Capitalism, Markets & Slavery
Workshop with Prof. Michael Zeuske
Programme Friday 12 December, Mittelstrasse 43, Raum 220
13.30 – 14.10
André von Steiger
Universität Bern
Ferdinand von Steiger in Brazil: A Bernese Patrician as
Plantation and Slave Owner in the Ilhéus Region
Moderation:
Michael Zeuske (Universität Bonn)
14.10 – 14.50
Felipe Souza Melo (in cooperation with Mary O’Sullivan)
Universität Genf
Cotton revolution in the Americas: profits from slave
plantations in the Caribbean & South America, 1772–1791
Moderation:
Michael Schmitz (Universität Lausanne)
15.00 – 16.00
Michael Zeuske
Universität Bonn
Slaveries, works and commodity-production in the Americas
Moderation:
Melina Teubner (Universität Bern)
16.00- 16.15
Coffee Break
16.15 – 16.55
Javier Sadarangani
Universität Bern
Anti-capitalist moral critique of Chilean conservatives
Moderation:
Christian Büschges (Universität Bern)
16.55 – 17.35
Agnes Gehbald
Universität Bern
Book History from Below: Print Capitalism, Slave Labor, and
Afrodescendant Printers in Colonial Spanish America
Moderation:
Sagnik Bhattacharya (Universität Bern)
17.45 – 18.25
Izabel Barros
Universität Lausanne
Beyond the Ledger: Enslaved Women’s Lives on a Swiss-
Owned Plantation in Nineteenth-Century Ilhéus, Bahia
Moderation:
Christiane Hoth (Universität Bern)
18.25 – 19.05
Melina Teubner
Universität Bern
Urban Chicken: commodity production, work and new
dependencies in the Mercosul
Moderation:
Sebastian Stöckli (Universität Bern)
20.00
Dinner Café Kairo