14 May 2025, Villa Salviati, Florence, Italy, and Zoom This event, organised in the context of the CAPASIA and ECOINT research projects, features book presentations by Dennis Flynn (Pacific World History Institute) and Dariusz Wojcik (National University of Singapore). From Silver to Crypto: Wealth and Finance in Global HistoryThis event,
05 March 2025, Villa Salviati, Florence, Italy Workshop jointly organised by Léa Meyer (Université de Genève) and Freek Loves (EUI), with contributions from the The Fabric of Profit (Université de Genève) and CAPASIA - The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism (EUI) research projects. Early capitalisms and the textile sector (1650-1850)
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21 May 2024, Amsterdam: In light of the ongoing collaboration between GLOBALISE and CAPASIA, two members of the CAPASIA team, digital advisor Sebastian Majstorovic and postdoc Maarten Draper visited the GLOBALISE team at the Spinhuis in Amsterdam on 21 May 2024. Different members of the GLOBALISE team offered their views
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11 June 2024, Florence: This one-day workshop will take place on 11 June 2024. The morning session features papers by the CAPASIA team and two collaborators on 'spaces of making' in Global Asia, while the afternoon is dedicated to a series of presentations by a variety of guest
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16-18 Feb 2024, Chennai: In mid-February 2024 the CAPASIA team organized a two-day workshop at IIT Madras in Chennai alongside Professor John Bosco Lourdusamy and Dr. Thamarai Selvan Kannan. The papers from the workshop will appear in time as a journal roundtable dedicated to 'Spaces of Making' in
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21-22 Sep 2023, Florence: 'World cities' and 'global cities' have received considerable attention in studies of contemporary globalisation and the twentieth-century rise of financial capitalism. More recently, work on 'special economic zones' and the concept of 'archipelago capitalism' (referring to tax havens)
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13 June - 20 September 2023, Florence: Join us for our 2023 Lecture Series Summer Talks on Connected Histories of Capitalism at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and on Zoom in June and September! Programme and links for registration Jointly organised by CAPASIA with the the European Research Council
The following simulation was produced by CAPASIA's technical advisor, Sebastian Majstorovic, in the course of the pilot project, European Factories in the Indian Ocean (EFIO). Visitors are encouraged to press the 'play' button to observe the general expansion and contraction of the factory system over the