Digital Methods for the Study of Mobility. The Mediterranean and beyond
This event is funded by the France-Berkeley-Fund and is organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (Inalco, Paris)
Presentation of the scientific event
Mobility and migration have profoundly shaped the contemporary world, influencing human experiences, surveillance practices, and social imaginaries. People on the move have been systematically categorized, tracked, and registered by various institutions, generating vast amounts of data. Although these historical records vary significantly in their sharpness and detail concerning the individuals involved, they are often serial in nature. This seriality encourages historians to blend quantitative and qualitative data, a process that is facilitated but also complicated by a constantly evolving array of digital tools and methods.
Following a workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, in January 2024, this event at Inalco Paris will bring together scholars researching different mobility patterns to discuss the intersections between methodology and sources, concepts and categories, periodization and spatial perspectives. With a focus on the Aegean Sea within the broader Mediterranean region, the workshop aims to foster a dialogue with studies of various settings in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Program of the scientific event
June 25
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10:00-10:30 Welcome Note
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10:30 – 12:00 Panel 1: Comparative Perspectives
Mareike König (DHI Paris) : Mapping German Immigration to Paris in the 19th Century
Agustin Cosovschi (EFA, Athens) : Political Networks Across the Eastern Mediterranean: A Digital Approach to Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War
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13:30 – 15:00 Panel 2: Projects at INALCO and CETOBAC
Zeynep Ertuğrul (EHESS- HU Berlin) : Mobility of State Propagandists (“People’s Preachers”) in Early Republican Turkey
Andrea Gritti (EHESS) : The Transition in Land Tenure in Greek Macedonia Following the 1923 Population Exchange
Andreas Guidi (Inalco) : Mapping Mobility through Marriage Records in a Colonial Setting (Rhodes, 1912-1940)
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15:30 – 17:00 Panel 3: Projects at UC Berkeley
Hilal Tümer (UC Berkeley) : Aegean in Flux: Migration From the Morea to Anatolia During and After the Greek War of Independence
Christine Philliou, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş (UC Berkeley) and Jhon Botello Maldonado (Old Dominion University) : The “Istanpolis” Project and the Greek/Rum Community of Istanbul
June 26
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10:00 – 10:45 Peter Stockinger and Bastien Sepulveda (INALCO) : Introduction to LACAS, a Digital Platform for Area Studies
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11:00 – 13:00 Panel 4: Archives and Traces
Kalliopi Amygdalou (ELIAMEP Athens) : Mapping the spatial impact of the 1923 Population Exchange in Izmir and Attica provinces: the HOMEACROSS project
Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS - IHMC) : Greek Historical Archives of the Eastern Mediterranean (ELIAM): A digital repository in search of raison d’être
Organisation
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Andreas Guidi (CREE, Inalco)