CONFERENCE: Legal History at the 14th Quadrennial Conference for Eighteenth Century Studies (Rotterdam, 27-31 July 2015)

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The 14th edition of the bilingual quadrennial International Conference for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) will take place at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands). This interdisciplinary mass gathering unites historians, linguists, philosophers, musicologists, art historians and lawyers from across the globe.

The organisers distributed an 80 page-program and the abstracts of all papers listed per day. The following panels, keynotes and round tables are of potential interest to legal historians (in view of the sheer size of the event, it is almost impossible to be exhaustive):

Monday 27 July

S013(11:00 -12:30, Room: T3-10: Mandeville Building)
The Bubbles of 1720: New Economic and Cultural Perspectives
Organizer / Chair:
Catherine Labio
Condorelli, Stefano: The 1720 Financial Bubble: A European Perspective
Yamamoto, Koji: Homo Bulla: Young Students' Responses to the Bubble in 1721
Labio, Catherine: The Sounds of the Mississippi Bubble

S009(11:00 -12:30, Room: M3-03: Aberdeen: Van Der Goot Building)
Markets and Military Monarchies’: Enlightened Reflections On the Threat of Despotism, Pufendorf to Mandeville
Organizer / Chair: Robert von Friedeburg
Klerk, Marianne: Reconstructing Rule of Law and Reason of State in the Age of Louis XIV
Von Friedeburg, Robert: The Transformation of Reflections on Tyranny into those on ‘Despotism’ under the Threat of Military Monarchy

S030(14:00 -15:30, Room: T3-35: Mandeville Building)
Opening Markets: Swedish Consuls in Southern Europe, C. 1700-1800
Organizer / Chair: Silvia Marzagalli
Östlund, Joachim: The Swedish Trade Route to the Mediterranean: Consuls, Trade Security and the Development of Reciprocal Ransoming Agreement during the Eighteenth Century
Fryksén, Gustaf: Swedish Trade and Intelligence in the Mediterranean: Consular Incentives towards Commercial Expansion 1723-1763
Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves and Marzagalli, Silvia: ‘Pour l'Avantage et l'Accroissement du Commerce Suédois’. Consul Fölsch and Swedish Trade Growth (1780-1805)
Müller, Leos: Swedish Consular Service andShipping under the Neutral Flag in the Mediterranean, 1770-1800/p>

Tuesday 28 July

S046(09:00 -10:30, Room: M3-04: Auckland: Van Der Goot Building)
Droit et Diplomatie au XVIIIe Siècle
Organisateur/Président: Frederik Dhondt, Eric Schnakenbourg
Dhondt, Frederik: "Le congrès de Soissons (1728-1729) et le droit des gens"
Lloret , Sylvain: "Du langage commun au dialogue de sourds : la protection juridique des marchands français en Espagne au XVIIIe siècle"
Schnakenbourg, Eric: "À la recherche d’une légitimité juridique : Le droit maritime et relations internationales au XVIIIe siècle"
Simon, Victor: "Origine et évolution de la protection diplomatique française dans les échelles du Levant et de Barbarie
S054(I)(09:00 -10:30,Room: T3-35: Mandeville Building)
Le Marché Panckoucke (1782-1832) Ou l’Ouverture de la Connaissance (I)
Organisatrice/Président: Martine Groult, Rolando Minuti
Leoni, Marina: La Méthodique de Quatremère de Quincy. L'Architecture entre beaux-arts et savoirs scientifiques
Delia, Luigi: Lumières sur le jusnaturalisme. Remarques sur la réception encyclopédique du droit naturel
Doig, Ann Kathleen Hardesty: Ebauche d'une étude transversale : le Dictionnaire "Physique" de l'Encyclopédie méthodique
Groult, Martine: Ordre encyclopédique et ordre méthodique
S053(09:00 -10:30, Room: T3-17: Mandeville Building)
Migrant Merchant Cultures and the Transition to Modernity: Financial and Memorial Practices of Trade Communities From the 18th to the Early 19Th Century
Organizer / Chair: Maria A. Stassinopoulou
Ressel,Magnus: Charitable Foundations Of Lutheran Merchants In 18th Century Venice
Ransmayr, Anna: “Speculation And Usury”: Financial Crisis And Profiteering
Saracino, Stefano / Soursos, Nathalie: Private Vs. Public Crises And The Foundations And Endowments Of The Greek-Orthodox In Vienna (18th/19th Century)
Mantouvalos, Ikaros: The Social Reproduction Of The Family Capital And The Redefinition Of The Family Memory: Greek Testators In Pest And Their Endowment Strategies (18th Century -Early 19th Century)

S061(11:00-12:30, Room: M3-04: Auckland: Van Der Goot Building)
Rousseau
Organizer /Chair:Annelien de Dijn
de Dijn, Annelien: Rousseau and Republicanism
Verhoeven, Willem: Reason or Sense? Rousseau’s Moral Epistemology and Conception of Natural Law
Vargas, Thiago: “No one touches his neighbor's garden”: Rousseau's economic lessons in Émile.

S074(14:00 -15:30, Room: M3-04: Auckland: Van Der Goot Building)
Montesquieu: de L'Esprit et des Lois
Organisateur/Président:Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Lorenzo Bianchi, Rolando Minuti
Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet -« Je disais... » dans mes Pensées : théorie et pratique de l’esprit
Joshua Bandoch, Montesquieu, Esprit, and the Politics of Place
Stéphane Pujol - De l'esprit faux et des mauvais esprits. Quand Voltaire réécrit les Lettres persanes
Vernazza, Diego: L’esprit général, l’objet d’une nation, et le problème de l’idéal

S080(14:00 -15:30, Room: T3-16: Mandeville Building)
The Indies Companies in The Age of Revolution
Organizer / Chair:Malick W. Ghachem
Leos Müller Fatah - Black, Karwan: The dismantling of the chartered companies in the Dutch Atlantic
Stern, Philip: A Plassey Revolution?: Rewriting the English East India Company in the Late Eighteenth Century
Ghachem, Malick: The Revolt against the French Indies Company
Van Rossum, Matthias: A troublesome Company: The VOC and revolts, circa 1740-1800

Wednesday 29 July

KN308 (09:00 –10:30, Room: M1-12: Oxford: Van Der Goot Building)
Keynote 4: Who was the Enlightenment? Social Networks and Digital Humanities
Keynote Speaker: Dan Edelstein
Chair: Keith Bake

RT302 (11:00 -12:30, Room: M3-15 Forum: Van Der Goot Building)
Round table 3 – The Politics of Enlightenment
Organizer / Chair: Matthijs Lok
Israel, Jonathan
McMahon, Darrin
Clark, Jonathan
de Dijn, Annelien

S114 (11:00 -12:30, Room: M3-03: Aberdeen: Van Der Goot Building)
Panel Commerce
Organizer / Chair:Inger Leemans
Rubinstein, Elena: Lord Bolingbroke about British economy after Glorious Revolution in his last work "Some Reflections on the Present State of Nation"
Valmori, Niccolò: The rise of a New World: American securities market and European investors at the end of the eighteenth century.
Zabel, Christine: Tomorrow is Today’s Uncertainty: Speculating in Early Modern Europe
Cruz, Miguel: Making the Empire defendable: international commercial networks and the 18th century Portuguese Atlantic World

S111(I)(14:00 -15:30,Room: T3-16: Mandeville Building)
Economic Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations of the 18th Century -Structures and Translations/ Le Savoir Économique Dans Les Compilations Encyclopédiques Du XvIIIe Siècle -Structures Et Traductions (I)*Panel of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts
Organizer / Chair:Hanco Jürgens, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen: Le Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce (1723) de Savary Des Bruslons comme modèle d'une encyclopédie économique au Siècle des Lumières -structure, transformations, transferts
Jürgens, Hanco: Translations and circulations of economic knowledge of India in European encyclopedias
Baggerman, Arianne: Blussé's Complete Description of Trades and Occupations

S111(II)(16:00 -17:30,Room: T3-16: Mandeville Building)
Economic Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations of the 18th Century -Structures and Translations/ Le Savoir Économique Dans Les Compilations Encyclopédiques Du XvIIIe Siècle-Structures Et Traductions (II)*Panel of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts
Organizer / Chair:Hanco Jürgens, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Donato, Clorinda: "Promoting Commerce, Trade and the Maritime Prowess of the Venetian Republic in the Encyclopédie méthodique de Padoue (1784-1817)
Greilich, Suzanne: Savoir économique et l'Espagne des Lumières
D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo: Transfer of Economic Knowledge in German Encyclopediae: From Krünitz to Brockhaus

Thursday 30 July

KN309 (09:00 –10:30, Room: M1-12: Oxford: Van Der Goot Building)
Keynote 5: Eloges de l'injustice. De Diderot à Sade
Keynote Speaker: Céline Spector
Chair: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

Friday 31 July

S197(I)(09:00 -10:30, Room: M3-05: Praag: Van Der Goot Building)
Le Moment Beccaria (1765-1810). Les Origines intellectuelles du Droit Pénal Moderne (I)
Organisateur/Président:Philippe Audegean
Rao, Annamari: Humanité et utilité : le débat sur Beccaria dans les milieux intellectuels napolitains
Berti, Francesco: Tommaso Natale et la critique de la philosophie démocratique de Beccaria
Ippolito, Dario: Beccaria VS Montesquieu : le problème pénal dans la réflexion de Dalmazzo Francesco Vasco
Monti, Annamaria: La question del’arbitraire judiciaire entre 1764 et 1810 : un débat européen

S196(II)(11:00 -12:30,Room: M3-04: Auckland: Van Der Goot Building)
Liberty in Commercial Society: Conceptions of Liberty in the Age of the Enlightenment (II)
Organizer / Chair:Eleni Leontsini
Esser dos Reis, Helena: Embuscades de la liberté: difficultés à la protection des droits de l'homme.
Ueno, Hiroki: Domesticating Global Economy: Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and the Invention of National Economy.
Leontsini, Eleni: Adam Ferguson’s Republican Conception of Liberty

S196(III)(14:00 -15:30,Room: M3-04: Auckland: Van Der Goot Building)
Liberty in Commercial Society: Conceptions of Liberty in the Age of the Enlightenment (III)
Organizer / Chair:Eleni Leontsini
Balazs, Peter: Deux conceptions rivales de la liberté dans la Hongrie du XVIIIe siecle
Konstantakopoulos, Stavros: Benjamin Constant and the Limitations of the Liberty of the Moderns

S197(II)(11:00 -12:30, Room: M3-05: Praag: Van Der Goot Building)
Le Moment Beccaria (1765-1810). Les Origines intellectuelles du Droit Pénal Moderne (II)
Organisateur/Président:Luigi Delia
de Champs, Emmanuelle: Une culture démocratique de la décision juridique? Juges et jurés chez Beccaria, Condorcet et Bentham
Ferrand, Jérôme: Beccaria, «père» du droit pénal moderne ou «dernier des mohicans» matérialistes?
Rother, Wolfgang: Johann Christian Gottlieb Schaumann et les débuts de la psychologie criminelle
Béal, Christophe: Beccaria, Bentham, Hart et la philosophie pénale


S221(14:00 -15:30,Room: M2-10: Rochester: Van Der Goot Building)
Enemies of Exclusion: Opposition to Closed Markets in Overseas Trade
Organizer / Chair: Joris van den Tol
Hoonhout, Bram: Free trade at the fringes of empire? Cross-imperial trade and the expansion of the Dutch West-Indian colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, 1750-1800
Heijmans, Elisabeth: Hand in hand with the state:Regional merchant communities and centralized French empire building
Odegard, Erik: The Dutch East India Company and the opening of the Malabar Military Labor market, 1760-1795
Brinkman, Anna: British Prize Law and the Loss of Spanish Neutrality, 1756-1763