Mon 6 October 2014
12:00-13:00 Conference Registration
13:00-13:15 Welcome by Jeff James, CEO and Keeper of the Public Records, National Archives London and Lisa Jardine (Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities at University College London/Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters/Non-executive director of the National Archives London)
13:15 Chair: Dagmar Freist (University of Oldenburg)
13:15-15:15 Provenance of the Prize Papers Collection, Caroline Kimbell (Head of Licensing, The National Archives, London)
Challenges of Conservation and Re-housing the Prize Papers, Catt Baum (Head of Digitisation Conservation, The National Archives, London)
Cataloguing the Prize Papers, Amanda Bevan (The National Archives, London)
“How long have you known the Captain of your ship?” - Past, Present and Future of the Prize Papers Online 1650-1815, Dual presentation by Perry Moree (Brill Publishers, Leiden) and Els van Eijck van Heslinga (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague)
Recovered Records of Dutch Slave Forts in West-Africa, 1793-1803. A Metamorfoze Project for Preservation and Presentation, Erik van der Doe (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague)
15:15-15:30 Tea and Coffee
15:30 Politics & Economy
15:30-15:45 Chair: Pierrick Pourchasse (University of Brest)
15:45-16:15 Prizes and Prisoners in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century, Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)
16:15-16:45 Studying commercial credit in the Spanish Atlantic through the HCA intercepted mail, 1760-1820, Xabier Lamikiz (University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
16:45-17:15 Against all Odds: German Merchants, their Letters & a Glimmer of Hope, Lucas Haasis (University of Oldenburg)
17:15-17:30 Comment: Pierrick Pourchasse (University of Brest) and Discussion
18:00-18.30 Key note: New Perspectives on a Global Micro-History, Dagmar Freist (University of Oldenburg)
Tue 7 October 2014
09:00-09:30 Registration, Tea, Coffee and Pastries
09:30 Seafaring
09:30-09:45 Chair: Thomas M. Truxes (Clinical Associate Professor of Irish Studies and History Glucksman Ireland House, New York University)
09:45-10:15 Neutral Shipping c. 1650-1800, Leos Müller (Centre for Maritime Studies Stockholm) and Steve Murdoch (University of St. Andrews)
10:15-10:45 Predators and Opportunists: English Seafarers as Prize Takers, 1739-1783,
David J. Starkey (University of Hull)
10:45-11:15 Frisian Seafaring on the Baltic and European coasts (ca. 1750-1785), Hanno Brand (Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden)
11:15-11:30 Comment: John McCusker (Trinity University, San Antonio) and Discussion
11:30-11:45 Tea and Coffee
11:45 Language & Literacy
11:45-12:00 Chair: Rik Vosters (University of Brussels)
12:00-12.30 "ich bit eich in got willen sich mir doch gelt das ich kann leben". German letters in the prize papers corpus - preliminary linguistic analyses, Stephan Elspaß (University of Salzburg) and Doris Stolberg (IDS Mannheim)
12:30-13:00 Language, literacy and the "lower orders": Dutch private letters of the 17th and 18th centuries, Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University)
13:00-13:30 Late 18th-c. and Early 19th-c. mercantile correspondence within the Jewish trade networks of the Cairo Geniza, Esther-Miriam Wagner (T-S Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge)
13:30-13:45 Comment: Marijke v.d. Wal (Leiden University) and Discussion
13:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30 Family, Friends and Private Lives
14:30-14:45 Chair: Els van Eijck van Heslinga (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague)
14:45-15:15 Foreign crew on Dutch ships during wartime, Andrew Ross Little (free-lance researcher)
15:15-15:45 Remembered, Imagined, lived. Early modern family ties in absence, Christina Beckers (University of Oldenburg)
15:45-16:15 Great need for signs of life in the Year of Disaster 1672, Judith Brouwer (University of Groningen)
16:15-16:30 Comment: TBA and Discussion
16:30-16:45 Tea and Coffee
16:45-17:15 Key-note: Floating Emotions, Lex Heerma van Voss (Huygens Institute)
18:00 Wine, juice, nibbles
Wednesday 8 October 2014
09:00-09:30 Registration, Tea, Coffee and Pastries
09:30 Colonial Cross-overs and Confrontations
09:30-09:45 Chair: Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth)
09:45-10:15 Contested Knowledges and Ambivalent Practices in the Everyday Life of the Suriname Herrnhut Mission (1735-1810), Jessica Cronshagen (University of Oldenburg)
10:15-10:45 A view from Asia - the Prize Papers as a source for global histories, Matthias van Rossum (University of Leiden)
10:45-11:00 Comment: Joost Schokkenbroek (University of Amsterdam) and Discussion
11:00-11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30 Practices, Artefacts, Spaces and Body
11:30-11.45 Chair: Michael Schaich (GHI London)
11:45-12:15 The Final Voyage of the Santa Catharina: Notes towards a Global Microhistory of the Early Modern Indian Ocean, Sebouh David Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles)
12:15-12:45 A Serious Man. An 'enlightened' male body's fight against yellow fever in 1802 Martinique, Annika Raapke (University of Oldenburg)
12:45-13:15 Eating the New World, Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)
13:15-13:30 Comment: Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick) and Discussion
13.30-14:30 Final Discussion and wrap up of conference
14:30-15:00 Foundation of EU-Prize Papers Network
15:30 Departure