Free Trade and Protectionism in Historical Perspective Conference

Event time: 
Saturday, April 28, 2018 - 9:30am to 2:30pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), 208 See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Day 2 of Two

Free Trade and Protectionism in Historical Perspective

April 27 – 28, 2018

Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208, 2nd Fl, 53 Wall St.

Saturday

9:30-10am Corey Tazzara, Scripps College
- The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World, 1574-1790
10-10:30 Guillaume Calafat, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Mare Liberum, Mare Clausum, and the Mediterranean Background: Legal and Theoretical Weapons in the ‘Battle of the Books’
10:30-11 Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
- Oeconomie and Commerce during Sweden’s Age of Freedom: Christopher Polhem on Economic Liberty and Monopolies

11-12:15 Discussion chaired by Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University

1:45-2:15 Pernille Røge, University of Pittsburgh
- Free Ports, Emulation, and Protection in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
2:15-2:45 Silvia Marzagalli, Université de Nice
- French Colonial Policy, Warfare, and Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Trade: Adjustment Mechansims Beyond Protected Markets
2:45-3:15pm Lauren R. Clay, Vanderbilt University
- Big Business and the Invention of Democracy: Economic Lobbying during the
Early French Revolution

3:15-4:30 Discussion chaired by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago