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Wednesday, 12 December
Venue: CRASSH
2:30-3:00:
Registration and coffee
3:00:
Welcome
Panel 1
Chair: Tim Blanning (Cambridge)
Discussant: John Robertson (Oxford)
3:00-3:30:
Chris Storrs (Dundee)
The Savoyard State: Enlightened Despotism?
3:30-4:00:
Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge)
From reform to revolution in late eighteenth-century Naples
4:00-4:30:
Koen Stapelbroek (Rotterdam)
'The proud epithet of Enlightened’: Ferdinando Galiani on the foreign politics and trade of Bourbon Naples in a hostile world
4:30-5:00:
Sophus Reinert (Cambridge and the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin)
The Sultan’s Republic: Economic Warfare and the Absolutist Imperative in Paolo Mattia Doria and Antonio Genovesi
5:00-5:15:
Further discussion
6:30-7:30:
Drinks Reception. Old Combination Room, Trinity College.
Thursday, 13 December
Venue: CRASSH
Panel 2
Chair: Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)
Discussant: Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard)
9:00-9:30:
Nuno G. Monteiro (ICS, Lisbon)
Pombal's Government: Between Seventeenth-century valido and enlightened models
9:30-10:00:
Luiz Carlos Villalta (Minas Gerais)
Prohibited Books and Reading Practices in the Luso-Brazilian World (1740-1802)
10:00-10:30:
Gabriel Paquette (Cambridge)
José da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil, 1798-1824
10:30-10:45:
Further discussion
10:45-11:15:
Coffee
Panel 3
Chair: David Brading (Cambridge)
Discussant: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Texas)
11:15-11:45:
Charles Noel (Syracuse University, London)
In the House of Reform: The Bourbon Court of Eighteenth-Century Spain
11:45-12:15:
Kenneth J. Andrien (Ohio State)
Secularization and the Struggles over Clerical Reform in Bourbon Peru, 1749-1770
12:15-12:45:
Víctor Peralta Ruiz (CSIC, Madrid)
The Spanish Monarchy and the Uses of Jesuit historiography in the Dispute of the New World
12:45-1:00
Further Discussion
1.00-2.00:
Lunch (provided in CRASSH)
Panel 4
Chair: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Texas)
Discussant: Anthony McFarlane (Warwick)
2:00-2:30:
Manuel Lucena-Giraldo (CSIC, Madrid)
Limits on Reforms in Spanish America, 1750-1792
2:30-3:00:
Christopher Albi (Texas)
Derecho Indiano v. Bourbon Reforms: Francisco Xavier Gamboa’s Defence of the Laws of the Indies in Eighteenth-Century New Spain
3:00-3:30:
Coffee
3:30-4:00:
Jordana Dym (Skidmore College)
Conceiving Central America: Public, Patria and Nation in the Gazeta de Guatemala (1797-1807)
4:00-4:30:
Matthew Brown (Bristol)
Enlightened Absolutism after Independence: Simón Bolívar, Daniel O'Leary and Plans to Introduce a Foreign King in Gran Colombia, 1820s
4:30-5:00:
Sir John Elliott (Oxford)
Starting Afresh? The Eclipse of Empire in British and Spanish America
5:00-5:15:
Further Discussion
7:15 for 7:30:
Workshop Dinner. Old Kitchens, Trinity College
Friday, 14 December
Venue: Old Combination Room, Trinity College
9:30-10:00:
Coffee
Panel 5
Chair: H.M. Scott (St Andrews)
Discussant: Richard Drayton (Cambridge)
10:00-10:30:
John Shovlin (New York University)
Reconceptualizing Enlightened Absolutism in a French Context
10:30-11:00:
Florian Schui (Royal Holloway, London)
‘Keeping up with the neighbours’: Fiscal reform and mutual observation in Europe after the Seven Years’ War
11:00-11:30:
Pernille Røge (Cambridge)
Despotism and enlightened reform in the Îles du Vent: The colonial governments of Chevalier de Mirabeau and Mercier de la Rivière, 1754-1764
11:30-12:00:
Paul Cheney (Chicago)
Antoine Barnave and the colonial question: from the club Massiac to the scaffold
12:00-12:15:
Further discussion
From 12:15:
Departure
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