Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Spring Seminars 2022
Dottorato in Global History of Empires

All seminars will in presence at Campus Einaudi and on Webex

24 febbraio - 1 giugno 2022

24 February, 4pm CET
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas, Austin)
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: ON HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTUAL TRAPS
Discussant: Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS, Paris)

3 March, 4 pm CET
Arturo Zoffmann (Intituto de Historia Contemporanea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
DESERTERS OF WAR, SOLDIERS OF REVOLUTION: CHARLES FRANCIS PHILLIPS AND THE ORIGINS OF COMMUNISM IN THE AMERICAS, 1914–21
Discussant: Viktor Kheifets (St. Petersburg State University)

7 April, 4 pm CEST
Dirk Moses (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
GENOCIDE, EMPIRE, AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Discussant: Lorenzo Kamel (University of Turin)

21 April, 4 pm CEST
Indrajit Roy (University of North Bengal)
COLONIAL INDUSTRIES UNDER IMPERIAL GOVERNANCE: BENGAL 1757-1946
Discussant: Marzia Casolari (University of Turin

28 April, 4 pm CEST
Francisco Ortega (National University of Colombia)
THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY DURING THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN LATINA AMERICA
Discussant: TBA

5 May, 4 pm CEST
Catia Antunes (Leiden University)
EXPLOITING THE EMPIRE OF OTHERS: DUTCH FIRMS IN FOREIGN EMPIRES, 1570S-1800S
Discussant: Benedetta Crivelli (Università di Milano Statale)

12 May, 4 pm CEST
Giacomo Parrinello (Sciences Po, Centre d'Histoire, Paris)
THE WATER KNOT: THE PO RIVER AND THE HISTORY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Discussant: TBA

19 May, 4 pm CEST
Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin)
PRAGMATICS AND IDEOLOGY IN IMPERIAL LANGUAGE CHOICES IN ASIA
Discussant: Federica Morelli (University of Turin)

26 May, 4 pm CEST
Anders Stephanson (Columbia University)
ONCE AGAIN ON THE QUESTION OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE
Discussant: Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University)

1 June, 4 pm CEST
Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University)
COLONIAL OR POST-COLONIAL? IVAN KATS, THE OBOR FOUNDATION, AND COLD WAR CULTURE IN INDONESIA, 1960S-1980S
Discussant: Marco Mariano (University of Turin)