MoHu Seminar - People Node | Seminar Series 2020/2021
Online seminars
Dal 21.10.2020 al 09.06.2021
Mobility and the Humanities Seminar Series 2020/2021 | People Node
Convenors: Marco Bertilorenzi, Margherita Cisani, Chiara Rabbiosi
The seminar series will be delivered online via Zoom at: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/87485020208
Programme:
Wednesday October 21, 2020, h. 16.30 – 18.30
Moving people in the past: the driving forces and lasting effects of mobility in the premodern Mediterranean
Edward M. Schoolman (University of Nevada, Reno), Climate, Migration, and Environmental Change in Medieval Italy (600-1200)
Benoît Maréchaux (University of Padua), Exploring forced mobility before the sovereign state: Genoese galley entrepreneurs, convict flows and agency in the Mediterranean world (1550-1650).
Wednesday February 17, 2021, h. 16.30 – 18.30
Colonial and Postcolonial Citizenship
Nicola Camilleri (University of Padua) Colonial Subjecthood, Race and Local Agency during Italian rule in the Horn of Africa
Daniela Giudici (University of Trento) Dutiful Asylum Seekers. Welfare decline and Postcolonial Hospitality in Italy.
Wednesday March 17 2021, h. 11.00 – 13.00
The power of immobility in 16th and 17th century China: Li Rihua, Zhu Zongyuan and their global entanglements
Dominic Sachsenmanier (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled. A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Jianwen Hu (University of Padua), Li Rihua, his life, thoughts and contact with Jesuits
Friday May 28, 2021, h. 15.00 - 16.00
Social mobility goes on holiday: Tourism im|mobilities, conflicts and empowerment
Diane P. Koenker (University College London), Pleasure Travel in the Passport State
Wednesday June 9, 2021, h. 16.30 - 18.30
Migration and tourism: Un/controlled intersections
Christoph Kalter (Universitetet i Agder), The World in Lisbon. (Post-)Imperialism, Migration, and Tourism
Prosper Wanner (Université de Paris), The social construction of the hospitality sector and the limits to the right to move
