Join us for a seminar presented by the CAPASIA and GLOBALISE projects!
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Time: 15:00 – 16:00 CEST, drinks afterwards
Location: Room 2.18 of the Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
Speakers
- Maarten Draper (European University Institute)
- Sebastian Majstorovic (European University Institute)
Referent
- Luc Bulten (Radboud University)
Seminar overview
The CAPASIA project analyzes approximately 150 European ‘factories’ established in maritime Asia between 1500-1800. It views these not just as trade locations, but as vibrant hubs of material and information exchanges between Asians and Europeans. The project uses the factories as a lens to explore the Asian origins of global capitalism. In their talk, Maarten Draper and Sebastian Majstorovic will provide an overview of the aims and methodology of the CAPASIA project, including the development of a comprehensive database of these factories. They will also discuss how the CAPASIA and GLOBALISE projects align and build upon each other.
CAPASIA (https://www.capasia.eu/) is a five-year ERC-funded project hosted at the European University Institute in Florence. Its deliverables include a user-friendly website that will serve as a repository for data on the factories, a meeting place for scholars, and a medium for decolonizing histories of global capitalism. GLOBALISE (https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/), a five-year NWO-funded project based at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam, focuses on making the VOC archives more accessible to researchers.
