Visual Grammars of Globalization
Inaugural Workshop
Wednesday 6 May 2020, 10.30am to 1.00pm (Florence time)
Virtual Seminar
Cost Action People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (PiMO)
GLOBHIS. Centro Interuniversitario di Studi di Storia Globale – Network for Global History
Programma e Abstract
Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Giovanni Baratta’s Gli Schiavi Liberati (Livorno): the unstable vision of St John of Matha
José María Pérez Fernández (University of Granada)
Samuel Purchas and his World Picture
Carlo Taviani (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom & I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance)
‘A most erudite parrot’. Exchanges of Luxury Goods in Africa, the New World, Genoa and the Court of Mantua
Angelo Cattaneo (Italian National Research Council & Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Multi-languages and multi-cultures in Japanese “World Map” folding screens: the case of the Kanshin-ji Byōbu
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa (University of Zurich)
‘Idolatria illustrata’. Images, antiquarian theories, and the early modern interpretation of a Thai Buddha in the Gottorf Kunstkammer
Beatrice Falcucci (University of Florence)
Objects in motion: Omar Al Mukthar’s glasses, from Libya to Rome, from ostension to oblivion
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01.04.2026