Thursday 25 April
2.00 Welcome
Julia Smith, and introductions by the delegations from Padova, Oxford and Berlin
2.30-4.00 Session 1
Marek Jankowiak: Slave trade and mobility in the early middle ages – the case of the Saqaliba
Cristina La Rocca: Forced mobility in the 6th century
Stefan Esders: Ethnic Legal Identity and Mobility in the Early Medieval West (5th-10th cent.)
4.00 Tea
4.30 Hans-Dieter Bienert: Funding possibilities at the DFG
Chaired by Martin Conway
5.00-6.00 Session Two
Vittoria Feola: The mobility of Paduans in Asia, 1550-1750
Marie Favereau: The Mongol Mobilities
7.00 Dinner at Balliol College
(Drinks at 7 p.m.; dinner at 7.30 p.m.)
Friday 26 April
9.00-10.30 Session Three
Ria Kapoor: “Unsuitable for Europeans”: Refugees in 1940s India
Alessandra Vigo: Mobility and resettlement: stories of Italians returning from Africa (1940s-1970s)
Jan Hansen: Migration and Infrastructure
10.30 Coffee
11.00-11.45 John-Paul Ghobrial
Keynote Lecture: In Search of Surprises: Human Mobility in Micro and Macro Perspectives
Chaired by Alexander Nuetzenadel
11.45-12.45 Session Four
Dexnell Peters: An Interconnected and Polyglot World: Trinidad and Demerara (Guyana) in the Revolutionary Era
Niccolò Caramel: The Tesini peddlers and the Remondini printers from Bassano: commercial relationships, trading expeditions and local repercussions (1685–1797)
1.00-2.00 Sandwich Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Five
Maya Petrovich: The Rumis: A forgotten military diaspora
Elena Canadelli: Mobilising Botanists: The Circulation of Photographic Portraits at the Padova Botanic Garden between the XIX and XX Century
Martin Lutz: The Economics of Communal Migration: Religious Incentives and Mutual Aid in Anabaptist Immigration to North America
3.30 Tea
4.00-5.00 Session Six
Vittoria Bufanio: Builder Workers Dynamics. Professional Networks and Political Dependency in 14th Century Piedmont
Luca Zenobi: Crossing the Frontiers of Renaissance Italy
5.00-5.45 Group Discussion: networking and mentoring
Led by Matteo Millan
7.30 Evening Meal at The Trout Inn, Godstow
Travel will be provided from central Oxford
Saturday 27 April
9.00-10.30 Session Seven
Cecilia Molesini: Forced Mobility. Letters of German expellees at the end of WWII
Vittoria Princi: The armée comes to town. Social aspects of military mobility in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805-1814)
Valeska Huber: From Migration to Multiple Mobilities: The Mediterranean as a Transit Space, 1900-1950
10.30 Coffee
11.45-12.00 Session Eight
Francesco Veronese: The Mobility of the (Special) Dead. Carolingian Narratives of Relics Transfers
Lidia Zanetti Domingues: Juvenal, George, Sergius: a Story of Saintly Human Mobility
12.00-1.00 Concluding reflections and next steps
Andrea Caracausi and Paul Nolte
1.00 Sandwich Lunch, and departure.
