SEE ALSO: www.helsinki.fi/a-global-history-of-free-ports
Workshop and presentation of the project
A Global History of Free Ports: Capitalism, Commerce and Geopolitics (1600–1900)
Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari
20-21 April, 2017
Thursday 20 April (13-17:30)
13-13:45, Presentation website and project. Koen Stapelbroek, Corey Tazzarra, Antonio Trampus
13:45-14:30, General discussion
Session 1: Caribbean free ports (15-17:30)
Antonella Alimento (Pisa), From the Navigation Acts to the Free Port Acts: some reflections on the British West colonial policy
Mallory Hope (Yale), “All Clear Gain to the Kingdom”: Arguments in Favor of Opening Free Ports in the British West Indies
Victor Wilson (Turku), Swedish flagged trade in the Caribbean Free Port of Gustavia, 1793–1815
Corey Tazzarra (Scripps College Claremont, CA), Caribbean free port trade in the nineteenth century [discussion of paper synopsis]
Friday 21 April (9-13:30)
Session 2: European free ports after the Congress of Vienna and classical political economy (9-11:30)
Koen Stapelbroek (Helsinki & Rotterdam), Dutch liberalism and the return of the free port debate in the 1830s-1840s
Daniele Andreozzi (Trieste) with comments by Antonio Trampus (Venice), The transformation of the free port of Trieste in the nineteenth century
Marcella Aglietti (Pisa), The Gutierrez manuscript on the establishment of Cadiz as a free port [discussion of paper synopsis]
Session 3: The Asian free port development in the nineteenth and twentieth century (12-12:45)
Luigi Nuzzo (Lecce), Open ports and international law in China: the case of Tianjin
Concluding discussion (12:45-13:30)