Lecture
Opening Lecture Academic Year - International Studies
- Date
- 14 September 2018
- Time
- Address
- Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.01
The International Studies programme would like to invite you to the Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2018-2019 by Prof. Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton: The Global Origins of Modern Capitalism.
Programme
| 15.00 | Opening by the Chair of the programme Dr. Joost Augusteijn |
| 15.15 | Opening Lecture by Prof. Sven Beckert from Harvard University |
| 16.00 | Discussion moderated by Dr. María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña |
| 16.15 | Q&A |
| 16.45 | Closing + Drinks |
Opening lecture
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. Cotton has created vast empires, powered the industrial revolution, generated huge wealth - and unimaginable suffering. This humble product is at the heart of global capitalism, and its story is the story of how the modern world emerged.