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CfP: Port Cities Conference 2025
5-7 June 2025, Shanghai, China: “Ports, Factories, and Special Economic Zones: Infrastructures of Circulation and Exchange in the Indian Ocean, 1200-Present” This conference, jointly organized by the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai, and the CAPASIA Project, European University Institute, examines the role of infrastructure in Asia’s port cities
CAPASIAGiorgio Riello
Conference: “Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800”
13-15 November 2024, Florence: The international conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800’ is organized under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Project, CAPASIA ‘The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism’, hosted at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The conference explores
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Conference: Nodes of Early Modern Capitalism II
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) suggest that the early modern history of capitalism
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi

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Commerce, Law, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Maritime Asia
University of Macau, 9 June 2025 This event was co-organised by Josh Erlich (UM) and Guillemette Crouzet (CAPASIA).
CAPASIAMaarten Draper
Ports, Factories, and Special Economic Zones: Infrastructures of Circulation and Exchange in the Indian Ocean World
5-7 June 2025, Shanghai, China This conference, jointly organised by the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai, and the CAPASIA Project, European University Institute, examines the role of infrastructure in Asia’s port cities from the thirteenth century to the present. Click here for more information.
CAPASIAMaarten Draper
From Silver to Crypto: Wealth and Finance in Global History
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,
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Early capitalisms and the textile sector (1650-1850)
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)
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Workshop: Spaces of Making
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 scholars. Commodities,
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Seminar: GLOBALISE
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
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Workshop: Circuits of Exchange and Indian Ocean Hinterlands
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 early modern
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Summer talks: Connected Histories of Capitalism
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
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi
Opening Lecture
27 April 2023, Florence: Speaker: Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics) Time and place: 27 April 2023, 17.00 CEST, Hybrid (Villa Salviati, Sala del Consiglio, and via Zoom) The talk confronts an anomaly in the history of European colonialism in Asia and Africa, namely that prior to the eighteenth
CAPASIAFabrizio Borchi


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