Conférence de Roberto Zaugg dans le cadre du cours “Littérature et esclavage”, Séminaire d’Études françaises, Université de Bâle, Maiengasse 51, salle U113, 5 avril 2019, 14h15-15h45. Organisation: Adrien Paschoud & Isabelle Chariatte.
My Roman experience
During my research trip to Rome from January to March I had the marvelous chance to work in several archives Read more
Spring school “Microhistoria e historia social: nuevos enfoques metodológicos”
Casa de Velázques, Madrid (27-29 March 2019).
Out now: “Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities” by Yosef Kaplan (ed.)
From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. Read more
Lecture: “Grossfriedrichsburg 1884 – Deutschland entdeckt seine afrikanische Vergangenheit”
In den 1880er Jahren stieg das Deutsche Reich in das imperiale Rennen um Afrika ein und sicherte sich innert kurzer Zeit grossflächige Territorien südlich der Sahara. Read more
Out now: “Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic” by Luca Codignola
Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving between the United States and British North America and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice and Trieste. Read more
Out now: “Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750–1850” by Giulia Bonazza
The book by Giulia Bonazza offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities—Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa—Giulia Bonazza investigates Read more
Weber World Café “Transoceanic cultures: The sea in the past and present”
by Namia Akhtar (University of Heidelberg)
First published by the Max Weber Stiftung on https://wwc.hypotheses.org/4926
The WeberWorldCafé ‘Transoceanic cultures: The sea in the past and present’ took place on October 28, 2018 at the Karl Jaspers Center of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Read more
Conference report: Connecting Mediterranean and Atlantic history. 2nd meeting of the Atlantic Italies Network (Nice, 8-9 November 2018)
by Eva Dal Canto (text) and Riccardo E. Rossi (images)
First published on H-Soz-Kult
To the conference programme
The numerous entanglements between the Italian-speaking area and the Atlantic world have often been reduced to a handful of isolated “heroic” deeds, fuelling the myth of “Italian” navigators and explorers, rather than being examined as the result of broader connections between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Read more
Texts and objects in southern Nigeria: a teaching and research trip
In November 2017 I visted universities, archives and museums in southern Nigeria. Thanks to the funding of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the hospitality of the Institut français de recherche en Afrique, directed by Dr. Élodie Apard, I had the opportunity to teach, to do research and to establish contacts for future cooperations. Read more
Atlantic Italies 