European Slaves: Christians in African Pirate Encounters
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Book talk of Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa at the Columbia Global Centers Tunis on January 6, 2023.
Lecture Robert Spindler (Innsbruck), "Renegados: Converted Christians in British Barbary Captivity Narratives", International Symposium Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers: Connecting the Early Modern Seas, Bielefeld University, 13.04.2018.
Lecture Robert Spindler (Innsbruck), "Three Early Modern Barbary Captivity Narratives in the German Language and their Portrayal of Islam", Mediterranean Collaborative, Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World at the University of Minnesota, 08.11.2017.
Lecture Robert Spindler (Innsbruck), "Masters, Agusins and Renegados: Portrayals of Muslims in Early Modern Barbary Captivity Narratives from Germany and Austria", SAGES Program, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 04.11.2017.
Lecture Robert Spindler (Innsbruck), "Merckwürdige Lebens- und Reisebeschreibung: Der Bericht des Johann Michael Kühn", Erzählen zwischen Fakt und Fiktion (workshop), Innsbruck, 23.02.2017.
Khalid Bekkaoui (Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez): “Islamic Otherness and the Ambiguous Quest for Identity in American Barbary Captivity Narratives”
Joachim Östlund (Lund University): “The Barbary Captivity Narrative and Other Stories from Northern Africa”
Magnus Ressel (University of Frankfurt): “Algerian Captivity and World Literature. The Example of The Jew's Beech (Die Judenbuche)”
Elisabeth Watzka-Pauli (University of Graz): “The Trinitarians of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th Century and Their ‘Redemptions’ of Slaves on the Barbary Coast”
Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio): “A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its Author”