Program
20 June 2014
9.00: Inauguration
9.15: Manuel Herrero Sánchez / Klemens Kaps (UPO): Introduction
First Panel: Historiographical Debates on Theory and Methodology of Trade Networks
(Chair: Manuel Herrero Sánchez)
9.45: Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa (UPO): Understanding Networking: Theoretical Framework and Evidence from History
10.05: Ana Crespo Solana (CSIC-IH, Madrid): The merchants and the beating of a butterfly’s wings: from local to global in the transfer of economic behavior models in the 18th century
10.25: Xabier Lamikiz (Universidad del País Vasco): Networks, Trust and social Capital in the age of Commerce, 1500-1830: A historiographical appraisal
10.45: Sheryllynne Haggerty (University of Nottingham): “The Providence”: When Networks Don’t Exist
11.05-12.00: Discussion
12.00 – 12.30: Coffee Break
Second Panel: Nations, Ethnicity and Culture in Merchant Networks (Chair: Klemens Kaps)
12.30: Bethany Aram (UPO): The Gingerbread Men from Corsairs to Merchants. English, Dutch and French in the Spanish Caribbean, 1580-1655
12.50: Eberhard Crailsheim (Universität Hamburg): French and Flemish merchants in Seville as connectors of European and American markets (1570-1650)
13.10: Manuel Fernández Chaves / Mercedes Gamero Rojas (Universidad de Sevilla): Nations? What nations? Bussiness in the shaping of international trade networks. Seville, XVIIIth century
13.30: Orla Power (Trinity College Dublin): St. Croix, Danish West Indies: an unclaimed past. How ethnic and commercial networks can help to untangle complex and contentious transnational histories
13.50 – 14.30: Discussion
14.30 – 16.00: Lunch
Third Panel: Spatial connectors - connected spaces (Chair: Manuel Fernández Chaves)
16.00: Natalia Maillard Álvarez (UPO): The book trade in Seville from 1550 to 1650: intermediaries and distribution channels in the Spanish Empire
16.20: Renate Pieper (Universität Graz): The shifting geography of merchant’s networks in the 17th and 18th centuries
16.40: José Luis Gasch (UPO): Cochineal, silver and porcelain from New Spain to Iberia. The commercial network of Santi Federighi , c.1600-1643
17.00: Margrit Schulte-Beerbühl (Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Interconnecting trade regions: International networks of German merchants in the eighteenth century
17.20-18.10: Discussion
18.10-18.30: Claims of travel expenses
20.00: Conference Dinner
21 June 2014
Fourth Panel: Family, Products and Finances (Chair: Fernando Ramos Palencia)
10.00: Yasmina Rocío Ben Yessef (UPO, Banco di Napoli): Family fortune or policentric enterprise? The “fedecommisseria” of a deceased Genoese in the service of the Spanish Monarchy in the 17th century: The case of Jerónimo Serra
10.20: Claudio Marsilio (Universidade do Lisboa): Why weak ties were so strong? The Genoese financial operators and the International Payment system: money, silver, and exchange fairs (1620-1660)
10.40: Pablo Hernández Sau (UPO): Bouligny’s family network: Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (1717-1793)
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30: Discussion
12.30: Manuel Herrero Sánchez / Klemens Kaps: Closing remarks
Financed by:
Trade between Spain and Habsburg Monarchy (1725-1815). Merchant Networks in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic PEOPLE, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF). Comisión Europea IEF VII Programa Marco (UE PIEF-GA-2011-299469).
http://www.upo.es/investiga/republicas/merchant_networks/index.jsp
“El papel de las repúblicas europeas en la conformación del Estado moderno. ¿Alternativa modernizadora o motor del sistema? (siglos XVI-XVIII)”
MINECO: HAR2010-19686
http://www.upo.es/investiga/republicas
Red Sucesión
Columnaria Ultraque Unum. Red temática de Investigación
http://redcolumnaria.inf.um.es
Unidad Asociada UPO- Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos de Sevilla (CSIC).
http://www.eeha.csic.es/
Organizers:
Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Klemens Kaps
Conference’s Organization Team:
Laura Borragán Fernández
Natalia Maillard Álvarez
Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez
Área de Historia Moderna del Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía, Facultad de Humanidades
Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla
http://www.upo.es/historia_moderna/
http://www.upo.es/investiga/republicas/merchant_networks/index.jsp