WEDNESDAY, 12 September 2012
12:00–12:30 pm: Juliane Schiel (Zurich), Stefan Hanß (Berlin)
Welcome and Introduction
Section I: Discourses and Social Practices
Moderation: Valentin Groebner (Lucerne)
12:30–1:30 pm: Jeffrey Fynn-Paul (Brussels)
Renaissance Slavery in the Mediterranean: The Contours of its Rise and Decline in Southern Europe, and its Relationship with Slavery in the Islamic World
1:30–2:30 pm: Steven A. Epstein (Kansas)
Explicit and Implicit Ideologies of Slavery in Premodern Italy
2:30–3:00 pm: Coffee Break
3:00–4:00 pm: William G. Clarence-Smith (London)
Islamic Debates about the Legitimacy of Slavery: Medieval and Early Modern
4:00–4:30 pm: Coffee Break
4:30–5:30 pm: Hayri Gökşin Özkoray (Paris)
Une culture de la résistance? Stratégies et moyens d’émancipation des esclaves dans l’Empire ottoman au XVIe siècle
5:30–6:30 pm: Metin Kunt (Istanbul)
Ottoman White Eunuchs as Palace Officials and Statesmen, 1450-1600
THURSDAY, 13 September 2012
Section II: Economic and Military Entanglements
Moderation: Michael Jucker (Lucerne)
9:00–10:00 am: Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris)
Un monde de servitudes. Captifs et esclaves en Méditerranée à l’époque moderne
10:00–10:30 am: Coffee Break
10:30–11:30 am: Andrea Pelizza (Venice)
Una confraternita veneziana “per il riscatto degli schiavi” (1604-1797)
11:30–12:30 pm: Stefan Hanß (Berlin)
Sklaven aus der Seeschlacht von Lepanto. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte versklavter Muslime im Rom des 16. Jahrhunderts
12:30 am–2:00 pm: Lunch
Moderation: Aurelia Martín Casares (Granada)
2:00–3:00 pm: Robert C. Davis (Ohio)
Christian Slavery in Morocco During the Reign of Moulay Ismaïl Ibn Sharif (1672-1727): The Building of the Royal Palace at Meknes
3:00–4:00 pm: Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich)
Slaves in the Court of Üsküdar, mid- to late 1500s
4:00–4:30 pm: Coffee Break
4:30–5:30 pm: Claudia Ulbrich (Berlin)
Sklavereidiskurse in der Aegyptiaca Servitus des Michael Heberer von Bretten
5:30–6:30 pm: Neven Budak (Zagreb)
Renaissance Slavery in Croatia/Dalmatia: Trade, Demography, Ideology
FRIDAY, 14 September 2012
Section III: Society, Family and Gender
Moderation: Simon Teuscher (Zurich)
9:00–10:00 am: Sally McKee (Davis, California)
The Relevance of Sexual Service to the History of Pre-Modern Slavery
10:00–11:00 am: Eric R. Dursteler (Provo, Utah)
Slavery and Sexual Peril in the Early Modern Mediterranean
11:00–11:30 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am–12:30 pm: Maria P. Pedani (Venice)
Venetian Slaves in the Ottoman Empire (15th–16th Centuries)
12:30–2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00–3:00 pm: Juliane Schiel (Zurich)
Mord von zarter Hand: Kriminalitätsdelikte von Sklavinnen in Venedig
3:00–4:00 pm: Debra Blumenthal (Santa Barbara, California)
Albert de Pont contra Catalina: A Child Custody Dispute Between a Genoese Merchant and his Former Slave Woman
4:00–4:30 pm: Coffee Break
Section IV: Cultural Interconnectivities
Moderation: Christoph Cluse (Trier)
4:30–5:30 pm: Michael Toch (Jerusalem)
Was There a Jewish Slave Trade in the Early and High Middle Ages?
5:30–6:30 pm: Mathieu Arnoux (Paris)
Une abolition oubliée? Fin de l’esclavage et naissance d’un ordre du travail en Europe non méditerranéenne (XI-XIVe siècle)
SATURDAY, 15 September 2012
9:00–10:00 am: Salvatore Bono (Perugia)
Schiavi europei, ottomano-maghrebini, neri e altri nel mondo mediterraneo: un confronto (xvi-xix secolo)
10:00–11:00 am: James Amelang (Madrid)
Writing Chains: Slave Ego-Documents from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
11:00–11:30 pm: Coffee Break
11:30 am–12:30 pm: Sven Trakulhun (Zurich)
Europäische und südostasiatische Sklaverei im Vergleich
12:30–1:30 pm: Ludolf Kuchenbuch (Hagen), Nicolas Vatin (Paris)
Summary and Conclusion
1:30–2:30 pm: Lunch