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Achille Marotta
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Historian of Mediterranean slavery and of Muslims in early modern Italy. Currently Max Weber Fellow at the EUI.
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A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.

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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The conference 'An academic dilemma?' has come to an end! 🎓

Scholars gathered to explore how academic institutions can be entangled in issues like human rights violations, environmental destruction & genocide, while also serving as spaces for resistance, critical thought & transformative action. 🗣️
May 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Freeing the last Muslim slaves in late #18thcentury Mediterranean Europe

On 19 March, 11.00 CET, join the lecture by M'hamed Oualdi on the pre-abolitionist policy of the sultan of Morocco Muhammad Ibn Abdallah 👉 loom.ly/WjbN0IE

In the framework of our Monthly Research Meetings 👉
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March 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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👏 Kudos to our Max Weber Fellow Achille Marotta for receiving the 2024-25 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award with his @earlymodhistory.bsky.social article: ‘The Muslim Friend: Cross-Confessional Male Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Italy’ 👉 loom.ly/mNQXmp8

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Achille Marotta receives 2024-25 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award
Achille Marotta, Max Weber Fellow at the EUI History Department, has received this years Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Net
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January 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Next week at our seminar "Notions of Self & First-Person Sources" we'll discuss with @achillem.bsky.social his award-winning essay on slaves' voices & readings by J. L. Loriente, W. Johnson, N.Z. Davis on coerced self-narratives, petitions and prison's writings (+graffitti)
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January 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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The JEMH is thrilled to announce that Achille Marotta has won the Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network for his article, "The Muslim Friend: Cross-Confessional Male Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Italy”, published in Volume 28, Issue 3 (June 2024.)
January 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Research Assistant position open at the EUI, studying slavery through North African Sufi Islamic sources. Closes January 30 www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sunny winter day at @eui-history.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 1:03 PM