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Forum on Hans Sloane Workshop organised by Stéphane Van Damme (EUI) on 26 June 2017 Empires After The Global ‘Turn’. Planned Migrations, Colonial Agents and Informal Imperialism, c.1800-1950 Workshop organised by Lucy Riall (EUI), Pieter Judson (EUI) and José Juan Pérez Meléndez (EUI and University of California, Davis) on 1-2 June 2017 Looking West: Détente, the Socialist Regimes and their Opening to the Globalizing Market Economy Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Federico Romero (EUI) on 22 March 2017 The Middle East: The Rise and Fall of an Idea Lecture-HEC Colloquium by James Renton (Edge Hill University - Fernand Braudel Fellow) on 1 February 2017 Nader Shah and Napoleon: Fear and Hope on a Eurasian Canvass: A Historiographical Comparison Lecture by Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) on 1 December 2016 Muslim Rome: Horizons of the Renaissance in the Ottoman Mediterranean Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota) on 30 November 2016 The Floating World. Migration, Mobility and Hospitality in Renaissance Venice Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Rosa Salzberg (Marie Curie Fellow) on 23 November 2016 Identities in Motion: How Travel Affected Turkish Self-perceptions and Czech Perceptions of the Turks (1870-1930) Lecture-HEC Colloquium by JItka Maleckova (Charles University Prague - Fernand Braudel Fellow) on 9 November 2016 The Space Between: A Global MicroHistory from Nootka Sound Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Maxine Berg (University of Warwick) on 2 November 2016 Academic year 2015-2016 Humanitarianism and Empire in Africa: Towards a New History of Human Rights Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Darcie Fontaine (University of South Florida) and Emily Baughan (Max Weber Fellow - University of Bristol) on 14 March 2016 The Right Side of History: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Prof. Alexander Etkind (EUI) on 3 February 2016 Denigrating Viceroys: The Art of Political Insult in Early Modern Portuguese India Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Prof. Giuseppe Marcocci (Fernand Braudel Fellow / University of Tuscia, Viterbo) n 27 January 2016 Lusophobia and Lusophilia in Post-Colonial Brazil Lecture-HEC Colloquium by José Sacchetta Ramos Mendes (University of Bahia) on 13 January 2016 How Should We Define Social Groups of Slaves? An Example in the 18th and 19th Century Mediterranean Lecture-HEC Colloquium by M'hamed Oualdi (Fernand Braudel Fellow / Princeton University) on 2 December 2015 Economics of Curiosity Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Niel de Marchi (Duke University) and Marina Bianchi (University of Cassino) on 11 November 2015 Oriental Despots on Ornamental Desks: On Dutch Geography, the 'Decorative' Arts, and the Production of the Exotic World Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) on 4 November 2015 A Silken Diplomacy: Venetian Luxury Gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the Late Renaissance Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Luca Molà (EUI) on 28 October 2015 Pre-empting Revolution: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the Founding of the International Labor Organization Lecture-HEC Colloquium by Leonard V. Smith (Oberlin College) on 20 October 2015 Academic year 2014-2015 Japan, the Global Empire-State Lecture by Prof. Martin Dusinberre (University of Zurich) on 10 June 2015 Crossings and Circulations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean since 1450 Conference on 4 December 2014 Europe and Islamicate Asia: Early Modern Perspectives Workshop on 26 November 2014 Borders Past and Present. Materiality, Practices and Concepts Workshop on 6-7 November 2014 Business Enterprises and European Integration: A Historical Perspective Workshop on 5 November 2014 Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World Workshop on 26 September 2014 European Court and State Manufactures in a Global Perspective, 1400-1800 Workshop on 22-24 September 2014 Academic year 2013-2014 The Long Global Crisis, c. 1912-c. 1922 Lecture by John Horne (Trinity College Dublin) on 29 May 2014 Lecture by Sonya Rose (University of Michigan / Birkbeck College) on 30 May 2014 Conference on 2-3 June 2014 Listen to the Podcast The American Century in Europe Lecture by Prof. Mary Nolan (University of Worchester) on 20 March 2014 On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II Lecture by Prof. Sheldon Garon (Princeton University) on 23 January 2014 Ideologies of Empire in the Modern World Conference on 9-10 January 2014 Eurafrica and Eurasia: Perspectives on Europe and Beyond Lecture by Prof. Jane Burbank and Prof. Frederic Cooper (NYU) on 8 January 2014 Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms: Europe and South Asia Conference on 6-7 December 2013 Academic year 2012-2013 New Directions in the Study of Civilizational Discourse Workshop on 6 December 2013 New Directions in African Historiography Workshop on 10 May 2013 Nation and Gender in Modern India Workshop on 3 May 2013 Hobsbawm in the 21st Century? Empire, Revolution and Marxism Roundtable on13 March 2013 Writing the History of 19th-century Europe:The Global Context Lecture by Sir Richard J. Evans (University of Cambridge) - 21 February 2013 Of Mules and Men: Hybrid Power in the Making of a Global World Order, c1500-c1945 Lecture by Prof. William Gervase Clarence-Smith (SOAS University of London) - 13 February 2013 The Birth of Global Cities Conference on 6-7 December 2012 Looking for Europe: Questions and Uncertainties Lecture by Prof. Jacques Revel (Fernand Braudel Fellow / EHESS, Paris) - 1 October 2012 Global - Transnational - Comparative History Kaeynote lecture by Prof. Jan De Vries (Fernand Braudel Fellow / University of California Berkeley) - 10 September 2012 European Summer School on Cold War History 5-8 September 2012, University of Trento Academic year 2011-2012 The Discovery of Writing: a History of European Attitudes towards Written Cultures Encountered in America, Africa and Asia (16th-18th c.) Workshop on 21-22 June 2012 Epistemic Exchange in the Early Modern World. European and non-Europeans in Dialogue: Research Workshop on 18-19 June 2012 Cosmopolitismes de la première modernité: Le cas de l’Asie du Sud (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) Sources, itinéraires, langues Conference on 24-25 May 2012, Paris The Portuguese Empire and the Early Modern World: Emerging Work and Recent Trends in Historiography Workshop on 9 March 2012 A Protestant or Catholic Atlantic World? Confessional Divisions and the Writing of Natural History Lecture by Prof. Nicholas Canny (National University of Ireland, Galway) - 7 March 2012 Catholic Communities and Books During the Early Modern Period Workshop on 16-17 February 2012 Max Weber Revisited: the Autonomy of European Cities in Comparison Lecture by Prof. Wim P. Blockmans (Leiden University) - 1 February 2012 Empires in a World Perspective: Images, Commodities adn Agents, 15th-19th centuries Workshop on 12 December 2011 Partitions and the Making of Peoples Lecture by Prof. Dirk Moses (EUI) - 7 December 2011 Watch the video Missionaries as Merchants and Mercenaries: Controversies over Religion and Commerce in Early Modern Southeast Asia Lecture by Dr. Tara Alberts (Max Weber Fellow / University of York, UK) - 23 November 2011 War and Genocide in Eastern Europe: External and Internal Violence in an Interethnic Community, 1914-1924 Lecture by Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University) - 2 November 2011 Watch the video Neither Centre nor Periphery: Ego Centered Networks and the Circulation of Business and Politics in the Iberian Atlantic (2nd half of the 18th century) Lecture by Prof. Zacarias Moutoukias (Fernand Braudel/Vasco da Gama Fellow / University of Paris Diderot, Paris Cité Sorbonne) - 26 October 2011 Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective from the Longue Durée Keynote speech by Prof. Edmund Burke III (Fernand Braudel Fellow / University of California, Santa Cruz) - 3 October 2011 Watch the video Page last updated on 21 June 2018