Past Seminars
This monthly seminar series began in September 2009 as a thematic platform for scholars from within and outside Leiden University (national and international) working on topics related to Global Interactions.
2010-2011
1 October -
Prof.dr. Pál Nyiri (VU University, Amsterdam): Chinese entrepreneurs in poor countries: a transnational “middleman minority” and its futures
15 October -
Book presentation: Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning (eds.), (Leiden, Boston 2010)
5 November
- Dr. Jan Gerrit Dercksen (Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University): The impact of Assyrian migration to Anatolia
3 December - Prof.dr. Frank Pieke (Modern China Studies, Leiden University): International migration to the People’s Republic of China
4 February - Dr. Vincent Lagendijk (Institute for History, Leiden University): Transnationalising the TVA: Building Dams on International Rivers
Discussant: Marlous van den Akker
4 March - Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology, Leiden University): Globalisation and the Roman world: Perspectives and opportunities
Discussant: Dorrit van Dalen
1 April - Prof.dr. Leo Lucassen (Institute for History, Leiden University): Yet another Great Divergence? Moving to the city since the late 18th century, a global perspective
Discussant: Ilona Heijnen
10 June - Dr. José Carlos G. Aguiar (TCLA, Leiden University): From Guangzhou to Guadalajara: Piracy and the questions of illegality in commodity chains
Discussant: Aniek Smit
2009-2010
2 October - Dr. Jos Gommans ( School of Asian Studies/History, Leiden University): Exploring global interactions in early-modern world history: new wine or just new bottles?
6 November - Prof. dr. Olaf Kaper (School of Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University): Asserting Cultural Identity: Temples and the State in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
4 December - Dr. Ethan Mark (School of Asian Studies, Japan, Leiden University): Pygmalion Empire: Late Imperial Japan and the Language of the Revolution in Occupied Java
5 February - Prof.dr.John Bintliff (Archaeology, Leiden University): Poverty and Resistance in the Material Culture of Early Modern Rural Households in the Aegean
5 March - Prof. dr. Chris Goto-Jones (Leiden University College The Hague) and Prof. dr. Peter Pels (Culture Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University): The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
9 April - Prof.dr. Kitty Zijlmans (Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Leiden University): Pushing back Frontiers: from Art History to World Art Studies
7 May - Dr. Kasia Cwiertka (School of Asian Studies, Leiden University): Feeding the Troops around the Pacific (1937-1953)
4
June -
Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald (Africa Study Centre Leiden, Institute for History, Leiden University): World War One in Central Africa and the Effective Colonisation of Northern Rhodesia