300 jaar Oostendse Compagnie - Scientific Conference
–Ostend, Belgium
- Donderdag 23 November 2023
- 9:15 - Welkom: Jan Mees (VLIZ) & Eduard Somers (Koninklijke Belgische Marine Academie), Carl Decaluwé (Gouverneur West-Vlaanderen), Torsten Feys (VLIZ), Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Michael-W. Serruys (Koninklijke Belgische Marine Academie) & Stan Pannier (VLIZ)
- 10:00 - Key Note 1: Small companies in a global perspective - Cátia Antunes (Leiden)
- 11:15 - Pauze
- 11:45 - Sessie 1 - The Ostend Company and its European merchants and investors
- France and the Ostend Company - Pierrick Pourchasse (Brest)
- The Lisbon link: Uncovering the Portuguese connection of the Ostend Company (1714-1730) - Gijs Dreijer (Leiden), Susana Münch Miranda (Lissabon) & João Paulo Salvado (Évora)
- The Danish Ostend legacy: Supercargo Pieter Van Hurk in Copenhagen - Benjamin Asmussen (Kopenhagen)
- 13:15 - Lunch
- 14:30 - Sessie 2 - The Ostend Company’s European market: Shipping and smuggling
- A Cantonese fairy tale. The Ostend tea trade and smuggle (1718-1756) - Jan Parmentier (Antwerpen)
- The Ostend Company and the Sound Toll Registers, Dutch and Frisian skippers in Ostend - Jelle Jan Koopmans (Groningen)
- Lighter and brighter: Indian cottons in Brussels in the first half of the eighteenth century - Veronika Hyden-Hanscho (Klagenfurt)
- 16:00 - Pauze
- 16:30 - Sessie 3 - The Ostend Company’s homeport(s) in the Austrian Netherlands
- The Ostend Company and the Port and City of Ostend - Michael-W. Serruys (Brussel)
- A rivalry of maritime aspirations between Bruges and Ostend (1715-1730) - Erik Muls (Leuven)
- Vrijdag 24 November 2023
- 9:00 - Key Note 2: Merchants or soldiers? The Ostend Company: local actions, maritime power and military conflicts in China and Bengal - Wim De Winter (Leuven)
- 10:15 - Pauze
- 10:45 - Sessie 4 – All on board to Asia
- Commensality on board the Ostend Company’s East Indiamen - Dennis De Vriese (Brussel)
- ‘Le pavillon impérial y est respecté’: on the context of the establishment and functioning of the Ostend settlement of Coblon on the Coromandel coast of India - Karel Stanĕk (Praag) & Michal Wanner (Praag)
- The aftermath of Banquibazar: Dutch takeover, English mansion and Bengal police academy (1745-2020) - John Everaert (Gent)
- Maritime comradeship and artistic taste. Eighteenth century clay portrait figures of the officers from Ostend and Danish East India Companies - Yi-Chieh ‘Mireille’ Shih (Leiden)
- 12:15 - Lunch
- 13:30 - Sessie 5 - The Ostend Company and European diplomacy
- David and Goliath? Reassessing colonial competition and the struggle for global empire between the Dutch republic and the Habsburg Monarchy in the case of the Ostend Company - Jonathan Singerton (Amsterdam)
- Law and interest: The politico-legal battle on the Ostend Company and ‘la vie du droit’ (1725-1730) - Frederik Dhondt (Brussel)
- ‘The Emperor himself […] permitted the ships to go to the Indies’: Charles VI and the end of the Ostend Company - Charlotte Backerra (Göttingen)
- 15:00 - Pauze
- 15:30 - Sessie 6 - The Ostend Company and new societal ideas
- The Ostend Company: Law of the Sea debates in the Age of mercantilism - Stefano Cattelan (Brussel)
- ‘What if everyone would do it freely?’ The Ostend Company and the invention of modern business practices in eighteenth century St. Petersburg, Russia - Alexei Kraikovski (Genua)
- 16:30 - Conclusie