Thursday, 26th January 2023

14.00 – 14.30: Arrival of conference participants

14.30 – 14.45: Manuel Herrero Sánchez/Klemens Kaps: Welcome address and introductory remarks

Chair: Klemens Kaps
14.45 – 15.30: Keynote 1: Klaus Weber (Universität Viadrina Frankfurt an der Oder): Superposed layers of conflicting and competing interests: Regional, territorial, and imperial commercial spaces in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain during the 17th and 18th century

15.30 – 15.45: Coffee break

15.45 – 17.45: Panel I and Discussion

Chair: Michael Adelsberger (Vienna University)

Christof Jeggle (Bamberg): Decentering Mercantilism and Luxury: The Economies of "superfluous goods".

Benoît Maréchaux (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) / Francisco Cebreiro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Collaborative Mercantilism: the Spanish Crown, Mediterranean cities and monetary circulation (17th-18th Centuries)

Daniele Andreozzi (Università degli Studi di Trieste): Rice War and Flags. The clash between mercantilisms in the Northern Adriatic (18th century)

Magnus Ressel (Goethe-University Frankfurt): The Dream of the European Transversale. 18th century Attempts to Connect the North Sea and the Mediterranean and their Impact on the Continental Economy

Friday, 27th January 2023

Chair: Manuel Herrero Sánchez
9.15 – 10.00: Keynote 2: Regina Grafe (European University Institute): Bargaining for mercantilism in the Spanish Empire

10.00 – 10.15: Coffee break

10.15 – 12.15: Panel II and Discussion

Chair: Catia Brilli

Xabier Lamikiz (Universidad del País Vasco): Spectacular exaggerations: contemporary statistical assessments of the Carrera de Indias in the second half of the seventeenth century

Manuel Herrero Sánchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): “Los desórdenes de las Indias son la verdadera causa de los nuestros” The reform of Spain’s overseas trade during the 2nd half of the 17th century

Ana Crespo Solana (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid): From José de Veitia to Gerónimo de Uztáriz: The long transition of the board of Indies trade and the transformation of the Spanish Armada (1680-1725)

Mona Garloff (Universität Innsbruck): Book trade regulations in the Holy Roman Empire between imperial and state territories’ policies in the early 18th century

12.15 – 13.15: Lunch

13.15 – 15.00: Panel III and Discussion

Chair: Marion Dotter (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)

Felix Töppel (Universität Viadrina Frankfurt an der Oder): The Partition of Poland-Lithuania and Prussia’s Hispanic Trade

Klemens Kaps (Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz): Local and regional interests in Mercantilist regulations of a trans-regional commodity chain: Linen cloth between Habsburg Central Europe and the Spanish Atlantic in the 18th century

Daniel Muñoz Navarro (Universitat de Valencia): Rise and fall of Spanish silks in the colonial market. Bourbon reformism, local entrepreneurship and economic development during the 18th century

15.00 – 15.15: Coffee break

15.15 – 17.15: Panel IV and Discussion

Chair: Ana Crespo Solana

Felicia Gottmann (Northumbria University): Frictions, factions, and identities: the multinational Prussian East India Companies in 1750s Emden and their socio-economic fault lines

Giovanna Tonelli (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale): You “remain free to sell to the highest bidder without any impediment”. Foreign trade circuits and custom reform in Lombardy (18th Century)

Catia Brilli (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria): Genoese traders and mercantilist policies in the Spanish monarchy. Limits and opportunities (second half of the 18th Century)

Arnaud Bartolomei (Université Côte d'Azur): Network and institutions in the commercial strategies of 'mercaderes de Mexico'. The Francisco Yraeta case (1767-1796)

17.15 – 17.45: Final Discussionp