Pirates, corsairs, filibusters, privateers, and Watergeuzen from antiquity to contemporary times.
10 March 2023
(All times are Central European times/Warsaw, Budapest, Sophia)
Welcome and Introduction. 10:00-10:10
Session 1. 10:10 – 11:30
Naseem Ashiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Organised Crime in Early Modern India.
Sandip Munshi (Queen’s University, Canada) The Pirates, People, and the Bay: An Overview of the 16th Century Portuguese Piracy in the Bay of Bengal.
Wim De Winter (KU Leuven, Belgium) Pirates, Renegades, and Apostates: Pirate Identities and Solidarity in the 16th & 17th-century Spanish Colonial Pacific.
Session 2. 11:40 -13:00
Saim Anıl Karzek (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) Rise of the Corsair: Examining the Power Dynamics between Hayreddin Barbarossa and the Ottoman Imperial Structure in the Early Modern Period.
Edite Martins Alberto (CHAM / NOVA FCSH, Portugal) "There ́s Moor on the coast!" Privateers’ attacks on the Portuguese maritime coastline in early modern times.
Jakub Basista (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) The Fate of Barbary Pirates’ Captives according to four seventeenth century printed accounts.
BREAK 13:00-14:00
Session 3. 14:00-15:20
Caroline Marris (Columbia University, USA) Watergeuzen and Malouins: Resistance and State-Formation on Water in Late Sixteenth-Century Europe.
Roberto Barazzutti (Administrateur à la SFHM, France) Privateers in documents of their enemies: Dutch and Zeeland privateers in French documents between 1672-1713.
Krzysztof Kuczyński (Warsaw University, Poland), Augustus the Strong’s privateer squadron in 1700-01. War or politics?
Session 4. 15:30-16:50
András Lénárt (University of Szeged, Hungary) The Inter-American Way of Piracy: Filibusters in Central America and the Caribbean.
Leonor Taiano (Carson-Newman University, USA) Piracy, Captivity and Redemption in ‘Infortunios’ de Alonso Ramírez.
Jesse Russell (Georgia Southwestern State University, USA) Edmund Spenser and the Problem of Pirate Imperialism.
Session 5. 17:00-18:00
Tymoteusz Lis (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), Victual Brothers – pirates of the Baltic Sea. History and appearance in pop culture.
Tyler Rodriguez (Independent Researcher, Ohio, USA) There's Been Many a Bonny Lass: The Visual and Identity History of Anne Bonny.
End of conference 18:00