Economic and Cultural Entanglements
Guest Lecture by Annika Bärwald (University of Bremen): Transkontinentale Arbeitsräume: Freiheit, Unfreiheit und nicht-weisse Mobilität zwischen Hamburg und der Karibik, ca. 1750–1840
Master- & Doktoratskolloquium, University of Zurich, 7 November 2019.
Annika Bärwald is a member of the ERC Project German Slavery, a research group which plays a key-role in uncovering past entanglements between Atlantic markets and the German lands.
Lecture by Riccardo E. Rossi, held in the graduate seminar «La “globalisation” du monde, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles: explorations, savoirs, objets et commerces», organized by Prof Simona Boscani Leoni at the Université de Lausanne.
Université de Lausanne, 31.10.2019, 14.15-16.00 Uhr, Anthropole, Room 4078.
Image: John Robert Cozens (1779), Near Chiavenna in the Grisons.
The history of Cape Verde cannot be imagined without the music of this West African archipelago. Over the centuries, the former Portuguese colony served as a hub of the transatlantic slave trade, faced famines and fought for independence and democracy. The music processed and influenced this eventful history.
A radio broadcast by Igor Basic on the Swiss national radio station SRF 2 – “Passage”, 25 October 2019, 8 p.m.
With Martin Ringsmut (University of Cologne) and Roberto Zaugg (University of Zurich).
Vortrag von Eva Dal Canto, Riccardo E. Rossi und Roberto Zaugg im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums zur Geschichte der vormodernen und modernen Welt.
Universität Luzern, 3. Dezember 2019, 16.15-18.00 Uhr, Raum 4.B51
18. November 2019 – 18.15 Uhr
Vortrag von Roberto Zaugg – Universität Tübingen – Gemeinsame Sitzung des Kolloquiums für Neuere Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte und des Gesprächskreises Neuere Geschichte.
Großer Übungsraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde (Wilhelmstrasse 36 – 72074 Tübingen)
Paper by Riccardo E. Rossi in the context of the panel The introduction of colonial production (coffee, chocolate, sugar, tea, tobacco) in the European countryside: a ‘consumer revolution’?, organized by Gérard Béaur (CNRS/EHESS) and Rosa Congost (University of Girona), at the conference Rural History 2019.
Venue: EHESS (Paris), 54 Boulevard Raspail, room AS1_01.
Date: 13 September 2019, 2.30 p.m.
The Atlantic Italies research group has moved to the Department of History of the University of Zurich, where Roberto Zaugg has been offered a professorship in early modern history. We are looking forward to continue our work at this outstanding institution and to cooperate with our new colleagues.
