Alessandro De Cola
@adecola.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna. Research fellow, International Studies Group (ISG), University of the Free State. Researching Money in Africa, Global History of Money, Colonial currencies, Geldscheiße
Yesterday I have started my postdoc at the Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte of @univie.ac.at! Looks like this will be my new everyday view from the office.
Did you miss any of our seminars? You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/ #abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury
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African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series Patrick Otim - The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda Pierre Nicolò Sofia - From East Africa to Venice https:...
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Proud to share that the results of a workshop organised with Geraldine Sibanda at the University of the Free State (funded by the Young Scholars Initiative, with the support of the International Studies Group) have now been published in a dossier of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History
DOSSIER: REFRAMING AFRICAN MONETARY HISTORY: A SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE | Southern Journal for Contemporary History Southern Journal for Contemporary History
The Southern Journal for Contemporary History is published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State. It is a national, academic and accredited journal which publishes academically outstanding articles of a contemporary historical or political nature. Only articles dealing with topics on sub-Saharan Africa and in particular South Africa since 1945 will be considered. All articles submitted are reviewed by at least two experts in the field. At least two issues of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History are published annually, namely in June and December. Sometimes a number of related articles are published in a special edition which may also include articles on topics before 1945. Guest editors may assist the Editorial Board with these special editions. In such cases, the Editorial Board will still be responsible for the edition and their discretion will be paramount. Review articles and book reviews are also considered for publication. Opinions expressed in articles or conclusions made, are those of the authors and do not imply the endorsement of the Editorial Board.
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New call for PhD scholarships at the International Studies Group @UFSweb. An opportunity to pursue your doctoral title while working in an extremely stimulating environment with the supervision of amazing scholars! Deadline for applications: July 21, 2025. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
PhD Scholarship @International Studies Group, University of the Free State_2026 | H-Net
University of the Free State, International Studies Group_PhD Studentships The International Studies Group (ISG) at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, has vacancies for PhD ...
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Don’t miss our next seminar! 🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt 📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online 🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
‼️Unfortunately the next session of our seminar series cannot be held on 7th March We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions
Arms, Beads, Cloth@arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · last yr.Don’t miss our next seminar! 📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET. armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
Don’t miss our next seminar! 📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET. armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...
Don’t miss next session of our seminar series! 🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia 📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email prin2022abc@gmail.com and request to be added to our mailing list. Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...
Arms beads and cloth - African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series
An online Seminar Series from February to June 2025 with world-renowned experts in the field of African studies and Global history.
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Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series! 📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
Save the date for the first appointment on 7 February @arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Online seminar series - African Consumers and the Global Economy: A New History | H-Net
AFRICAN CONSUMERS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: A NEW HISTORYAn on line Seminar Series from February to June 2025 with world-renowned experts in the field of African studies and global history. The researc...
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Thrilled to share my last article, on the role of the Egyptian trader Ḥasan Mūsā al-ʿAqqād in the first colonial monetary reform that the Italian government attempted in Eritrea in 1890: doi.org/10.23810/AEO... I'm looking forward to receiving some feedback!
African Agencies in the Making of Colonial Currencies | Afriche e Orienti
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Excited to be part of ABC. Check it out and follow the page, as we are coming out with great news soon! bsky.app/profile/arms...
Arms, Beads, Cloth@arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social · 2y agoWelcome to “Arms, Beads, and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-Century Global Economy”! 🌍 Our #research project explores 19th-century trajectories of #arms, #beads and #cloth in east-central #Africa. 🧵a thread
"This bursary represents not only a recognition of my work in open science and research data management advocacy, but also an investment in my future as a librarian." Read our #LUP125 Early Career Researcher bursaries blog post: bit.ly/125ECRs
Ten ECR bursaries to celebrate 125 years of LUP
In 2024, we offered ten societies a bursary towards conference attendance for an Early Career Researcher as part of our 125th anniversary celebrations. When planning how to celebrate LUP’s 125th ye…
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Karin Pallaver and @laurencoetzee.bsky.social presenting the preliminary results of our project (with Alexander Moradi, Edward Kerby and Hanjo Odendaal) at the 17th AEHN meeting in Rome. "Currency areas in modern precolonial Africa: New insights from traveller accounts"
The 17th African Economic History Network meeting starts today with the opening keynote by Prof. Gareth Austin #AEHN in Rome
New call for PhD scholarships at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. It is an amazing opportunity to pursue a doctoral title while working in a extremely stimulating environment, with the supervision of amazing scholars networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
PhD Scholarship @International Studies Group, University of the Free State_June 2024 | H-Net
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At the end of this month, I will leave the ISG Department to start a new project at the University of Bologna. It is not a farewell, but a goodbye and see you soon. Meanwhile, I can recommend to apply for this post to anyone who is looking for a friendly, enriching and engaging research environment.
Deeply saddened by the news. Prof. Guyer's work is one of the pillars on which my love for research and science is built. anthropology.jhu.edu/2024/01/19/i...
In Memorium: Jane I. Guyer (1943-2024) | Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology mourns the loss of Professor Emerita Jane I. Guyer, who passed on at the age of 80 on January 17, 2024. Known widely for her original mind and deeply influential ideas, ...
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New collections added! • Socialist Party of America (assorted material) • Urdu Leninist texts (via Ibteda Digital Library) Over 500 collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial online & open access now listed!
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would be u...
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“Academic publisher Elsevier, which owns a majority of the prestigious academic journals, has higher operating profits than Apple”
Jeremy Koster@jeremykoster.bsky.social · 3y agoAs if 37% profit margins weren't enough ... www.huffpost.com/entry/academ... "Unfortunately, researchers are still dependent on one essentially symbolic function of publishers, which is to allocate academic capital ..." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Finally, a refreshing piece of advice from an editor!
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3y agoIt’s alive! For my 2nd Chronicle column I tackled turning the diss into a book and, crucially, how wildly unsustainable the current publish-or-perish culture is for both scholars and publishers. We love scholarly books! Bad credentialing systems not so much though. www.chronicle.com/article/shou...
Word reaches me that Chalimbana University in Lusaka is now in possession of one of the most extensive history libraries anywhere about the region's history.