News & Events

Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Associate Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, taught the course “The Environmental History of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire: Forestry, Strategic Industries, and Ecological Degradation (15th–17th centuries)” from July 3 to 17, 2026.

From 11 to 14 November 2025, the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) hosted the First International Conference on “Law, Nature, and Agency: Pathways towards a Critical History of Property.” The event was jointly organised by the ERC-funded IberLAND project at Leibniz University Hannover, the Federal University of Southern Bahia, which hosted the conference, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal ™History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt.

Roger Lee de Jesus and Marlen D. Palma Silva, postdoctoral researchers of the project, participated in the XLIV Conference of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (APHES), held at the University of Évora (Portugal) on November 14 and 15, 2025.

The project IberLAND participated in ‘Die Nacht, die Wissen schafft’ (The Night That Creates Knowledge) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover on November 9, 2025.

Manuel Bastias Saavedra presented the project’s new book - Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850) (Brill, 2025), at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA), on September 18th, 2025.

Part of the IberLAND team was reunited in Coimbra for the 7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO).

Marlen Donají Palma Silva, postdoctoral researcher, participated in two academic events in Mexico, presenting her research on women’s authority in colonial Oaxaca.

IberLAND's PI, Manuel Bastias Saavedra, participated in two events in Chile, in August 2025

IberLAND’s PI Manuel Bastias Saavedra participated in the 2025 World Economic History Congress, which took place between 28 July and 1 August in Lund, Sweden.

From 30 June to 3 July 2025, two members of the IberLAND team took part in the 150th International Congress of Americanists, held in Novi Sad, Serbia.

On June 1st 2025, Marlen Donají Palma Silva joined the IberLAND team as a postdoctoral researcher.

From 2 to 4 July 2025, Sarah Limão Papa participated in the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH), held at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

Last 18-19 June the postdoc Camilla de Freitas Macedo participated in the workshop ‘Political Economies of Small-Scale Agriculture: A History between Europe and the Colonial Worlds (ca. 1750-1850)’ which took place at the University of Turin, Italy.

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),