3 cheers for Gabriele Macron's Honorable Mention from the SIHS Prize in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History for his @isisjournal.bsky.social article "The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines." More here: www.italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-award...

📢 Save the date! — The CfP for our FWF-SCARCE workshop “Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World”, organized by @eclaaire.bsky.social & @gbba.bsky.social ⛏️🌍 is open until May 26!
🔗 Details here: bit.ly/scarcews1cfp
#MiningHistory

The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.

🏔️ Scarce colloquium goes into its 2nd round! ⛏️ On March 24th, @gbba.bsky.social, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social and @eclaaire.bsky.social are having a roundtable discussion on “Social Histories of Mining Knowledge” at 2:30 pm (CET) in Kolingasse 14, Room 4.25. Please register: bit.ly/4bNKGzS

Thrilled to see this out in @isisjournal.bsky.social! It tells the (timely) story of the #knowledge hierarchies embedded in #mineral exploration by examining the interplay between #books, #experts, and untrained #officials in #Renaissance #Tuscany.

More here 👇
shorturl.at/8p7rG

Join us for our panel, ‘Mining Women in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800,’ first thing Sunday morning at 8.30!

We’ll have stellar speakers, including Dana Murillo, @afroide.bsky.social, Laura Rouleau, Jane Mangan, and Pamela Smith @historians.org

CfP 🚨 Still time to apply for a panel proposal on ‘Mining women in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800’ at the next @ahahistorians.bsky.social annual meeting in New York, 3-6 January. Organized by prof. Dana Murillo and myself.

🙏 spread the word and apply! Link: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

New year, new start!
A florentine homecoming with impressive new colleagues @Itattitweets.

itatti.harvard.edu/people/gabriel…

🌱Friends and plants enthusiasts: does anyone know of a plant that could transform metals into gold? Or did you ever come across anything related to such power in early modern/Renaissance herbals? 🙏 ❤️

How coerced was “free” #wage labour in early modern Europe? And how did the #mobility of #workers can be explained through the prism of #coerced #labour?

Excited to see this out and in #OA!
A special 🙏 to the incredible work of the editors and the other contributors (tinyurl.com/mrpjymrx)

📣new online seminar - programme available of the new seminar on 🌾Plants🌴 in early modern knowledge (and beyond). The event is entirely online. #MarieCurie #VegSciLif #cafoscari #manipulatingflora

Presentations will focus on plants in the antiquity and medieval time, #plantintelligence #biodiversity