Thursday, October 11

5:15 – 6:00

6:00 – 7:30

Reception

Keynote Address
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
"Atlantic History and Financial History"

Friday, October 12

9:00 – 9:45

Registration and coffee

9:45 – 10:00

Welcoming remarks

10:00 – 11:30

Keynote Address

John C. Van Horne, Director, Library Company of Philadelphia

Melanie Aspey, Director, The Rothschild Archive, London

Cathy Matson, Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society and Professor of History, University of Delaware

10:00 - 11:30

Building Confidence, Securing the State: Marketing Transatlantic Knowledge

Session Moderator: Cathy Matson

Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire, "'The American and Foreign Agency': Profit and a Prophet of American Commercial Expansionism"

Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard Business School, "A Common Language of Accounts: Networks of Management Expertise"

Gautham Rao, American University, "The Neckerian Revolution: Public Opinion, Public Credit, and Central Statecraft in Post-Revolutionary America"

11:30 – 11:45

Break

11:45 – 1:15

Tobacco, Cotton, Black Powder: Europeans in Early North American Trade and Manufactures

Session Moderator: Melanie Aspey

Kathryn Boodry, Harvard University, "Lessons learned from Cotton: Rothschild Trade and Finance in the United States 1837-1861"

Andrew Fagal, SUNY-Binghamton, "Foreign Capital, American Armament, and the Rise of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co."

Claire-Amandine Soulié, The Rothschild Archive, London,"'A fine sort of bright long and fine leaf': Rothschild Houses and American Tobacco, 1830-1860"

1:15 – 2:30

2:30 – 4:00

Foreign Investment in Far-Flung Places

Session Moderator: Cathy Matson

Hannah Farber, UC–Berkeley, "A Debt to North Africa: The Dey of Algiers as an Investor in the United States, 1795-1796"

Francois Furstenberg, University of Montreal, "Reflections on French and Dutch Investment in the American Backcountry: The 1790s"

Richard J Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio, "A Mexican Family Dynasty in Louisiana: The Lizardi, 1829-1858"

4:00 – 4:15

Break

4:15 – 5:45

Digging in the Archives: Thinking about Sources for Studying the North American Economy

Session Moderator: Melanie Aspey

Inés Roldán de Montaud, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, (CSIC), "Spain Sources for Early American Economy and Society in the Spanish Archives"

Pierre Gervais, University of Paris-8/ UMR 8533 IDHE, "From Public Records to Private Archives: Researching the North American Economy in France"

5:45 – 7:00

Reception