Thursday, 3 December
6pm
Opening Remarks, Prof. Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer, University of Heidelberg
6:15pm -7:30pm
Keynote Address by Professor Tonio Andrade
The Dutch East India Company in Global History
Friday 4 December
Session 1: 9 - 10:20 (Networks of information and knowledge)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch
The First English Ship from Japan: Return of the Clove, 1614
Professor Timon Screech
‘A system of recordation so complete’- Information gathering by the English East India Company
Dr. Margaret Makepeace
Session 2: 11 – 1pm (The companies at war)
Chair: Dr. Moritz von Brescius
Fighting for the Company: Japanese Mercenaries in the Service of the VOC
Dr. Adam Clulow
The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah.
Peter Good
Makassar, the Companies and the rest: intelligence, diplomacy, technological exchange and war at a 17th century cosmopolitan trading port
Tristan Mostert
Session 3: 2 – 3:20pm (Rivalry and cooperation)
Chair: Dr. Tamson Pietsch
Going English? The VOC’s Engagement with EIC Political Economy in the First Anglo- Dutch War
Andrew Ruoss
Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles: the English and Dutch East India companies (1700-1800)
Dr. Chris Nierstrasz
Session 4: 4 - 5:20pm (The companies at home and abroad)
Chair: Andrew Deakin
Inventing the Amboyna Massacre
Professor Alison Games
Contesting the East Indies: Company, Empire, and the Personal Rule of Charles I
Professor Rupali Mishra
Keynote, 6 - 7:15pm
Keynote Address by Professor Philip Stern
Of Corporate Spaces: The Heterotopic Legal Geographies of the English East India
Company-State
Saturday 5 December
Session 5: 9 - 11 (Negotiating in Asia)
Chair: Professor Dr. Peer Vries
Empire by Treaty? The role of written agreements with indigenous rulers and peoples in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800
Dr. Martine van Ittersum
Contacting Japan: East India Company Letters to the Shogun in 1627, 1649, 1667 and 1673
Professor Fuyuko Matsukata
The Merchant-Diplomat in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Dircq van Adrichem's Embassy to Aurangzeb's Court
Dr. Guido van Meersbergen
Session 6: 11:40 - 1pm (Networks and Empires)
Chair: Professor Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer
Network formation and evolution within competing empires of trade
Professor Matthew Sargent
Deus ex Machina. The campaigns of vice-admiral Suffren during the fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1781-1784)
Professor Leonard Blusse
Session 7: 2 - 4pm (Trade and commercial competition)
Chair: Dr. Susann Liebich
Surat and Bombay: The Companies, Ivory and Power in Western India
Professor Martha Chaiklin
The English East India Company's Trade and the Indian Organisation of Textile Production, c.1650-1800
Professor Giorgio Riello
Interdependence, Competition, and Contestation:The English and the Dutch East India Companies and Indian Merchants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Professor Ghulam A. Nadri
Concluding Discussion, 4:30-5:30pm (Current and future trends in company history)
Led by Professor Tonio Andrade and Professor Philip Stern
5:30pm Closing Remarks by Professor Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney