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Trading posts and power:

Maarten Draper on the Asian origins of capitalism

In this #EUIResearch interview, Maarten Draper discusses CAPASIA, a history ERC-funded project studying more than 200 European trading posts across Asia aimed at rethinking the origins of global capitalism.

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The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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From promise to controversy: Corinna Unger on pesticides and global politics

Synthetic pesticides became central to post-1945 agriculture and were debated in international organisations dealing with food, health, labour, and trade. Drawing on their archives, Corinna Unger discusses the pesticide history, expert knowledge, and international decisions in this #EUIResearch interview.

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Flourishing against the grain: Polina Baitsym on post-WWII Ukrainian art

In this #EUIResearch interview, Maw Weber Fellow Polina Baitsym explores post-WWII Ukrainian art, showing how artists and critics co-existed with and negotiated the evolving meanings of socialist realism, revealing unexpected spaces for creativity even under political constraints.

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