Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez
@juanmaramive.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ColgateUniv | Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Atlantic World | He/him
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It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
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Excited to share the CFP for this fantastic volume co-edited by my colleague @pavelandrade.bsky.social. More details in the link below, and please share widely and consider submitting your work!
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May 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Excited to share the CFP for this fantastic volume co-edited by my colleague @pavelandrade.bsky.social. More details in the link below, and please share widely and consider submitting your work!
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One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social!
Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥
Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥
New on Intervenxions — Joiri Minaya: (Un)seeing the Tropics
“Minaya’s sly wit begins to chip away at that tropical fantasy by twisting its familiar visual tropes.”
By Lu Han (@hanlu-ul.bsky.social)
“Minaya’s sly wit begins to chip away at that tropical fantasy by twisting its familiar visual tropes.”
By Lu Han (@hanlu-ul.bsky.social)
Joiri Minaya: (Un)seeing the Tropics — The Latinx Project at NYU
When you walk into Joiri Minaya’s exhibition at the Syracuse University Art Museum, one of the first things you see is a white steel-wire postcard rack—the kind you’d expect to find in any packed, sli...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social!
Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥
Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥
So looking forward to this tomorrow!
April 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So looking forward to this tomorrow!
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Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!
March 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!
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Join us in Toronto, in January 2026, for one of these exciting panels at the MLA Conference. Please do send us your proposals before March 20th.
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us in Toronto, in January 2026, for one of these exciting panels at the MLA Conference. Please do send us your proposals before March 20th.
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The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!
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My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas
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February 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?
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In the latest issue of CLAR, I publish an article about the fuzzy word of colonial translation, early modern debates about slavery and the encomienda, and the story of a mestizo interpreter who allegedly caused a riot for mistranslating one word (!). doi.org/10.1080/1060...
Interpreting slavery: translation, bondage, and alienability in the early colonial Andes
Between 1561 and 1563, the mestizo interpreter Antón Ruiz was accused of inciting a series of protests that took hold of Cuzco in the context of ‘the perpetuity controversy’—a conflict over the per...
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February 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In the latest issue of CLAR, I publish an article about the fuzzy word of colonial translation, early modern debates about slavery and the encomienda, and the story of a mestizo interpreter who allegedly caused a riot for mistranslating one word (!). doi.org/10.1080/1060...
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Speaking of the ongoing fight, healing and truth telling, don’t forget to RSVP! @bibliophilenick.bsky.social @sierramatute.bsky.social www.kjcc.org/event/to-cer...
February 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Speaking of the ongoing fight, healing and truth telling, don’t forget to RSVP! @bibliophilenick.bsky.social @sierramatute.bsky.social www.kjcc.org/event/to-cer...
Qué frío tenemos por aquí, pero siempre en buena compañía 🫶
Big shoutout to our friends @juanmaramive.bsky.social and Miguel for braving the freezing, icy tundra of Central New York just to join us for lunch! @cristinaele.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Qué frío tenemos por aquí, pero siempre en buena compañía 🫶
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My new article is out!
Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core -
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Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core -
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Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core
Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama
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January 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My new article is out!
Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core -
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Antón Zape, “Un Negro de mucho Precio”: Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama | The Americas | Cambridge Core -
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I joined the editorial board of the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. It is great to be part of such a fantastic scholarly team (I admire my Atlanticist colleagues so much!). If you write about the Atlantic world, send us your work!
😃👍🏾#Skystorians www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...
😃👍🏾#Skystorians www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...
Learn about Atlantic Studies
Learn about Atlantic Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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January 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I joined the editorial board of the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. It is great to be part of such a fantastic scholarly team (I admire my Atlanticist colleagues so much!). If you write about the Atlantic world, send us your work!
😃👍🏾#Skystorians www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...
😃👍🏾#Skystorians www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...
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Something is cooking: will soon be in conversation w/ magnificent & inspiring @bibliophilenick.bsky.social & Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, reading & discussing each other's new books & value of interdisciplinary convos. More details soon, but if you happen to be in Madrid on 25 Feb, save the date!
January 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Something is cooking: will soon be in conversation w/ magnificent & inspiring @bibliophilenick.bsky.social & Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, reading & discussing each other's new books & value of interdisciplinary convos. More details soon, but if you happen to be in Madrid on 25 Feb, save the date!
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Out now with free-access review dossier "Asia-Latin America: a critical corpus" guest-edited by Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Check out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c... #LatinAmerica #Asia #culture #journals
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Volume 33, Issue 3 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
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January 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Out now with free-access review dossier "Asia-Latin America: a critical corpus" guest-edited by Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Check out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c... #LatinAmerica #Asia #culture #journals
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If you’re attending AHA in NYC, please join us for a discussion on mobility, legal mobilization, and race in the early modern Iberian Pacific-Atlantic, with Jane Landers, Juan Manuel Ramirez and Diego Luis. 1:30pm! @historians.org
January 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you’re attending AHA in NYC, please join us for a discussion on mobility, legal mobilization, and race in the early modern Iberian Pacific-Atlantic, with Jane Landers, Juan Manuel Ramirez and Diego Luis. 1:30pm! @historians.org
Morning coffee with dearest Kathy McKnight in ABQ, catching up on life and the field of colonial Latin American literatures ❤️
December 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Morning coffee with dearest Kathy McKnight in ABQ, catching up on life and the field of colonial Latin American literatures ❤️
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Will you attend the AHA conference in NYC? If so, and you are interested in mobility, political negotiation, and resistance in the early modern Iberian world, please attend my panel, “Global Mobilities,” with Jane Landers, Diego Luis, and Juanma Ramirez on January 3 at 1:30 pm! @historians.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Will you attend the AHA conference in NYC? If so, and you are interested in mobility, political negotiation, and resistance in the early modern Iberian world, please attend my panel, “Global Mobilities,” with Jane Landers, Diego Luis, and Juanma Ramirez on January 3 at 1:30 pm! @historians.org
First “tweet” on this app: What a beautiful exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado
November 22, 2024 at 6:09 PM
First “tweet” on this app: What a beautiful exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado
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🚨Job alert! We're hiring a director of the Portuguese language program. I'm not on the committee but am happy to answer any general questions about the dept, uni, etc.
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Assistant Professor of Practice, Spanish & Portuguese
Alumni Jacquelynn and Bennett Dorrance have made a gift commitment of $5.4 million to endow the deanship of the University of Arizona College of Human...
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November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
🚨Job alert! We're hiring a director of the Portuguese language program. I'm not on the committee but am happy to answer any general questions about the dept, uni, etc.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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New #food podcast alert 🚨Our very first episode of the Thinking Food show is live! Our amazing postdoc Elizabeth talks to Chef Martin Draluck about the history of slavery, African American cuisine, and speculative cooking. Give it some love! 😍🐔
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Food Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly
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November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
New #food podcast alert 🚨Our very first episode of the Thinking Food show is live! Our amazing postdoc Elizabeth talks to Chef Martin Draluck about the history of slavery, African American cuisine, and speculative cooking. Give it some love! 😍🐔
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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One month to go! Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds hits the shelves soon!
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Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds
This book is an interdisciplinary edited collection that seeks to recognize the radical importance of sound, and centre it in discussions in the field of early modern studies.
Bringing together a co...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
One month to go! Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds hits the shelves soon!
www.routledge.com/Soundscapes-...
www.routledge.com/Soundscapes-...
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El número más reciente de ‘Hispanic Issues On Line’ está dedicado a las #HumanidadesMédicas. Participo con un artículo sobre pérdida y duelo en el filme ‘Hijo de monarcas’. #accesoabierto. cla.umn.edu/hispanic-iss...
Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: Debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales
Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: Debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales
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November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
El número más reciente de ‘Hispanic Issues On Line’ está dedicado a las #HumanidadesMédicas. Participo con un artículo sobre pérdida y duelo en el filme ‘Hijo de monarcas’. #accesoabierto. cla.umn.edu/hispanic-iss...
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“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP!
It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
Biocosmism – Vanderbilt University Press
Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, ...
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November 16, 2024 at 10:41 PM
“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP!
It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...