Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

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Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥

A comical black-and-white stick-figure drawing of a smiling person sitting at a computer desk, typing with one hand while stretching their leg across to press a pedal or lever on another surface
word document showing the first three pages of my full book manuscript. all small text on a white page
Historic circular garden plan labelled "Pianta dell'Horto dei Semplici di Padova". The design features a central circle divided into four ornate square sections, surrounded by labelled plots for different plants such as Sambuco Acquatico, Platano Orientale, and Loto Albero. The diagram includes directional markers (Levante, Ponente, Tramontana, Ostro) and the main entrance labeled "Porta Maestra" at the bottom (west direction)
engraving of Canadian ginseng, characterised as identical to the Khoekhoe's medicinal plant "kanna", setting up a bridge between Canada, China, and Southern Africa
Jesuit depiction of a temporary observatory set up in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, imagined with distinctively Chinese features, set before a starry sky in the background
Statue of Doman, Khoekhoe leader of an armed resistance against the Dutch, at the Castle of Good Hope
mural showing generations of Cape Malay family life in Bo Kaap, Cape Town's old "Malay Quarter"
from the entrance of Cape Town's Slave Lodge. The text reads: "You have entered the oldest surviving slave building in South Africa THE SLAVE LODGE. Built in 1679, this is where the Dutch East India Company slaves were confined. These slaves laboured on public works and Company outposts.
white Cantonese porcelain plate with a blue background. the plate shows Cape Town's city-scape, featuring Table Mountain, and an array of Dutch ships in Table Bay.
17th-century sea chart of the "western part of the East indies", by Pieter Goos. The map is oriented with east at the top.
first page of the article
first paragraph of the book review
orange journal background. title: Annals of Science. Special issue: Histories of humans and histories of nature. In the centre, a grayscale copperprint engraving of a man on a horse, holding a scimitar in one hand and a head in the other
Programme for the day 10.00-10.30 | Introductory remarks Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh & Mika Hyman 10.30-11.00 - Coffee break 11.00-11.45 | De-fossilising knowledge: can/should the lithosphere tell human stories? Siyakha Mguni & Jeremy Schneider 11.45-12.00 – Coffee break 12.00-12.45 | Giving intentionally silenced archives a voice Rabia Abba Omar & Theo di Castri 12.45-13.45 – Lunch break 13.45-14.30 | Manipulating measurements, appropriating ancient climates: the politics of environmental proxies Anna Simon-Stickley & Amelia Urry 14.30-14.45 – Coffee break 14.45-15.30 | Contesting collecting: Indigenous material cultures James Poskett & Lynette Russell 15.30-15.45 – Coffee break 15.45-16.30 | Rooted consumption: can/should plants speak Mika Hyman & Sebestian Kroupa 16.30-16.45 – Coffee break 16.45-17.30 | Afterword and open discussion: Where next from cross-contextualization? Sujit Sivasundaram
A black slide with white text displaying the title of a presentation: “‘The Western Part of the East Indies’: Colonial Worldmaking and East Indian Cultures of Knowledge at the Cape of Good Hope, c.1650–c.1720.” Below the title, it mentions the World History Seminar, Cambridge, taking place on 6 March 2025, and the presenter's name, Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, from the University of Amsterdam
front cover of BJHS Themes volume 9 (2024), on "The History of Science and the 'Big Picture'". Image in lower half shows the Nazca lines as seen from space.
17th-century copperplate engraving of a soldier atop a horse, holding a broadsword in his right hand and a severed head in his left. In the background, people flee the scene. Image from the 1661 Amsterdam edition Martini's History of the Tartar War (Regni Sinensis a Tartaris devastati enarratio)
The Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis in Amsterdam. A red-brick building by a canal, with white inlayed brick stripes. A few trees with autumnal leaves in the foreground
a Cantonese porcelain plate from the 1740s with a view of Cape Town and several Dutch ships in Table Bay, in front of a dark blue background
man with glasses standing behind a wooden desk in a lecture theatre. a map is projected behind him, showing flows of information around the globe
Cambridge graduation ceremony
Cover of new book “Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science”
17th-century Dutch engraving of a "Tartar" soldier on horseback holding aloft a scimitar and a Chinese head.