Evan Angus MacCarthy
@angusmacevan.bsky.social
Musicologist | Director of Elements Project at UMass Amherst
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Co-convenor of Five College Renaissance Seminar
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Co-convenor of Five College Renaissance Seminar
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📣 Just a quick reminder that the MedRen 2026 Call for Papers deadline is 31 January! ⏳
Come to Warsaw 6-10 July 2026 for Med-Ren.
Submit your proposal via the online form — link here and in comments. 👇
medren2026.uw.edu.pl/ninja-forms/...
Come to Warsaw 6-10 July 2026 for Med-Ren.
Submit your proposal via the online form — link here and in comments. 👇
medren2026.uw.edu.pl/ninja-forms/...
January 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM
📣 Just a quick reminder that the MedRen 2026 Call for Papers deadline is 31 January! ⏳
Come to Warsaw 6-10 July 2026 for Med-Ren.
Submit your proposal via the online form — link here and in comments. 👇
medren2026.uw.edu.pl/ninja-forms/...
Come to Warsaw 6-10 July 2026 for Med-Ren.
Submit your proposal via the online form — link here and in comments. 👇
medren2026.uw.edu.pl/ninja-forms/...
Excited to have copies of Rick López’s new book *Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914* for the first Five College Renaissance Seminar meeting on 10/23, when Rick will be in conversation with art historian Nicola Courtright.
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Excited to have copies of Rick López’s new book *Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914* for the first Five College Renaissance Seminar meeting on 10/23, when Rick will be in conversation with art historian Nicola Courtright.
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DOGE has terminated all four of the NEH grants for the American Musicological Society. Our executive director writes:
“As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2
“As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
DOGE has terminated all four of the NEH grants for the American Musicological Society. Our executive director writes:
“As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2
“As the chief operating officer for the American Musicological Society, a 91-year-old knowledge society committed to the study of music, history, and culture, I am resolved.” 1/2
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Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
January 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Making the most of the remainder of Winter term.
January 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Making the most of the remainder of Winter term.
New review of the fabulous new album by my colleague Allison Monroe’s ensemble Trobár!
He Said/She Said in French Courtly Love » Early Music America
Medieval ensemble Trobár celebrates women in 14th and 15th c. song, centered on poet Christine de Pizan and her musical circles, including (male) composers who are now famous, obscure or anonymous. It...
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December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
New review of the fabulous new album by my colleague Allison Monroe’s ensemble Trobár!
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome is such a powerful term/concept for so many things (environment, politics, media, work/life balance…)
Shifting baseline syndrome explains how we normalise the continual visceration of once unimaginably rich ecosystems.
Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏
Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏
December 2, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is such a powerful term/concept for so many things (environment, politics, media, work/life balance…)
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Arnaldus Alexander Durand Baro de Mazabrat, Design for an underwater suit, 1720. Ink on paper; 41.5 × 28.2 cm, Archivo General de Indias, Seville
November 29, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Arnaldus Alexander Durand Baro de Mazabrat, Design for an underwater suit, 1720. Ink on paper; 41.5 × 28.2 cm, Archivo General de Indias, Seville
On December 6th (4:30pm), the UMass Kinney Center and the School of Earth & Sustainability are co-sponsoring a talk at the Kinney Center with Annette Kehnel, author of The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (2024) and Professor and Chair of Medieval History at University of Mannheim.
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
On December 6th (4:30pm), the UMass Kinney Center and the School of Earth & Sustainability are co-sponsoring a talk at the Kinney Center with Annette Kehnel, author of The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (2024) and Professor and Chair of Medieval History at University of Mannheim.
Getting things lined up for a productive week.
November 25, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Getting things lined up for a productive week.
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Learning Latin manually
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Learning Latin manually
Excited to attend and chair a panel session at this symposium (Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before & After Braille), which starts today at Mt Holyoke College and online. Tune in!
Paradis Symposium
Image description: The logo for the Paradis Symposium features a silhouette portrait of Paradis from 1786, superimposed on an 1805 map of Vienna. Design by Grid Girl Studio.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Excited to attend and chair a panel session at this symposium (Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before & After Braille), which starts today at Mt Holyoke College and online. Tune in!
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“In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence, one in five women lived behind the walls of an institution. The rule of the cloister: silence.” —Erin Maglaque
Soundscapes of the Silenced | Erin Maglaque
In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
“In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence, one in five women lived behind the walls of an institution. The rule of the cloister: silence.” —Erin Maglaque
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Look what arrived in the mail today! #medievalsky
November 20, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Look what arrived in the mail today! #medievalsky
Hearty congrats to all the AMS award winners, including several scholars for articles and books in medieval and early modern topics.
2024 AMS Award Winners - American Musicological Society
“Evliya’s Song: Listening to the Early Modern Ottoman Court,”Journal of the American Musicological Society (2023) 76:3.
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November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Hearty congrats to all the AMS award winners, including several scholars for articles and books in medieval and early modern topics.
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An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM
An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk
The third & final meeting of this fall’s Five College Renaissance Seminar this Thursday features historian of medicine Alisha Rankin (Tufts Univ.)! “The Witches’ Brew: Potions & Poisons in Renaissance Europe” Thu 11/21 4:30PM @ Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst
November 18, 2024 at 4:39 PM
The third & final meeting of this fall’s Five College Renaissance Seminar this Thursday features historian of medicine Alisha Rankin (Tufts Univ.)! “The Witches’ Brew: Potions & Poisons in Renaissance Europe” Thu 11/21 4:30PM @ Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst