Beatrice Falcucci, Omar Al-Mukhtar’s Glasses: A Modern Relic
The aim of this brief document is to draw attention not only to totemic, highly symbolic objects and curiosa as three-dimensional [...]
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Kader Attia’s ‘La Mer Morte’
Kader Attia was born in 1970 to Algerian parents in a suburb north of Paris. Now working in Berlin and Paris, [...]
Updated Call for Papers for Second Annual Conference, Paper: Material and Semiotic Mobility, University of Granada, January 28-29, 2021
PIMO SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA, JANUARY 28-29 2021 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS Given the exceptional circumstances brought about by [...]
Podcast 5: ‘The Yellow Fever and the Italian States in 1804,’ Paul-Arthur Tortosa, A PiMO-CROMOHS Contagion Podcast
Since the plague pandemic of the 13th century, Italian states have created sanitary institutions to deal with epidemics. However, even though [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]