Potosi and the world: new approaches (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)

The participants: 14 scholars from different countries:

1. Therese Bouysse Cassagne
   France, Paris CREDA/IHEAL/ CNRS
   Potosí during the Prehispanic Period 
    
2. Hedi Scott Amherest
   USA, Massachussets, University of Amhrest 
   The Cerro Rico, the political geology and the geological knowledge in the Andes, (Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries)
    
3. Renée Raphael
   USA, California, University of California
   Making the Mining progress believable
    
4. Clara López and Luis Prado
   Bolivia, La Paz, Academia Bolivia de la Historia.
   Technological innovation and society in the mines: the mills of Potosi (1570-1650)
    
5. James Almeida                            
   USA, Boston, University of Harvard
   The world within walls: Forced Labour in the Mint House of Potosi
    
6. Paula C. Zagalsky                       
   Argentina, Jujuy, CONICET
   Miners during the boom of Potosí, 1569-1610: an overview of the mining owners, and renters in the mines and the mills.
     
7. Rossana Barragán                        
   The Netherlands/Bolivia, Amsterdam , International Institute of Social History
   The main crop of the Kingdom and Monarchy”: mines, mills, trapiches and the silver bank in (1681-1790)
    
8. Renzo Honores
   Peru, Lima, Universidad Católica
   Arbitrism, Mining Rights and Legal Discourses from the Villa Imperial de Potosí in 1634.  
    
9. Lucía Querajazu
   Bolivia, La Paz, Universidad de Buenos Aires
   The Inca Parade in Potosi in the Eighteenth Century
    
10. Daniel Oropeza Alba
    Bolivia, Potosí, Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos
    Merchants of silver and its transport in Potosi during the Seventeenth Century
     
11. Mariano A. Bonialian
    México, México, El Colegio de México
    The Money of Potosi and its transpacific flows in the monetization of China, 1570-1620.
     
12. Kris Lane 
    USA, New Orleans, Tulane University
    A global scandal: the peso potosino during the big mint fraud of 1640
     
13. Tristan Platt
    Great Britain, University of St. Andrews
    Recovering the Past for the Present: Target and Reality in the Ratio of Quicksilver to Refined Silver (1800-1850)
     
14. Alejandra Irigoin
    Great Britain, London School of Economics
    Plata or money? The role of silver in the early modern global economy 

The results of this conference will be published in Spanish and English.