Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
A unique discussion on how a scholar and a novelist treat the same subject, in this case an extraordinary imperial expedition to India and Central Asia in the mid-1850s. Christopher Kloeble took WIGH Fellow Moritz von Brescius's book German Science in the Age of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and turned it into an international bestseller The Museum of the World about the Schlagintweit Expedition to British India under the auspices of the East India Company and Alexander von Humboldt. We will talk about the historical...
The conference urges scholars to rethink capitalism’s history from the vantage point of this new historical moment and to consider what are the most promising theoretical formulations, methodological approaches, and historical framings to define capitalism, identify its drivers, shed light on its mechanisms, periodize its cycles, incorporate previously neglected spaces or processes, and offer a prognosis of its current reconfiguring. While traditional analyses of capitalism’s history were centered on...
"Making Socialism Work: Economic Reform and the Soviet Enterprise, 1960s-2000s" James Nealy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; PhD, Department of History, Duke University
Comments: Jackie Erlon-Baurjan, A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies, Harvard University ...