Programme of the
5th Summer Academy of Atlantic History (SAAH)

"Connecting and Globalizing the Atlantic"

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
(Research Group “Globalización Ibérica: redes entre Asia y Europa y los cambios en las pautas de consumo en Latinoamérica (HAR2014- 53797-P))

27 September – 1 October 2017

27 September

6:00pm Introduction: Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Lauric Henneton (Versailles - Saint Quentin), Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)

Chair: Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

6:30pm Keynote Antonio Feros (History U Penn) "The early modern Atlantic worlds. Connections and Disconnections"

Reception

28 September

09:00am CABANILLAS, Rocio Moreno (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "Connecting empires across the ocean: overseas posts in the Atlantic Enlightenment", tutor: Nicholas CANNY (NUI Galway)

10:30am DIAL, Andrew J (McGill), "The “La Valette Affair”: Jesuits and Commerce in the French Atlantic", tutor: Bethany ARAM (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

12:00am Coffee

12:30pm HARRIS, Hunter (U. Michigan), "When Trust Fails: Commercial Disputes and Global Trade in the Eighteenth Century British World", tutor: Ben MARSH (Kent)

2:00pm Lunch

4:00pm SVRIZ WUCHERER, Pedro Miguel Omar" (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "Filling the Atlantic Gap. Imperial Wars, the Guarani Militias and the Jesuits in the Chaco-Paraguay Frontier in the Seventeenth century", tutor: Susanne LACHENICHT (Bayreuth)

5:30pm coffee

6:00pm CEBALLOS, Jorge Diaz (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "City foundation and political culture in the New World. Castilla del Oro during the 16th century", tutor: Trevor BURNARD (Melbourne)

29 September

10:00am HAYES, Marcella (Harvard), "The Color of Political Authority in Seventeenth-Century Lima", tutor: Antonio FEROS (History U Penn)

11:30am Coffee

12:00noon KNIRIM, Alexander (Bayreuth), "German Printings in British North America in the 18th Century and the Construction of a German-speaking Community", tutor: Evan HAEFELI (TAMU)

1:30pm Lunch

3:30pm LA HAUSSE DE LALOUVIÈRE, Joseph (Harvard), "The Restoration of French Colonial Slavery, 1802-1848", tutor: Igor PEREZ TOSTADO (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

5:30pm Keynote by William CLARENCE-SMITH (SOAS): 'The early modern Atlantic in comparison with the Indian and Pacific Oceans'

8pm Conference dinner

30 September

10am: BONVINI, Alessandro (Salerno), Adventurers, Exiles and Volunteers in the Atlantic World: Italians in Latin America (1789-1898), tutor: Lauric HENNETON (Versailles - Saint Quentin)

11.30am Coffee

12.00noon ZIMMERMAN, Rachel Aletta (U. Delaware), "“Global Luxuries at Home: The Material Possessions of an Elite Family in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil", tutor: Bartolomé YUN CASALILLA (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

1:30pm wrap up