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Arbel, Benjamin (Tel Aviv University) Wandering Jews and Winged Lions: Venetian Mediterranean Possessions as Havens for Jewish Refugees during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Ahrendt, Rebekah (University of California, Berkeley) (Re)building Huguenot Identity in La Bataille de Ramelie

Ambrose, Laura Williamson (Saint Mary’s College) Moved to Travel: Dislocation and Domestic Mobility in Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea

Balint, Emese (Eotvos Lorand University) The Dynamics of Hutterite Anabaptist Networks in Central Europe

Ben-Ari, Shosh (University of Haifa) Ibn Khaldun’s Doctrine on Emmigration and Deportation – a Classical Approach to a Timeless Issue

Ben-Aryeh, Nirit Debby (Ben Gurion University) Niccolo Guidalotto da Mondavio’s Panorama of Constantinople (1662):The Experience of an Exile

Berco, Cristian (Bishop’s University) Reading the Body: Migrants, Race, and Deviance in Early Modern Spain

Brizio, Elena (The Medici Archive Project, Florence) Keeping an Eye on Things at Home: The Case of the Lelio and Fausto Sozzini in Sixteenth-Century Siena

Cano-Echevarría, Berta (Universidad de Valladolid) & Ana Sáez (Universidad de Valladolid) Educating for Martyrdom: British Exiles in the English College at Valladolid

Catlos, Brian (University of Colorado Boulder / University of California Santa Cruz) The End of Convivencia? The Expulsion of Muslims from Latin Christendom

Cavanaugh, Stephanie (University of Toronto) Between conquest and expulsion: exiled Granadan Moriscos in Valladolid, 1571-1609

Chayes, Evelien (University of Cyprus) On the move between Hellenic and Italian Territories. Carriers of Texts and Ideas, ca. 1500-1635

Christman, Victoria (Luther College) Trade in Tolerance: The Portuguese New Christians of Antwerp, 1530-1550

Cohen, Judith (York University) “They Took Their Songs With Them” – The Sephardic Diaspora and Travelling Songs

Cooperman, Bernard (University of Maryland) Jewish Theology and the Perception of Exile

Corens, Liesbeth (University of Cambridge) Saints Beyond Borders: English Catholics in the Southern Netherlands (1660-1720)

Cunningham, John (Trinity College Dublin / University of Freiburg) Religion, Rebellion and Expulsion: Ireland and Bohemia in the Seventeenth Century

Díaz, Jorge (Universidad de Cantabria) Calvinist Discourses on Cannibalism in the Context of the French Religious Wars. Jean de Léry and the Cultural Exile of the Tupi

Emre, Side (Texas A & M University) An itinerant Sufi in the lands of sound and fury: The exiles of Ibrahim-i Gülşeni (d.1534 C.E.)

Espinosa, Ruben (University of Texas at El Paso) TBD

Fehler, Timothy (Furman University) Responses to Poverty in the Immigrant Communities during the Dutch Revolt of the 16th Century

Ferreira, Susannah Humble (University of Guelph) Jews, Weapons and Diplomacy in Portugal (1480-1500)

Fleck, Andrew (San Jose State University) The Brethren and the Family: Fluid Religious Identity on the London Comic Stage

Fornerod, Nicolas (Université de Genève) “A peine de cent qui sortent des couvens, les cinq reussissent à bien”: le refuge des hommes d’église catholiques à Genève entre XVIe et XVIIe siècle

Ghazali, Maria (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) Les antécédents de l’expulsion des Morisques d’Espane”Bonjour

Gibbons, Katy (University of Portsmouth) Exile, Family Identity and International Catholicism: Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Gómez-Rivas, Camilo (The American University in Cairo) Ransom and Refuge on the Iberian Frontier, 1085-1350

Goodman, Nan (University of Colorado Boulder) The Hebrew Republic and the Anglo-Mediterranean Re-admission of the Jews

Gourley, Brian (Independent Scholar) Rethinking Ideas of Exile in John Bale’s 1540s Writings

Griffin, Eric (Millsaps College) Exiles on Broad Street: The Dutch Church Libel, Elizabethan Drama, and the Stranger Crisis of the 1590s

Halavais, Mary (Sonoma State University California) In Defiance of Exile: Moriscos in Spain in the 1620s and Beyond

Herreros, Benita (Universidad de Cantabria) Exiled to their Own Lands: Early Modern Indigenous Dissidence and Jesuit Missions in South America

Holder, R. Ward (Saint Anselm College) Calvin and Religious Exile: Creating Theological Reality and Religious Identity

Holtz, Grégoire (University of Toronto) De l’exil à la publication: les Colloques des simples st drogues du médecin marrane Garcia da Orta (Goa, 1563)

Hughes, Peter (University of Toronto/ CRRS Fellow) The National and Religious Identities of a group of Exiles from Souther Europe in the Reformation

Hunt, John (University of Louisville) Gregorio Leti at the Crossroads: Religious Identity Between Italy and Northern Europe in Baroque Europe

Janssen, Geert (University of Oxford) Exile and the Emergence of Catholic Militancy in the Dutch Revolt

Kay, Peter Jankrift (Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte) Marranos at the Ottoman Court: Don Joseph Nasi and his Family

Kavaler, Ethan Matt (University of Toronto) Netherlandish Sculptors in Exile 1550-1600

Krstic, Tijana (Central European University) In Search of a “Morisco Community” in Ottoman Istanbul, 1610s-1640s

Labelle, Kathryn (The Ohio State University) My Heart is All Huron’: Huron-Wendat Identity Beyond The Dispersal of 1649

Lancaster, James (The Warburg Institute) Justus Lipsius and the Neo-Stoic Constantia for Exile

Lau, Thomas (Université de Fribourg) The Evil Nation: French Huguenots in Swiss Protestant Towns

Leaman, Hans (Yale University) Exile and Evangelical Identity in Late Sixteenth-Century Germany

Lightfoot, Dana Wessell (University of Northern British Columbia) & Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) Conversion and Migration: Christian and Jewish Women in Girona after the anti-Jewish Violence of 1391

Malieckal, Bindu (Saint Anselm College) Sephardic Jews as Refugees in Early Modern India: Garcia de Orta in Goa (1534-1568) and Moses Pereyra de Paiva in Cochin (1686-1687)

Mantecón, Tomás (Universidad de Cantabria) Religious Experiences, Migrations and the Construction of Identities in 17th-Century Europe

Martinat, Monica (Université de Lyon) Genevois à Lyon, Lyonnais à Genève : itinéraires de migrants et de convertis (XVIIe siècle)

Maziane, Leila (Université Hassan II Mohammedia Casablanca Maroc) Les Morisques et les transferts lingistiques au Maroc à l’époque moderne

Mitchell, Colin (Dalhousie University) Shi’ite Provincialism and Persianate Universalism: Émigré Iranian Scholar-
Bureaucrats and the Religio-Cultural Landscape in Mughal India

Moreil, Françoise (Université d’Avignon) Les réformés orangeois, exilés en Europe

Müller, Johannes (Leiden University) “Exilium fidei”: narrating confessional exile as an argumentative pattern in Netherlandish drama during the Dutch Revolt

Nadalo, Stéphanie (Northwestern University) Populating “Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, Etc”: Tuscan Immigration Policy and the Free Port of Livorno (1549-1676)

Nicolaou-Konnari, Angel (University of Cyprus) Migration of People and Ideas between Italy and Cyprus (Sixteenth – Early Seventeenth Centuries): the Case of the Nores Family

Niggemann, Ulrich (University of Marburg) The Huguenot Master Narrative and the Historiography of the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain

Novoa, James Nelson (Universidade de Lisboa) Rome as the Capital of the Portugese Converso Exiles 1532-1555

Osten-Sacken, Vera von der (Institute of European History, Mainz) Exul Christi: Expulsoin and Exile in Lutheranism Between 1548 and 1618: A Survey

Parker, Charles (Saint Louis University) Conversion and Culture in Asian Communities Under Dutch East India Company

Parker, Greig (University of Sheffield) Huguenot Refugee Identity and Domestic Material Culture

Parry, David (University of Toronto) Exile and Education in Comenius and Milton

Pastore, Alessandro (University of Verona) The Shaping of a Religious Migration: The Refugees from Valtellina after the Sacro Macello of 1620

Peter Rauscher (University of Vienna) Expulsion, Exile, and the Formation of the Habsburg confessional State in the ‘long’ 17th Century

Petrolini, Chiara (Istituto Nazionale Studi sul Rinascimento) Giovan Francesco Biondi and Antonio de Dominis in England

Pelegrin, Marta Albala (The Graduate Center (CUNY) Hispanic and Lusobrazilian literatures and languages) Sifting identities: renegades and “marranos” in Early Modern Rome

Pierno, Franco (University of Toronto) Jean Calvin et son influence sur les textes italiens imprimés à Genève pendant la deuxième moitié du 16e siècle

Pifer, Michael (University of Michigan) Speaking Strangeness: Exile and the Formation of Early Modern Persian and Armenian Selves

Ruiter, David (Univeristy of Texas at El Paso) TBD

Ray, Jonathan (Georgetown University) Chaos and Community: The Formation of the Sephardic Diaspora

Rey-Castelao, Ofelia (Université de Saint Jacques de Compostelle) La conversion au lieu d’une intégration au nord-ouest de l’Espagne (XVI-XVII siècles)

Santos, Kathryn Vomero (New York University) TBD

Serio, Alessandro The Roman Barons and the Exiles in Rome (15th – 16th Century)

Sliwka, Agnieszka (University of Toronto) Pompous Exiles: Satire and Identity in Amsterdam 1580-1620

Solfaroli Camillocci, Daniela (Université de Genève) “Cette ville est pleine comme un œuf“: accueil et exclusion des réfugiés à Genève dans le miroir de polémistes et voyageurs (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

Spohnholz, Jesse (Washington State University) The Other Face of Religious Refugees: Dutch Women Living in Germany and England, 1550-1600

Stuczynski, Claude (Bar-Ilan University) Early Modern Exiles, Expulsion, Conversions and Migrations and the Birth of Jewish ‘Catholical’ Political Theory

Suranyi, Anna ( Endicott College) Indentured Servitude, Transportation, and British Colonial Identity in the Atlantic

Tersigni, Elisa (University of Toronto) “She openeth her mouthe to wysdome and in her language is the lawe of grace”: Demonstrating Movement of Word and Text through The Examinations of Anne Askew

Tausiet, Maria (Spanish National Research Council) Free Spirits: Alumbradismo and Michael Servetus

Taviani, Carlo (Center for Italian-German Historical Studies ISIG-FBK, Trent) The Genoese Diaspora in Rome: Political Exiles and Merchants in the Early 16th Century – Panel title: Rome as the Center of Exiles ( Early 16th Century)

Titone, Fabrizio (Universidad del País Vasco) Politics of social control and exclusion in late medieval Sicily

Torres, Marina (Universidad de Cantabria) Swimming Against the Tide: The Entry of Jews in Spain and the Spanish Inquisition as an Exceptional Witness

Truchuelo, Susana (Universidad de Cantabria) Hérésie et commerce au nord de l’Espagne à l’époque moderne

Tsoumis, Karine (University of Toronto) Between Venice and Bergamo: Immigrant Painters and Artistic Exchanges in the Venetian Republic

Unger, Daniel (Ben-Gurion University) The Beautiful Women of the East: Faith, Seduction and a Crusade in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata

Urbánek, Vladimir (Czech Academy of Sciences) Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: The Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and their Self Presentation

Vitkus, Dan TBA

Waardt, Hans de (VU University in Amsterdam) Justus Velsius Haganus: a prophetical professor rambling on

Waite, Gary (University of New Brunswick) Conversos and Spiritualists in Spain and the Netherlands: the Experience of Inner Exile, c.1540-1620