Mardi 6 Octobre 2026
Salle IHMC
9:30–10 Introduction (Rahul Markovits & Tobias Graf)
10–11 Rahul Markovits (École normale supérieure / IHMC), Authenticating People, Authenticating Stories : Secretary-Interpreters and “Oriental” Passing Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Paris
11–12 Jean-François Chauvard (Université Paris 1 / IHMC), Identifying Individuals, Establishing the Facts : An Ecclesiastical Investigation into a Case of Bigamy (Venice, Late Sixteenth Century)
12–13 Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento), Policing Mobility and Identity in Early Modern Italy
Salle DSA Séminaire
14–15 Alexander Hilpert (Saarland University, Saarbrücken), The Forger Heinrich Schaeffer and His Alleged Travels : An Examination of Authentication Strategies in the Nineteenth Century
15–16 Pascal Firges (University of Basel), Exploiting the Prestige of Naturalists : The Media Phenomenon of Mr Spillard, the ‘Celebrated English Pedestrian Traveller
16–17 Philip Hahn (Saarland University, Saarbrücken), “True” and “Virtual” Identities in the Narratives of German Servants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Mercredi 7 Octobre 2026
Salle Klapisch-Zuber
10–11 Thomas Glesener (University of Aix-Marseille), Alms Collectors at Work : Revisiting Imposture among Eastern Christians in Eighteenth-Century Spain
11–12 Tobias P. Graf (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Keeping up with the Ḥubayshes : “Arabian Princes” in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Their Uncertain Identities
