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TIDE is pleased to invite you to its first seminar of 2019 at the University of Liverpool's campus in London on the theme of ‘Migrants and Pirates'. Join us to hear William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge) speak on ‘soul-selling’ traffickers who recruited and escorted migrants, and Oliver Finnegan (Prize Papers Project, Carl von Ossietzky University) on the many different understandings of piracy that existed in England across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
TIDE | Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550-1700 - Seminar
The University of Liverpool in London
33, Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AG
25 March 2019, 16:30
Migrants and Pirates
William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge)
‘“Selling Souls”: Migrant Recruiters, Traffickers and the Trade in Strangers in Europe and America in the 17th and 18th centuries’
Oliver Finnegan (Prize Papers Project, Carl von Ossietzky University)
'Conceptions of Piracy in Early Modern England’
Organiser TIDE: Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550-1700
Organiser of TIDE: SEMINAR
TIDE is a 5-year European Research Council funded project (2016-2021) that aims to investigate how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity based on cultural identification and difference.
The role of those marked by transcultural mobility was central to this period. Trade, diplomacy and politics, religious schisms, shifts in legal systems, all attempted to control and formalise the identity of such figures. Our current world is all too familiar with the concepts that surfaced or evolved as a result: foreigners, strangers, aliens, converts, exiles, or even translators, ambassadors and go-betweens.
By examining how different discourses tackled the fraught question of human identity in this era, TIDE will open a new perspective on cross-cultural encounters. This project will consolidate our fragmented understanding of transculturality and the idea of ‘betweenness’ in the early modern period, which continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary world.
