Migration Patterns in Early Modern Italy - Roundtable

Описание: MAP FORUM - 30 January 2024

Migration Patterns in Early Modern Italy - a Roundtable by Erith Jaffe-Berg, Rosa M. Salzberg, and Katalin Prajda

Rosa M. Salzberg:
"Spaces and Infrastructures of Mobility and Migration in Early Modern Italy"
In this brief talk, I will discuss how I see a ‘mobilities’ approach influencing the study of early modern Italian migration, drawing our attention not just to settled 'minority' groups in particular places but also to more transitory, circular, seasonal forms of migration, to practices of moving and to the spaces associated with them. I will do this with reference to my own research on spaces and infrastructures of hospitality and control of migration, and interactions between migrants, travellers, and locals in early modern Venice and the wider Italian peninsula.

Erith Jaffe-Berg:
“Creative Mobilities in Early Modern Italy”
Early-Modernity was a period of a great deal of migration in the Italian peninsula. In this brief presentation, I will focus on how migration happened in ways that affected creative expression, and theatre/performance specifically. I will consider both the ways migration was reflected in theatre and performance work as well as how theatre makers, performers and actors were themselves migratory in a specifically heightened way in this period.

Katalin Prajda:
"Migration and Identity in Early Renaissance Italy"
In my talk I will address the question of the migrants’ identity in fifteenth-century Italy by drawing on specific examples discussed in my second monograph. These figures are often seen as cultural agents or mediators whose identity was naturally shaped by their mobility and by the multiple lords and authorities they served. Thus, their cases call attention to the pitfalls of creating a generalized image about cultural agents based solely on ethnic grounds or on geographical origins.