Arnaldo Momigliano
On July 22, 1955, the Times Literary Supplement welcomed the appearance of a new scholarly book with an enthusiasm rarely matched in its gray, closely printed pages. Pride of place,…
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The Flood in Florence, 1966
The Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, University Library of Michigan Nearly five decades have passed since the Arno River in Florence, Italy, flooded its banks on November 4,…
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano 1908-1987 Arnaldo Dante Momigliano arrived at Oxford in 1939. In the previous fall he had been dispossessed of his professorship in Roman history at the University of…
Anthology
A Primo Levi Anthology Collected from various sources on the occasion of the presentation of Primo Levi’s Complete Works at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Quaestio…
Sites of Conflicted History
Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History A call for papers. International conference. 13-15 March 2017. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland Dear Colleagues, I would like…
Italy’s Decade of War
Italy’s Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective 6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Keynote Speakers: Professor MacGregor Knox, LSE Professor Nicola Labanca, Università degli Studi di Siena…
The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe
Book: The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression. Combining Viewpoints on a Controversial Story. Editors: Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016…
On the Dark Side of History
The historian Carlo Ginzburg talks about his publications and his historical method of microhistory, which he pioneered. Ginzburg dismisses the prevailing relativism of historical truth as intellectually, politically, and morally lazy,…
EHRI Fellowship 2016-2018 offer a stage at CDEC
EHRI invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018) The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to…
More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Call for papers. University of Warwick, 4 March 2017 Key-note speakers: Dr Marika Keblusek (Leiden University) and Dr Angela McShane (RCA/V&A) For Italy, the ‘long seventeenth century’ was a period of…