IberLAND. Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World, 1510–1850

IberLAND is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant and hosted at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). It explores the history of land tenure in a long-term and global perspective by focusing on the territories of the former Portuguese and Spanish empires in what has recently been labelled the Iberian world.

Latest news

Our PhD candidate, Alina Rodríguez Sánchez, recently participated in the 20th edition of the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA) Conference, in Naples (Italy), hosted by the Universita di Napoli L’Orientale, between 2-6 September 2024.
The IberLAND project organized and presented several papers in Goa (India), in August 2024.
Researchers of the IberLAND project participated in the The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars: Crossways of Knowledge, from 28 July to 1 August 2024 in Surabaya (Indonesia).
Our PhD researcher, Sarah Limão Papa, recently participated in the 46th International Wolfenbüttel Summer Course titled "Early Modern Slavery", held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Germany), between 8-19 July 2024.

Latest events

03/10/2024 9:00 am
04/10/2024 3:10 pm
The IberLAND project is pleased to announce the upcoming conference, "Rethinking Property: Decentralized Histories of Land Tenure (16th – 19th centuries)," taking place from October 3rd to 4th, 2024, at the Faculty of Law, University of Messina (Italy)
20/06/2024 4:00 pm
22/06/2024 5:00 pm
The IberLAND project will participate in the seminar “La vinculación en el Atlántico ibérico: nuevas líneas de investigación”, organized by the ERC Project VINCULUM – Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries) (IHC-FCSH.NOVA) and the Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la Universidad de La Laguna. The seminar […]
23/04/2024 6:00 pm
18/06/2024 8:00 pm
Between April 23 and June 18, the project IberLAND will host the lecture series “Between Eden and Fall: Common Land in Early Modern and Modern Wester Europeu”, organized by Íñigo Ena Sanjuán, an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the LUH History Department and an associate researcher to the project.
11/01/2024 9:00 am
12/01/2024 4:00 pm
On January 11 and 12, 2024, the IberLAND project will hold its workshop: Todo lo que está por romperse: Jornadas para el estudio de tierras incultas, baldíos, montes, vacantes y otras formas de uso y apropiación del espacio en el mundo ibérico (XVI-XIX), organized by Alina Rodríguez Sánchez. The IberLAND team, invited speakers, and collaborators […]
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