Dr. Umberto Signori, HCMH post-doc and research fellow, will be giving a talk at the “Thinking the Mediterranean: Communities and Identities” hybrid workshop taking place in Athens on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

The workshop is organized and sponsored by COST Action 18140 – People in Motion (PIMo) and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

Umberto’s talk titled “Stories of Mobility, Stories of Belonging: In the Footsteps of Greek-speaking Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean” lays out how the early modern experience of mobility and belonging was represented in different ways by various narrators. Focusing on the interaction between the Venetian institutional reports about the migration of their Greek-speaking subjects in the Ottoman territories and the petitions of protection made by these migrants, I explore how Venetian authorities’ perspective about mobility had a strong influence on how temporary migrants explained their movement. In doing so, this paper contributes to making emerge the Greek-speaking migrants’ conception about their experiences of belonging and movement previously unknown for the early modern eastern Mediterranean, making their address to the identity issue more accessible.

Workshop’s poster
Workshop’s program