Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford

Early Modern Italian World at Oxford - Interdisciplinary studies on Italian history and culture (c.1400-1800)

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

A BBC piece in which I say a few things about this marvellous Mughal astrolabe

https://t.co/MfBULWTwOR

[Bate Collection of Musical Instruments @Bate_Collection]

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

https://t.co/lU9WmlaoIf

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

For anyone in Tunis these days, conference on Arabic manuscripts at the Biblioteque Nationale de Tunisie.

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

📢 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! https://t.co/XDL2Tw2O2Y

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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!

https://t.co/uTtGi4VPIh

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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

https://t.co/4x9badfOm4

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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'

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

Reminder: EMIW seminar tomorrow (Tue 20 Jan):

Caroline Callard (EHESS) 'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'

4.30pm @StEdmundHall

https://t.co/b5Vc1aX0qQ

All are welcome!

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

📢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!

https://t.co/7amhjCsVTX

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

@Calliocincia Unfortunately not this time

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

📢 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!
https://t.co/k4fXqtOaEs

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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)

https://t.co/k4fXqtOaEs

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

🎉 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

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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!

https://t.co/jIoHLK9Rvk

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

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.

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

🥳 e-Book now out! 🥳

Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court

https://t.co/wUDfqYDkQJ

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

📢 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

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[#AnOxfordDiary]

Relieved to have submitted my contribution just before going off grid...

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

SEMINAR REMINDER
Today, Tuesday 10 June:

Emily Michelson (St. Andrews): "Rituals of ambiguous religion in early modern Italy"

4:30pm
@StEdmundHall

All welcome!

https://t.co/AAYTFtvtC4

[Early Modern Italian World @ Oxford @ItalianHistOx]

We're delighted to announce an exciting workshop which will be held on 11 June @StEdmundHall:

"Space and Power in Early Modern Europe"

More information can be found on our website: https://t.co/IAg5EJNq5T

Registration is required for this event: https://t.co/5wHUEV29je