UNSEEN, Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) is a ERC Starting Grant Project based at the University of Oxford.
UNSEEN seeks to investigate the role of slavery in the transmission of things and knowledge from the Islamic world to Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The project focuses on the communities of enslaved people coming from North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean residing in European port towns and largely employed as oarsmen on board the galleys. Its goal is to unveil their agency in the circulation of material culture as well as technological and scientific know-how coming from the Islamic world into Europe.
ERC Starting Grants are part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and aim to empower early-career researchers to pursue ambitious research projects.
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