9:00-9:30
Arrival and Welcome

9:30-12:00
SESSION I: MIGRATION, ADAPTATION, INNOVATION

Felicia Gottmann (Northumbria University): Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500-1800: Project presentation and European context

Floris van Swet (Northumbria University): Migrants and Technology Transfer across East Asia, 1500-1800

Rémi Dewière (Northumbria): Behind diplomacy and technology lies a migrant. The impact of migrants’ experience in technological dialogue in the early modern Islamic World

Oliver Gunning (Northumbria University): The links between migration and industrialisation in early modern Britain, with a specific emphasis on the glassmaking sector.

12:00-13:00
Lunchbreak

13:00-14:30
SESSION II: EXPERIENCE IN THE PREMODERN SCIENCES

Tracy Wietecha: Knowledge Migration and a Failed Botany: the role of Non-Scientists in the Collection of American Botanical Specimens in the late Eighteenth Century

Katja Krause (MPIWG, Berlin): Premodern Experience in Translation, Transfer, or Migration? The Movement of Knowledge and Historiographical Metaphors

14:30-15:00
Coffee Break

15:00-17:00
SESSION III: KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

Chun Xu (MPIWG, Berlin): Seasonal Barbarian Migrants and Irrigation Maintenance in the Chengdu Plain, 1500-1800

Siyen Fei (University of Pennsylvania):Lost People on the Ming frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China

Qiao Yang (MPIWG, Berlin): Migration of People and Migration of Knowledge in Mongol Eurasia (13th-14th centuries).

17:00- 17:30
CONCLUDING COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION
Dagmar Schäfer