Register now: Lecture by Harvard Professor Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton: "The Global Origins of Modern Capitalism"
The International Studies programme would like to invite you to the Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2018-2019 by Prof. Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton: The Global Origins of Modern Capitalism on Friday September 14. You can register here!
Programme
15.00 Opening programme - Dr. Joost Augusteijn
15.15 Opening Lecture - Prof. Sven Beckert from Harvard University
16.00 Discussion - Dr. María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
16.15 Q&A
16.45 Closing + Drinks
Opening lecture
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. Cotton has created vast empires, powered the industrial revolution, generated huge wealth - and unimaginable suffering. This humble product is at the heart of global capitalism, and its story is the story of how the modern world emerged.