Workshop: "Imperial Circuits: Production, Commerce, and Regulation between the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, 1530-1620"

This workshop, organized by the international network Global Atlantic-Pacific Connections (GATPAC) at University of Seville, October 28-29, 2025, is a collaborative initiative that brings together researchers from Latin America, Europe, and Asia to rethink the role of the Americas in the first globalization (1550–1650). In contrast to narratives that have relegated the Americas to a peripheral position, GATPAC proposes a new perspective that recognizes their economic centrality in the formation of early capitalism.

Through the study of commercial, fiscal, and production networks that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific, this workshop will focus on actors, structures, and emerging initiatives within the American continent, including the active participation of Indigenous, Afro-American, and Asian groups in the reorientation of trade circuits — particularly, though not exclusively, from, within, and toward New Spain.

This workshop will be the third organized within the GATPAC network, following the first held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Unidad Oaxaca on June 30-July 1, and a second scheduled for September 13 at Linnaeus University. The aim of the workshops is to reconstruct a more equitable and multidirectional global economic and institutional history, in which colonial actors are not seen as mere recipients or providers, but as driving forces in processes of globalization. The meeting also seeks to foster academic dialogue that can serve as a foundation for future collaborations, interdisciplinary exchanges, and the development of new international funding applications.

The workshop is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.