Economic and Cultural Entanglements
by Roberto Zaugg
In August 2022, I had the opportunity to visit southern Nigeria and do some fieldwork on beads, religion, and fashion. For three weeks, I profited from the precious support and enjoyed the hospitality of friends and colleagues. Their help was decisive in making this journey a successful scholarly venture. Read more
On 26 November, the research groups of The Exotic? (University of Bern) and Atlantic Italies (University of Zurich) travelld to Basel and explored the colonial legacies of the city. Read more
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
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 