Ettore Morelli
@ettoremorelli.bsky.social
Historian, Antifascist. Last time seen wandering between the Mohokare and the Molopo, three hundred years ago.
Doing some work at Università di Pavia / Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche / Five Hundred Year Archive
Doing some work at Università di Pavia / Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche / Five Hundred Year Archive
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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present
"African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.
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I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here:
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there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts
July 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts
This looks like a great book that I should read!
📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys"
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Un/Framing Topographies
The volume is a collection of essays by acclaimed and widely published international scholars of 'space' working within different disciplines, such as social sciences, history, applied sciences and me...
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July 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This looks like a great book that I should read!
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New Publication from ASCL!
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
July 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New Publication from ASCL!
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
This looks amazing!!
CfA: Gotha's Africa: Courtly Perceptions of the Continent in the Early Modern Period 🗃️
Summer School on "the history of perception and knowledge of Africa" at Early Modern courts (Aug 25 to 29, 2025); expenses covered
📆 Deadline: 15 Jul 2025
www.uni-erfurt.de/en/gotha-res...
Summer School on "the history of perception and knowledge of Africa" at Early Modern courts (Aug 25 to 29, 2025); expenses covered
📆 Deadline: 15 Jul 2025
www.uni-erfurt.de/en/gotha-res...
July 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This looks amazing!!
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In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:
bit.ly/4eNh9Iq
#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
bit.ly/4eNh9Iq
#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
July 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:
bit.ly/4eNh9Iq
#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
bit.ly/4eNh9Iq
#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
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A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.
November 4, 2024 at 5:28 PM
A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.
I wrote and edited most of African Thresholds while physically crossing the border, on the train to and fro my academic home @geschichtebasel.bsky.social – a very privileged crossing. The book would not exist without the comfort, support, and intellectual stimulation I found in Basel. Thanks!
📚 Out now: "African Thresholds" by Ettore Morelli.
What is a border, and why does it exist? In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it.
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What is a border, and why does it exist? In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it.
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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present
"African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote and edited most of African Thresholds while physically crossing the border, on the train to and fro my academic home @geschichtebasel.bsky.social – a very privileged crossing. The book would not exist without the comfort, support, and intellectual stimulation I found in Basel. Thanks!
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The first press report on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, which concluded:
"Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"
"Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"
July 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The first press report on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, which concluded:
"Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"
"Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"
I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here:
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present
"African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here:
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...