Name: (Un)Freedom in Global Perspective. Actors – Perceptions – Agencies
Start: 2025-02-03T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-04T16:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Innsbruck

(Un)Freedom in Global Perspective. Actors – Perceptions – Agencies

from Monday, 3 February 2025 (08:30) to Tuesday, 4 February 2025 (16:00)

Monday, 3 February 2025

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Welcome Address - Dirk Rupnow (University of Innsbruck)
Welcome Address
- Dirk Rupnow (University of Innsbruck)
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Opening Remarks - Florian Ambach (University of Innsbruck) Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck)
Opening Remarks
- Florian Ambach (University of Innsbruck)
- Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck)
09:10 - 09:30
09:30 Panel 1: Mediterranean (Un)Freedom
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Coerced labour in the 16th-century galleys: Work, (un)freedom and mobility in the early modern Mediterranean - Teresa Peláez-Domínguez (University of Valencia)

10:00 Shipwrights in Shackles: Expertise and Captivity on the Early Modern Barbary Coast - A. Jorge Aguilera-López (University of Helsinki)

10:30 Dynamics of Slave Labor in the 19th Century in the Hinterland of Izmir - Bulut Firdevs (University of Izmir)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Panel 2: Imprisonment, Agency, and Escape
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 The ‘Taifa’ of the Turks and the Slave Merchants of Livorno. Agency, Labor, and Self-Ransom (17th–18th Centuries) - Samuele Virga (University of Verona)

12:00 „Like a Caged Bird“: Captivity and „Social Coma“ in 17th-Century Siberia - Chechesh Kudachinova (University of Berlin)

12:30 „Devil, I have to get out!“ Strategies of escaping imprisonment and negotiations of (un)freedom in 18th-century Vienna and Upper Austria - Teresa Petrik (Institut für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Panel 3: Materialities
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 The Technology of Captivity: Collars, Chains, and Counterinsurgency - Joseph L. Yannielli (University of Birmingham)

14:30 The Slave Pass: A Cultural History - Susanna Asthon (University of Clemson)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Panel 4: (Un)Freedom in the Age of Abolition
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Speaking of Rebellion: Justifying Unfreedom in the Reestablishment of Slavery in Guadeloupe, 1801–1803 - Elyssa Gage (Wilkes-Barre)

16:00 Diasporic Agencies: „Time-Expired Coolies“, Negotiations and Mobilities in the Caribbean (1860–1882) - Elena Barattini (University of Turin)

16:30 She „bought negroes from jail“: White Women and the Afterlives of Slavery - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (University of Berkeley)
17:00 Break
Break
17:00 - 17:15
17:15 Keynote
17:15 - 18:15
Contributions

17:15 Global histories of slavery and the self-representations of slaves - Michael Zeuske (Bonn/Cologne)
18:15 Dinner
Dinner
18:15 - 19:15
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
09:00 Panel 5: (Un)Freedom and Labour in Colonial Contexts
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Colonial Labor, (Un)Freedom, and Agency in Early Modern Spanish America - Martin Gabriel (University of Klagenfurt)

09:30 Voluntary Unfreedom for Freedom‘s Sake. German(-speaking) engagés and the French Colonial Projects in Louisiana (1720) and Guiana (1763) - Lara-Marie Frick (Heidelberg/Paris)

10:00 The Unfree population of Macau in its Parish Registers - Philipp Huber (Amsterdam/Nijmegen)

10:30 Indentured Migration in the Pacific Ocean World: Global Politics and Individual Agency, ca. 1860–1900 - Julian zur Lage (University of Hamburg)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Panel 6: (Un)Freedom, Gender, and Family
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Agency and Representation of Enslaved Women in the Capuchin Hospice of Kimbangu, Kingdom of Kongo (1701) - Johannes Gradel (University of Tübinge)

12:00 Agents of Change: Slaves in the Family Setting of Early Modern Crimean Khanate - Turkana Allahverdiyeva (University of Bonn)

12:30 Enslaved women and the body as resistance at the Cape Colony - Benjamin Crous (Stellenbosch) Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Panel 7: Transatlantic Reflections of (Un)Freedom and Resistance
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Ports to (Un)Freedom. Capuchin Missionaries in West Central African Hubs of the Slave Trade - Florian Ambach (University of Innsbruck)

14:30 Black Unfreedom, Marronage, and Customary Rights in the Slave Society of Early New Orleans - Yevan Terrien (University of Lafayette)

15:00 Maritime bondage: The dual role of slavery and the fighting for freedom on board the slave ships - Diego Schibelinski (University of Bonn)
15:30 Closing Remarks - Elena Taddei Florian Ambach (University of Innsbruck)
Closing Remarks
- Elena Taddei
- Florian Ambach (University of Innsbruck)
15:30 - 16:00

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