Thursday 1 September
13:00 Reception
13.20 Roberto Zaugg (Zürich); Silvia Marzagalli (Nice): Introduction
Session 1
Chair: Riccardo E. Rossi (Zürich)
13:40 Andrea Guerrero Mosquera (Ciudad de México): "Spies" and missionaries: the frst Capuchins in Central Africa
14:10 Thiago Sapede (Salvador de Bahia): The political and economic role of Italian Capuchins in the global stakes of power involving Kongo and Portugal (18th-19th centuries)
14:40 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Carlo Taviani (Zürich)
16:00 Giulia Bonazza (Venezia / New York): Slavery and the Black presence in Italian cities from the Atlantic colonies in the second half of the 18th century
16:30 Alessandro Tuccillo (Torino): Suspicious ships: the Kingdom of Sardinia and the campaign for the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade
17:00 Discussion
17:50 End of day one
Friday 2 September
Session 3
Chair: Eva Brugger (Zürich)
10:20 Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Firenze): Breaking boundaries: Florentine merchants and the Atlantic (15th-16th Centuries)
10:50 Pierre Niccolò Sofia (Nice): Venice and its connection with the Atlantic trade in the 18th century: a matter of glass beads and sugar
11:20 Discussion
12:10 Lunch
Session 4
Chair: Ingrid Greenfield (Basel)
14:00 Fabiano Bracht (Porto): Follow the money: the emergence of a knowledge economy from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean (15th to 16th centuries)
14:30 Gisele Cristina da Conceição (Porto): Domenico Vandelli between knowledge and power: production and circulation of natural philosophical knowledge in the 18th century
15:00 Discussion
15:50 Coffee break
Session 5
Chair: Ingrid Greenfield (Basel)
16:20 Samir Boumediene (Lyon): American gifts: the economies of New World naturalia in early modern Italy
16:50 Riccardo E. Rossi (Zürich): (Inter-)connected ‘hinterlands’? Trade, retail and consumption of Atlantic goods inthe Alpine valleys of the Three Leagues, 1630s to 1790s
17:20 Discussion
18:10 End of day two
Saturday 3 September
Session 6
Chair: Silvia Marzagalli (Nice)
09:00 Nicholas Baker: (Sidney): Dipping a toe in the Atlantic: The Botti of Florence
09:30 Maarten Draper (Groningen): Italian merchants in Amsterdam and their role in Dutch colonial trade, 1650-1700
10:00 Discussion
10:50 Coffee break
Session 7
Chair: Giulio Talini (Napoli)
11:20 Carlo Taviani (Zürich): Crossing the Sahara or the ocean? The Genoese Marihoni and Cattaneo families and their business, ca. 1450-1530
11:50 Steven Teasdale (Toronto) The Lomellini family in the Canary Islands: Genoese economic and cultural networks in the early sixteenth century Atlantic
12:20 Discussion
13:10 Lunch
Session 8
Chair: Giulio Talini (Napoli)
15:00 Antonio Iodice (Genova / Exeter): Atlantic goods, Mediterranean waters: Genoa’s entrepôt through maritime averages procedures, 1590-1700
15:30 Catia Brilli (Varese): The scope and the limits of the Genoese persistence in the Atlantic economy (18th century)
16:00 Discussion
16:50 End of conference