The team behind the project “CINCRA – International Collaborations: Crime and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic, c. 1870-1940” (funded by FCT, reference PTDC/HAR-HIS/3580/2021), organized the international conference “Crime, Surveillance, and Mobility in the Atlantic, 19th and 20th Centuries,” held September 10-12, 2025, at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. This scientific meeting brought together researchers from various countries who, over three days, provided interesting moments of debate on the themes that have guided the CINCRA Project's research in recent years, namely crime, police surveillance and collaboration, judicial cooperation, and extraditions.
The conference began with a round table discussion, led by members of the CINCRA project team and moderated by Yvette Santos (LARHRA – ENS Lyon), which debated the importance of funding for the development of research projects and the impact these have on the consolidation of knowledge and scientific research and their internationalization. In this context, an assessment of the project was made, reflecting on the results obtained over the last few years, which stood out for the exploration of new research questions, the advanced training of researchers, participation in international debates, and dialogue with international research networks.
The first day ended with a lecture by Philippe Rigyel (University of Lyon), keynote speaker at the meeting, on extradition in France between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, presenting new lines of research undertaken in the context of historical studies on judicial extradition.
The remaining two days of the event were filled with presentations of papers selected following a call for papers by researchers from various countries, namely Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Colombia. The papers were organized thematically and distributed across six panels that addressed the main lines of research of the CINCRA Project: Atlantic circulations, prisons and criminal law, policing, criminal collaboration and international cooperation, violence, crime and marginality, and power, territories, and confinement. The conference also attracted a significant number of attendees who, together with the speakers, helped to energize the event and generate interesting historiographical discussions, sharing knowledge and ideas among all participants.
