Academia Europaea Annual Conference - Programme of the History and archaeolgy section#

Migrant Knowledge: Building bridges between worlds#

The Migrant Knowledge History & Archaeology Section workshop addresses, in historical terms, the social, material and intellectual impacts of the flows of knowledge that accompanied massive migratory processes. The aim is to discuss the transformations brought about by knowledge transfers. Social and cultural practices, ecological alterations, and the transformations in material culture derived from the performance of multi gender, multi-religious and multi-ethnic ac-tors at various points in time, as did practical knowledge, science and technology. All these are some of the topics to be discussed in this workshop.

At all times in History, knowledge production, circulation and consumption contributed deci-sively to essential changes in the existing social and economic organisation around different worlds. The production and circulation of knowledge are linked to the establishment of communication pro-cesses that often-involved coercion and social, economic, or racial inequality. With this in mind, we welcome papers addressing how the circulation of knowledge impacted upon, and was in turn transformed by, the construction of global connections. The performance of actors "on the margins" of the systems, traditionally overlooked and prone to oblivion by historiographic practices will also be in the focus of this workshop.

The workshop takes place on 9th of October 2023.

14.00 – Opening address: Knowledge – what’s in a concept?
Amélia Polónia, H&A Section Chairperson

14.10 – 14.30 – Moving stones or imagining borders in the most western seaboard of Europe: mi-grating objects, knowledge and people.
Luiz Oosterbeek, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar

14.30 – 14.50 – Transfer of knowledge and mobility of Muslims in the medieval Christian Iberian Peninsula.
Ana Echevarria, UNED Madrid, MAE.

14.50 – 15.10 - Women as go-betweens in processes of transference of knowledge – a way to overcome asymmetric relations of power in colonial contexts?
Amélia Polónia, University of Porto

15.10 – 15.30 – Enforced exchanges: migrants and prisoners in the Central Asian Borderlands.
Lisa Helmann, Lund University and at The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies

15.30 – 16.00 – General Discussion

16.00 – 17.00 – Section meeting: the H&A Section near future – knowledge sharing and multidisci-plinary dialogues. Some thoughts