Workshop Agenda
Thursday, October 27
09.00-09.15 Welcome: Elise Dermineur (Stockholm University)
09.15-10.15 Keynote 1: Laurence Fontaine (EHESS, CNRS)
10.15-12.00 Session 1 (Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn)
Martín Wasserman (Universidad de Buenos Aires) - Paper monetization and financial devices. The emergence of the banking system at the twilight of the Ancien Regime in Buenos Aires
David Carvajal (University of Valladolid) - Credit Flows in Early Modern Castile: from Peninsular to Local Networks
Marcella Lorenzini & Giuseppe De Luca (University of Milan) - Financial Strategies of Northern Italian Nobility in the Early Modern Age (17th-18th cent.)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 2 (Chair: Elise Dermineur)
Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler (University of Innsbruck) - Rural Credit Markets in Medieval Tyrol - Economic Strategies of Small Households
Hannah Robb (University of Manchester) - Managing Household Finances in Early Modern England; Commerce and Credit in Court Depositions
Christie Swanepoel (University of Western Cape) - Intertwined vines: Homophily among French Huguenots in Eighteenth-Century Cape Colony
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Session 3 (Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn)
Matteo Pompermaier (Stockholm University) - Credit Networks in Renaissance Florence. The Money-Changers as Lenders, Borrowers and Intermediaries
Alberto Feenstra (Leiden University) - Innkeepers and Other Middlemen. Financial Intermediation in Early Modern Dutch Debt
19.00 Dinner (check the info section for further details)
Friday, October 28
09.00-10.30 Session 4 (Chair: Matteo Pompermaier)
Aurelius Noble (London School of Economics) - Business Among Friends: Personal Connections and Client-Sharing in Merchant Banking
Ruben Peeters & Rogier Van Kooten (University of Antwerp) - Mapping the Market. The Credit Transactions of Antwerp’s Business Community in the 19th Century
Louis Bissieres (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, IDHES) - A differentiated access to credit in a merchant network in the 1780s (Philadelphia and its region).
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Keynote 2: Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
12.00 Lunch