Organised by the Centre for Intellectual History (Unioninkatu 38, room A205)
This event is part of the project “A Global History of Free Ports: Capitalism, Commerce and
Geopolitics (1600–1900)”, see: www.helsinki.fi/a-global-history-of-free-ports
For more information: koen.stapelbroek@helsinki.fi
5 June 2019, 9:00-15:00
Chair: Mónica García-Salmones
9-9:30, Welcome and introduction. Koen Stapelbroek and Corey Tazzara
9:30-10:15, Corey Tazzara, Empirical and Theoretical Questions about the Origins of Free Ports: Comparing the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Coffee break
10:30-11:15, Patrick Neveling, What’s special? Towards a global historical comparison of free ports, special economic zones, and other enclaved political-economic institutions
11:15-12:00, Megan Maruschke, From the Free Port to the Free Zone: Questioning the Narrative of Continuity
Lunch break
Chair: Kari Saastamoinen
12:45-13:30, Fidel Tavarez, “Comercio libre y protegido”: Havana and Spain’s Intra-Imperial System of Free Trade
13:30-14:15, Koen Stapelbroek, The changing scope for a Dutch general free port: political economy and pamphlets in the early 19th century
14:15-15:00, Marcella Aglietti. ‘Of the prodigious virtue of every free port’, Cadiz, Livorno and the function of European free ports in historical-institutional perspective from a memorandum by Manuel María Gutiérrez (1830)
6 June 2019, 9:00-13:00
Chair: Jani Marjanen
9:00-9:45, Victor Wilson, Scandinavian Free Ports and the Long Continuity of Atlantic Free Trade
9:45-10:30, Giulia Delogu, Free ports: states of nature or artifacts against nature? The political debate in Venice in the early 19th century
Coffee break
10:45-11:30, Lasse Heerten, Berlin’s Gate to the World: The Free Port of Hamburg and the German Empire
11:30-12:15, Aleksandr Turbin, The rise of national economy thought in the Russian Empire and the Free Port question on the Pacific Coast in the 1880s
12:15-13:00, Concluding discussion.