What a treat! This new article by Nora Jaffary and Luis Londoño on prostitution in Mexico is full of brilliant insights and craft lessons for historians 🥳🔥

‘Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes’. In our latest Open Access Article, Nora E. Jaffary and Luis Londoño scrutinise the history of prostitution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Mexico. Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

You can read the book review that Prof. Knight discusses at the beginning of his talk in HAHR via Duke University Press here: doi.org/10.1215/001821…

Familiares y amigos nos reunimos para recordar a Malcolm Deas, con palabras de Juan José Echevarría, Gustavo Bell, Efraín Sánchez, la maestra Beatriz González, Rocío Londoño y yo. Para los que no pudieron asistir ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=Q-L8We…

Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023). A brilliant, warm, inspiring teacher, a person of astonishing generosity and integrity, and one of the greatest historians of our time. May her memory be a blessing.

NEW: The University of Oxford has once again topped the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as the best university in the world for a record eighth consecutive year.

The rankings rate 1,904 universities from 108 countries around the world.

#THEUniRankings

Colombia tuvo uno de los descensos en fecundidad más rápidos del mundo: el núm. de hijas/os por mujer bajó de 7 en 1960 a 3 en 1985 🇨🇴👶

Pero, ¿fue este proceso solo rápido o también simultáneo en todo el país?

En este CHE respondo a esa pregunta
repositorio.banrep.gov.co/bitstream/hand… 🧵

Madrugar un domingo a leer fuentes y corregir trabajos ☀️🆒. Me recuerda la correspondencia entre Robert Fitzgerald y Robert Fagles, traductores de la Odisea: 'Después de tantos años, ¿podíamos desear una felicidad más grande que levantarnos todos los días y leer a Homero'.

Geoffrey Parker y Richard Kagan han escrito una biografía de John Elliott. Se puede leer aquí:

thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4800…

Looking forward to the Frank Safford Symposium at Northwestern to celebrate Safford's scholarly contribution to the history of Colombia and Latin America. For more information: sites.northwestern.edu/franksaffordsy…

Hace 15 días advertíamos al aire en BluRadio Colombia la situación que se presenta hoy de manera oficial por parte de las EPS más grandes del país. 👇

Incredibly happy to be joining UCL's Institute of the Americas for the 2023-2024 academic year as lecturer in Latin American History! ucl.ac.uk/americas/news/…

The most powerful idea in British politics is 'the economy'.

Parties promise to 'grow', 'unleash' or 'manage' the economy.

It tops lists of voter concerns.

But what if we had no concept of 'the economy'?

Until the C20th, we didn't. And its rise has had major consequences...🧵

‼️Call for papers LASA-June 2024‼️

I'm co-organizing with Alan Knight (Oxford) panels: The Making of the Upper Classes in Latin America, 19th-20th C: New Social and Cultural Histories

Early career researchers, join us, Barbara Weinstein, David Parker and others! PM me asap 🕔

‼️Call for papers LASA-June 2024‼️

I'm co-organizing with Alan Knight (Oxford) panels: The Making of the Upper Classes in Latin America, 19th-20th C: New Social and Cultural Histories

Early career researchers, join us, Barbara Weinstein, David Parker and others! PM me asap 🕔

Martes 22, 10:30-11:30: conversatorio y lanzamiento del documental sobre la vida y obra de Mario Laserna el fundador de Uniandes. Una buena oportunidad para quienes poco conocen por qué y cómo M. Laserna fundó la U cuando tan solo contaba con 25 años.