@nagonzalezq
Historian. Postdoctoral fellow at the History Department of the University of São Paulo. Affiliated scholar of the Atlantic Exiles Project of the University of Tübingen. https://nicolasgonzalezquintero.weebly.com/
It is a great joy to share that the special issue “Memories in Transit” of the journal Memory Studies, co-edited by my dear María Eugenia Ulfe and me, has just been published.
We invite you to read it! 📚📖
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Check @annikabaerwald.bsky.social 's article on First View!
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I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️
Excited my research is out here and freely accessible!! Thanks Itinerario and my excellent editors @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I share Bryan and Jan’s articles, which have already been published in Itinerario. I will post the other ones as soon as they are online.
The special issue has excellent contributions by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, @jkeindorf.bsky.social, Sibylle Fourcaud, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @meganmaruschke.bsky.social, @annikabaerwald.bsky.social , @salmahargal.bsky.social, and Jan C. Jansen.
Being considered an émigré or refugee mattered and had concrete implications on the lives of many expatriates who left their homelands because of the political upheavals of the period.
Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds. By reflecting on the concepts of exile, asylum, and refugee, the special issue examines how the crisis of empires and the mass displacement caused by the revolutions prompted authorities and exiles to negotiate the status, rights, and duties of newcomers.
the social bonds broken by the revolution and to laying the groundwork for national reconciliation.
This article is part of a special issue that @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I coedited on what it meant to be a refugee during the long Age of Revolutions, particularly in the Atlantic...
The rejection of this status increased in the 1820s, when émigrés decided to return to Colombia. Their idea was simple: they sought to cease being considered émigrés and to embrace Colombian citizenship, persuading the hesitant administration that their return was crucial to restoring...
The article explores the emigration policies of the nascent Republic of Colombia and the efforts and strategies of several people to return to their homes in the early 1820s. Aware of the politicization of emigration, exiles strategically embrace or reject the status of “émigré” during the war.
It is finally out! Happy to share that my article “Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions” has been published by Itinerario in First View.
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Este miércoles estaré debatiendo el nuevo libro de Nathan Perl-Rosenthal con @oscarszarate.bsky.social y @franmackandal.bsky.social. Si tienen tiempo, los esperamos este miércoles en Youtube.
¡Gracias al Centro de Estudios Históricos del Colmex por la invitación!
Estamos muito emocionados de oferecer una introdução à história colombiana em português desde 4 perspectivas distintas. É um desafio, mas faremos nosso melhor esforço. Se você tiver interesse pode se inscrever no seguinte link: sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6508.
Vamos ministrar este curso de História Política e Social da Colômbia com Nathalia Sandoval, José Bento de Oliveira Camassa e Juan Francisco Beltrán. A ideia foi de José Bento, a quem agradeço profundamente.
🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
Pueden encontrarlo en Scarlett O'Phelan y George Lomné (editores). El exilio en las independencias iberoamericanas (Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad del Pacífico, 2025).
Si están interesados en leerlo, puedo mandarles el PDF :)
Pero también es bueno recordar los pasos y que cada proceso de investigación tiene sus propios tiempos - muchas veces fuera de nuestro control.
Fue escrito hace varios años, pero después de muchas idas y vueltas - pandemias, cambios de editoriales y la vida misma - por fin vio la luz. Ya en estos momentos algunas de las ideas han avanzado y sé un poco más del tema.
Feliz de ver, por fin, este texto publicado. Fue uno de mis primeros acercamientos al tema de los emigrados de las guerra de Independencia cuando estaba haciendo mi doctorado.
📢Out now in print and #OpenAccess online: Jan C. Jansen, "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833," Comparative Studies in Society and History 67, no. 2 (2025): 429–456. @csshjournal.bsky.social
Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.
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📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵
Fue maravilloso hablar con Jimena Perry, Carla Sagástegui y Malena Bedoya sobre bicentenarios, cómic, e historia pública. Aprendí un montón. ¡Muchas gracias por la invitación, Jimena!
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Nosso seminário continua hoje na USP! Se você está no São Paulo, o/a esperamos na FFLCH!
Hoje começa nosso evento, "Cartografias de Escravidão," na Universidade de São Paulo! Teremos a abertura do evento e a conferência de abertura, ministrada por Alain El Youssef.
Happy to share my forthcoming article in the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Into revolutions, emotions, and global connections? Have a look.
The advance version is available open access here: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...