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MOBILITY, IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTITY IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN

A joint SNS-Yale graduate student workshop



Programme

FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER


9.45 Welcome by Stefania Pastore, Scuola Normale Superiore


SESSION I


10.00 David Sebastiani, Scuola Normale Superiore“For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of”. Contested Words and Intercultural Encounters in Giovan Battista Capponi’s Inquisitorial Trial (Venice, 1588)


10.30 Hayk Esaghoulyan, Yale UniversityWhite Faced Rajahs: The Making of the Nabob in British and Irish Newspapers and Periodicals


11.00 Discussant Stefania Tutino, UCLA


11.15 Q&As


SESSION II


12.20 Ellen M. Nye, Yale UniversityOf Capital Necessity: Bullion and Credit in British Levant and East Indian Trade


12.50 Discussant Carlo Taviani, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Deutsches Historisches Institute, Rome


13:00 Q&As


13.30 Lunch


SESSION III


15.00 Nicola Carotenuto, Scuola Normale SuperioreCrossing the Apennines: Tuscan networks in Fourteenth Century Venice.


15.30 Teresa Bernardi, Scuola Normale SuperioreIdentification practices and mobility within the Venetian urban space


16.00 Matthew Dudley, Yale UniversityApproaches to Mobility Control in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans


17.30 Discussant Andrea Caracausi, Università di Padova


17.45 Q&As


Dinner for invited guests


SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER


10.00 Welcome by Francesca TrivellatO, Yale University


SESSION IV


10.15 Ian Hathaway, Yale UniversityBefore the Passport: Travel and Identification Papers in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean


10.45 Luca Calzetta, Scuola Normale SuperioreDomenico da Gagliano and his Gagliana: a man in a foreign body


11.15 Discussant Carlo Taviani, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Deutsches Historisches Institute, Rome


11.30 Q&As


12.30 Lunch


SESSION V


14.00 Tommaso Stefini, Yale UniversityOnly Those who ‘Come, Do Business, and Go’ are my Privileged Foreigners: The Contested Legal and EconomicStatus of Venetians in Early-Seventeenth-Century Istanbul


14.30 Cristina Setti, Scuola Normale SuperioreAcross the boundaries of community and state: religious, ethnic and civic identities within the enquiries of the Sindici Inquisitori in Levante (16 th -17 th centuries)


15.00 Discussant Francisco Apellániz, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies


15:15 Q&As


16.15 Coffee break


SESSION VI


16.30 Victor Couto-Tiribás, Scuola Normale SuperioreA Transatlantic Livorno: the connections with Pernambuco in the Seventeenth-Century


17.00 Mallory Hope, Yale UniversityMarine Insurance in Eighteenth-Century Marseille


17.30 Discussant Regina Grafe, European University Institute


17.45 Q&As







Organizzazione

Stefania Pastore
Francesca Trivellato