DAY 1 - February 13
9h30 Registration opens
10h30 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
Opening Session and Welcome
Isabel Corrêa da Silva, Miguel Dantas da Cruz, Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro
11h-13h Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 1 : Petitionary Culture and Practice
Chair: Mafalda Soares da Cunha (CIDEHUS, Uni. de Évora)
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Carlos Garriga (Uni. de País Vasco)
Provisiones ordinarias. Agravios, peticiones y amparos en el México colonial
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Joris Van Den Tol (Leiden University)
The changing practice of signatures: Petition drives in the Dutch Atlantic, 1630-1800
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Oriol Luján (Uni. Complutense de Madrid)
Petitions in liberal Spain (1810-1843): The evolution of items and actors involved
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13h – 14.30 LUNCH
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Simultaneous sessions
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14h30-16h30 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 2: Brokers and institutions
Chair: António Hespanha (Uni. Nova de Lisboa)
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Joris Oddens (Leiden University)
The Scribe as Gatekeeper. Access to Petitioning in the Netherlands from the Dutch Republic to the Revolution
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Álvaro Caso Bello (Johns Hopkins University)
The ‘Agentes del Número de Indias’: oOfficial Representatives for Colonial Spanish American Petitioning in Madrid during the Age of Revolutions, c. 1776-1808
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Carla Almeida (Uni. Federal de Juiz de Fora)
As câmaras das Minas e suas petições às instâncias centrais da monarquia portuguesa
Andrea Slemian (Uni. Federal de São Paulo)
Os Tribunais da Relação na América e o amparo dos direitos (c.1750-1808)
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14h30-16h30 Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 3: Petitions and race in Brazil
Chair: João Fragoso (Uni. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Luiz Geraldo Silva e Priscila de Lima Souza (Uni. Federal do Paraná)
Petições de escravos africanos e afrodescendentes da América portuguesa. Leis pombalinas, faina marítima e campo de tensões (1761-1810)
Adriana Barreto (Uni. Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro)
Ser oficial pardo: a luta por direitos em petições ao príncipe (Rio de Janeiro e Salvador, 1796-1804)
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Mariana Dantas (Ohio University)
Petitioning through Irmandades: urban development and civic engagement in colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil
Adriana Campos e Kátia Sausen da Mota (Uni. Federal do Espírito Santo)
Do estado antigo da escravidão ao estado de cidadão: direito, escravidão e liberdade no alvorecer do Império do Brasil
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16h30 – 17h00 COFFEE BREAK
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Simultaneous sessions
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17h00-18h30 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 4: Subaltern voices in European colonies
Chair: Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais)
Amy Turner Bushnell (Brown Uni.)
The Refugee Pueblo: Asylum and the Law of Towns in and beyond the Provinces of Florida
Larissa Kopytoff (Uni. of South Florida)
“We are all French”: citizenship, race, and religion in petitions from Senegal, 1789-1848
Aaron Graham (Uni. College London)
Contest and conformity: the potential of the petition in Jamaica in the Age of Revolutions
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17h00-18h30 Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 5: Petitioning women in the Portuguese world
Chair: Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Lúcia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves (Uni. Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
“Requerimento, Razão e Justiça”: as petições do belo sexo na construção do Império do Brasil
Agata Bloch (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History)
What if the subalterns could speak? Listening to the Portuguese overseas voices through the petitions.
Ana Mafalda Pereira Lopes (ICS)
Petições femininas em Portugal no Antigo Regime
(c. 1760-c. 1820)
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DAY 2 – February 14
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Simultaneous sessions
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9h00-11h00 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 6: Petitions, status and dignity
Chair: José Damião Rodrigues (Faculdade de Letras, Uni. Lisboa)
João Fragoso (Uni. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Um foro de fidalgo cavaleiro e dois hábitos de christo...Comunicação política entre famílias da nobreza principal da terra e a coroa na América lusa (Rio de Janeiro, segunda metade do século XVIII)
Francisco Precioso Izquierdo (Uni. de Murcia)
Pedir nobleza, representar ser noble: discurso e ideal nobiliario en la España de finales del siglo XVIII
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Víctor García González (Uni. of Málaga)
Demanding justice to obtain dignity: petitions of Spanish military engineers and their families in the eighteenth century
Roraima Estaba Amaiz (Uni. Complutense de Madrid)
Ser tenidos por Pardos con distinción: Peticiones judiciales, negociación social y voz política de la élite de color mezclado en el Circuncaribe (1790-1821)
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9h00-11h00 Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 7: Limits of citizenship in a changing political landscape
Chair: Ricardo Roque (ICS)
Samantha Seeley (Uni. of Richmond)
Petitioning and the Right to Remain in the Early United States Republic
Mekala Audain (The College of New Jersey)
“Hardworking and Industrious Citizens”: Free Black American Immigration to Texas, 1822–1837
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Cody Nager (City Uni. of New York)
Petitioning for Naturalization in Early Republican New York
Federica Morelli (University of Turin)
The Free People of Color during the Age of Spanish American Revolutions
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11h – 11h30 COFFEE BREAK
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Simultaneous sessions
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11h30-13h30 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 8: Petitions and Governance in the Portuguese Empire
Chair: Jorge Pedreira (Uni. Nova de Lisboa)
Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Uni. Federal de Minas Gerais)
Petitions in the Brazilian Diamond Area (1788- 1820)
Iris Kantor (Uni. de São Paulo)
Cartografia como suporte das petições ou petições atlânticas em registros cartográficos (1749-1826)
Arthur Curvelo (ICS)
Árbitros do Rei na América: os governadores e a prática peticionária no Governo de Pernambuco (séculos XVII e XVIII)
Marieta Carvalho (Uni. Salgado de Oliveira)
Uma continuidade das práticas na Nova Lisboa: as petições como instrumento de acesso à administração joanina (1808-1821)
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11h30-13h30 Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 9: Pleas, Petitions, & Private Bills in the North American context
Chair: José Luís Cardoso (ICS)
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James Hrdlicka (Uni. of Pennsylvania)
Petitioning as State and Federal Constitution-Making: Revolutionary Massachusetts and the American Confederation
Maggie Mckinley (Uni. of Pennsylvania)
Equity & Lawmaking: Petitions and the Rule of Law in the Post-Revolutionary United States
Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Yale Uni.) and John Joseph Wallis (Uni. of Maryland)
From Special to General Laws: Understanding the Transformation in State Governments in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States
Gregory Mark (DePaul Uni.)
Petition and the Political Economy: The Economic Uses of Petition in the American Context
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13.30h – 15h00 LUNCH
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15h-17h Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 10: Plenary Conference
Chair: Annarita Gori (Instituto de Ciências Sociais)
Simona Cerutti (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Petitions and debts /credit relationships (Savoyard State, XVIIIth Century)
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20h Conference Dinner
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DAY 3 – February 15
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Simultaneous sessions
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9h00-10h30 Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 11: Petitions and Revolution - France
Chair: Andrea Slemian (Uni. Federal de São Paulo)
Adrian O’Connor (Uni. of South Florida)
Action at a distance: petitions and the debate over political representation in revolutionary France
Vanessa Mongey (Newcastle Uni.)
The right to freedom of movement: passport and travel petitions in the early nineteenth century French empire
Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols (Uni. Pompeu Fabra- Barcelona)
La gestión de las peticiones y el Comité de reportes de la Asamblea nacional constituyente en los primeros años del proceso revolucionario francés (1789-1791)
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9h00-10h30, Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 12: Women voices in revolutionary context
Chair: Filipa Vicente (ICS)
Jacqueline Beatty (York College of Pennsylvania)
Rights in Dependence: Women, Petitions, and Power in the American Revolution
Valentina Altopiedi (Turin University)
The Public Voice of Women: Female Petitions During the French Revolution
Catherine Kerrison (Villanova Uni., Pennsylvania)
Petitioning for Freedom: Female Strategies in Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia
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10h30 – 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
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Simultaneous sessions
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11h00-13h00, Auditório Sedas Nunes, ICS
SESSION 13: Petitioning Culture: between loyalty and sedition
Chair: Ângela Barreto Xavier (ICS)
Brodie Waddell (Uni. of London)
The emergence of a petitioning culture in early modern England
Donald Johnson (North Dakota State Uni.)
Petitions and the Language of Loyalism in Revolutionary America
Radu Nedici (Uni. of Bucharest)
Averting the dangers of sedition: religious dissent, public opinion and petition practices in the Habsburg Monarchy around 1760
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Miguel Régio Almeida (Faculdade de Direito, Uni. de Coimbra)
Peticionar ou Declarar a Independência: a Revolução do Haiti na Filosofia dos Direitos Humanos
Adrian Masters (Uni. of Texas)
Towards a Theory of Responsive Regimes: Petition-and-Response Lawmaking and Bottom-Up State Formation, Antiquity-1700.
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11h00-13h00, Sala Polivalente, ICS
SESSION 14: Parallel developments: liberalism in the Spanish-speaking world
Chair: Rui Ramos (ICS)
Juan Marchena Fernandez (Uni. Pablo de Olavide) “Reos de lesa majestad y como tales sujetos a la pena de muerte”: A repressão absolutista na epoca de Fernando VII na Espanha e na America Espanhola. 1814-1820
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António Aninno Dusek (Cehis- Uni. El Externado de Colombia)
Peticion y/o levantamiento: Una nueva forma de competición política (México 1821-1857)
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María Teresa Calderón (Uni. Externado de Colombia)
Petición y/o representación: Una aproximación a partir de la crisis colombiana, 1826-1831
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Diego Palacios Cerezales (Uni. Complutense de Madrid)
Petitioning by riot in Spain. From the Old Regime to Liberalism
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Faustino J. Martínez (Uni. Complutense de Madrid)
Conservadurismo, petición y sistema electoral. España, 1834-1836
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13h – 14h30 LUNCH
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14h30 Bus to Assembleia da República / House of Parliament
15h30 Guided Visit to Assembleia da República / House of Parliament
16h-18h Sala do Senado, House of Parliament
SESSION 15: Plenary Conference
Chair: Pedro Cardim (FCSH, Uni. Nova de Lisboa)
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Jack P. Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
The Ground upon which all Government stands . . . is the consent of the people: Some Reflections on Voice and Authority in the Construction and Operation of Long-Distance Empires and Their Successor States in the Americas.
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18h Closing Session
Isabel Corrêa da Silva, Miguel Dantas da Cruz, Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro
Closing Port of Honor
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