History, Istituto Italo-Germanico-FBK, Trento.
I'll talk next Thursday 29 Jan on
"Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence."
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Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence
How did people who did not travel frequently or widely imagine the world and contribute to the growing awareness of globality in the eighteenth century? This paper engages with discussions on the form...
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Our new programme for this semester's seminar cycle on #earlymodern #history is now online! All seminars can be followed both online and in person. Full programme: isig.fbk.eu/en/events/ea... Join us! #skystorians

Happy to have had this long conversation with PhD researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid about my career and experience. Always encouraging to feel so much passion and interest in early-career scholars.
¡Gracias, Alberto y Mario!
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La canción más triste/The saddest song.
Robe Iniesta (1962-2025), singer, poet and composer, left us today.
"He llorado tanto,/he llorado tan adentro,/he llorado tanto, tanto/que he apagado hasta el infierno".

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Robe - La Canción Más Triste (Directo en el Teatro Romano de Mérida)
YouTube video by robeextremoVEVO
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Two intense days of discussions on Letters and the Politics of Emotion ended yesterday in a convivial atmosphere.
Thanks to my co-organisers Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera, to Francesca Parenti, our guests, discussants & participants.
Grazie/gràcies/obrigada/gracias!
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✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires.
With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.
#Tribune ✍️
📖 La famille Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens (Guillaume Calafat (@annales.ehess.fr), Isabelle Backouche (@crh.ehess.fr), Etienne Anheim (CRH), Christian Ingrao (@doccespra.bsky.social)…), pour rappeler l'incompatibilité du RN avec L’Étrange Défaite.
« Non, Jordan Bardella, on ne peut pas citer Marc Bloch pour alimenter le rejet des étrangers en France »
TRIBUNE. La famille de Marc Bloch s’associe à un collectif d’historiens et répond au président du RN, qui citait récemment les propos du résistant, exécuté en 1944 et qui entrera au Panthéon en juin 2026.
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Thanks to Silvia Sebastiani for an incredible lecture last week at our Cultural History Seminar (co-convened with my colleague Carlotta Sorba) on the boundaries of humanity and the implications that 18c discussion on apes had on debates about gender, race and slavery.
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📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc

⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!

What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM

🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.

Yesterday Carlotta Sorba and I were delighted to host Giulia Calvi as guest speaker at our Cultural History Seminar. Our PhD researchers discussed with her bodies and appearances as key to globalization and resistances, as well as how to interpret visual sources.
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Thks to Trashumante. Revista Americana de Historia Social for reviewing our book Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long 18c (Palgrave, 2024)

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The book is OA here:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Reseñas 2025
Enzo Traverso. Pasados singulares. El «yo» en la escritura de la historia. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2022, 224 pp. Yubely Vahos Valeria Coronel, La última guerra del Siglo de las Luces. Revolución...
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⏰ The deadline to apply for #EUI postdoctoral fellowship programmes is fast approaching!

Don't miss out on the chance to become part of a world-class academic community 👥📚

Apply now at: https://loom.ly/WmotZrE

Join us for the presentation (in Italian) of Giulia Calvi's book "Vestire il mondo. Una storia globale di abiti, corpi, immaginari"!👗👘👢🌍🌎🌏
🕔 6th Ottober, 17,30h
📍Biblioteca delle Oblate, Firenze
Breaking barriers, building futures

On 10 November at 17:00 CET, join the 2025 Ursula Hirschmann lecture by Viviane Reding, President of the Fondation du Mérite européen, and former Vice-President of the European Commission (2010-2014) 👉 loom.ly/00BUrZ8

📣 #GenderStudies #EuropeanIntegration

Already a (very full) year at the EUI and starting with pleasure the new academic year 2025-26.
1st-year researchers, fellows, faculty and staff will be meeting tomorrow at the Inaugural Workshop of the Departament of History:
www.eui.eu/events?id=56...
Don't miss it!
Inaugural workshop of the History Department
Incoming PhD researchers at the EUI Department of History are invited to join this year
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Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity?

📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27

🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY

🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST

🚨 #postdoc
Max Weber Fellowships
The Max Weber Programme MWP at the European University Institute EUI is a unique postdoctoral programme in the historical, humanities and social sciences It i
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Happy and proud to share this news!
My friend the distinguished early modern historian María Ángeles Pérez Samper has received the Spanish National Award for Gastronomy Research and Innovation for her cutting-edge work on food history.
Felicidades/felicitats!
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María Ángeles Pérez Samper, Premio Nacional de Gastronomía a la Investigación e Innovación 2025
Con él se reconoce una línea de trabajo que la Real Academia de Gastronomía tiene especial interés en visibilizar, apoyando el enfoque cultural e h...
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Equality conflicts, the history of pesticides, migrations and intimacy, early modern capitalism, and much more

🎓 📃 Check the programme of our Monthly Research Meetings 👇
and register to join us (in person or online) 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM

We are eager to engage in discussions on our ongoing research

Wonderful two days of discussions and happy conviviality around translation, exiles and migration in beautiful and sunny Wolfenbüttel. Thanks to Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social, to Thomas Munck and to HAB for their hospitality. Proud to make part of this group!
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We could not be happier and more grateful to @global-ih.bsky.social and to @hernandez-sau.bsky.social !
@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On my way to this workshop "Translating Cultures" organised by Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social and Thomas Munck.
Looking forward to the discussions! I will speak about a 18c translation that maybe/perhaps/probably never existed ⁉️🤔
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And just over a week to go until our next WS at the HAB: "Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850" with Luc Borot, Alessia Castagnino, Veronika Čapská, Luisa Simonutti, Ariel Hessayon, Ann Thomson, Laszlo Kontler, @matthewcleary.bsky.social 1/3
The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
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BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
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🔎 Are you a senior #historian interested in pursuing a research stay with us?

⏱️ You still have 1 month to apply for our Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship

🚨Learn more about the procedure and apply by 30 September 2025 👉 loom.ly/YU09tLg

📣 #fellowship #EUI #History
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUIFellowshi
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Funded by Van Runset-Stiftung and @dfg.de 3/3
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And just over a week to go until our next WS at the HAB: "Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850" with Luc Borot, Alessia Castagnino, Veronika Čapská, Luisa Simonutti, Ariel Hessayon, Ann Thomson, Laszlo Kontler, @matthewcleary.bsky.social 1/3