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Dr. HΓ©ctor Linares

@hectorlinares

Assistant Professor of Early Modern History & Director of Global History at Suffolk University, Boston. Historian of the Iberian World, the African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies, Law, chivalry, and empire. Queer πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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CFP: Growing Up in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-gro...

16.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Jamaica pond is so frozen! πŸ₯Ά

15.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today!

10.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join The Suffolk Historical Society for its annual Mardi Gras Masquerade!! Our students really know how to have fun! 🀩

07.02.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My good friend and admired colleague, Prof. Jamie Andreson, will be visiting Suffolk University next week. Lecture is open to the public, please come!

04.02.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Boston right now ❄️

26.01.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Forthcoming academic conference!

"Military Orders IX: Documents and Monuments"

Organised by Professor Emanuel Buttigieg and Dr Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta)

For more information see below:

17.12.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonderful reunion with some Penn Staters at the American Historical Association in Chicago.

09.01.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm thrilled to be presenting at a special panel in honor of Prof. Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia at AHA in Chicago! If you're attending, please stop by! It's a wonderful tribute to my advisor, and I'm grateful to present with amazing friends and peers.

07.01.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am very happy to share the updated Spring 2026 program for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars! They are open to the public! If you are in the Boston area, please do not hesitate to attend!

24.12.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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24.12.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am very happy to share the updated Spring 2026 program for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars! They are open to the public! If you are in the Boston area, please do not hesitate to attend!

24.12.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful Granada

20.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The marvels of baroque Seville

19.12.2025 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The latte in question.

10.12.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

$9,50 for a medium vanilla latte. Boston, you are killing me! β˜•οΈ

10.12.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are delighted to share the Spring 2026 Schedule for The Suffolk Early Global Seminars!
Individual posters will be circulated in January!

02.12.2025 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

www.rsa.org/general/cust...

12.11.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Linares, β€œSeeking Freedom & Honor through Royal Service in 16th-Cent Panama,” Americas Oct 2024 HΓ©ctor Linares, β€œAntΓ³nΒ Zape, β€œUnΒ Negro de muchoΒ Precio”:Β Seeking freedom and honor through royal service in sixteenth-century Panama,” The Americas 81.4 (2024).

Another article by @hectorlinares.bsky.social - this one on an escaped enslaved man from Sierra Leone who managed, via a royal petition, to get his former enslaver to pay him a pension in recognition of his military service emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/l...

10.11.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Information about an Open House for the graduate programs in Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics at UMass Amherst.

Information about an Open House for the graduate programs in Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics at UMass Amherst.

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

07.11.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Linares, β€œAn Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage,” SCJ, Summer 2025 HΓ©ctor Linares, β€œAn Inca Girl’s Petitions to Revindicate Atahualpa’s Lineage: BΓ‘rbara de Atahualpa’s Letters to the Spanish Monarch, 1610–1613,” The Sixteenth Century Journa…

@hectorlinares.bsky.social examines petitions from the Inca royal family to the Council of the Indies, examining their attempts to preserve their family's standing in the new colonial order emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...

06.11.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So honored to have been part of this amazing series!

06.11.2025 02:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

18.10.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you’re in Portland this week for SCSC conference, please stop by two panels HΓ©ctor Linares Gonzalez & I have co-organized on saints, relics, and religious self-fashioning in the Iberian world!

I am (sadly) not at SCSC because I’m on fellowship in Napoli, so go and support our panels πŸ₯³

30.10.2025 18:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

@hectorlinares.bsky.social πŸ₯³

30.10.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@hectorlinares.bsky.social

30.10.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My latest chapter has been just published in a wonderful collection of essays on the Duke of Lerma and his term as the royal favorite of Philip III of Spain! In this piece, I explore the role of Lerma as a stateman within the military orders, where he disguised himself as an efficient bureaucrat.

20.10.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Boston is ready for Halloween! πŸŽƒ

18.10.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to welcome Nathalie to Suffolk!!

18.10.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is pretty good!

11.10.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0