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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.
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),
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.

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11/09/2023 9:00 am
14/09/2023 6:00 pm
The IberLAND project co-organized two panels at the sixth biennial conference of the European Rural History Organization (EURHO) that will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania from 11 to 14 September 2023.
06/09/2023 9:00 am
08/09/2023 8:00 pm
The IberLAND project co-organized two panels at the IV International Congress Soberania Alimentar: Dinâmicas de produção e abastecimento na longa duração, as part of the XI Encontro Rural RePort and XVIII Congreso de Historia Agraria – SEHA, that will take place in Coimbra, between the 6th and 8th of September 2023.
05/09/2023 2:30 pm
05/09/2023 5:00 pm
The IberLAND team will present and discuss the project in an open session, at the Archive of the University of Coimbra, at the University of Coimbra, on the 5th of September 2023, at 14h30.
25/04/2023 2:30 am
19/07/2023 2:00 pm
In each session we will discuss a source from the archival research of one of the colloquium’s participants. The aim will be to locate and understand the language, arguments and strategies that the actors introduced in the text. By discussing and contrasting the insights that all participants will bring from their own case and research […]
23/03/2023 2:30 pm
24/03/2023 5:30 pm
23 et 24 mars 2023 Organisation :Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Leibniz Universität Hannover)Caroline Cunill (EHESS-Mondes Américains/CERMA) Lieu : EHESS, Campus CondorcetSalle gradinée (1er étage)2, Cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers Las jornadas tienen el objetivo de analizar las relaciones entre tierras y actores históricos en los imperios ibéricos. Para ello, pretende alejarse de una perspectiva centrada en la legislación regia, la doctrina jurídica […]
02/11/2022 4:00 pm
25/01/2023 4:00 pm
From November 2022 to January 2023, the members of IberLAND will discuss their first approaches to the topics they are researching on. Each of them will previously hand over a state of the art, which will be discussed with the colleagues in relation to the leading ideas of the Research Group.
31/08/2022 9:30 am
02/09/2022 6:00 am
As part of the Glocalizing Normativities and IberLAND project, this workshop aims to explore how the idea of «Ownership Regime» can help organize a different way of observing the relations between people and land that moves away from traditional perspectives centered on royal laws, legal doctrine, and theories of property. While the traditional focus on legal categories […]
19/04/2022 3:00 pm
19/07/2022 3:00 pm
This first colloquium dealt with essential concepts in the history of law and its usefulness for land studies in the Iberian world.
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