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10 October 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS: A Global History of Free Ports. Capitalism, Commerce and Geopolitics (Venice/Helsinki, APR/JUN 2019) (DEADLINE 31 OCT 2018)

(image source: University of Helsinki)
The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the 16th to the early 20th century. Please check our website (www.helsinki.fi/a-global-history-of-free-ports) for an impression.
The first two meeting will take place in Venice (April 2019) and in Helsinki (June 2019).
For the call for papers of both the Venice and Helsinki meetings, see:
We are looking for case studies that engage with the transformations of the various functions of free ports over time and the spread of free ports from Italy and the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Asia and the global level. The research may open up to the wider international development of trade and its institutions by taking a perspective that can be long-term, comparative or comprehensive (involving a combination of intellectual, policy, and economic angles). Papers may also address cultural, religious, diplomatic and network perspectives.
Texts that are presented at conferences may be published as a ‘dossier’/ special issue in the Intellectual History Archive open access working paper series of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History. A selection of revised papers will be included in a book publication.
Abstracts (of ca. 500 words) and titles may be sent by email tokoen.stapelbroek@helsinki.fi and ctazzara@scrippscollege.edu by 31 October 2018. Invited speakers are subsequently requested to provide short papers (ca. 5,000 words) that will be pre-circulated among participants. For further information, see the ‘Call(s) for papers’. For those who do not possess their own research budgets or travel funds, we can try to contribute towards your travel and accommodation costs.

(source: ESILHIL Blog)

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