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DESCRIPTION:Daniel Hershenzon will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch\npresentatio
 n on Monday\, November 10\, 2014\, from 12 to 1:30pm\, at the Bard\nGradua
 te Center in New York City. His talk is entitled “Ransom in the Early\nMod
 ern Mediterranean: Exchanging Muslim for Christian Captives.”\n\nDaniel He
 rshenzon is Assistant Professor in the Department\nof Literatures\, Cultur
 es\, and Languages at the University of Connecticut. He\nwill be a Visitin
 g Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center from October to December\n2014. Hersh
 enzon’s research focuses on the history of early modern Spain and\nthe Med
 iterranean\, slavery and captivity\, cultural intermediaries\, conversion\
 ,\nand writing and its uses. He has published articles on Mediterranean re
 ciprocal\nreligious violence\, the exchange of Muslim and Christian captiv
 es\, and the\nMoroccan library of Muley Zidan incorporated into the Spanis
 h El Escorial\, in\n1614. While in residence at the BGC\, he will be worki
 ng on a book\nentitled Captivity\, Commerce and Communication: Early Moder
 n Spain and the\nMediterranean. The book explores the 17th-century entangl
 ed histories of Spain\,\nMorocco and Ottoman Algiers\, arguing that ransom
  mechanisms associated with the\ncaptivity of Christians and Muslims condi
 tioned the formation of the\nMediterranean as a socially\, politically\, a
 nd economically integrated region.The ransom of captives has recently beco
 me a burgeoning\ntheme among scholars of the early modern Mediterranean. M
 ost scholars sharply\ndistinguish between captivity of Christians and capt
 ivity of Muslims. The\nempirical basis for this claim is that since Algier
 s\, Tunis\, and Morocco did\nnot develop ransom institutions similar to th
 e French and Iberian Orders of\nRedemption\, Muslims were enslaved never t
 o be liberated in contrast to\nChristians who were captives waiting for th
 eir ransom. Theoretically\, this\nperspective privileges a national rather
  than a Mediterranean perspective.\nScholars’ decision to focus on more “r
 eal” objects such as nations translates\ninto studies of Spanish\, Italian
  or Algerian captives rather than of Mediterranean\ncaptivity\, and thus o
 vershadows the interdependence and links between the two\ncaptivities. In 
 contrast\, Hershenzon’s talk at the BGC will insist on the need\nand poten
 tial of examining the captivity of Muslim and Christian as\ninterdependent
  and forming part of a single Mediterranean system. Hershenzon\nwill focus
  on how simple Christian and Muslim folks\, men but more often women\,\nne
 gotiated the exchange of their spouses\, sons\, or siblings. Hershenzon’s 
 point\nof departure will be the moment of the exchange of captives or the 
 negotiations\nthat led up to that moment rather than captives’ religious c
 onfession or\nnational community of belonging. When examined from this per
 spective\, not only\ndoes it become clear that the captivity and ransom of
  Muslims and Christians\nwere entangled but also that while captivity brut
 ally ruptured the lives of\nindividuals it simultaneously helped make the 
 Mediterranean into a political\,\neconomic\, and also social space.\n\nCof
 fee and tea will be served\; attendees are welcome to\nbring their own lun
 ch.RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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