Agenda

29 Apr 2019 09:30

The construction of free ports

Sala Berengo I. piano, Ca' Foscari - Sede Centrale

The construction of free ports. Political communication, commercial development and administrative control

Program
29 April

  • 9.30 Welcome address: Andrea Torsello, Vice Provost for Research
  • 9:40-13:00 Session 1 chair: James Stafford (Bielefeld)

Introduction:

  • Koen Stapelbroek (Helsinki/Rotterdam) & Antonio Trampus (Venice)
  • Giulia Delogu (Venice): What is a free port? Creating the institution and defining the concept
  • Francesca Savoldi (Lisbon): Dire strait: colonial free ports and the mixed fortunes of Tangier and Gibraltar
  • Ida Fazio (Palermo) & Rita Foti (Palermo): The construction of the free port of Messina in its Italian commercial and institutional contexts

Discussion

  • 15:00-17:30 Session 2 chair Giulia Delogu (Venice)
    • Eduardo Jones-Corredera (Cambridge): ‘Lords of the Seas’: the eighteenth-century Spanish case against free ports
    • Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca Milan): Free ports in a controlled market: the role of Ancona, Livorno, Genova and Trieste in the grain trade in eighteenth-century Italy
    • David Do Paco (Sciences Po Paris): Free port and captive city? A socio-political history of eighteenthcentury Trieste

Discussion

30 April

  • 9:00-11:30 Session 3 chair: Koen Stapelbroek (Rotterdam/ Helsinki)
    • Jesús Bohorquez (EUI): Eighteenth-century free ports as failed projects: Lisbon and the winners and losers in international markets
    • Antonio Iodice (Exeter): ‘La maladie des Marseillais’, Marseille’s free port between Revolution and Restauration, 1789-1817
    • Stella Ghervas (Newcastle): Odessa: The Rise and Fall of a Free Port, 1819-1858

Discussion

  • 11:30-13:30 Session 4 chair: Antonio Trampus (Venice)
    • TransPort: the journey as a transfer of knowledge: ports cities in the global system: project idea(s) from an interdisciplinary discussion
    • Introduction: Antonio Trampus & Giulia Delogu (Venice)
    • Discussants: Stella Ghervas (Newcastle), Domenico Cecere (Naples), James Stafford (Bielefeld)
    • With David Do Paco (Sciences Po, Paris), Koen Stapelbroek (Rotterdam/Helsinki), Fabio D’Angelo (San Marino), Silvia Zabeo (Ca’ Foscari Research Area, Venice)

Brochure e further information

Language

The event will be held in Italian

Organized by

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Research Team "Science of Complexity"

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