Forged identities and illicit mobilities in the Mediterranean (1850s-1960s)

Programme

Thursday, 15 October

17.00-17.30 | Welcome

17.30-19.00 | Panel 1

Chair : Daniela Luigia Caglioti (SSM/Federico II)

The God of Small Wars : Al-Jack Farghal family and the traffic in arms and identities in 20th century Beirut

Ayşe Polat (University of Oxford)

Who is illegal ? Passports, identities and strategies of Syrian-Lebanese migrants between Beirut and Marseille (1880–1914)

Céline Regnard (Aix Marseille University)

Of notebooks, nicknames, and networks. Trafficking and prostitution in interwar global France

Sarah Frenking (Geneva University)

19.30-21.00 | Dinner

Biancomangiare, Vico San Nicola Alla Carita 13

Friday, 16 October

9.00-10.30 | Panel 2

Chair : Niccolo Pianciola (University of Padova)

Stealing away from identity : Lebanese mobilities and the business of trans-Mediterranean migration, c.1890-1914

Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)

Gatekeepers of the border : accusations, surveillance, and the creation of ‘illicit’ migration between Palestine and Syria

Lauren Banko (Carnegie Mellon University)

Gun Traders and Their Reputation : A Case Study of Alexandre Kliaguine (1910s–1940s)

Pierre Salmon (École Normale Supérieure)

10.30-11.00 | Coffee break

11.00-13.00 | Panel 3

Chair : Nir Shafir (UCSD)

Gender, Class, Mobility and Fascist Moral Regulation in the Italian community of Egypt

Francesca Biancani (Bologna University)

Greek Shipping, Diaspora, and Illicit Networks from the Mediterranean to Wartime China, 1906-1953

Yorgos Moraitis (University of Crete)

The Criminalization and Deportation of Migrant Labor : Identity and Clandestine Mobility in Interwar Alexandria

Nefertiti Takla (Georgetown University)

Illicit Returns, Armenian Americans and the Limits of Imperial Citizenship

İlkay Yılmaz (Frei University Berlin)

13.00-15.00 | Lunch (on site)

15.00-17.00 | Panel 4

Chair : Lea Nocera (Orientale)

Name, nationality, destination…and owner : changing ship identities and clandestine mobility from Europe to Palestine, 1941-1948

Andreas Guidi (Inalco)

The ‘Refugitives’ : The Clandestine Return of Post-Ottoman Exiles to Republican Istanbul, 1923-30”.

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

Variations on the theme of fake : concealment, adulteration and forged identities in Interwar drug trafficking

Kostis Gotsinas (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

Exile, smuggling, and the remaking of revolutionary worlds in the western Mediterranean after 1848

Daniel Banks (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)