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Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference
28-29 September 2019
Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives
Chair: James Belich (Oxford)
Ep2. The Spaces In Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?
Andrew Edwards (Career Development Fellow for the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford) gives a lecture on ‘The Spaces in Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?'
Ep3. The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality
Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China's Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality'.
Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later
Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)
Ep4. Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?'
Ep5. Asia and the Great Divergence
Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence'
Ep6. The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond “Coal and North America”
Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond “Coal and North America”'.
Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism
Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)
Ep7. Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business
William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business'
Ep8. Water and the Economic History of India
Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India'.
Ep9. The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton & the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality
Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality'.
Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure
Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)
Ep10. Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China
Patrick O'Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China'.
Ep11. Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe
Dagmar Schäfer (Director, Max Planck Institute) & Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe'.
Ep12. China and the West: Many Great Divergences
Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences'.
Panel 5: Labour and the Household, a Global History
Chair: Rowena Olegario (Oxford)
Ep13. Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa
Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa'.
Ep14. Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy
Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy'.
Ep15. Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910
Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910'.
Panel 6 (wrap up reflection): History and Public Policy
Chair: Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
Ep16: History & Public Policy with Prof Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy.
Ep17. History & Public Policy with Prof Patricia Clavin
Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy.
Ep18. History & Public Policy with Ravinder Kaur
Ravinder Kaur (Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, Copenhagen) gives a lecture on history and public policy.