📢 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 annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026

🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨

Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025.

You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻

orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...

Hi Ana, in my book I talk about some prayer beads “of the Turks” which have actually survived from the 17th century. I don’t dwell on them too much though, but I can send you the pdf if you’d like.

📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!

This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🥳 New publication! The article analyses a 13th-century church fresco depicting an Islamic tent repurposed as an altar baldachin.

To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft.

www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue

Read more: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/altar-t...

Hidden in Plain Sight: A Medieval Fresco Shows Islamic Tents Used in Christian Churches - research by @fgigante.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-medieval-fresco-shows-islamic-tents-used-in-christian-churches/ #medieval

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out! Our article (Gigante & Burnett) "Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins: a European Network of Exchange" doi.org/10.1086/732274 deals with French collectors, Dutch professors, Venetian dragomans and Moroccan captives.

(DM for free access)

‪My book now has a cover!
Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social‬
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🥳New publication! “Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange,” with Andrew Burnett in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics

"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years."

arstechnica.com/science/2024...

The Festschrift for Charles Burnett has been published.
Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett."
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

#menasky #histsci #medievalsky

✨EVENT: 29 Jan, MICROHISTORIES OF EARLY MODERN DIPLOMACY, hybrid

Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History).

Email [email protected] for the Zoom link
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Tomorrow, 1 November in London, where I am speaking about Islamic art in early modern Italy (sold out in presence but available live on YouTube)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islam-in-e...

Oxford nights #Oxford

View from the Radcliffe Camera last night #Oxford