Thursday, 12 September 2024
14:30-14:45
Manuel Fernández Chaves (Sevilla/Mainz)/Thomas Weller (Mainz): Introduction
14:45-15:30
Magnus Ressel (Bremen/Frankfurt): Spain, Cuba and the Belgian Slave Trade to Havana in the 1780s. The Global Ventures of Friedrich Romberg (1729-1819) in Brussels
15:30-16:15
Manuel Fernández Chaves (Sevilla/Mainz): The Participation of International Finance in the Slave Trade and Other Trafficks in the Iberian Atlantic
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:30
Jorun Poettering (Hamburg), The Third Diaspora: Black People between the Northern Seas and the Iberian Atlantic
17:30-18:15
Klemens Kaps (Wien), A transcultural merchant nation between Central Europe and the Atlantic: Social integration und business strategies of traders from the Habsburg dominions in 18th-century Cádiz
19:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 13 September 2024
09:00-09:45
Maria Grove Gordillo (Sevilla): English trading companies in Atlantic Andalusia (16th century)
09:45-10:30
Thomas Weller (Mainz): How to Become a Spaniard: Naturalization and Belonging among Merchants from the Holy Roman Empire in Seventeenth-Century Seville
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45
Eleonora Poggio (Växjö): Flemish, Italian and French Merchant Networks in New Spain, 1620-1645
11:45-12.30
Martin Biersack (Berlin/Granada): Legally Excluded, De Facto Tolerated: Foreigners under Spanish Colonial Rule
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:15
Miguel Royano (Sevilla): Faith and Money: Catalan Brotherhoods and Consulates between the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea (1500-1600)
14:15-15:00
Luis Conde Blázquez (Barcelona): Sebastianist traces in a German Baroque novel: Der spanische Quintana by Eberhard Werner Happel (1686-1687)
15:00-15:30 Concluding debate