Author: niquo
Nicholas O’Neill –– “Luxury and Consumer Society: Mock Talk”
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please join us on Wednesday, January 24th for the second winter quarter session of the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop. We will be welcoming Nicholas O’Neill (Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at UChicago) for his mock talk “Luxury and Consumer Society.” There will be no pre-circulated paper for this session.
As usual, we will meet in Pick 105 (CISSR), from 4.30 to 6pm.
(Clara Peeters, Table with a cloth, salt cellar, gilt tazza, pie, jug, porcelain dish with olives, and roast fowl, c. 1611, Museo del Prado)
In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, but we might provide a Zoom link for special cases. Please contact us for further information.
Kind regards,
Niquo and Eduardo
Protected: Workshop Paper – Nahomi Esquivel
Nahomi Esquivel SPECIAL JOINT SESSION w/LAHW (Thursday, January 11)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Happy new year to you all, and welcome to the winter quarter of the History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop.
We will begin our quarter with a joint session alongside the Latin American History Workshop (LAHW), where we will be joined by Nahomi Esquivel (PhD Student in History, UChicago) to discuss her paper titled “Boot-Legged Braceros: Green Card Commuters and the Making of Pseudo Guest-Workers, 1959-1963“. Following the LAHW format, Kate Reed (PhD student in History, UChicago) has kindly agreed to participate as the discussant.
Please note the changed time and place for this special joint session: Thursday, January 11, from 4:30-6:00pm (Pick Hall 118).
(Domingo Ulloa, Braceros, 1960, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Kind Regards,
Niquo and Eduardo
November 29th: Patrick Graham
Dear friends and colleagues,
This week we are pleased to be joined by Patrick Graham (PhD Student in History, UChicago) to discuss his paper titled “The Compter’s Commonwealth: Commercial Taxation and the Institutionalization of Public Debt in 17th-century England”. We will meet at the usual time, day, and place: Wednesday, November 29 from 4:30 – 6 pm in Pick Hall 105 (CISSR). The paper may be found below.
(William Turner. The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, 1835, The Cleveland Museum of Art)