Arms, Beads, Cloth
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A research project on the trajectories of arms, beads and cloth trades in 19th-century Africa • @unibo @unipv @Sapienzaroma
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🔴 New publication of #ABC!
The head of our research unit of Rome, Giacomo Macola, has just published “A Violent History. Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” with Leuven University Press
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The head of our research unit of Rome, Giacomo Macola, has just published “A Violent History. Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” with Leuven University Press
🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/notizia/new-...
September 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🔴 New publication of #ABC!
The head of our research unit of Rome, Giacomo Macola, has just published “A Violent History. Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” with Leuven University Press
🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/notizia/new-...
The head of our research unit of Rome, Giacomo Macola, has just published “A Violent History. Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” with Leuven University Press
🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/notizia/new-...
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REDMIX research fellows Sara Zanotta and Adnen el Ghali will be the guest editors of a special issue of Northeast African Studies on #mixing and #mixedness in #RedSea cities
📩 send your title and abstract proposals to [email protected] by 30 October 2025
#ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
📩 send your title and abstract proposals to [email protected] by 30 October 2025
#ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
🔴 Cfp “A Sea of Mixedness: Mobility and Mixing Shaping Red Sea Cities and Urban Life (1800s-2000s)”
Adnen el Ghali and I will be the guest editors of an issue of Northeast African Studies on mixing and mixedness in Red Sea cities and towns
🔗 zenodo.org/records/1699...
#ERC #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
Adnen el Ghali and I will be the guest editors of an issue of Northeast African Studies on mixing and mixedness in Red Sea cities and towns
🔗 zenodo.org/records/1699...
#ERC #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
Call for Papers NEAS - Special Issue "A Sea of Mixedness: Mobility and Mixing Shaping Red Sea Cities and Urban Life (1800s-2000s)"
Call for Papers for a Special Issue "A Sea of Mixedness: Mobility and Mixing Shaping Red Sea Cities and Urban Life (1800s-2000s)" of Northeast African Studies.
zenodo.org
August 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
REDMIX research fellows Sara Zanotta and Adnen el Ghali will be the guest editors of a special issue of Northeast African Studies on #mixing and #mixedness in #RedSea cities
📩 send your title and abstract proposals to [email protected] by 30 October 2025
#ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
📩 send your title and abstract proposals to [email protected] by 30 October 2025
#ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu
Did you miss any of our seminars?
You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/
#abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury
You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/
#abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury
Arms beads and cloth - Video gallery
African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series Patrick Otim - The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda Pierre Nicolò Sofia - From East Africa to Venice https:...
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it
July 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Did you miss any of our seminars?
You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/
#abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury
You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/
#abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade” with Anne Ruderman
📍 6 June 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade” with Anne Ruderman
📍 6 June 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
June 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade” with Anne Ruderman
📍 6 June 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade” with Anne Ruderman
📍 6 June 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “(Post-)Colonial Threads: Colonial-Era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa” with Kate Frederick
📍 23 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “(Post-)Colonial Threads: Colonial-Era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa” with Kate Frederick
📍 23 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
May 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “(Post-)Colonial Threads: Colonial-Era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa” with Kate Frederick
📍 23 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “(Post-)Colonial Threads: Colonial-Era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa” with Kate Frederick
📍 23 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900” with Jan-Bart Gewald
📍 9 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900” with Jan-Bart Gewald
📍 9 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
May 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900” with Jan-Bart Gewald
📍 9 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900” with Jan-Bart Gewald
📍 9 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR
🔴 Unfortunately our seminar of 30th April 2025 with Giorgio Riello is cancelled.
We look forward to seeing you all at the next seminar on 9th May!
We look forward to seeing you all at the next seminar on 9th May!
April 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🔴 Unfortunately our seminar of 30th April 2025 with Giorgio Riello is cancelled.
We look forward to seeing you all at the next seminar on 9th May!
We look forward to seeing you all at the next seminar on 9th May!
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
‼️Unfortunately the next session of our seminar series cannot be held on 7th March
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions
Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
March 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
‼️Unfortunately the next session of our seminar series cannot be held on 7th March
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions
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Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
Don’t miss next session of our seminar series!
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
February 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Don’t miss next session of our seminar series!
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email [email protected] and request to be added to our mailing list.
Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
Arms beads and cloth - African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series
An online Seminar Series from February to June 2025 with world-renowned experts in the field of African studies and Global history.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it
February 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email [email protected] and request to be added to our mailing list.
Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series!
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series!
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
The program of our online seminar series is finally out!
From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory
🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr
From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory
🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr
January 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The program of our online seminar series is finally out!
From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory
🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr
From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory
🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr
🧶CLOTH
The research unit of @unipv, headed by Massimo Zaccaria, explores the demand of #textiles in the #HornofAfrica in the 19th century. It investigates how consumer preferences influenced the textile production of far-away countries and the changing local #fashion.
The research unit of @unipv, headed by Massimo Zaccaria, explores the demand of #textiles in the #HornofAfrica in the 19th century. It investigates how consumer preferences influenced the textile production of far-away countries and the changing local #fashion.
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🧶CLOTH
The research unit of @unipv, headed by Massimo Zaccaria, explores the demand of #textiles in the #HornofAfrica in the 19th century. It investigates how consumer preferences influenced the textile production of far-away countries and the changing local #fashion.
The research unit of @unipv, headed by Massimo Zaccaria, explores the demand of #textiles in the #HornofAfrica in the 19th century. It investigates how consumer preferences influenced the textile production of far-away countries and the changing local #fashion.
📿 BEADS
The research unit of @Unibo, headed by @KarinPallaver, investigates the relationship between the production of glass beads in #Venice and their distribution in #EastAfrica (subproject 1) and the use of #glassbeads as a currency in East Africa (subproject 2).
The research unit of @Unibo, headed by @KarinPallaver, investigates the relationship between the production of glass beads in #Venice and their distribution in #EastAfrica (subproject 1) and the use of #glassbeads as a currency in East Africa (subproject 2).
January 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
📿 BEADS
The research unit of @Unibo, headed by @KarinPallaver, investigates the relationship between the production of glass beads in #Venice and their distribution in #EastAfrica (subproject 1) and the use of #glassbeads as a currency in East Africa (subproject 2).
The research unit of @Unibo, headed by @KarinPallaver, investigates the relationship between the production of glass beads in #Venice and their distribution in #EastAfrica (subproject 1) and the use of #glassbeads as a currency in East Africa (subproject 2).
⚫️ ARMS
The research unit of @SapienzaRoma, headed by Giacomo Macola, studies the European production and marketing of #trade #guns and their circulation to study the role of #African societies and their practices in the #global processes of production, consumption, and exchange
The research unit of @SapienzaRoma, headed by Giacomo Macola, studies the European production and marketing of #trade #guns and their circulation to study the role of #African societies and their practices in the #global processes of production, consumption, and exchange
January 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM