Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

@gianamar97.bsky.social

@onslies.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:08 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

Woohoo! Booking for our first session on 23 October is up!

Join us to hear from @bobpi.bsky.social about water, space, and environmental inequality in #earlymodern Amsterdam.

Free, all welcome in person or on zoom, but register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries

@royalhistsoc.org Oct 8, 2026, 3:00 PMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8

The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

@npr.org Oct 9, 2026, 12:43 PMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law. n.pr/4hOI08y

n.prSouth African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace PrizeSouth African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:51 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

Final week of the campaign has been epic!

Thank you to everyone from the young people I met training, from the women at the community centre,cafes, barbers, high street shops.

Voting is tomorrow 7am-10pm in Holborn & St Pancras. Remember photo ID!

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@historicaljnl.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 11:27 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

📣Out now on #firstview!

Rabia Abba Omar (Stellenbosch University) and Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social on 'Giving Intentionally Silenced People(s) a Voice'

#Archives #Roundtable #History #Creative 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the following conversation, historian Theo Di Castri and researcher/curator Rabia Abba Omar reflect on how questions of silence and voice are at play in their respective work. After challenging the very idea of ‘giving’ an archival voice to intentionally silenced people(s) and considering some alternative approaches, the conversation moved on to consider how artists, activists, and scholars working in other disciplines stand to expand and enrich our ability to respond to these recurring quandaries.

@historicaljnl.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:32 PMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

📣Out now on #firstview!

Anna Simon-Stickley @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and Amelia Urry @hpscambridge.bsky.social on 'Cross-Contextualizing the Histories and Politics of Environmental Proxies'

#History #Analysis #Climate #Methodology #Roundtable🗃️

👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In this essay, we approach the method of cross-contextualization as both an actors’ category and as an analytic approach for historians interested in the construction of long-term or large-scale environmental knowledge. While we both use cross-contextualization as it was originally conceived as a method to tell global histories of science by reading together sources not obviously in conversation, we also deal with actors who themselves are doing historical work by historicizing global climates across different contexts. To do so, these actors, too, have learned to read sources at a distance from their obvious audiences, thereby expanding what it is possible to say about the broad and nebulous category of global environment. We think through two areas of research: the construction of climate knowledge in nineteenth-century Egypt, from Anna, and the use of climate proxies in the twentieth-century technoscience, from Amelia.

@historicaljnl.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:56 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

📣Out now on #firstview!

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social @uvahumanities.bsky.social and Mika Hyman @mikahyman.bsky.social @hpscambridge.bsky.social on 'Cross-Contextualization as Method'

#History #Global #Culture 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In 2010, Sujit Sivasundaram published a groundbreaking essay titled ‘Sciences and the global: on methods, questions, and theory’ in the journal Isis.Footnote2 Reflecting on the challenges posed to the ‘global history of science’ by what critics supposed to be a scarcity of sources from beyond Europe, Sivasundaram proposed a method of ‘cross-contextualization’, whereby scarce and unorthodox sources would be read alongside more plentiful, conventional ones. This approach extended beyond merely reading against the grain; it also promised to show how materials produced in disparate cultural contexts could, when studied together, mutually thicken and complicate one another’s interpretations.

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

Our entire roundtable on "Cross-Contextualization as Method", co-edited with @mikahyman.bsky.social, is out now in FirstView in @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

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@medievaljon.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:31 PMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

Interesting looking series of articles perhaps relevant to #medievalsky

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:53 PM

The workshop was funded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk and the George Macauley Trevelyan Fund of the @camhistory.bsky.social

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Sujit Sivasundaram (@camhistory.bsky.social) re-examines the contexts that shaped "Sciences and the global", and, reflecting on how these have since transformed, explores how cross-contextualization as a method has changed more broadly.

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@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

In the final dialogue, Rabia Abba Omar (Stellenbosch University) and Theo Di Castri (@homertoncollege.bsky.social) highlight the importance of collaborations with artists and activists to reckon with silence, memory, and violence in archives and beyond

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@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Then, @mikahyman.bsky.social (@hpscambridge.bsky.social) and @sebkroupa.bsky.social (@mcgill.ca) discuss how plants can be understood as historical and cultural actors, shaping Indigenous sovereignties and global exchanges

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@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Next, James Poskett (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) and Lynette Russell (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) explore how shifts in perspectives between Indigenous and metropolitan actors can recalibrate the meanings and interpretations of "material culture" in collections

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@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Then, Anna Simon-Stickley (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) and Amelia Urry (@magdalenecollege.bsky.social @hpscambridge.bsky.social) retrace how proxies -- from Nile floods to ice cores, paintings, and novels -- have been used to make claims about unknown environments doi.org/10.1017/S001...

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

The roundtable kicks off with a dialogue between Jeremy Schneider (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) and Siyakha Mguni (University of Cape Town), exploring the ways in which the lithosphere can be read as an archive and a storyteller. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Based on a workshop at @hpscambridge.bsky.social last year, the roundtable explores how historically oriented scholars have experimented with "cross-contextualization" in the 15 years since Sujit Sivasundaram's (@camhistory.bsky.social) groundbreaking "Sciences and the Global" doi.org/10.1086/652694

@gianamar97.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:38 PM

Our entire roundtable on "Cross-Contextualization as Method", co-edited with @mikahyman.bsky.social, is out now in FirstView in @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

@historicaljnl.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 7:12 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

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Jeremy Schneider @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and Siyakha Mguni (University of Cape Town) on 'Should the Lithosphere Tell Our Stories?'

#Earth #Fossils #Culture #Knowledge #Indigenous #Western #Ancient 🌍🏔️🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This discussion pursues potential areas of epistemic productivity at the convergence of Western scientific frameworks and Indigenous knowledge systems to understand the ontological unity of natural systems, interpreting the lithosphere not merely as a physical substrate, but as a deep archive of human histories, cultural practices, and cosmologies in all the world’s regions. By de-fossilizing knowledge – a useful analytical concept that allows the discovery of potential conjunction of scientific thought and robust forms of knowing from ancient cultures – we foreground relational epistemes and explorative narrative possibilities inherent in ancient human landscapes. The selected cases, though brief and not exhaustive, support our view that there are strong resonances between Western science and ancient knowledge forms seen among Indigenous cultures in the world.

@historicaljnl.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 8:19 AMReposted by @gianamar97.bsky.social

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Mika Hyman @mikahyman.bsky.social @hpscambridge.bsky.social and Sebestian Kroupa @sebkroupa.bsky.social @mcgill.ca on '(Up)rooted Consumptions: Can Plants Speak?'

#Roundtable #Dialogue #Environment #Human #Global 🌵🌱🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In this dialogue, Mika Hyman and Sebestian Kroupa consider how plants operate as dynamic agents shaping historical and cultural processes. Plants offer especially productive sources for cross-contextualization precisely because they refuse confinement to a single context or form of evidence. Their traces range from living organisms and herbarium specimens to traded objects, entries, and images in scientific treatises and motifs in visual and material culture. This multiplicity enables historians to use plants to move across disparate geographies, chronologies, and epistemologies. The apparent rootedness of plants belies their extraordinary mobility: transported as seeds, dried samples, and cultivated crops, plants reveal both global connections and ruptures, moments of transfer as much as dislocation and loss. While plants may not speak to us in a literal sense, their movements, meanings, and material presences open histories that might otherwise remain silent – and that challenge imperial, anthropocentric, and accumulation-driven narratives.

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