Giacomo Ghedini
Giacomo Ghedini joined the Center for History at Sciences Po Paris and the ERC Project “Slave Voices” supervised by Professor M’hamed Oualdi. His field of research will focus on the case of “moretti”, sub-Saharan children redeemed from slavery by catholic missionaries during the 19th century. The moretti were brought to Europe to be raised in seminars and monasteries and some of them later made their way back to Africa as native missionaries.
Born in Italy, Giacomo Ghedini completed at the University of Bologna and the University of Paris his masters’s degree in 2017 and then, under the supervision of Professor Umberto Mazzone and Professor Charlotte de Castelnau L’Estoile, his PhD that he defended in October 2021 entitled I “moretti” : schiavitù e missioni tra Africa ed Europa (1824-1947). He works mainly on sources in Italian, French and Latin from catholic orders across Europe.
In 2020 he published his Master’s thesis on Daniele Sorur, the first Dinka (South Soudan) catholic priest and a former slave: Da schiavo a missionario. Vita e scritti di Daniele Sorur Pharim Den (1860-1900), Roma, Studium.
Among his other publications:
- «Che cosa sono i negri» L’ouvrage censuré de Daniele Sorur, en Nathalie Kouamé, Éric-P. Meyer & Anne Viguier (dirigée par), Encyclopédie des historiographies: Afriques, Amériques, Asies: Volume 1 : sources et genres historiques (Tome 1 et Tome 2), Paris, Presses de l’Inalco, 2020, pp. 252-263.
- Sociologia promozionale e cooperazione internazionale Italia-Brasile. Il contributo di Giuliano Giorio, «Visioni LatinoAmericane», Edizioni Università di Trieste, Anno XI, Numero 20, gennaio 2019, pp. 21-37.
- Umberto Pietrogrande: il gesuita che costruiva ponti, «Visioni LatinoAmericane», Edizioni Università di Trieste, Anno VIII, Numero 15, luglio 2016, pp. 50-69.
