Early Modern Migrations Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees, 1400‐1700 Preliminary Program Thursday 19 April 6:00 – 7:00 Registration and Welcome Reception (Old Victoria College, Foyer) 7:00 – 8:00 Concert (Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall) A Kingly Entertainment in a Forraine Climate: Music for Voice, Violin Band and Lute by John Dowland, Thomas Simpson and Members of Elizabeth I's Dance Band. Musicians in Ordinary perform music by and from the repertoire of musical exiles and migrants to and from England Friday 20 April 8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast (Old Victoria College, Foyer) 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome (Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall) 9:30 – 11:00 Session I 1. Strategies of Self‐Identification Chair: Gary Waite (University of New Brunswick) Tomás Mantecón (Universidad de Cantabria) Religious Experiences, Migrations and the Construction of Identities in 17th‐Century Europe Agnieszka Sliwka (University of New Brunswick) Between Displacement and Belonging: “Merry Companies” in Haarlem and Amsterdam c. 1580s‐1620s Kathryn Labelle (Ohio State University) “My Heart is All Huron”: Huron‐Wendat Identity beyond the Dispersal of 1649 2. Bodies in Flux: Blood, Race, Gender Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto) Cristian Berco (Bishop’s University) Reading the Body: Migrants, Race, and Deviance in Early Modern Spain Fabrizio Titone (Universidad del País Vasco) Politics of Social Control and Exclusion in Late Medieval Sicily Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University) The Other Face of Religious Refugees: Dutch Women Living in Germany and England, 1550‐1600 1 3. Persecution and Migration Chair: Greta Kroeker (University of Waterloo) Jonathan Ray (Georgetown University) Chaos and Community: The Formation of the Sephardic Diaspora Alessandro Pastore (University of Verona) The Shaping of a Religious Migration: The Refugees from Valtellina after the Sacro Macello of 1620 Berta Cano‐Echevarría and Ana Sáez (Universidad de Valladolid) Educating for Martyrdom: British Exiles in the English College at Valladolid 11:00 – 11:15 Break 11:15 – 1:00 Session II 4. Shakespeare and Immigration Chair: Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto) Ruben Espinosa (University of Texas, El Paso) Fluellen's Foreign Influence and the Ill Neighborhood of Shakespeare's Henry V David Ruiter (University of Texas at El Paso) “Now shall you see the other”: Hamlet and Hospitality Kathryn Vomero Santos (New York University) Hosting Language: Immigration and Translation in The Merry Wives of Windsor 5. Staying Behind: Strategies of Belonging Chair: Mark Meyerson (University of Toronto) Susannah Humble Ferreira (University of Guelph) Jews, Weapons and Diplomacy in Portugal (1480‐1500) Marina Torres (Universidad de Cantabria) Swimming against the Tide: The Entry of Jews in Spain and the Spanish Inquisition as an Exceptional Witness Victoria Christman (Luther College) Trade in Tolerance: The Portuguese New Christians of Antwerp, 1530‐1550 Mary Halavais (Sonoma State University California; Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP ) In Defiance of Exile: Moriscos in Spain in the 1620s and Beyond 6. Exile Destinations Chair: Megan Armstrong (McMaster University) Bindu Malieckal (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) Marta Albala Pelegrin (CUNY Graduate Center Hispanic & Lusobrazilian Literatures & Languages) Sifting Identities: Renegades and marranos in Early Modern Rome Françoise Moreil (Université d’Avignon) Les réformés orangeois, exilés en Europe Peter Jankrift Kay (Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte) 2 Marranos at the Ottoman Court: Don Joseph Nasi and his Family 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch (Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall) 2:00 – 3:15 Session III – Plenary (Old Victoria College, Victoria Chapel) Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University) Trade, Migration, and Conversion: “A Christian Turn'd Turk” and Anglo‐Islamic Exchange in the Early Modern Mediterranean 3:15 – 3:30 Break 3:30 – 5:30 Session IV 7. Social and Economic Consequences of Exile Chair: Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) Timothy Fehler (Furman University) Responses to Poverty in the Immigrant Communities during the Dutch Revolt of the 16th Century Benjamin Arbel (Tel Aviv University) Wandering Jews in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Patterns of Migration in an Age of Expulsions Camillo Gómez‐Rivas (American University in Cairo; Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP) Ransom and Refuge on the Iberian Frontier, 1085‐1350 8. Identity and Motivations for Exile Chair: Katie Larson (University of Toronto) Brian Alvars Catlos (University of Colorado, Boulder; University of California, Santa Cruz; Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP) The End of Convivencia? The Expulsion of Muslims from Latin Christendom Thomas Lau (Université de Fribourg) The Evil Nation: French Huguenots in Swiss Protestant Towns Peter Hughes (University of Toronto; CRRS Fellow) The National and Religious Identities of a Group of Exiles from Southern Europe in the Reformation 9. Shifting Dynamics in a Refugee City Chair: Gregoire Holtz (University of Toronto) Nicolas Fornerod (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 Monica Martinat (Université de Lyon) Genevois à Lyon, Lyonnais à Genève: itinéraires de migrants et de convertis (XVIIe siècle) Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci (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) 10. Networks in Exile 3 Chair: Elizabeth Cohen (York University) Emese Balint (Eotvos Lorand University) The Dynamics of Hutterite Anabaptist Networks in Central Europe Vladimir Urbánek (Czech Academy of Sciences) Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: The Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and their Self Presentation Liesbeth Corens (University of Cambridge) Saints Beyond Borders: English Catholics in the Southern Netherlands (1660‐1720) James Nelson Novoa (Universidad de Lisboa) Rome as the Capital of the Portugese Converso Exiles 1532‐1555 5:30 – 8:00 Break 8:00 Dramatic Presentation The Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies & Poculi Ludique Societas present A Christian Turn’d Turk Robert Daborne 8pm Studio Theatre – University of Toronto 4 Glen Morris Street Saturday 21 April 8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast (Old Victoria College, Foyer) 9:00 – 10:30 Session V 11. Shuffling the Deck: Reconceptualizing Community in Exile Chair: Franco Pierno (University of Toronto) Carlo Taviani (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) Bernard Dov Cooperman (University of Maryland) Jewish Theology and the Perception of Exile 12. Family Networks – Not Leaving Things Behind Chair: Amyrose McCue Gill (CRRS) 4 Elena Brizio (The Medici Archive Project, Florence) Keeping an Eye on Things at Home: The Case of the Lelio and Fausto Sozzini in 16th‐Century Siena Evelien Chayes (University of Cyprus) On the Move between Hellenic and Italian Territories: Carriers of Texts and Ideas c. 1500‐1635 Dana Wessell Lightfoot (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 13. Identity: Tradition and Revolution Chair: Andreas Motsch (University of Toronto) Claude Stuczynski (Bar‐Ilan University) Early Modern Exiles, Expulsion, Conversions and Migrations, and the Birth of Jewish ‘Catholical’ Political Theory R. Ward Holder (Saint Anselm College) Calvin and Religious Exile: Creating Theological Reality and Religious Identity Katy Gibbons (University of Portsmouth) Exile, Family Identity and International Catholicism: Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland 14. Toleration and/or Conceptualizing a New Order Chair: Barbara Todd (University of Toronto) Chiara Petrolini (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento) Giovan Francesco Biondi and Antonio de Dominis in England Nan Goodman (University of Colorado, Boulder; Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP) The Hebrew Republic and the Anglo‐Mediterranean Re‐admission of the Jews David Parry (University of Toronto) Exile and Education in Comenius and Milton 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 12:15 Session VI 15. Music and Exile Identity Chair: William R. Bowen (University of Toronto) Rebekah Ahrendt (University of California, Berkeley) (Re)building Huguenot Identity in La Bataille de Ramelie Judith Cohen (York University) “They Took Their Songs With Them”: The Sephardic Diaspora and Travelling Songs Musicians in Ordinary (University of Toronto) A Comment on A Kingly Entertainment 16. New Directions in Early Modern Migration, Exile, and Conversion: Moving Beyond "A Christian Turn’d Turk" Roundtable Discussion 5 Natalie Zemon Davis, Noam Lior, Ken Mills, Marjorie Rubright, Dan Vitkus 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (Old Victoria College, Foyer) 1:30 – 2:45 Session VII 17. Minds on the Move Chair: Lucia Dacome (University of Toronto) Brian Gourley (Independent Scholar) Rethinking Ideas of Exile in John Bale’s 1540s Writings Side Emre (Texas A & M University) An Itinerant Sufi in the Lands of Sound and Fury: The Exiles of Ibrahim‐i Gülşeni (d.1534 C.E.) Grégoire Holtz (University of Toronto) De l’exil à la publication: les Colloques des simples et drogues