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Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries
Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010
Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries). -
Nice
Commis-voyageurs et représentants de commerce
Le colloque propose de réunir divers travaux permettant de mieux connaître les commis-voyageurs, figures méconnues de l’intermédiation marchande, qui jouèrent un rôle grandissant dans le grand commerce à partir du XVIIIe siècle. Il se fixe pour objectif de parvenir à une meilleure définition de cette fonction qui ne se limitait pas à la stricte représentation commerciale et pouvait également impliquer la gestion de litiges ou la consolidation (et l’élargissement) des réseaux marchands de la firme. Il entend également délimiter la chronologie de ce métier (apparition, généralisation, transformation en « représentant de commerce ») et identifier les secteurs économiques et les régions qui furent pionniers dans le recours aux commis-voyageurs. Ce faisant, il espère pouvoir contribuer aux débats en cours sur l’existence, ou pas, d’une « révolution technologique » dans le domaine du commerce à distance, au XIXe siècle. Plus généralement, le colloque s’inscrit dans une réflexion diachronique sur les formes de la mobilité marchande depuis le XVIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours, ne négligeant pas les stratégies actuellement mises en œuvre par les firmes commerciales pour gérer des marchés distants. -
Berlin
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008-2009
Daily Life in Ottoman Towns
What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies, with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
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