Thursday, 22 June
14.00-14.30 Welcome and Introduction
Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool) / Felix Brahm (GHIL)
14.30-16.00 The Company as Economic and Political Actor
Chair: Indra Sengupta (GHIL)
Mahesh Gopalan (Delhi): Institutionalising a New Moral and Economic Order in Early Modern Madras
Aske Laursen Brock (Canterbury): Companies and Charity? Corporate Social Responsibility in Seventeenth Century England
16:30-18:00 Colonial Reform and the Delineation of Moral Communities
Chair: Hannes Ziegler (GHIL)
Laura Tarkka-Robinson (Helsinki): Vindicating the Colonised: Morality, National Character and the East India Company
Blake Smith (Chicago/Paris): Moral and Racial Economies of Colonial Reform: Dirk van Hogendorp in Late Eighteenth-Century Java
18.00- 19:15 Keynote Lecture I
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool)
Jennifer Davis (Cambridge): Trade (mark) Wars, 1860-1920: Sweatshops, the Retail Trade and the Meaning of Trade Marks in Britain
Friday, 23 June
9:30-11:00 Critical Reactions to Transnational Exchange
Chair: Michael Schaich (GHIL)
Yusuke Wakazawa (York): The Epistolary Novel and Moral Consciousness. Smollett’s Literary Geography and the Paradox of the Global in Humphry Clinker
Aaron Graham (London): Contractors, Corruption and Conscience in North America, 1754-83
11:30-13:00 International Business and National Labour
Chair: Alex Balch (Liverpool)
Justus Nipperdey (Saarbrücken): In Defence of Workers Against International Business – Cameralists Moralising Commerce in the 18th Century
Andrés Spognardi (Coimbra): Worker Ownership as a Social Good: Exploring the Moral and Practical Underpinnings of the 1867 Portuguese Co-operative Societies Act
14:00-15:30 Slavery and Economic Conscience (part 1)
Chair: Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
Joyce Goggin (Amsterdam): Framing John Law: G(u)ilt, Fiction and Finance
Jordan Smith (Georgetown): ‘For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum?’: Anti-Consumption and the Morality of Production in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
16:00-17:30 Slavery and Economic Conscience (part 2)
Chair: Andreas Gestrich (GHIL)
Richard Huzzey (Durham): ‘Whatever is unjust must be impolitick & v. versa’: Morality and Prosperity in British Anti-Slavery Campaigns
Sarah Lentz (Bremen): ‘Oh, wonderful sugar beet! You are the death of the bloody sugar cane’. The German Debate on the Morality of the Consumption of Sugar Produced by Slave Labour Around 1800
17:45-19:00 Keynote Lecture II
Chair: Felix Brahm (GHIL)
William G. Clarence-Smith (London): Moralising Commerce in the Long Nineteenth-Century: The Example of Pearling
Saturday, 24 June
9:00-10:30 Slavery and Economic Conscience (part 3)
Chair: Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool)
Jake Richards (Cambridge): Moralising Labour: Doctrines of Free Labour and Liberated Africans’ Responses to Work in the Era of the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Joseph Kelly (Liverpool): Shareholder Anti-Slavery? Morality and Knowledge in the Joint-Stock Economy
11:00-12:30 (Il)legitimate Commerce in Africa
Chair: Felix Brahm (GHIL)
Deborah Neill (Toronto): John Holt’s Economic Conscience
Kim Sebastian Todzi (Hamburg) Between ‘perishable effects’ and ‘sharp stimulant to elevate culture’. The Debate on Liquor Trade in Cameroon and Togo 1884-1914
12:30-13:30 Final Discussion
Chair: Andreas Eckert (Berlin)
Input: Benjamin Möckel (Köln): Economy and Morality: Some Remarks on a Non-Normative Approach