Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

It was such a pleasure to co-organise the workshop that led to this roundtable (with @mikahyman.bsky.social), and to think about creatively and playfully juxtaposing very different genres of sources

📣Out now on #firstview! James Poskett @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Lynette Russell @lynetterussell.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social on 'Contesting Collecting: Indigenous Material Cultures' #Materiality #History #Museums #Roundtable 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Sujit Sivasundaram @camhistory.bsky.social with 'Afterword: What Next for Cross-Contextualization?' #History #Science #Global #Collaboration #Roundtable #Discussion #Contextualization 🗃️📜 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I love the writing process. I think lots of people who do writing like the act of writing, but I think this is so important and under-appreciated by a lot of people. Revision processes (including asking others for input, revising oneself) is thinking, crafting, strengthening.

... It explores the continuing importance of Sivasundaram’s intervention in global histories of the sciences. And shows how historically oriented scholars across disciplines are experimenting with cross-contextual approaches to illuminate marginalized and overlooked voices, worlds and stories.

📢 'Cross-contextualisation roundtable' out now on #firstview in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social. The roundtable marks the 15th anniversary of Professor Sujit Sivasundaram's "groundbreaking" essay: ‘Sciences and the global'. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today in Oxford

Very excited to speak about the meanings of mantises across the Cape colonial frontier tomorrow afternoon @ox.ac.uk! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/events/globa...

Just a little over a week until our first seminar!

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

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

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

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! youtu.be/t0zhIoY379Y?...

📣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...

📣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...

📣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...

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...

Interesting looking series of articles perhaps relevant to #medievalsky

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📣Out now on #firstview! 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...

📣Out now on #firstview! 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...

Delighted to see @mikahyman.bsky.social and @sebkroupa.bsky.social's brilliant piece (and, indeed, almost all of the "Cross-contextualization as Method" roundtable) out now in @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

Looking forward to speaking about mantises, tricksters, and misunderstandings across the 18th-century Cape of Good Hope's colonial frontier at the Global Intellectual History Seminar at All Souls @ox.ac.uk (I should note that the flyer has promoted me to a higher position)

While most other journalists ran with the Arday story as their summer sport, we've been looking at Cambridge for years, and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social's investigation into the impact of Arday's death on his students and fellow academics is fearless and also heartbreaking. Genuine reporting

Congratulations to the nominees in the 2026 @WolfsonHistory Prize. You can find reading related to four of the shortlisted titles in the History Today archive. #WolfsonHistoryPrize 1/5

So excited to share that The Tartar Moment is forthcoming with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in June 2027, and is now available for pre-order! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope" by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

last chance to Express your loathing of the Mail, or vice versa sign+share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

I am delighted to announce that I have recently begun a new role of Reviews Editor for The Historical Journal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... In this role, I commission review essays on all aspects of history since the fifteenth century.

(Sigh.) How easy it must be to do history if it is mostly 'the statistical comparison of similar past events' - an illusion which history teachers have then to unteach over and over again.

I cringed at the phrasing, but it's actually a wise thing to impress upon first years who have likely spent their adolescence being (& working hard to be) the brightest person in the room that they ought not rely on that as their source of worth, because for most it will no longer be true.

Excited to be guest editing the 2028 special issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge with @gianamar97.bsky.social journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

Super excited to be co-editing the 2028 special issue of @jhokjournal.bsky.social on the theme of “Capriciousness in the Making of Knowledge“ with @rdk96.bsky.social! journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

@gianamar97.bsky.social's research highlights how contingent geopolitical designations reshaped scholarly descriptions of natures and cultures in southern Africa. Link 👇

Pleased to share my @leverhulme.ac.uk blogpost on the causes and consequences of colonial worldmaking at the Cape media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/giov... Full @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article at doi.org/10.1093/past...

I've written a post on our 1000-year-old astrolabe, and have included details of the places/latitudes of the plates and the stars on the rete. (I do not read Arabic, sadly, so have drawn on previous transcriptions - if there are errors, do let me know!) www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat... #histSTM 📜

So happy the Klimt-fish made it across the Atlantic! 🐠