Part of the IberLAND team was reunited in Coimbra for the 7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), from 9 to 12 September 2025 – full programme available here.
The team participated in several panels regarding land relations between the 16th and 19th centuries: Lands and natural spaces of the royal estate: categories, agencies, and rights in the Iberian world (15th -18th centuries), organized by Manuel Bastias Saavedra (IberLAND) and María Carolina Jurado (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina); Imagining space: across community and visual representations of land (1500-1900), organized by Martina Motta (University of Pavia, Italy) and Manuel Bastias Saavedra; Reassessing narratives on land tenure and empire (16th -17th centuries), organized by Roger Lee de Jesus (IberLAND) and Alina Rodríguez Sánchez (IberLAND); and Access to land, social practices, and institutional hybridizations in two hemispheres 2/3, organized by José-Miguel Lana (Berasain Public University of Navarre, Spain), Marta Martín Gabaldón (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) and Manoela Pedroza Fluminense (Federal University, Brazil).
Each member presented their research, engaging in very fruitful debate and showing how the IberLAND project is contributing to a renewed approached to understanding land tenure in the Iberian world. The paper presented were the following: Camilla de Freitas Macedo – The construction of a memory for the property in the Commonwealth of Aralar-Enirio (Gizpuzkoa, Spain); Edson Edy S.C. de Brito – Beyond mortality: capelas as guardians of spiritual and material legacies in Cape Verde (16th-18th centuries); Roger Lee de Jesus – How to think about land ownership in the Portuguese Empire: the case of the villages of Goa (16th-17th centuries); Sarah Limão Papa – New world, immemorial possession: communal uses of nature in 18th century Portuguese America.
There was also a public presentation of the book Ownership regimes in the Iberian World (1500- 1850), discussed by the editor Manuel Bastias Saavedra, José-Miguel Lana Berasain (Public University of Navarre, Spain), Marta Martín Gabaldón (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico), José Carlos de la Puente Luna (Texas State University, United States of America), and Alessandro Buono (University of Pisa, Italy).
