We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Salvatore Speziale will be giving a workshop on 20 March. During the workhop, he will present his paper ‘The Turning Point of the 1830s: Epidemics and Health Controls at the Borders in Mediterranean Africa’. Following the presentation, the team will discuss the topic.

Salvatore Speziale teaches History and Institutions of Africa and Near East at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations (DiCAM) of the University of Messina. He is the coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in Historical Sciences: Society, Cultures and Institutions of Europe and a member of the Doctoral Council in Humanities. His research focuses on the concept of “migration” in relation to people, knowledge, goods and diseases in the Mediterranean in the modern and contemporary age. He has published several monographs and numerous essays in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the most important associations in the field. He is editor of the series Mediterranei a confronto (Mediterraneans in Comparison) and is a member of the scientific committee of Incontri mediterranei, Dialoghi mediterranei and collaborates with Revue d’Histoire Maghrébine and Arab Revue of Ottoman History.