THURSDAY 8 November
14.00: Reception
14.15: Jean-Paul Pellegrinetti, director of the CMMC, Welcome address
14.20: Silvia Marzagalli (CMMC, Nice) and Roberto Zaugg (Universität Bern), Introduction
14.45: Maria Fusaro (Exeter University, ERC “Average”), Keynote address
15.45 Coffee break
Session 1 – chair: Roberto Zaugg (Universität Bern)
16.15: Nicholas Scott Baker (Macquarie University, Sydney), The Botti family. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic world
16.45: Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Università di Firenze), Breaking boundaries. Florentine merchants and the Atlantic (late 15th - early 16th centuries)
17.15: James Nelson Novoa (University of Ottawa), Portuguese merchants as mediators between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in Pisa (1580-1640)
17.45: Discussion
18.30: End
FRIDAY 9 November
Session 2 – chair: Silvia Marzagalli (CMMC, Nice)
9.00: Giorgio Tosco (European University Institute, Florence), From interloping to companies? Genoese and Tuscan responses to a shifting Atlantic economy (mid-17th century)
9.30: Antonella Alimento (Università di Pisa), Atlantic trade as an instrument of national economic renewal. The Caribbean in the vision of the governor of Livorno, Carlo Ginori (1746-1757), and of his informal network
10.00: Discussion
10.45: Coffee break
Session 3 – chair: Maria Fusaro (Exeter University)
11.15: Benedetta Crivelli (Università Bocconi, Milan), Venice in a global world. Shipping and commodities in the reconfiguration of the Mediterranean space (16th - 17th centuries)
11.45: Robert Wells (Indiana University), From Old World Slavery to New. The Order of Malta in the Americas
12.15: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
Session 4 – chair: Markus Koller (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
14.30: Klemens Kaps (Universität Linz), Gateway economies in the North of Italy. The mercantile links of Lombardy and Trieste with Spanish Atlantic markets in the 18th century
15.00: David Do Paço (SciencesPo, Paris), Trans-Atlantic Trieste. The informal connections of the Grahl family from the Adriatic to the Delaware and the Hudson Bays, 1770s-1820s
15.30: Discussion
16.15: Coffee break
Session 5 – chair: Andrea Addobbati (Università di Pisa)
16.45: Valentina Favarò (Università di Palermo), From the Neapolitan court to the Viceroyalty of Peru. Carmine Nicola Caracciolo between interests, networks and governmental practices (1700-1720)
17.15: Luca Codignola (University of Notre Dame / Saint Mary’s University, Halifax), Alabaster traders and their kin. Travelling between North America and the Italian peninsula, 1763-1846
17.45: Discussion
18.30: Conclusions
19.00: End