Alessandro De Cola

A view on Roosveltplatz, Wien, with the towering Votivkirche in the background

Yesterday I have started my postdoc at the Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte of @univie.ac.at! Looks like this will be my new everyday view from the office.

Arms beads and cloth - Video gallery African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series     Patrick Otim - The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda   Pierre Nicolò Sofia - From East Africa to Venice https:...

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

Thanks also for the support of Matteo Grilli, Lazlo Passemiers and Victor Gwande @the Southern Journal for Contemporary History

The dossier includes contributions by Geraldine Sibanda, Tinashe Takuva, Bernard Kusena, Jabulani Shaba: journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jc...

Proud to share that the results of a workshop organised with
Geraldine Sibanda at the University of the Free State (funded by the Young Scholars Initiative, with the support of the International Studies Group) have now been published in a dossier of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History

What does he do during the other 60 minutes? [I am still reading]

New call for PhD scholarships at the International Studies Group @UFSweb. An opportunity to pursue your doctoral title while working in an extremely stimulating environment with the supervision of amazing scholars!

Deadline for applications: July 21, 2025.

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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 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!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
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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...

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.

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...

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

Save the date for the first appointment on 7 February @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Thrilled to share my last article, on the role of the Egyptian trader Ḥasan Mūsā al-ʿAqqād in the first colonial monetary reform that the Italian government attempted in Eritrea in 1890: doi.org/10.23810/AEO...

I'm looking forward to receiving some feedback!

Excited to be part of ABC. Check it out and follow the page, as we are coming out with great news soon! bsky.app/profile/arms...

Ten ECR bursaries to celebrate 125 years of LUP In 2024, we offered ten societies a bursary towards conference attendance for an Early Career Researcher as part of our 125th anniversary celebrations. When planning how to celebrate LUP’s 125th ye…

"This bursary represents not only a recognition of my work in open science and research data management advocacy, but also an investment in my future as a librarian."
Read our #LUP125 Early Career Researcher bursaries blog post: bit.ly/125ECRs

There are no important emails after 3pm.

Let’s be honest.

"Occhi del cuore" è il sacro graal delle serie molto italiane. E' quella a cui tutte si ispirano, senza raggiungerla.

Però non avevo mai sentito parlare della serie e tutto questo non sta facendo altro che suscitare in me una grande curiosità. :)

Questo non fa una piega. E per quanto io sia al contrario un amante delle emozioni forti (anche a scapito della qualità talvolta, sono un cultore del trash), concordo in pieno sul potere catartico delle serie rai.

Ma tu che avevi fatto di male per guardarlo?

Yes, I read the article. I was just wondering if we need yet another step towards the legitimation of a "virtual" economy, based on "virtual" commodities.

That's an interesting way to put it. But what if we categorise carbon-credits as "service" and the crime a fraud due to breach of contract? Literature provides already many tools to analyse the "service" economy.

Carolyn Chisadza giving the final keynote at the17th African Economic History meeting #AEHN

The project is a collaboration between timetraveller.voyage and the Arms Beads and Cloth project, recentering African consumerism in Global 19th century History (armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it), synergically employing qualitative and quantitative methodologies for African Economic History.

Karin Pallaver and @laurencoetzee.bsky.social presenting the preliminary results of our project (with Alexander Moradi, Edward Kerby and Hanjo Odendaal) at the 17th AEHN meeting in Rome.
"Currency areas in modern precolonial Africa: New insights from traveller accounts"

The 17th African Economic History Network meeting starts today with the opening keynote by Prof. Gareth Austin #AEHN in Rome

New call for PhD scholarships at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. It is an amazing opportunity to pursue a doctoral title while working in a extremely stimulating environment, with the supervision of amazing scholars
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From Schaumann, Aichelburg, Jung, Schubert, 1995, Ende einer Seemacht. Foto Dokumente zu Österreich - Ungarns Marine Geschichte 1900-1918, Klosterneuburg-Wien: Meyer & Comp, p.96.