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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📢 OPEN APPLICATIONS for an Early Career Research Network on Mediterranean Slavery at Oxford! 📢 We will cover travel and accommodation for one event in Oxford (May) and on in Paris (June) for up to 12 early career researchers. Please share! unseen.web.ox.ac.uk

Call for applications, Mediterranean slavery network, deadline 8 April

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My book is now out! 🎉 Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️ [Discount code: NEW30]

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 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

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨 Come and join our research group UNSEEN in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025. You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻 orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#t...

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DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📢 JOB OPENING 📢 I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live! This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🥳 New publication! The article analyses a 13th-century church fresco depicting an Islamic tent repurposed as an altar baldachin. To Jon Thompson who passed in 2020, for encouraging me to write the first draft. www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue

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Burlington Magazine

The Burlington Magazine is the world's leading monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts.

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Dr Federica Gigante, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, examining the fresco in the Church of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, Italy. Image credit: Federica Gigante

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out! Our article (Gigante & Burnett) "Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins: a European Network of Exchange" doi.org/10.1086/732274 deals with French collectors, Dutch professors, Venetian dragomans and Moroccan captives. (DM for free access)

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

‪My book now has a cover! Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social‬ ·

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🥳New publication! “Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange,” with Andrew Burnett in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes @warburginstitute.bsky.social. With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour. doi.org/10.1086/732274 #numismatics

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Yale Divinity School @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years." arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

The Festschrift for Charles Burnett has been published. Ann Giletti, Dag Nikolaus Hasse (eds), "Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds. Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett." www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #menasky #histsci #medievalsky

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

✨EVENT: 29 Jan, MICROHISTORIES OF EARLY MODERN DIPLOMACY, hybrid Join us at the Faculty of History (Boardroom) or on Zoom (5-6:30 pm) for our first session of 2024 with Elvira Tamus (camhistory.bsky.social) and Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard, History). Email camwemp2023@gmail.com for the Zoom link 👇

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Tomorrow, 1 November in London, where I am speaking about Islamic art in early modern Italy (sold out in presence but available live on YouTube) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islam-in-e...

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Islam in Europe

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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

View from the Radcliffe Camera last night #Oxford

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