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GLOBALISE seminar: CAPASIA, The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism

Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00, drinks afterwards
Location: Room 2.18 of the Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
Join us for a seminar featuring Maarten Draper and Sebastian Majstorovic, discussing the CAPASIA project's exploration of European 'factories' in maritime Asia and their role in the origins of global capitalism. Learn how CAPASIA and GLOBALISE projects are interconnected and how they enhance historical research.

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GLOBALISE Datasprint: What on Earth is This? Defining, Labeling and Classifying Early Modern Commodities

Date: Monday 4 December
Time: 13:00 – 16:15
Location: Room F0.01 at the Humanities Labs, University of Amsterdam (Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam).
Tools: Bring your own laptop!
Are you a historian or a student of history at university with a keen interest in trade, material culture, commodity histories or just good old historical research? If yes, we at the GLOBALISE Project, in collaboration with the CREATE Lab (UvA), invite you to participate in a workshop to contribute to and enrich our thesaurus of commodities traded in the early modern Indian Ocean world.

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GLOBALISE seminar: Historical Events and Frames Annotation Processes

28 NOVEMBER 2022 Jens Aurich (Junior Researcher | International Institute for Social History)“Finding and Annotating Collective Labour Actions in Newspapers with INCEpTION” Stella Verkijk (Developer | GLOBALISE)“Towards Automatic Event Detection…

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GLOBALISE seminar: Classification of Historical Data and Collections

31 OCTOBER 2022 Shannon van Muijden (Datamanager | Zuiderzeemuseum)“Classification and Linked Data for Heritage Collections” Toine Pieters (Professor | Utrecht University)“Classification of pharmaceutical and botanical data in TimeCapsule” Kay Pepping…

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