José Maria Moreno Madrid “Monitoring the Paths of the Sea: Routes and Laws in the Sixteenth Century Iberian Empires”; Luana Giurgevich “Translating Portuguese and Spanish Rutters in 16th Century Europe”; Henrique Leitão “Nautical Rutters and the Construction of Oceanic Space in the Sixteenth Century”; Nuno Vila-Santa “Travelling with “Secret” knowledge: Linschoten and the Iberian Nautical Rutters(1583-1596)”; David Salomoni “Schooling the Discoveries: The transmission of Geographical Knowledge in the Early Modern European School System (16th C.)”; Juan Acevedo “Science, Technique and Craft of Indian Ocean 15th Century Navigation: Arabic Terminology in Context”; Joana Lima “The Poetics of Distance in the Early Modern European Imaginary”; Antonio Sanchez “The Role of Artisanal Cultures in Long Distance Sea Voyages”