Dear all,

Please join us for our last session of the quarter! We are very grateful for your generous participation this quarter and hope to keep it up in this last session and throughout the upcoming quarters.

We are welcoming Eduardo Terra-Romero (PhD candidate in History), who will present his dissertation chapter “A Giant in Decline? Brazil and Foreign Debt, 1968 – 1987.” You may access Eduardo’s chapter here with the password brazil20.

We are co-hosting this event with the Latin American History Workshop (LAHW) on Thursday, December 5th from 4:30PM – 6PM at Pick Hall 118. Please note the day change from Wednesday to Thursday and the location change. William Birdthistle (Professor from Practice at the University of Chicago Law School and PhD candidate in History) has kindly agreed to serve as the discussant.

This photograph is titled “Seventy-Seven Developing Countries Prepare Declaration for Conference on Trade and Development.” It was taken in Geneva c. June 15th, 1964. Credit goes to UN Photo/SZ.

As always, refreshments will be served and a Zoom link will be available upon request. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Best wishes and happy holidays,

Ada and Xiaoyu

Dear all,

Please join us this Wednesday, November 20th from 4:30 – 6PM at Pick Hall 105 (inside CISSR). We are welcoming Moritz Neugebauer to the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop. Moritz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University Berlin and a postdoctoral visitor at the University of Chicago. His work is at the intersection of history and cultural studies. Moritz will present his article draft “From Cosmic Disorder to Capitalist Slavery: Spectral Bodies and Indeterminate Woe in Post-Reformation England.” You may access the draft here with the password dialectic1529. Patrick Graham (PhD candidate in History, University of Chicago) has kindly agreed to serve as the discussant. As always, light refreshments will be served and we will provide a Zoom link upon request. Please join us for an optional gathering at the Pub after Moritz’s presentation.

This is an illustration from John Ogilby’s The Fables of Aesop (c. 1651 – 1665).

See you Wednesday and please reach out if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Ada and Xiaoyu

Dear all,

Next Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop and the East Asia Trans-regional Histories Workshop will jointly host Yuting Chen (PhD candidate in Sociology). Yuting will present his paper titled “Historicizing State-led Industrial Upgrading: Social Construction of Expertise and Naval Research-and-Development Process in Early Socialist China, 1949–1965.” The event will take place at the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). Our discussant will be Xiaoyu Gao (PhD in History).

Good morning all,

We are delighted to invite you to our third session of the quarter. Professor Jonathan Levy (History, University of Chicago) will present his essay “What Was Capitalism?” on Wednesday, November 6th from 4:30PM to 6PM at the Social Science Tea Room (SSRB 201). (Please note the location change for this session.) Light refreshments will be served.

You may find the paper here (password: France1830). Professor Emeritus William H. Sewell Jr. (History and Political Science, University of Chicago) has kindly agreed to serve as the discussant.

This is a photograph of historian Fernand Braudel, c. 1984, by Bruno de Monès.

While in-person attendance is encouraged, we will provide a Zoom link upon request. Please contact us for further information.

Best wishes,

Ada and Xiaoyu

Good Morning Dear Friends and Colleagues,