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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🔴 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-...

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REDMIX @redmix.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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 redmix@unito.it by 30 October 2025 #ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🔴 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!

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

‼️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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email prin2022abc@gmail.com and request to be added to our mailing list. Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...

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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.

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🧶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.

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

📿 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).

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

⚫️ 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

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Arms, Beads, Cloth @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Welcome to “Arms, Beads, and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-Century Global Economy”! 🌍 Our #research project explores 19th-century trajectories of #arms, #beads and #cloth in east-central #Africa. 🧵a thread

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