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Miriam Franchina
@barlafuess.bsky.social
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Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan.
Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Mar 4
King Henry of #Haiti requested that the #HolySee recognize a 🇭🇹 Church & #BlackClergy. He challenged #slavery = spreading of faith. These (failed) negotiations:1)undermined #Eurocentric notions of #civilization; 2)bolstered claims to #African roots; 3)inspired #Afrodescendants
tinyurl.com/yx2f5mrs
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)
This article reconstructs King Henry I and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s appeals to the Holy See during Haiti’s early independence (1808-1825) to establish the significance of a Catholic national i...
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Good to see the corrections and additions to this article, including the contribution of independent researcher Dawnanna Kreeger. Bit of a missed opportunity though to also elaborate on the original researcher, Cathey O'Neill.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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wannseekonferenz.bsky.social
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Uns fehlt ein Bild!
"...ruft die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz deshalb alle Berliner*innen auf, zu Hause in ihren Fotoalben und Fotosammlungen zu schauen."
www.ghwk.de/de/blog/samm...
Uns fehlt ein Bild: Sammelaufruf Deportationen Berlin | Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Die Gedenkstätte dokumentiert die Wannsee-Konferenz und setzt sich mit Ausstellungen, Bildungsangeboten und einer Bibliothek mit dem Holocaust auseinander.
www.ghwk.de
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Per chi si trovasse a #Roma, una giornata di studi da non perdere.
"Scambi materiali e immateriali fra #Mediterraneo allargato e #Africa in #EtàModerna" (parte del progetto Così lontani, così vicini: Italia, Mediterraneo e Africa
22 Ott., 9.30 - 18.30
Palazzo Venezia

tinyurl.com/59zempaz
October 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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gadheuman.bsky.social
The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
Slavery & Abolition
Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Long shot: any1 ever come across a #Laight family in #NewYork in the 1820s, with ties to #Haiti?

Tiny info I have: father=Henry, daughter=Maria. She's not a native writer of French, requests orange jams (!) from Modeste Pigeon in Port-au-P., is v. religious.

Thanks #skystorians 's hivemind!
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Gens de #Paris: une amie cherche une chambre en #colocation ou un micro-appartement. Idéalement pas loin de la Sorbonne — pourquoi ne pas rêver ? — mais il suffit que ce soit bien connecté.
Merci de me contacter si vous avez des pistes!

#LocationParis, #ChambreParis, #ParisHousing, #LogementParis
August 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
A toast to you and your project — virtually, with this glass!
Looking forward to plotting things together, and enjoying polenta with a Caribbean twist.
July 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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kultweet.bsky.social
📣#Praktika des DHI Rom (Externes Angebot | Anzeige)

📅 Frist: 14. September 2025

➡️ application.dhi-roma.it?fbclid=IwZXh...
July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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bethanyqualls.bsky.social
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
How did the staggering pensions secretly paid to nobles—& their exposure—contribute to bringing down the #Bastille & the 🇫🇷 Crown?

@benoit-carre.bsky.social takes #skystorians on a journey through neglected archives to reconstruct the fiscal system at the dawn of the #FrenchRevolution.
benoit-carre.bsky.social Benoît Carré @benoit-carre.bsky.social · Jul 10
Petite livraison surprise ce matin. Merci à l'ensemble du service communication des @puseptentrion.bsky.social pour la remise de ces premiers exemplaires !

Sortie confirmée le 14 août www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?gco...
July 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Check out this double conference:
#Colonial Objects: "Material Culture of #Italian Colonialism"

Deadline: 5 Sep.

Venues: @bhmpi.bsky.social, Rome & Italian Academy, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, NYC

#skystorians
July 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
barlafuess.bsky.social
🎓The Chair of #EarlyModern History at the University of Trier is hiring a doctoral researcher!🎓

NB: German is nice to have, but not required!

- Starting October 2025 for 3 years
- Deadline: July 7, 2025

#PHD

www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...
www.uni-trier.de
June 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
#skystorians 🗃️#c18th
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 12
Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.
June 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Reposted by Miriam Franchina
college-de-france.fr
#Histoire #Haïti
🇭🇹 "Haïti, 1825 : de l’indépendance à la #dette"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Antoine Lilti, titulaire de la chaire Histoire des Lumières, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle.
⏰ 12 → 14 juin 2025
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
barlafuess.bsky.social
CfP #earlycareer "Reforming #Religion, #Morality & Society in #Afro-#Eurasia: Intellectual & Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global #18thCentury"
(by @isecs-sieds.bsky.social )
@unitrier.bsky.social, 17- 19 June, 2026
Deadline: July 1st, 2025
tinyurl.com/fjax5xm2

#skystorians #areastudies 🗃️
Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century
This Early Career Seminar of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) aims to explore the history of intellectual and cultural connections in Eurasia and parts of Africa and to ...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Interested in developing a postdoc project in #EarlyModern global religious #history & applying for a #MSCA?

A colleague at the Uni of Teramo (🇮🇹) is looking for candidates & offers supervision + support with the application process.

Feel free to get in touch
#skystorians
May 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
King Henry of #Haiti might say "told u so". He advocated for #Afrodescendants to access the priesthood. While the Holy See ignored his pleas, he had clergy: of mixed descent from #LatAm, & European critical of the Church's silence on #slavery.
#CreolePope
May 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Come visit us! While Berlin takes days off for a long weekend, we in Brandenburg make science fun&accessible. Over 40 institutions have organised activities, below ours.
Info: potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de
May 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
This year, the government had another subtle way of trying to silence Liberation Day.
Despite the widespread obsession with the funeral of a foreign head of state, many took to the streets to honor freedom and democracy, and remember the Partigiani's fight.
#25Aprile
taz.de/Tag-der-Befr...
Tag der Befreiung in Italien: Bella ciao!
Mit Staatstrauer wollte die rechte Regierungschefin Meloni Feiern zum Tag der Befreiung unterdrücken. Doch die Antifaschisten triumphierten.
taz.de
April 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Vor Ort in Berlin oder im Online-Streaming:
ein ganztägiges Forum zur
𝐀𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 #𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐬.

Programm, Infos und Anmeldung :
👉 calendar.boell.de/de/event/con...

#Skystorians #Kolonialgeschichte #Erinnerung
@boell.de
Connecting the Dots Zur Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte
Die Aufarbeitung des deutschen Kolonialismus hat dank unzähliger und oft hartnäckiger zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen und Advocacy zunehmend öffentliches und politisches Interesse erhalten. Wissen...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
barlafuess.bsky.social
Fellow #historians forever hunting for a #Postdoc: Want to try for a position within the @maxplanck.de ?

There are several institutes (not only in 🇩🇪 ) that indulge lovers of dusty manuscripts, jammed microfiche readers & poorly digitized gazettes. (Deadline: May 13)
tinyurl.com/5xtph3sc
Max Planck Postdoc Program
Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.
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April 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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internazionale.it
La vita impossibile ad Haiti. Negli Stati Uniti torna il morbillo. Ascolta la nuova puntata del Mondo con Lucia Capuzzi, Elena Boille e Alessio Marchionna.
Il Mondo
Il podcast quotidiano di Internazionale. Tutte le mattine alle 6. 30 con Claudio Rossi Marcelli e Giulia Zoli. Scegli una prospettiva più ampia sul mondo. L’abbonamento a Internazionale costa 75 euro ...
www.internazionale.it
March 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
2 #postdocs for #skystorians of #earlymodern. 8 months each, @unitrier.bsky.social with @papaerc.bsky.social .
Deadline: Apr. 1
Postdoc ad
March 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
#AfroCuban #Aponte (executed in 1812 for an #antislavery rebellion) used Catholic-inspired arguments: 1)in connection with Catholic abolitionism in #Cuba 2)drawing inspiration from Christian #Ethiopia & 3) contemporary #Haiti as examples of Black sovereignty.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex
In 1812, the trial of the insurgents involved in an antislavery rebellion in Cuba centred on a book of images found in the home of its author and alleged leader, José Antonio Aponte. As a unique an...
www.tandfonline.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
barlafuess.bsky.social
King Henry of #Haiti requested that the #HolySee recognize a 🇭🇹 Church & #BlackClergy. He challenged #slavery = spreading of faith. These (failed) negotiations:1)undermined #Eurocentric notions of #civilization; 2)bolstered claims to #African roots; 3)inspired #Afrodescendants
tinyurl.com/yx2f5mrs
‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)
This article reconstructs King Henry I and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s appeals to the Holy See during Haiti’s early independence (1808-1825) to establish the significance of a Catholic national i...
tinyurl.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM