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Lavinia Gambini
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Historian of Knowledge, Encounters, and the Mediterranean | Working on migrant artisans and cross-cultural intermarriage, 1500-1800 | Warburg Yates Fellow 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher University of Bern 2026
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... a little excerpt from the global theriac
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Theriac: an Imperial Recipe
By Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Over two millennia, the theriac recipe was the most debated in Galenic pharmacy throughout Europe and the Middle East. From the seventeenth century onward, missionaries...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A global issue of the recipe project! recipes.hypotheses.org
Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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apocalypsisnova.bsky.social
I’ll be presenting my new postdoc project at UCL's Early Modern Exchanges seminar on December 10, join if you’re still around! The brilliant Carlos Cañete will also be discussing his recent article about early modern Jesuit evangelization in Iberia and Ethiopia.

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Ethiopian Christianity, Islam and European Perceptions of Religious Sameness and Difference
A UCL Early Modern Exchanges seminar with Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (The Warburg Institute) and Carlos Cañete Jiménez (CSIC)
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November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Call for Applications: Postgraduate Research Student Conference 2026 📣

Applications are open for the GHIL Postgraduate Research Student Conference, taking place 26–27 February 2026! 📅
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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PhD and postdoc positions within the Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology (LMU München)

Deadline: 21 October 2025
www.lmu.de/crosscultura...
Planned Research Projects
Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.
www.lmu.de
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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emgscam.bsky.social
You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!
emgscam.bsky.social Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Aug 20
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them!

Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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🗓️ Remember to submit your proposal by next Friday 26 September!
oliviaformby.bsky.social Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · Aug 4
📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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You still have 10 whole days to get your abstracts in! Don’t forget to submit for Michaelmas term and please share widely!
emgscam.bsky.social Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Aug 20
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them!

Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
September 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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CFP alert!! @marinaini.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on community and mobility - it's interdisciplinary!
marinaini.bsky.social Marina Inì @marinaini.bsky.social · Sep 3
I am excited to post the CFP for the workshop "Reframing community through mobility: an interdisciplinary perspective from the early modern to the present" organised by @tamsinprideaux.bsky.social and me at la Sapienza, University of Rome, 19-20 January. Please apply and circulate! Deadline: 30.09.
September 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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I am excited to post the CFP for the workshop "Reframing community through mobility: an interdisciplinary perspective from the early modern to the present" organised by @tamsinprideaux.bsky.social and me at la Sapienza, University of Rome, 19-20 January. Please apply and circulate! Deadline: 30.09.
September 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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oliviaformby.bsky.social
📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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 annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
July 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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If you are at #RenSoc25, don't miss our panel on Materiality & the Mediterranean in the EM period 🌊!
anastruillou.bsky.social Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · Jul 4
🌊 Mediterranean & Materiality at #RenSoc25 🌊 !

Don't miss panel 8.5 tomorrow (11-12:30) put together by the amazing @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social and Marissa Smith-Bose @Cambridge
July 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Together with @mathieugrenet.bsky.social and Maria Gloria Tumminelli, I have organised a panel on Emotional Communities and Material Traces for RSA 2026!
Deadline for abstracts: 21.07. See our poster below for more details!
@rsaorg.bsky.social #RSA2026 #earlymodern #history #historyofemotions
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Registration is now OPEN for our conference 'Plants and People'! Please sign up for attendance and workshops through our website: sites.google.com/view/plants-...

Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.
Plants and People
Conference Details
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May 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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emgscam.bsky.social
🚨It might be April Fools Day, but our Easter Term CFP is no joke! This term we're open to papers covering any apsect of Early Modern History - Be sure to get your abstracts in by 18 April!🚨

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A call for papers presented on a stlistic background with white crumpled, ripped paper and printed latin text. In the bottom left corner is a stack of antique book and a silver inkwell and feather quill.
April 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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A remidner that this is tonight! We look foward to seeing you there!
emgscam.bsky.social Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Mar 13
Hi all! A reminder that our final session of term is this Monday, 17 March at 5pm in the Junior Parlour, Trinity College. We are thrilled to welcome two fabulous speakers - Read below to find out their titles!

As always, a Zoom link will be sent to the mailing list.
March 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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First Article Workshop! Deadline for submissions - 28th Feb.

This is an annual event in the CEMS calendar. A great opportunity for PGRs and ECRs to receive and discuss anonymous peer review on a draft article.

Send in your applications!

Full details: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/first...
First Article Workshop — CEMS KCL Blog
First Article Workshop for PGRs and ECRs - receive anonymous peer review and feedback on your writing.
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February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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An Islamic tent might seem an unusual object to find in an Italian church.

But historian @fgigante.bsky.social has identified a 13th-century fresco which shows some medieval churches used Islamic tents as altar-curtains.

Explore the fresco, thought to be the only surviving image of its kind ⬇️
February 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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We are delighted to announce our Lent term card!

Our first session is a big Bach event on 4 February at St John’s College Library seminar room. 🎶

For more details, subscribe to our mailing list: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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emgscam.bsky.social
We are thrilled to release our Lent Term Card and to share the news of our first session next Monday, 3 February! To tune in virtually, be sure to join our mailing list.

DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
January 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴
A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025. Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.    Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions: What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning? What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge? What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists? How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries? Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.   This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.   Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🚨 Exciting Workshop Alert 🚨

A workshop on "Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Race" @cemskcl.bsky.social

Thursday, 6 March 2025, 14:00-17:00
Deadline for proposals: 7 February
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Race: A Workshop King's College London Since, at least, the 1980s scholars from a range of disciplines have reinvigorated research on race, moving beyond a paradigm that considered race solely in relation to the biological sciences. By conceptualising race more broadly as a signifier structured by power, scholars working across Black Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Critical Race Theory have refigured approaches to research on race. Here, Stuart Hall’s analysis of race as a “floating signifier” has proven particularly influential. Taking Hall’s scholarship as a starting point, this workshop seeks to encourage scholars working on race from a range of disciplinary perspectives to think collaboratively about their current research projects. The workshop will begin with a discussion of selected texts – we encourage attendees to relevant theoretical texts. Attendees will then present a selected source or short piece of writing from their research projects. This is an opportunity to workshop some preliminary ideas in an interdisciplinary community of scholars seeking to tackle race and racialisation from a variety of perspectives. To participate, please send a bio (max. 100 words) and a short statement explaining why the workshop will be useful to your research (max. 200 words) to jamie.gemmell@kcl.ac.uk by Friday 7th February. Feel free to suggest any relevant theoretical texts with your application. The workshop is primarily open to scholars working at King’s College London, although applications from scholars at other institutions will be considered. Please get in touch if you have any questions!
January 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM