Organized by The University of Hamburg, History Department and The Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaften. In the tradition of former Summerschools on the History of European Expansion, organized by the European Science Foundation and the Leiden Center for the History of European Expansion, the organizers like to stimulate the debate on the above mentioned topic.

Scholars are invited to participate by presenting papers of their own. There are up to twenty grants for free accomodation and part of the travel expenses etc. Proposals should include an abstract of about 500 words. Ph. D. requir

The following senior scholars announced their participation:

  Brading, David (Institute of Latin American Studies, Cambridge):
  Creole Identity, Independence and The Enlightment
 
  Canny, Nicholas (National University of Ireland):
  Atlantic History, 1492 - 1700: Scope, Sources and Methods
  
  Emmer, Piet (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden): The Atlantic Economy, 1500 - 1900
  
  Finzsch, Norbert (Universität Hamburg): The Atlantic System and Maritime
  Dimensions of North American History, 1750 - 1830
  
  Fisher, John (University of Liverpool):
  British Trade with the Hispanic World, 1763 - 1824
  
  Harding, Leonhard (Universität Hamburg):
  African Economies, African Traders, and the Slave Trade
  
  Klein, Herbert (Columbia University, New York): The Atlantic SlaveTrade
  
  Law, Robin (University of Stirling):
  The Port of Ouidah in the Atlantic Community, 17th - 19th Centuries
  
  Martínez Shaw, Carlos (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid)
  The Spanish Colonial Trade, 1717 - 1778
  
  Miller, Rory (University of Liverpool):
  Britain and Early Independent Latin America: Economic Hopes and Realities
  
  Morineau, Michel (Université de Paris X):
  Un audit de "Seville et l`Atlantique" de Pierre Chaunu
  
  Muldoon, James (John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island):
  Christendom, the Americas, and World Order
  
  Piel, Jean (Université de Paris VII):
  Evoluciones y mutaciones del sistema atlántico visto desde América Latina
  desde 1820 hasta 1920: Algunas primeras pistas de reflexión
  
  Pieper, Renate (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz):
  The Influence of the Atlantic Space on European Self Perception, 1530 - 1648
  
  Pietschmann, Horst (Universität Hamburg): Introduction: Economic and Social
  Networks in the Atlantic Space - Historical Entities?
  
  Porter, Andrew (King´s College, London):
  European Missionary Networks in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
  
  Puhle, Hans-Jürgen (Universität Frankfurt): Trajectories of Western
  Modernization Around the Atlantic World: One World or Many
  
  Schmidt, Peer (Universität Erfurt):
  Les Minorités religieuses et l`espace atlantique á l`époque moderne
  
  Sywottek, Arnold (Universität Hamburg):
  Geschichte ohne Gewalt? Fragen eines Zeithistorikers
  an die atlantische Geschichte des 16 - 18. Jahrhunderts
  
  Vázquez, Josefina Zoraida (El Colegio de México):
  Las revoluciones atlánticas y el nacionalismo
  
  Vieira, Alberto (Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, Madeira)
  
  Wellenreuther, Hermann (Universität Göttingen):
  Politics and Power Relations in the Atlantic World. Some Thoughts