Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Univ. of Münster; Centre for Empire Studies: (Post)colonial Histories and Global Entanglements (Web)
Time: 12.02.2025
Venue: Univ. of Münster
Registration by: 15.01.2025
The Workshop enquires about the colonial categorization of the mestizo (métis, mesties, meticcio, mestiço) in imperial figurations worldwide. Colonial legal and social categorizations had significant impacts on those categorized, as they determined their rights and obligations in society. At the same time, they reveal much about the colonizers‘ worldview and their notions of order. To some extent, they persist to this day. The Workshop will both discuss a project in progress in Münster and feature talks by invited scholars from France, Italy, and Germany. Fellow scholars and students are invited to join.
Programme (PDF)
- Welcome and Introduction
- The Project: General Introduction: Sarah Albiez-Wieck and Daniel R. Bonenkamp (Univ. Münster)
- Part 1: Origin and Transimperial Actors by Niccolò Pelosato (Leiden Univ./Univ. Münster)
- Part 2: Law and Practice by Daniëlle de Kurver (Leiden Univ./Univ. Münster)
- Part 3: Migration and Belonging by David Hellmann (Univ. Münster)
- The gender of mestizaje in Latin American and Caribbean societies (16th-20th centuries): Capucine Boidin (l’Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Mixed Meanings: the construction of the category of “mesties” across the eighteenth-century Dutch empire: Sophie Rose (Univ. of Tübingen)
- The uses of the terms „métis“ (mestizo) and „mulâtre“ (mulatto) in the French colonies from 1635 to 1848: Fréderic Régent (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- On the edge of citizenship. For a history of the meticci in Italian colonialism: Nicola Camilleri (Maynooth Univ.)
- Mixedness in the Red Sea: Cross-Cultural Dynamics and the Policies of Classification: Valentina Fusari (Univ. di Torino)
- Comment by Christoph Lorke (Univ. Münster/LWL-Institut für Regionalgeschichte)
Source: HSozKult