Global capitalism
Lecture series to examine impact of capitalism on world history
8:43 a.m., Feb. 12, 2016--The University of Delaware’s Center for Global and Area Studies has announced a lecture series for the spring semester, “Capitalism and Its Global Entanglements: Conflict, Cooperation and Domains of Violence.”
The lectures will be held from 12:20-1:10 p.m. on Wednesdays, Feb. 17 through May 4, in Room 217 Gore Hall. They can be attended as a one-credit pass/fail course, ARSC300, Issues in Global Studies, which is a core course for the minor in global studies, and are also free and open to the public.
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The series will examine capitalism as more than an economic doctrine and will explore its impact on world history as a concept that shaped cultural attitudes, social behavior, legal frameworks, aesthetic sensibilities and a range of political programs.
Lectures are scheduled as follows:
Feb. 17: Cathy Matson, professor of history, “Capitalism in the 18th Century Atlantic Economies: Merchants and Their Markets.”
Feb. 24: Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “The Rise and Fall of Transoceanic Indentured Servant Migration (contract labor) Around the Globe, 1600-1910.”
March 2: James Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History and faculty director of the European Studies Program, “Karl Marx on the Virtues and Vices of Global Capitalism.”
March 9: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, “Radical Thought and Activist Politics in the Neoliberal Age.”
March 16: Emily Davis, associate professor of English who also teaches in the African Studies and Islamic Studies programs, “Neoliberal Capitalism and the Production of Disposable People.”
March 23: Sheng Lu, assistant professor of fashion and apparel studies, “The Textile and Apparel Trades in the 21st Century Global Market: Is Capitalism a Solution or Threat?”
April 6: Yda Schreuder, professor emerita of geography, “A True Global Community: Amsterdam Sephardic Jewish Merchants in the Trans-Atlantic World in the 17th Century.”
April 11: Benjamin Tomak, doctoral candidate in history, “The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe.”
April 20: Carla Guerron-Montero, associate professor of anthropology and faculty director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, “Disentangling Global Tourism in Latin America.”
April 27: Yuanchong Wang, assistant professor of history who also teaches in the Asian Studies Program, “Capitalizing an Empire: A Historical Perspective on China’s Recent Rise.”
May 4: Daniel Kinderman, assistant professor of political science and international relations who also teaches in the European Studies Program, “The Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Europe.”