Lecture | Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
A Conversation with Sven Beckert on Global History, the World Economy and International Relations
- Date
- Thursday 8 November 2018
- Time
- Series
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2018 - 2019
- Location
- Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- Conference room (2.60)
Sven Beckert is the Liard Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. He researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. He last book Empire of Cotton: A Global History, the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity, won many awards (Bancroft Award, The Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for Excellence and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). His other publications have focused on the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, on labor, on democracy, on global history and on the connections between slavery and capitalism. Currently he is at work on a history of capitalism.
About CHIRRS
CHIRRS (Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar) brings together historians, area specialists and international relations specialists to address 20th century topics from Brexit to the Muslim world and from French decolonization to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
If you would like to attend the seminars or to be added to our mailinglist please send an email to chirrs@hum.leidenuniv.nl.