Rethinking property. Decentralized histories of land tenure (16th – 19th centuries)

09:00 – 09:30 – Registration | Organizing Committee
09:00 – 10:30 – Welcome | Prof. Giovanna Spatari, Rector of the University of Messina and Prof.
Alessio Lo Giudice, Dean of the Law Department of the University of Messina
10:00 – 10:30 – Opening Remarks | Scientific Committee

First Session | Signorial Regimes of Ownership | 10:30 – 12:00

Chair Alessio Lo Giudice, Università degli Studi di Messina.
Raffaele Volante – Università degli Studi di Padova | Feudal Disputes During Spanish Rule
in Northern Italy and the Persistence of the Ius commune Land Tenure System
Sarah Limão Papa – Leibniz Universität Hannover | On Servitude of People and Land:
Legal Customs, Land Rights, and Obligations in Portuguese America
Edson de Brito – Leibniz Universität Hannover | Morgadios and Capelas in Cape
Verde: An Analysis of Institutional Adaptation in a Slave Society

12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

Second Session | Negotiating Land | 14:00 – 16:30

Chair Antonio Cappuccio, Università degli Studi di Messina.
Manuel Bastias Saavedra – Leibniz Universität Hannover | Subaltern Normativities.
Custom, Rituals, and Tradition on the Chilean Frontier (Valdivia, 1750-1800)
Giacomo Pace Gravina – Università degli Studi di Messina | Emphyteusis: the Enigma
of Dominium in the Sicilian Experience

15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break

Chair Roger Lee de Jesus, Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Gianfranco Stanco – Università degli Studi LUM Giuseppe Degennaro, Bari | Systems of
‘Belonging’ in the Kingdom of Naples in the Modern Age
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán – Leibniz Universität Hannover | InterPre(sen)ting the Past(Fut)ures:
Modern Readings of Medieval and Early Modern Inter-Valley Agreements in the
Pyrenees (1744-1924)

Third Session |Governing Collectivity | 09:30 – 10:30

Chair Raffaele Volante, Università degli Studi di Padova.
Camilla de Freitas – Leibniz Universität Hannover | The Concordia of 1663 and the
Construction of a Memory for the Mancomunidad de Aralar-Enirio (Gipuzkoa,
Spain)
Federico Roggero – Università degli Studi ‘La Sapienza’, Roma | Private Property and
Forestry Legislation From the Kingdom of Naples to the Kingdom of Italy (18th-20th
centuries)

10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break

Fourth Session | Making Territory | 11:00 – 12:30

Chair Íñigo Ena Sanjuán, Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Paolo Passaniti – Università degli Studi di Siena | Land Ownership and the Practice of
Agriculture in the State of the Presidi
Alina Rodríguez – Leibniz Universität Hannover | The “Conciertos” Between Pueblos de
Indios in Sixteenth-century New Spain: Actors, Contexts and Strategies
Roger Lee de Jesus – Leibniz Universität Hannover | “A privilege in the Language of the
Land”: Perceptions and Understandings of Land Access in 16th-century Goa

12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:10 | Alessandro Buono – Università di Pisa | Final Remarks