BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:This talk by Daniel Hershenzon\, associate professor in the Dep artment of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages at the University of Conn ecticut\, explores the entangled experience of Muslim and Christian captive s and by extension the connected histories of the Spanish Empire\, Morocco\ , and Ottoman Algiers in the 17th-century. It argues that piracy\, captivit y\, and redemption shaped the Mediterranean as an integrated region—at the social\, political\, and economic levels. The history that emerges of the c aptivities of Christians and of Muslims is both local and Mediterranean. It offers a analysis of competing Spanish\, Algerian\, and Moroccan imperial projects intended to shape Mediterranean mobility structures. Simultaneousl y\, the project reveals the tragic upending of the lives of individuals by these imperial maritime political agendas. Reconstructing the webs that lin ked captives\, captors\, masters\, kin\, and rulers\, we can see both the p olitical economy of ransom and the processes by which these actors sought t o shape it. These multiple cross-maritime interactions do more than counter an image of a declining 17th-century Mediterranean dissolving into nation- states. They force us to rethink early modern Europe and its Others and to question how transnational maritime networks shaped seemingly European terr itorial identities. \n\nDaniel Hershenzon is the author of The Captive Sea : Slavery\, Communication\, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Medi terranean (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). Hershenzon has publish ed articles inPast and Present\, Journal of Early Modern History\, African Economic History\, Philological Encounters\, and in edited volumes. Hershen zon focuses on the history of early modern Spain and the Mediterranean\, th e relations between the Spanish Monarchy\, Ottoman Algiers\, and Morocco\, slavery and captivity\, religion\, and material culture. He has held fellow ships from the SSRC\, Mellon Foundation\, NEH\, RSA\, APS\, the Humanities Institutes at the University of Michigan and at the University Connecticut\ , and the European University Institute in Florence. \n\nSponsored by the d epartments of Spanish\, history\, and religion. Free and open to the public . DTEND:20190302T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T001340Z DTSTART:20190302T010000Z GEO:45.480972;-122.630792 LOCATION:Eliot Hall\, 314 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Captivated by the Mediterranean: Early Modern Spain and the Politic al Economy of Ransom UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_4313741 URL:https://events.reed.edu/event/captivated_by_the_mediterranean_early_mod ern_spain_and_the_political_economy_of_ransom END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR