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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]