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Davide Martino

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environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname๐Ÿ’ง| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) ๐Ÿ“š| former primary school teacher ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ| civis europeus ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

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Oh, and the pun with "drip feed" was of course intended! ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ’ฆ #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums

05.06.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bodies of water: negotiating urban and rural environment in Early Modern Europe - CRASSH Convenors Giacomo Savani, Lavinia Maddaluno and Davide Martino reflect on their workshop that took place in Cambridge on 16 January 2023.

It all started over two years ago in Cambridge, at our conference on "Bodies of Water" @crasshlive.bsky.social - our post reflecting on the day's proceedings is here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/event-r...

05.06.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fixing the stench from Pisa to Florence: visualizing Medici power through swamp drainage imagery | Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science Negotiating the waters of early modern Tuscany, a region that suffered from terrible flooding and fetid marshlands, was of key importance to Duke Cosimo I deโ€™ Medici. This study explores visual representations relating to the unglamorous task of swamp ...

Our special issue is (partly) out! I'm co-editing "Negotiating Water Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" with Lavinia Maddaluno & Giacomo Savani for Notes & Records @royalsociety.org - articles will drip feed over 2025, starting with this by Felicia Else ๐Ÿ’ง
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

05.06.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€ชGreat to finally hold a paper copy of Water Cultures, the collection of essays I co-edited with Charlotte Ladevรจze & Eva Rothenberger! To read us in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท & ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช you don't even need a physical copy: PDF open access at www.academicpress.ch/fr/cultures-... #waterhistory #skystorians #envhist #envhums

22.05.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Comme une sensation de dรฉjร  vu? Pendant plus de 100 ans, la France a envoyรฉ ses prisonniers politiques et autres indรฉsirables au bagne en Guyane. Au lieu dโ€™annoncer la fin de la colonisation franรงaise, on prรฉfรจre renouer avec lex vieux symbรดles et รชtre du mauvais cรดtรฉ de lโ€™histoire ๐Ÿ˜ข

19.05.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still in some disbelief at having been selected to be part of this stellar line-up ๐Ÿคฏ 2025 is a good time to think about problems of social order and knowledge, as Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin did 40y ago in Leviathan & Air-Pump! Do join us @sciencemuseum.org.uk if you're in London next Monday

07.05.2025 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you're in Brussels next month, come help me think through the first steps of my new project on #envhist and #waterhistory of colonial Suriname! Talk will be in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท bit.ly/3GaepaJ

16.04.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited (& terrified) to be thinking about "Making architectural history through the prism of
environmental and decolonial issues" as part of this brilliant workshop later this week @ieadeparis.bsky.social, organised by ENSA-Malaquais: www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/fa...

07.04.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On board (my first ever) Amtrak to Boston to attend #RSA2025 #RenSA25 ๐Ÿš‚ @caromurph7.bsky.social & I have organised a panel on "Administrative Cartography" with Lorenzo Gatta, Natsumi Nonaka & @hannahmgk.bsky.social ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ And of course I'll be talking Neptune again with @frederickcrofts.bsky.social ๐Ÿ”ฑ

19.03.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fascinating! I'd love to know more - where can I read it?

19.03.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Davide Martino | Universitรฉ libre de Bruxelles - Academia.edu Postdoc researching environmental and water histories of colonial Suriname at the Universitรฉ Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Previously architectural history at theโ€ฆ

OA approved manuscript to follow shortly on ulb.academia.edu/DavideMartino, the (very nicely) paginated article as published in ESM is unfortunately for subscribers only

14.03.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With heartfelt thanks to @tinasmussen.bsky.social, @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social, Francesco Luzzini, @gbba.bsky.social, and Anatole Tchikine for being excellent intellectual companions on the journey down early modern mining pits!

14.03.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If a mine yields (far, far) more water than silver, should we call it a silver mine? Or a water mine? I had some fun thinking about this and other questions of #waterhistory and #mininghistory in "Mining for water", my new article just out in Early Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1163/1573... ๐Ÿ’งโ›๏ธ

14.03.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

24.02.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More details here: www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/historisches...

11.02.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us in Leipzig next month to think and talk about urban-fluvial symbioses - or fluvial anthropospheres, as #envhist colleagues there say ๐Ÿ’ง @unileipzig.bsky.social #waterhistory #urbanhistory #skystorians

11.02.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New year, new social network, new job! 2024 summary: articles on liquid streets (rb.gy/du95nc), lost gardens and fountains (rb.gy/tfbk3y), and time-traveling maps (rb.gy/rjv2nn) - plus great people @unibern.bsky.social, and lots of ๐Ÿš‚(see pic)! Now excited to join @ulbruxelles.bsky.social ๐Ÿค“

31.01.2025 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Foto einer Vitrinenauslage von Neptun-Darstellungen in Grafik und Fotografie

Foto einer Vitrinenauslage von Neptun-Darstellungen in Grafik und Fotografie

The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650
Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI ๐Ÿงœโ€โ™‚๏ธ
www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...

21.01.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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