The program of our online seminar series in finally out! From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory 🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr

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

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/african…

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/african…

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 🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/seminar…

‼️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

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

🔴 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!

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

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

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

Join our seminar! 🔴 “An umbrella model: Indian cotton textiles in the early modern Atlantic trade” with Kazuo Kobayashi 🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR

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

🔴 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-pu…