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From June 4-5, 2025, the IberLAND project welcomed the workshop Shaping Colonial Normativities. Law, Land and Villages in Goa (16th-19th centuries), at the Leibnizhaus (Hannover),
On May 21 and 22, two members of the IberLAND team participated in the international seminar "Registration of Rights: History, Comparison, and Current Issues", held at the "La Corrala" Cultural Center of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, visited Hannover between May 12th and 15th, 2024.
IberLAND’s PI Manuel Bastias Saavedra participated in the International Symposium on Law in Early Modern European Colonies, which took place at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Vila I Tatti) on April 29-30 in Florence.
Researchers from the IberLAND project participated in two academic events held in Oaxaca and Mexico City.
On March 13th, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, post-doc researcher of the IberLAND project, gave a seminar on Disputes over the commons in times of municipal governance (Disputas por los comunales en tiempos de municipalidad) at the Facultad d'Economia of the Universitat de Valencia (Spain).
On March 6th and 7th, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, post-doc researcher of the IberLAND project, attended the Conference titled "Du «commun» au «public» : concepts et pratiques de l’ordre social dans l’espace culturel ibéro-américain (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)".
The first book of the project IberLAND has been published by Brill: 'Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850)', edited by Manuel Bastias Saavedra.
From January 3–6, 2025, the IberLAND research team participated in the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting in New York City.
IberLAND’s post-doc researcher Roger Lee de Jesus participated in the workshop “Language Registers and Communication Strategies as Reflected in Premodern South Asian Inscriptions”, at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, on 29 November 2024.
From November 18–19, 2023, the IberLAND project organized the workshop Vinculação e Herança: A Dinâmica dos Morgadios e Capelas em Novos Contextos Geográficos, at Leibnizhaus (Hannover), organized by Edson Edy S.C. de Brito.
IberLAND’s PI Manuel Bastias Saavedra gave a Keynote Lecture at the conference Porque todo o lo más es nuevo en las Indias. Change and Variety on Colonial Law during the 18th Century, which took place at the Law Faculty of the Federal University of Ceará on November 11 and 12, 2024 in Fortaleza.
Researchers of the IberLAND project participated in the XLIII Conference of the Portuguese Association for Economic and Social History, from 15 to 16 November 2024 in Lisbon (Portugal), organized by the Lisbon School of Economics and Managment (ISEG)
Our PhD candidate, Sarah Limão Papa, participated in the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, held in San Francisco, California (USA), from October 24–26, 2024

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24/06/2025 6:00 pm
24/06/2025 8:00 pm
On June 24, Guillermo Wilde (ICSOH-CONICET) will give a presentation on the presence of Guaraní normative knowledge in the construction of maps used in land litigation.
04/06/2025 9:00 am
05/06/2025 6:30 pm
On June 4 and 5, 2025, the IberLAND project will hold its third workshop: “Shaping Colonial Normativities. Law, Land and Villages in Goa (16th-19th centuries)”.
15/04/2025 6:00 pm
15/07/2025 8:00 pm
Through a critical analysis and discussions among participants, these sessions seek to enhance the quality and depth of working papers, within the framework of the project.
04/04/2025 12:00 am
04/04/2025 2:00 pm
The IberLAND project is pleased to announce the presentation of the new book edited by Manuel Bastias Saavedra - Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850). The Normative Role of Kinship and Community, published by Brill, that will take place at the El Colegio de Mexico, on April 4th.
03/04/2025 10:00 am
04/04/2025 12:00 am
The workshop “Creando derechos sobre la tierra en los mundos ibéricos” will be held from April 3 to 4, 2025, at El Colegio de México (Mexico), co-organized by the IberLAND project and the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México.
31/03/2025 10:00 am
01/04/2025 6:00 pm
The IberLAND project is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop, “Normatividades indígenas en torno a la tierra en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XIX,” taking place from March 31th to April 1st, 2025, at the Unidad de Extensión Universitaria de la UNAM en Oaxaca (Mexico), co-organized with the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
11/12/2024 9:00 am
12/12/2024 12:30 am
On December 11th and 12th, 2024 the workshop for doctoral students Tierra y usos de la tierra: convergencias entre la historia rural y la historia ambiental de la tierra will take place at the Leibnizhaus - Hannover.
19/11/2024 4:30 pm
19/11/2024 6:00 pm
On November 19, 2024, the IberLAND project will host the keynote lecture "Waqf Endowments and State Formation in Islamic Lands (1450-1650)", presented by Prof. Dr. Christopher Markiewicz (Ghent University).
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