Mediterranean Migration in Interdisciplinary Perspective
University of Warwick, WBS, 3.215,
Friday 3 March 2017
Programme
10.45: Welcome and Introduction
Felicita Tramontana (Warwick): “Migration in Mediterranean history: Continuities and fractures”
11.00-12.30: Migration across the Mediterranean: contemporary challenges and historical perspectives
Chair: John-Paul Ghobrial (Oxford)
Jacob Norris (Sussex): ”Jerusalemite Christians and their encounters with Catholic Europe, 1650-1750”
David Celetti (Padua/ Bucharest): “French migration in 18th century Levant. Daily Life, social networks and integration Strategies”
Nina Perkowski (Warwick): “Researching contemporary journeys across the Mediterranean Sea”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30: Italian Migration: Literature and History
Chair: Beat Kümin (Warwick)
Rosa Salzberg (Warwick): “Renaissance Venice as 'arrival city': Mapping spaces and itineraries of migration in the urban landscape”
Jennifer Burns (Warwick): “Mapping transnational subjecthood across the Mediterranean: agency, memory, and futures in recent migration narratives in Italian”
14.30- 15.00 Tea break
15.00-16.00: Migration, history and methodological challenges
Chair: Leo Lucassen (Leiden)
William O’ Reilly (Cambridge): “Recruitment, trafficking and new modes of analysis from the 17th to the 21st century”
Sascha O. Becker (Warwick): “Poland is not yet lost:
WWII, population movements, and trust”
16.00-1730: Comment: Leo Lucassen (Leiden) and final discussion
We gratefully acknowledge funding from:
The European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions in the framework of HORIZON 2020.
The Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick: www.warwick.ac.uk/hrc
The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/