Writing History in the Time of COVID-19: Historian Timothy LeCain on the Third Warning, Microscopic Records and Societal Change, A Conversation with Stefan Hanß
Stefan Hanß: COVID-19 changes people’s lives, fears, hopes, and behaviours across the globe right now. In his recent Cambridge University Press [...]
Claudia Stella Valeria Geremia, The Spanish Inquisition in the Canary Islands and Objects of Witchcraft (15th-18th centuries)
This research aims to study traditional practices of witchcraft and the circulation of witchcraft objects by examining the trial records of [...]
Chiara Cecalupo, Movement of Ideas: Giovanni Francesco Abela of Malta and his collection under European, Italian and Roman influence
From 1550, Ulisse Aldrovandi, one of the most important scholars of Bologna, began to collect the objects that would be the [...]
Chiara M. Mauro, Vives Escudero and the rising interest in Phoenicio-Punic archaeology in Spain
Vives Escudero and the rising interest in Phoenicio-Punic archaeology in Spain Between the end of the 19th century and the [...]
Podcast 4: ‘Thucydides and the Plague of Athens,’ Dr Spyridon Rangos, A PIMo-CROMOHS Contagion Podcast
In 431 B.C. a war exploded in Greece between the two major political, economic and military powers of the time, Athens [...]
PIMo Update
PIMo in the Time of Corona Dear Colleagues, Hope you and yours are all well in these challenging times. The [...]
PIMo Second Annual Conference CfP, Paper: Material and Semiotic Mobility, University of Granada, January 28-29, 2020
PIMO SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA, JANUARY 28-29 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS PAPER: MATERIAL AND SEMIOTIC MOBILITY Hartmann Schopper, [...]
José María Pérez Fernández, Turcimanarie e carte d’ogni sorte: Translation, Trade, and Paper in Sixteenth Century Venice
The heading of Riccardiana MS 2523 proclaims its nature as a record of prices and tariffs for merchants and goods trading [...]
Podcast 3: ‘Disposing of corpses during World War I,’ Dr Romain Fathi, A PIMo-CROMOHS Contagion Podcast
Belligerents that took part in the First World War could not have anticipated the lethality of the conflict. Within a few [...]
José María Pérez Fernández, How To Do Things with Paper in King Lear
EDMUND: If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business in hand CORNWALL: True or false, it hath [...]
Podcast 2: ‘The Turks and the Plague in the 18th Century,’ Prof Ann Thomson, A PIMo-CROMOHS Contagion Podcast
Eighteenth-century European views of the Ottomans reveal a complex set of politico-religious interests, as the Ottoman Empire declined militarily and gradually [...]
Podcast 1: ‘Lazarets Never Aimed to Stop Circulation’, Dr David Do Paço, A PIMo-CROMOHS Contagion Podcast
The history of lazarets lies at the crossroads between the history of circulations and that of pandemics. Initially built to isolate [...]
Newsletter 2020. No.1
A Message from the PIMo Action Chair, Giovanni Tarantino [...]
Iain Chambers, ‘A molecular Mediterranean and metaphysical shipwrecks’
A consistently and purely maritime perspective on the land is difficult for a territorial observer to comprehend. Our common language constructs [...]
Paper in Motion: Methods and Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach (November 15, University of Florence)
This seminar intends to use a series of case studies to exemplify the role of paper as (1) material medium for [...]