#  Harvard Graduate Conference on the History of Capitalism- Before the City/Beyond the City: Capitalism in the Countryside 

 



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 **October 19 - October 20, 2017** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Harvard Law School, Lewis 214A**  



 

 



 

 In a world that continues to be mostly ocean, countryside, forest, and desert and with nearly half  
the world’s population still living and laboring in such locations, we seek to decenter the city and  
metropole and problematize progress narratives that render capitalist and urban formations  
inevitable. Proceeding outward from any world region, we hope to tackle a number of  
theoretical, historiographical, and methodological questions ranging from the origins of a  
capitalist world- system in the sixteenth century, to the relationship between slavery and  
capitalism, to the politics of development in the twenty-first century. These questions will touch  
on the changing ways in which people relate to land, water, and other materials and the claims  
they make on them; the power relationships that govern those claims; how life is imagined and  
sustained, how livelihoods are made and unmade, and how belonging is constructed and  
contested.

 Details at <http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/conferences>



 

 



 

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