Early Modern Italian World at Oxford - Interdisciplinary studies on Italian history and culture (c.1400-1800)
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Our Director and Curator, Dr Emanuela Vai featured in @gramophonemagazine discussing the curation of the permanent exhibition 'Resonant Histories: Material Culture, Sound, and Craft"
@OxMusicFaculty @TORCHOxford @WorcCollegeOx @oxfacultyhistory @DHSHeritageOx @DH_Oxford
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Songs of Captivity and Cultural Encounters
A musical journey exploring the historical ties and cultural exchanges of the 17th-century Mediterranean through the songs of captives
Paris–Cité Universitaire Tuesday 23 June, 13.00
colesp.org/fr/events/concert…
📍CONFERENCE IN PARIS
Join us at the Collège d’Espagne on 22–23 June for:
L’impact de la captivité dans les sociétés méditerranéennes: mobilités, négociations aux frontières et circulation de la culture matérielle (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
#MediterraneanHistory #EarlyModernHistory
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📍CONFERENCE IN PARIS
Join us at the Collège d’Espagne on 22–23 June for:
L’impact de la captivité dans les sociétés méditerranéennes: mobilités, négociations aux frontières et circulation de la culture matérielle (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
#MediterraneanHistory #EarlyModernHistory
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A BBC piece in which I say a few things about this marvellous Mughal astrolabe
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8x7…
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Welcome to our new museum!
We can’t wait to welcome you to our opening day on the 25th April 2026! Be among the first to experience our new permanent exhibition, ‘Resonant Histories: Material Culture, Sound and Craft', curated by @DrEmanuelaVai
bate.ox.ac.uk/event/bate-col…
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For anyone in Tunis these days, conference on Arabic manuscripts at the Biblioteque Nationale de Tunisie.
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📢 OPEN APPLICATIONS for an Early Career Research Network on Mediterranean Slavery at Oxford!
We will cover travel and accommodation in Oxford (May) and Paris (June) for up to 12 early career researchers.
Please share, it will be fun series of events! unseen.web.ox.ac.uk
Seminar Reminder Today (3 March):
Monique O’Connell (Wake Forest), ‘Polyphony or Cacophony? Tumult and Order in the Political Culture of Venice’s Empire during the Italian Wars’
4:30pm, St Edmund Hall, Doctorow Room
All welcome!
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
Reminder: seminar tomorrow (3 Feb). Join us to explore how sound, ritual, and power shaped coexistence on Crete under Venetian rule.
Alexandros Hatzikiriakos, ‘Sonic Identities and Coexistence in Venetian Crete (1453-1669)'
4:30pm, @StEdmundHall
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
Reminder, Seminar Today (27 January)
A reminder that today's Early Modern World Seminar will be starting shortly, at 2pm, @ExeterCollegeOx :
Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), ‘Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics'
Reminder: EMIW seminar tomorrow (Tue 20 Jan):
Caroline Callard (EHESS) 'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'
4.30pm @StEdmundHall
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
All are welcome!
📢Our final seminar of term will take place today, at 4:30pm @StEdmundHall (25/11):
Claire Judde de Larivière, “Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600”
All welcome!
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
📢 Reminder, Seminar Today (11 Nov):
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) “Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy”
4:30pm
Exeter College, Kloppenburg Room
All welcome!
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
We're pleased to announce next week's Early Modern Italian World Seminar (Tues 11 Nov)
Maria Gloria Tumminelli “Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy”
4:30pm, @ExeterCollegeOx (please note the location)
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
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🎉 My book now lives in the world! 🎉
“Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy”
Grateful to all those who helped, supported and encouraged me along the way 😊
#NewBook #IslamArt #EarlyModernHistory #HistoryOfCollections
A reminder that our first seminar of the term will take place this afternoon (28 October), at @StEdmundHall , 4:30pm:
Elizabeth Currie “On and Off the Canvas: Street Life in Early Modern Rome”
All are welcome!
italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/…
SEMINAR CANCELLED: Unfortunately due to an accident on the train line from Cambridge to London, Professor Burke will not be able to make it to Oxford for today's Early Modern World Seminar.
We hope to schedule it another time.
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🥳 e-Book now out! 🥳
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations🤚 – the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 conference in San Francisco #RSA
