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Seminar: GLOBALISE

Fabrizio Borchi

May 22, 2024 — 1 min read

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 on the further development of datasets on shipping, currencies, locations, and visual materials. In the afternoon, Majstorovic and Draper gave a presentation on the CAPASIA project in the Globalise seminar.

Event Link: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/globalise-seminar-capasia-the-asian-origins-of-global-capitalism/

For more on GLOBALISE: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl

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Situating the European Factory in the Early Modern Bazaar

Free Trade, the Abolition of Monopoly, and the Dissolution of East India Company Factories in India and Canton, 1813-1833

CfP: Port Cities Conference 2025

Workshop: Spaces of Making