Conference Work Group 4
Crossings: Human Mobilities and Their Consequences Across the Mediterranean, 1400-2022
Rabat, 24 May – 26 May 2022
NIMAR, Netherlands Institute Morocco

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Convenors: 
Cátia Antunes (Leiden University), Léon Buskens (NIMAR), Nadia Bouras (Leiden
University)

Monday the 22nd of May

9.00-9.30: Opening Summer School – Keynote by Léon Buskens
9.30: Division in Group A and Group B

Group A:
9:30-11.00: Committee Meeting – Selection of grant proposals and selection for
interviews. The committee selects 2 applicants for interview.
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break – Common to both groups
11.20-12.20: Prepare and Conduct Interviews
12.20-12.20: Decision Making – Final selection of 1 applicant.

Group B:
9:30-9.50: On Public History – Keynote by Nadia Bouras
9.50-10.40: Public History Workshop: pitches (5 min) from Public History Trainers
• David do Paço: podcasts
• Katrina O’Loughlin: story-telling and life stories
• Rémi Dewière: value of ‘wording’, ‘imaging’ and materiality
• Tsolin Nalbantian: existentializing mobilities

10:40-11:00: On Public History – Keynote by Rajae el Morabet Belhaj
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break – Common to both groups
11.20-12.20: Observing Group A Interviews and Decision Making Process
12.40-14.00: Lunch
14:00-15:45: Roundtables – Content discussion of papers in 4 groups (schedule to be
announced on May 12)
15:45-16.00: Coffee Break
16:00-17.00: Roundtables
17:30 -19:30: Drinks – Dutch Embassy Rabat (voluntary)

Tuesday the 23rd of May
9.00-9.30: On African History of Mobilities in the Mediterranean – Keynote: Rémi Dewière
9.30: Division in Group A and Group B

Group B:
9:30-11.00: Committee meeting – Selection of grant proposals and selection for
interviews. The committee selects 2 applicants for interview.
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break – Common to both groups.
11.20-12.20: Prepare and Conduct Interviews
12.20-12.40: Decision Making – Final selection of 1 applicant.

Group A:
9:30-9.50: On Public History – Keynote by Nadia Bouras
9.50-10.40: Public History Workshop: pitches (5 min) from Public History Trainers:
• David do Paço: podcasts
• Katrina O’Loughlin: story-telling and life stories
• Rémi Dewière: value of ‘wording’ and ‘imaging’
• Tsolin Nalbantian: existentializing mobilities

10:40-11:00: On Public History – Keynote by Rajae el Morabet Belhaj
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break – Common to both groups
11.20-12.40: Observing Group B Interviews and Decision Making Process
12.40-14.00: Lunch

14:00- 14:40: Keynote by Cátia Antunes on peer review, grant applications and
transferable skills for non-academic labour market.
14.40-15.30: Reflection and feedback on application process with trainees
15.45-17.00: Public history Work-Meeting – Division in working groups, definition of
trainees and trainer and collection of data for final output.
17.30: Drinks and Dinner in Town (voluntary)

Wednesday the 24th of May
9.00-12.00: Tour of Salé
12.00-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.00: Start of Conference (NIMAR):
Welcome remarks: Cátia Antunes and Giovanni Tarantino
Keynotes: Amade M’Charek (University of Amsterdam)
Discussants: Zakaria Rhani (Université Mohammed V) and Nadia
Khrouz (Université Internatioale de Rabat – UIR)

15.00-17.00: Migration and Trafficking (subsequent 15 minute presentations, 45
minutes of discussion)
• Yousra Kadi – Travelling to ‘The Country of Disbelief’: An AngloMoroccan Migrant Heritage.
• Ioannis Limnios Sekeris – Assisted Migration or Remunerating Crossings? The case of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration during the first post-WWII decades.
• Jamel Bukhari – From Gay Liberation to Homonationalism- Positioning Queer Black Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Netherlands
• Astrid Bodini – Local Histories, Identities and Mobilization Strategies: a Study on Moroccan Youth Migration and Protest Aspirations
• Mohammed Ouhemmou: The Moroccan Migration Policy in a Shifting Geopolitical Context

17.00-17.20: Coffee Break

17.20-19.00: Summer School – Public history workgroups: development of final
product in groups.

Thursday the 25th of May
9.00-11.00: Conflict and Institutions
• David Do Paço: “Code is law”? Metaverses as Digital Free-ports, 18thCentury Trieste, and Urban-Organized Trans-Imperial Societies
• Rémi Dewière: Power and trans-Saharan connexions in the Arma Pachalik of Timbuktu (1591-1750)
• Giorgio Ennas and Emily Malara Consuelo: The Expansion of Ottoman Communities and Diplomatic-Consular Network in the Italian Peninsula in the Second Half of the 19th Century
• Abid Fatimaezzahra: Critical Theories in Motion: the 2011 Arab Spring and Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of Social Change in a Modern Arab-Muslim Context.
• Zineb Gormat: Migration and Education: The Case of Integrating SubSaharan African Immigrants’ Children into Public Schools in Rabat. A Qualitative Study.

11.00-11.15: Coffee Break

11.15-13.15: Travellers
• Katrina O’Loughlin: Little barks on the vast ocean’: Eliza Fay’s journeys to India.
• Marek M. Dziekan: Ali Ibn Salim al-Wardani (1861-1905) and his ArRihla al-Andalusiyya [“Andalusian Journey”]
• Talha Unlu: From Iberian Peninsula to the Ottoman Lands: The Activities of the Hamon Family in the Ottoman Palace (15th-16th Centuries)
• Joanna Musiatewicz: What should we emulate and what should we shun?: The Image of Europe in the Two Travelogues by Jurji Zaydan

13.15-14.30: Lunch

14.30-17:00: Culture and Religion
• Loubna Ou-Salah: ‘It won’t affect us as long as God is with us’: A Case Study on Faith Experience and Environmental Change Perceptions in a Muslim Community in the Souss-Massa Region of Morocco
• Elisa Barbero Valderrama: Translating Mediterranean Christianity: Legal, Cultural and Religious Sources for a Spanish Version of the Egyptian Coptic Personal Status Law
• Domna Iordanidou: Italian Jews in the Ottoman Salonica and Beyond: The Allatini Family
• Muberra Kapusuz: The Rise of Mavrocordatos Family and Their Transimperial Mission as Transmitters of Knowledge (1641-1730)
• Farah Bazzi: In Need of Settlers with Ecological Capital: Morisco Plantations and Agriculture in Ottoman Tunisia
• Lena Richter: Leaving Islam, leaving Morocco? – Nonreligious mobilities across the Mediterranean

17.00-17.15: Coffee Break
17.15-19.00: Summer School – Public history workgroups and finalizing groups
outputs

Friday the 26th of May
9.00-11.00: Identities
• José Alberto Tavim: The Networks of the Morocco Iberian Jews and the Conversos (16th-17th centuries)
• Catherine Therrien and Catherine Phipps: Social Perception of Mixedness in Morocco from the Early-20th century to the Present: How Marriage Migration Across the Mediterranean Draws and Challenges Lines of Difference
• Massimo Bomboni: The Parable of the Lus. Identity Problems, Rivalries and Trade of a Merchant Family in the Early Modern Mediterranean
• Achille Marotta: Contesting Conversion: Enslaved Muslims’ Opposition to Christianity in Early Modern Italy
• Maria Gabriella Sava: The Algeria of Vincenzo Calza, the first papal Consul General in Algiers (1847)

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-13.00: Public History Presentations – Group 1
13.00-14.30: Lunch

14.30-16.30: Memory and Heritage
• Marcia Esparza: Representations of Moroccan Soldiers in the Military Museum in Mallorca: The Invisibility of Colonial Soldiers
• Hayat Zerouali: Amazigh Cultural Heritage from the Rif, Orality and Reconfiguration Perspectives
• Marie Aminata Perron: Bodies in discipline, Bodies in revolt: The case of undocumented migrants’ activism in the Parisian Centres de Rétention Administrative
• Sara Bolghiran: Muslim Futurism: Politics of Memory in the Transnational Social Imaginaries of an Islamic Utopia
• Inass Essrhir: Pathways to Hybridity in Paul Bowles’ Translation of Moroccan Stories in the Interzone

16.30-16.45: Coffee Break
17.00-18.00: Public History Presentations – Group 2

18.15-18.30: Viviana Tagliaferri: Public History – the ITHACA/FIVIBET Examples –Food for Inspiration
18:30 End Conference and Summer School