Ser Diáspora

08/02/2024

Hace unas semanas, LA2 ha transmitido un mini documental de 15 minutos en el que salgo entrevistado, junto con Houssem Eddine Chachia , y del que soy co-guionista, junto con unos queridos colegas de la UNED de Madrid, entre ellos Borja Franco. Medirme con los tiempos ajustadísimos de la televisión ha sido un desafío. He aquí el resultado. ¡Qué lo disfruten!


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFsXfu1GQn0

26/04/2022

CfP: Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450-1850).
Deadline: September 1, 2022.

The H2020 ITHACA project focuses on narratives of migration in both past and present, analysing them in a rigorous historical framework, through an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational approach. ITHACA aims to create a digital platform, that brings together migration narratives from the...

29/10/2021

Some pics of today's sessions. Amazing discussions, great guests!

29/10/2021

¡Buenos días!

En unos minutos empezará la segunda sesión del congreso. Todas aquellas personas que nos estén siguiendo vía online pueden dirigir preguntas a los ponentes a través del tablón de comentarios de este post. Sus preguntas serán leídas en los turnos de debate.

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28/10/2021

¡Recuerden! Mañana tendrán lugar las dos últimas sesiones del congreso. En la primera de ellas nos expondrán sus comunicaciones:

- 9:30h Maria Gloria Tumminelli
- 10:30h Bruno Pomara
- 10:30h Giampaolo Salice
- 11:30h Cesare Santus

En la última sesión, a partir de las 3.30 de la tarde, entrevistaremos a los autores de varios libros de reciente publicación sobre la temática de nuestro congreso. Terminaremos con la proyección del documental MEDROUTE:Tales from the ports, de Viviana Tagliaferri

Para acompañarnos solo deben conectarse a través del siguiente link: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

28/10/2021

¡Finalizada la sesión de hoy!

Os compartimos algunas fotos de la jornada de hoy en la que hemos tenido la oportunidad de escuchar a nuestros ponentes y dar pie a debates estimulantes

28/10/2021

The day has come!

Today is the first session of our congress "Mediterranean Diasporas" with the participation of:

- 16:20h Mathilde Monge
- 16:50h James Nelson Novoa
- 17:40h Luis Bernabé Pons
- 18:10h Houssem Eddine Chachia
- 18:40h José Francisco Cutillas Ferrer

We invite you to follow the conference through the URL: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

27/10/2021

Finally, it is time to introduce Bruno Pomara, PhD in Early Modern History (Universitat de València – Università degli studi della Repubblica di San Marino) and event organiser. He is currently leading the project Ser Diáspora. Dispersión, conexión e integración de algunas minorías en los espacios euromediterraneos (ss. XVI-XVII). Actually Professor at Universitat de València, he has been visiting scholar at Università La Sapienza Roma, Università Federico II Napoli, Université de Nantes, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. In 2011 he was awarded with the Young Researcher Prize by the FEHM (Fundación Española de Historia Moderna) and in 2016 with the Prize for the Religious History by the Istituto Sangalli. Over the last years, he focused on Mediterranean social history with a micro-global historiographical approach, differentiating his research interests and changing geographical contexts. Among his pubblications: Bandolerismo, violencia y justicia en la Sicilia barroca, Madrid, CSIC, 2012; Rifugiati. I moriscos e l’Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2017 (Spanish translation Granada, Comares, 2021); Impresiones diplomáticas. La revuelta de las Alpujarras vista por los embajadores venecianos, València, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2021. He co-edited the volume Identidades cuestionadas. Coexistencias y conflictos interreligiosos en el Mediterráneo (ss. XIV-XVII) (Valencia, PUV, 2016).

With regard to his book "Refugiados" he will be interviewed on 29 October at 17:30.
The same day, at 10:00 am, he will give a talk entitled “An attempt of an Albanian settlement in Venetian Istria”. His aim is to illustrate the steps, mechanisms and difficulties that lead to an attempt to settle Albanians, mainly from the surroundings of Bar, between the end of 1610 and 1612.

Listen to him through the URL: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

26/10/2021

Only two days left before the start of our Conference, we are pleased to announce Luis Bernabe Pons , member of the Ser Diaspora project and host of the meeting at the University of Alicante. Luis is Full Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Alicante. His main lines of research are focused on Arabic Literature, the influence of the Arab-Islamic element in Spanish literature and in the history and culture of Mudéjares and Moriscos. He is currently director of the Research Group in Arab and Islamic Studies "Sharq Al-Andalus" (University of Alicante) and is currently integrated in, in the International Project "Christian-Muslim relations. An Annotated Bibliography" (University of Birmingham), as well as in the Cost Action "Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)". He is director of the journal "Sharq Al-Andalus. Mudéjares y Moriscos". Visiting professor at the universities of La Manouba (Tunisia 2007), Alger (Alger 2009) and Madison (Wisconsin, USA, 2011, 2015), visiting researcher at the École des Hautes Études de Paris (France, 2010) and Norman McColl Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (Great Britain, 2011).

On 28 October at 17:40, Professor Bernabé will delight us with a communication entitled “Plunder and Moriscos. Or the benefits of the diaspora”. He will go into detail on how wealthy Moriscos who settled in North Africa maintained their capitals, or how they were incardinated in the economic relations promoted by the authorities. More specifically, he will focus on privateering and all the activities that take place around it.

To listen to him, simply connect to the URL: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

25/10/2021

Today we introduce one of the members of our project “Ser Diáspora”: Mathilde Monge . She is an Assistant Professor for Early Modern History at the University Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès and a part of the research team « FRAMESPA » in Toulouse. Monge is currently a co-editor of the journal "Diasporas: Circulations, migrations, histoire", and the coordinator of the research project SOLIDAMIN ("Communal Solidarities. Mutual aid networks of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish minorities and diasporas (17th-18th century"), funded by the ANR. She has worked extensively on Early Modern religious minorities and dissenters in Germany. Her research now focuses on Early Modern diasporas in a comparative perspective. With Natalia Muchnik, she authored and encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800 - L’Europe des Diasporas / Early Modern Diasporas. On 29 October at 15:30, they will be both interviewed about this book.

Moreover, on 28 October at 16:20 Mathilde Monge will present her communication entitled "Are minorities ideal settlers? North European and Mediterranean settling policies compared". The aim of her intervention will be to take some steps for a comparison between the colonisation policies of the Empires and States of Northern and Southern Europe with regard to their relationship with religious minorities and diasporas.

To listen to both her communication and her interview, please use the following URL: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

24/10/2021

It's time to introduce the researchers of our project "Ser Diáspora". James W. Nelson Novoa is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures/Medieval and Renaissance. He received his Ph.D in Spanish Philology from the University of Valencia in Spain in 2003, held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia of Portugal (2006-2010) and (2011-2014) and was a researcher in the European Research Council project Diaspora in Transition—Cultural and Religious Changes in Western Sephardic Communities in the Early Modern Period, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University. He is the author of the book Being the Nação in the Eternal City: Portuguese New Christian Lives in Sixteenth Century Rome, (2014), of over 30 peer-reviewed articles and of 25 book chapters. His areas of scholarly interest are Italo-Iberian cultural relations in the early modern period, early European interest in the Americas and the Portuguese New Christian diaspora in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

On 28 October at 16:50, Professor Novoa will disclose a communication entitled: “A Glimpse of the New Christian Nation in Seventeenth Century Rome”, in which he will consider its sociability, its patterns of demography and urban life to try to gauge if it indeed constituted a veritable community or lived as fully integrated into the existing Portuguese and Spanish communities and institutions.

Follow his talk live clicking the following URL: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975

23/10/2021

Giampaolo Salice, Research Fellow at the University of Cagliari worked as visiting fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS, London) at the University of Bristol, at the Centre for Hellenic Studies - King's College London and as visiting professor at the University of Barcelona. Giampaolo's research deals with the relationship between the diaspora and internal colonisation policies in the early modern Euro-Mediterranean area, the social and institutional history of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the digital and public history. He founded LUDICA, a digital humanities lab, and coordinates DH.UNICA.IT, a centre for digital humanities, both at the University of Cagliari. He is the author of the monograph "Colonizzazione sabauda e diaspora greca" (Settecittà, 2015), and edited the book "La terra ai forestieri" (Pacini 2019), which will be the subject of his interview next 29th October at 4 p.m.

In the same day, at 10:30 am, Giampaolo will discuss the Maniot migration: a phenomenon that took place from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, from Greece to Spain, from the Mediterranean to America. More specifically, he will focus on how this diasporic movement connected different displaced groups and triggered intense competition between diverse chancelleries interested in intercepting and exploiting the migration.

Listen to him through this streaming link: http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/254975