Thursday / Giovedì 01.12.2022

09.00–09.20: Francesca Brunet (Bozen-Bolzano), Greetings and Opening / Saluti e apertura

Panel 1: Subversives, revolutionaries, political exiles / Eversivi, rivoluzionari, esuli politici
Chair: Oswald Überegger (Bozen-Bolzano)

09.20–10.00: Sydney Watts (Richmond), Troubles in the French Borderlands: Policing Secret Agents during the French Revolution

10.00–10.40: Emilio Scaramuzza (Milano), Risorsa, minaccia o solo un problema di polizia? Gli esuli veneti in Lombardia dopo Villafranca

10.40–11.10: Francesca Frisone (Messina), La costruzione del nemico nell’Italia liberale (1862-1892): la sorveglianza degli stranieri nelle provincie meridionali

11.10–11.40: Coffee break / Pausa caffè

Panel 2: Bandits / Banditi
Chair: Oswald Überegger (Bozen-Bolzano)

11.40–12.20: Idamaria Fusco (Roma), Confini “fragili” e attraversamenti illeciti nell’Abruzzo della seconda metà del Seicento. Il banditismo tra strategie e controllo

12.20–13.00: İbrahim Hamaloğlu (Izmir), “Consider these mountains as a real impassable border and never come here again”. A Big Problem Between the Authority and the Local People: Banditry in the Mountains of Izmir at the 19th Century

13.00–14.40: Lunch break / Pausa pranzo

Panel 3: Clandestinians, deserters, vagrants, undesirables / Clandestini, disertori, vagabondi, indesiderati
Chair: Siglinde Clementi (Bozen-Bolzano)

14.40–15.20: Alexandr Osipian (Berlin), How could children and women cross the borders illegally in early modern Eastern Europe: practices and strategies

15.20–16.10: Laura Di Fiore (Napoli), Spaces of security, geographies of perception, illicit movements. On the border of Southern Italy (1815–1861)

16.10–16.40: Torsten Feys (Oostende), The illusion of border control? Monitoring foreigners in Belgium and preventing the entry and stay of undesirables 1830–1914

16.40–17.10: Coffee break / Pausa caffè

17.10–17.50: Serhiy Choliy (Kyiv), The deserters from the Habsburgs’ army in Russia 1868–1914: the mechanisms for lawful and unlawful border crossing in East-Central Europe of 19th century

17.50–18.30: Francesca Brunet (Bozen-Bolzano), “Amico del povero, nemico del vagabondo!”. Vagabondaggio e trasporti forzati ai confini dell’impero austriaco

Friday / Venerdì 02.12.2022

Panel 4: Coasts, seas, ports / Coste, mari, porti
Chair: Michaela Oberhuber (Bozen-Bolzano)

09.00–09.40: Mario Sanseverino (San Marino), Fughe di schiavi e attraversamenti illeciti nel Mediterraneo moderno

09.40–10.20: Hannes Ziegler, Temporary instruments of government: Agents of coastal enforcement in eighteenth-century Britain

10.20–11.00: Lucia Carminati (Oslo), Illegal and Invisible along the Suez Canal, 1859-1900: Border-Crossing and the Redefinition of Mobility

11.00–11.30: Coffee break / Pausa caffè

Panel 5: City boundaries / I confini della città
Chair: Michaela Oberhuber (Bozen-Bolzano)

11.30–12.10: Francesca Ferrando (Genova-Verona), Confini e povertà. Funzionamento e limiti del controllo del pauperismo nella Repubblica di Genova (XVI-XVIII)

12.10–12.50: Anton Tantner (Wien), Control and protest while entering Vienna, 1700–1900

12.50–14.40: Lunch break / Pausa pranzo

Panel 6: Sanitary borders / Confini sanitari
Chair: Franziska Cont (Bozen-Bolzano)

14.40–15.20: Livio Antonielli (Milano), La gestione dei confini sanitari nello Stato di Milano (XVII-XVIII sec.)

15.20–16.00: Sven Dittmar (Mainz), Disease control in the early 18th century and (its) limits

16.00–16.40: Francesco Bartolini (Macerata), Sorvegliare i confini sanitari nello Stato pontificio della Restaurazione

16.40–17.10: Coffee break / Pausa caffè

Panel 7: Porous borders / Confini porosi
Chair: Franziska Cont (Bozen-Bolzano)

17.10–17.50: Ralph Göring (Halle-Wittenberg), Borderlands Agents - British Intervention in the Northwest Indian War (1783–1795)

17.50–18.30: Narcisse Kaze (Yaoundé), Border transgression among pre-colonial Cameroon Grassfields states, ca. 1800–1884

Saturday / Sabato 03.12.2022

Panel 8: Goods and animals / Merci e animali
Chair: Francesca Brunet (Bozen-Bolzano)

09.00–09.40: Claudio Lorenzini (Mendrisio), “Per haver più fresco pascolo”. Gli attraversamenti illeciti degli animali negli alpeggi del Canal del Ferro e della Valcanale in età moderna

09.40–10.10: Maximilian Scholler (Regensburg), Goods at the Border. The Holy Roman Empire’s Trade Barrier against France in 1689 and its Consequences

10.10–10.40: Coffee break / Pausa caffè

Panel 9: Knowledge / Saperi
Chair: Francesca Brunet (Bozen-Bolzano)

10.40–11.20: Simona Feci (Palermo), Esportare saperi occulti. Ricette, commerci e uso di veleni tra reti femminili e reti conventuali in età moderna (XVII secolo)

11.20–12.00: Mario Grassi (San Marino), “Prestar le loro opere in stati allieni”. Confini, genere e know-how nella messa a punto della trattura alla piemontese

12.00–12.20: Siglinde Clementi (Bozen-Bolzano), Conclusions / Conclusioni

12.20–13.00: Final discussion / Discussione finale