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Cologne
Rethinking tobacco history: Commodities, empire and agency in global perspective, 1780–1960
Tobacco was one of the most important globally traded commodities from the 17th century through to the present day, and yet it has received relatively little attention in the historiography of modern empires in comparison to other commodities, such as sugar or cotton. As a result, recent approaches to rewriting the history of European imperialism from a more global perspective have hardly been problematized with regard to the peculiarities of tobacco history. Nowadays, studies no longer understand empire as a rigid relationship between metropole and colonies, but take the dynamics of actors within an empire as seriously as the networks and global processes that crossed imperial borders, or indeed lay beyond them. The conference starts from this assumption.
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Helsinki
Living under Empires: A View from Below
What have Mesopotamian Empires ever done for their people? Tracking the macro in the micro
In this workshop, we aim to take the view from below and investigate in what way imperial dynamics may have affected the lifeways of people in their territories. The basic questions of this workshop are: How did the empires of the Ancient Near East affect the lives of ordinary people in their realm? To which extent was rural life and life in smaller towns permeated by imperial agents and policies, hence by imperial dynamics?
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Budapest
Visible and invisible borders between Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern World
It has traditionally been argued that with the rise of the modern nation state, borders increasingly became lines demarcating the spatial limits of state power. Recent efforts have been made to re-examine this territorial argument and pay close attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious networks that created, reinforced, and also traversed borderlands. Though war, conquest, and diplomacy repeatedly redrew the dividing lines between empires and kingdoms, extensive interactions and exchanges left the borderlands with deeply entangled roots and routes. These patterns, mechanisms, and forces had a deep impact on all aspects of life and are still felt today. Arguably, no single element has been more dominant in shaping this complex relationship than the regional historiographies and historical memories that tried to write the empires out of their pasts entirely.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Maritime Knowledge for Asian Seas
An interdisciplinary dialogue between maritime historians and archaeologists
This conference will close a four-years French-Taiwanese research project (ANR/MOST) on Maritime Knowledge for Asian seas (seaFaring), which propose to reconsider, and possibly to review, our knowledge on China’s seafaring tradition through a new approach focusing on the practical know-how available to the craftsmen, seamen and merchants during the 16th-18th centuries, with special emphasis on sailing and trading knowledge and practices.
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Venice | Helsinki
A global history of free ports
Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)
Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVIth to the early XXth century.
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Abu Dhabi
Conference, symposium - History
This conference is an international symposium that proposes to study the entire range of exchanges and relations established between these two areas during the Early Modern Times (1500-1820). Its main objective is to think about diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural links between Europe and the Middle East by calling upon over twenty researchers with specializations in the Arab, Persian and Muslim world. In addition, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview to date of the Arabian Gulf at a time of major political change, including the successive arrival of the European “trading empires”. It will focus on some of the methodological challenges raised by a global, connected and cross-cultural thinking approach to the History of the Middle East and Europe”.
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Saint Petersburg
The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg owns the world's largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé, including nine of the famous imperial easter eggs, and aims to become the main international platform for the study of the art and life of the famous jeweler. In this year marking the 170th anniversary of Carl Fabergé, the museum dedicated its annual academic conference to Carl Fabergé, his firm's activities in Russia and abroad, its place within Russian culture as well as to Fabergé's influence on modern and contemporary jeweler’s art.
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Cambridge
Practices, Politics, and Policy in Premodern Societies (6th-17th Centuries)
Money is at once elusive and concrete. As a mode of economic exchange it exists within a relatively fixed playing field, with clearly delineated boundaries of benefits and costs. However, poor handling, bad advice, or even a bad turn at a game of chance can swallow money up in one fell swoop. The workshop will investigate this wide array of pre-capitalist, western and non-western contexts from the English Isles, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and China between the Middle Ages and Early Modern times.
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Lyon
Conference, symposium - History
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Within the rapidly expanding area of research on food and foodways, the medieval eastern Mediterranean is still very much an unexplored area. The aim of the POMEDOR project (People, Pottery and Food in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean) was to explore this new field in a multidisciplinary way and to stimulate further research.
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Lausanne
The Smaller European Powers and China in the Cold War, 1949-1989
This international conference aims to examine the policies of the smaller European powers towards China – and vice versa – during the Cold War. Thereby it focuses, on the European side, on both Western and Eastern Europe – regardless of whether a country was part of the NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, on the Chinese side, the conference proposes to include both Chinas, namely the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC). While this should allow for the analysis of different relational constellations, the chronological framework – that ranges from the Communist victory in China in 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 – should enable us to identify policy shifts and patterns.
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The Role of Women in Work and Society
French historians are concerned by women’s history since thirty years, but studies are manly dealing with the Occident. For the ancient Near East, there is now a great deal of limited studies on women and gender history, but few syntheses. Furthermore, economic history is well represented in Assyriology, thanks to the good preservation of dozen of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work has not been much addressed. The thirty participants of this conference will examine the various economic occupations involving women, in a gender perspective, over the three millennia of Near Eastern history.
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Coimbra
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology
Alice - Strange mirrors, unsuspected lessons
Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences
The Centre for Social Studies (CES) –Associate Laboratory– of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has an open competition to two Post-Doctoral Grants within the scope of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences” (alice.ces.uc.pt), funded by the European Research Council (269807), under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, in social sciences. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Money and Economies during the 19th Century, from Europe to Asia
Round table Moneys and Economies during 19th Century (from Europe to Asia), -
Cape Town
The collecting, trade and exchange of exotic goods between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, from the 16th century to 21st century
Appel à contributions pour une session sur le commerce et la consommation des objets exotiques dans le monde du XVIe siècle à nos jours pour le World Economic History Congress (Cape Town, 12 et 13 juillet 2012). -
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Asia
Post-doctoral fellowship in Economics at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi
The Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi invites applications for a post-doctoralfellowship in Economics. The candidate should hold a Ph.D. in Economics from a recognised university/institute in India or abroad. Starting from 1 March 2011, the candidate is expected to conduct a research project in Economics in the context of contemporary India or South Asia and to produce original results in terms of publications. -
1911-2011: From Revolution To Reforms Characterizing made-in-China transition paradigms
Call for papers
This conference aims at critically reviewing and characterizing these made-in/by-China paradigms and models of development. -
Paris
La Méditerranée asiatique : rivalités et complémentarités entre centres d’affaires et financiers
International Trading and Financial Hubs in East and Southeast Asia: Rivalry and Complementarity
Les métropoles de Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, et Singapore, situées àla périphérie du corridor maritime d’Asie orientale, forment un système caractérisé parl’intensité de leurs échanges économiques, les différentes relations avec leur arrière-pays, etleur degré d’intégration dans l’économie mondiale. The metropolises of Tokyo-Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore located on the periphery of East Asia’s maritime corridor, form a system which is characterized by the intensity of their economic links, the different relationships they have with their hinterlands, and their level of integration within the world economy. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Conférence internationale en histoire monétaire
Conference in International Monetary History
Les projets « Revisiting Money As A Unified Unit Of Account From A Complementary Viewpoint », Dir. Akinobu KURODA et « Paper Money in Theory and Practice in History », Dir. Anders ÖGREN, organisent une conférence internationale préparatoire les 3, 4 et 5 décembre 2008 à Paris (Monnaie de Paris et EHESS) sur l'histoire et l'économie de la monnaie. Organisation : Akinobu Kuroda (University of Tokyo), Anders Ögren (Stockholm School of Economics, EconomiX), Bruno Théret (Université Paris-Dauphine, Irises), Georges Depeyrot (CNRS, EHESS), Patrice Baubeau (Université Paris Ouest, IDHE).
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