Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean: 1530-1810
Barbary Coast Captivity Narratives
16 - 18 June 2016
Claudiana (Herzog Friedrich Straße 3)
University of Innsbruck, Austria, Europe
Program
Thursday, 16 June 2016
08:00 Registration desk opens
09:00-09:30 Opening Remarks
Tilmann Märk - Rector, University of Innsbruck
Sebastian Donat - Dean, Faculty of Humanities (Language and Literature),
University of Innsbruck
Mario Klarer - Head of the American Studies Department
09:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture I
Nabil Matar (University of Minnesota): “Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Seventeenth-Century Malta”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Keynote Lecture II
Christine Sears (University of Alabama, Huntsville): “‘Arab Speculators’ and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Western Sahara”
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Parallel Workshop Panels 1
Workshop A: The Northern European Perspective (Chair: M. Ressel)
Joachim Östlund (Lund University): “Slave Trade and Slave Labour at the Swedish Consulates in North Africa: A Study into the Networks of Slavery and the Use of Unfree Africans and Europeans 1730-1850”
Þorsteinn Helgason (University of Iceland): “The Extreme Point: The Turkish Raid in Iceland 1627”
Adam Nichols (University of Maryland): “Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, a Man of His Times”
Workshop B: The American Perspective (Chair: E. Furlanetto)
Nikoletta Papadopoulou (University of Cyprus): “Conversion and Integration: National Anxieties in American Barbary Captivity Narratives”
Tobias Auböck (Universität Innsbruck): “Easier Imagined than Described: Femininity and Fictionality in American Barbary Coast Captivity Narratives”
Zsolt Palotás (University of Szeged): “Welcomed Visitor or/and Political Pest of Society?: The Mission of the Tunisian Envoy from Barbary to the United States (1805–1806)”
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Keynote III
Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio): “A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its Author”
19:00 Conference Dinner, Weinhaus Happ (registration required)
Friday, 17 June 2016
10:00-12:00 Workshop Panel 2
Processing Captivity (Chair: L. Kattenberg)
Michael Gordon (University of North Carolina, Wilmington): “Spanish cautivo Literature and the Return of the Jew to the Iberian Peninsula”
Marcus Hartner (Bielefeld University): “Rereading Captivity: Hybrid Genres and Narrative Experimentation in Early Modern Captivity Narratives”
Giulia Bonazza (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales): “The Color of the Skin in Mediterranean Slave Exchanges: Palermo, Livorno, Algiers and Tunis”
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Keynote IV
Daniel J. Vitkus (University of California, San Diego): “From Ransoming Captives to Human Trafficking: English Texts, Commercial Transformation, and Barbary Captivity in the Early Modern Period”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Parallel Workshop Panels 3
Workshop A: Negotiating Identity (Chair: G. Bonazza)
Stefanie Fricke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "Renegades between Christian 'Self' and Muslim 'Other': The Captivity Narratives of Joseph Pitts and Thomas Pellow"
Robert Spindler (Universität Innsbruck): “Identity Crisis: Returning from the Barbary Coast”
Salvatore Bono (Università degli Studi di Perugia): “L’esclave religieux di Antoine Quartier (Tripoli, 1660-1668), come fonte storica” (Presentation will be held in Italian!)
Workshop B: Orientalism and the Orient (Chair: R. Rebitsch)
Anna Diamantouli (King's College): “Beyond Orientalism: Re-Reading American Barbary Captivity Narratives”
Abdelmjid Kettioui (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University): “Islam’s Blonde Conquests on the Barbary Coast: Geopolitics, Faith and Sexuality in Elizabeth Marsh’s The Female Captive (1769)”
Ernstpeter Ruhe (Universität Würzburg): “Images from the Dey’s Court: The Artist as Slave in Algiers” (Presentation will be held in German, English translations will be distributed!)
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-18:30 Keynote V
George A. Starr (University of California, Berkeley): “Barbary Slavery and Robinson Crusoe”
19:00 Buffet, Galerie Claudiana
Saturday, 18 June 2016
10:30-12:00 Parallel Workshop Panels 4
Workshop A: Captivity and Life Stories (Chair: M. Gordon)
Robert Rebitsch (Universität Innsbruck): “Michael Heberer as Prisoner in the Ottoman Navy”
Christine Isom-Verhaaren (Brigham Young University): “Captivity Tales and the Captive Admiral, Venedikli Hasan”
Peter Mark (Wesleyan University): “Ahmed Al-Mansur and Antonio de Saldanha: The Muslim Ruler as Enlightened Despot”
Workshop B: Images of Slavery (Chair: J. Östlund)
Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam): “Muslims, Morality and Commercial Success: The Captivity Narrative of Emanuel d’Aranda, 1640-1682”
Magnus Ressel (Historisches Kolleg München): “Putting Christian Slavery into Perspective. On Johann Frisch's Schauplatz barbarischer Schlaverey (1666)”
Sebastian Zylinski (Universität Gießen): “Gotha and Its Lost Seamen – The Image of Slavery in Central Germany in the First Half of the 18th Century”
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Keynote VI
Wolfgang Kaiser (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne): “Persuasion and Plausibility. Narrative Elements in the Ransoming Process”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Keynote VII
Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky): “Émile in Chains: A New Perspective on Rousseau and Slavery”
16:30-17:00 Closing Remarks
All keynote lectures take place in the Claudiasaal.
Workshops A take place in the Claudiasaal, workshops B in the Türingsaal.
All talks are open to the public.
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