Virtual symposium hosted by the University of Manchester
Thursday 4 March 2021 – Saturday 6 March 2021
All times indicated are UK time (GMT)
Thursday 4 March 2021
16.00-16.15 Opening Remarks
Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso (University of Manchester)
16.15-17.15 Enslaved Mobilities
Bethan Fisk (University of Edinburgh) ‘“Considering himself free”: Inter-Imperial Mobilities and Religious Knowledge Circulation in the early eighteenth-century Caribbean’
Èrika Rincones (European University Institute), ‘Sequential Mobility: Merdia ben Hazman’s Case’
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30 Challenges of Assimilation
Cecilia Tarruell (Oriel College, University of Oxford), ‘Mobility and Religious Conversion in the Early Modern Iberian World: The Assimilation of Migrants from Islamic Lands’
Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester), ‘Creoligarchs: Being West Indian in Georgian London’
Friday 5 March 2021
16.00-17.00 Family and Mobility
Katherine Godfrey (Pennsylvania State University), ‘House of Trade: Mestizo Children, Merchant Networks, and Empire Building in Early Modern Colombia’
Jesse Cromwell (University of Mississippi), ‘Canarian Migration, Immigrant Uplift, and the Complications of Transatlantic Marriage in the Saga of Domingo Galdona’
17.00-17.15 Break
17.15-18.45 Royal Officials, High and Low
Nino Vallen (Freie Universität Berlin), ‘Ongoing Mobilities and the Deserving Self: The Case of Don Rodrigo de Vivero’
Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Universidad de los Andes), ‘Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera: An Official Serving across the Global Spanish Empire’
Víctor Gayol (El Colegio de Michoacán), ‘Movilidad, familia y redes de los oficiales del rey en el gobierno local’