Thursday, 19 October 2023
09:00
Opening – Christof Dejung (Universität Bern)
09:10
Introduction – Agnes Gehbald / Philipp Horn / Rea Vogt (Universität Bern)
09:30–12:15
Panel I: Repeated Crossings and Temporary Stays: Beyond a Linear Understanding of Labour Migration in the Atlantic World
Chair: Manon-Julie Borel (Social Anthropology, Universität Bern)
09:30
Patrick Romuald Jie Jie (Université de Bertoua ENS): Temporary Migration of Baptist Missionary Workers from Jamaica to Cameroon (1841–1886)
10:15
Coffee break
10:45
Annemarie Steidl (Universität Wien): Return to Europe: Transatlantic Temporary Movements from the Habsburg Empire to the United States of America, 1890s to 1914
11:30
Agnes Gehbald (Universität Bern): Earning and Returning: Migrant Statistics in the Americas, 1857–1911
14:00–16:45
Panel II: Between Hinge Joints and Conflict Zones: Atlantic Spaces of Labour Migration
Chair: Laura Rowitz (Middle Eastern Studies, Universität Bern)
14:00
Giota Tourgeli (Panteion University, Athens): Greek Ports and the Commerce of Transatlantic Movement
14:45
Philipp Horn (Universität Bern): A Lawyer from Cotonou, a Doctor in Bamako, and the Job at the Edge of the World: Labour Migration and Black Solidarity in the French Speaking Atlantic around 1900
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Darold Cuba (University of Cambridge): Labour Migration & Crisis of Identities in the Colonized Trans-Atlantic World: Freedmen, Africans, Europeans & Temporary Immigrants – (Post?) Colonial Tensions of Racialized Migrations and Socio-Economic Constructs
Friday, 20 October 2023
09:15–12:00
Panel III: Business People on the Move: Workers, Goods, and Capital across the Atlantic
Chair: Derya Bozat (Eastern European History, Universität Bern)
09:15
William Blakemore Lyon (Universität Zürich): Before Ponzi, There was Zarossi: The Origins of the Modern Racket via Italian Migrants in Colonial Namibia and Canada
10:00
Stacy D. Fahrenthold (UC Davis): Fase Siria: The Improvised Syrian American Textile Industry on Madeira Island
10:45
Coffee break
11:15
Rea Vogt (Universität Bern): “An Emigration of Going and Coming”: Transatlantic Trajectories of Lebanese Yerba Mate Merchants, 1910–1950
14:00–16:45
Panel IV: Mobile Memories: Narratives of Migration and Transgenerational Crossings in the Atlantic
Chair: Elize Mazadiego (World Art History, Universität Bern)
14:00
Willy Didié Foga Konefon (University of Douala): Rereading the History of Africa across the Atlantic: From Forced Migrations to the Ideas of Emancipation and Autonomy of the Black World Africa
14:45
Coffee break
15:15
Stefano Gallo (ISMed / CNR Naples): The Production of a Narrative of Migration: The “Golondrinas” between Italy and Argentina
16:00
Julia Harnoncourt (University of Luxembourg): Transgenerational Atlantic Crossings: Labour Migration from Brazil in the Beginning of 20th Century
16:45
Coffee break
17:00
Closing Remarks & Final Discussion – Agnes Gehbald / Philipp Horn / Rea Vogt