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 [...]
Travelling men, travelling books. Hidden lives in the papers of an Orientalist librarian in Vienna (1608–1636) (November 15th, University of Florence)
We only see movements that are documented: we talk about "looking at movements” more than the movements themselves. How were these [...]
PIMo Newsletter 2019/1
Welcome message from the Chair: On 26 June 2017, when opening the International Seminar Series ‘Entangled Histories of Emotions [...]
Susan Broomhall, ‘Hercules at the Hippodrome: Cycles of displacement across the Mediterranean’
At the turn of the sixteenth century, a young boy, the son of a Greek Christian sailor from Parga, was forcibly [...]
Humanist, Captive, Renegade: Three Modes of Displacement in the Ottoman Mediterranean
For the early modern period, it is virtually impossible to imagine an affective history of Mediterranean mobility without three essential bodies [...]
Migration, the Mediterranean and the fluid archives of modernity
Professor Iain Chambers's talk will seek to use the centrality of the question of migration to the making of modernity, along [...]