Thursday, July 5th
15:30-16:00
Welcome
16:00-17:00
Keynote: Göran Rydén (Uppsala): Connecting Metal-making Hinterlands in the 18th Century: Sweden and West Africa Chained Together in Slavery
17:30-19:00
PRUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN ATLANTICS
Chair: Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/O.)
Bernhard Struck (St Andrews): Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania and the French Colonization of Guiana, c. 1760-1790s
Jutta Wimmler (Frankfurt/O.): Prussia’s New Gate to the World? Stettin’s Overseas Imports after 1720 and Prussia’s Rise to Power
Felicia Gottmann (Newcastle upon Tyne): Prussia all at Sea: The 1750s Prussian East India Companies
Pavel Demchenko (St. Petersburg): Skippers between the Baltic and the Atlantic: 18th-century Trade Routes and Networks between “East” and “West”
Friday, July 6th)
9:00-10:30
CENTRAL EUROPEAN MERCHANTS WITHIN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Chair: José da Silva Horta (Lisbon)
Anne Sophie Overkamp (Bayreuth): A Cartel on the Periphery - Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (Düsseldorf): Merchants from the Dukedom of Berg and Westphalia and their Global Networks in the 18th Century
Torsten dos Santos Arnold (Frankfurt/O.): Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe - Hamburg’s Sugar Importers and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733-1798
11:00-11:45
THE AUSTRIAN HABSBURG EMPIRE AT SEA
Chair: Kim Siebenhüner (Jena)
Klemens Kaps (Vienna): A Gateway to the Spanish Atlantic? The Habsburg Port City of Trieste as Intermediary in Commodity Flows between the Habsburg Monarchy and Spain in the 18th Century
Daniele Andreozzi (Trieste): Segmental Merchants. Mercantile Practices and Mercantilism between Trieste, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean in the 18th Century
12:00-13:00
Keynote: Mary Jo Maynes (Minneapolis, MN): Re/Production on the Periphery: Gender and Work in the Context of Early Modern Globalization
14:30-16:00
PERIPHERIES OF THE SOUTHERN SPANISH HEMISPHERE
Chair: José da Silva Horta (Lisbon)
Martin Biersack (Munich): Smugglers, Spies and Insurgents - Clandestine Networks on the Fringe of the Atlantic World
Neal D. Polhemus (Columbia, SC): “Sucking the English Assiento and Assientists Blood Daily”: The Assiento and the Slave Trade in the South Atlantic, 1715-1740
Brett Spencer (New Orleans, LA): From Outpost to Enclave: Migration and the Lumber Trade in Caribbean Central America
16:30-17:15
METHODS AND THEORIES
Chair: Sven Beckert (Cambridge, MA)
Agata Bloch (Warsaw): The Strength of Weak Colonial Ties: The Atlantic Peripheries as a Driver of Metropolitan Changes
Isabelle Thomas (Bamberg): Peripheries Producing Peripheries: The Impact of the Classical Liberalism of Immanuel Kant and Adam Smith
Saturday, July 7th
9:00-10:30
OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN “GERMANY” AND “AMERICA”
Chair: Reinhard Blänkner (Frankfurt/O.)
Alexandra Gittermann (Hamburg): German Emigrants as a Commercial Commodity in the 18th-century Atlantic
Josef Köstlbauer (Bremen): Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the 18th Century
David K. Thomson (Fairfield, CT): Reorienting Atlantic World Capitalism: America and the German States
11:00-12:30
“PERIPHERAL” COMMODITIES ON THE MOVE
Chair: John Styles (Hertfordshire)
Chris Evans (Pontypridd): ‘Negro Cloth’: Clothing the Enslaved in Britain’s 18th-century Empire
Anka Steffen (Frankfurt/O.): A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons at the West-African Coast in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries
Simon Fuechtenschnieder (Bielefeld): Between Mutiny and Success at the Second Attempt: Transferring the Breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies and to St. Helena
12:30-13:00
Concluding Remarks and Goodbye