BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//TERMINALFOUR//SITEMANAGER V7.3//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20160614T083000 LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus East Humanities Graduate Centre, South West Engineering Building DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study will host a conference on capitalism.Programme for Conference:
14 June 2016
8:30-9:00 – Opening remarks from Professor Dilip Menon and Peter Vale
9:00-10:00 – Kaveh Yazdani (CISA, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½) – The Histories of Capitalisms – Overview of Debates and the Case of 18th century Mysore (South India)
10:00-10:15 – Coffee Break
Chair: Professor Eric Worby, Director Humanities Graduate Centre
10:15-11:15 – Henry Heller (Manitoba) – The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective
11:15-12:15 – David Washbrook (Cambridge) – INDIA: Capitalism and its Avatars
12:30- 1:30 – Lunch Break
Chair: Dr Kaveh Yazdani, Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
13:45-14:45 – Nelly Hanna (American University, Cairo) - Textile artisans in Cairo and capitalism from below 1600-1800
14:45-15:45 – Rudolph Matthee (Delaware) – Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development
15:45-16:00 – Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 – Discussion
19:00- Conference Dinner 
15 June 2016
Chair: Prof Dilip Menon, Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
 
9:00-10:00 – Anne Gerritsen (Warwick) – The View from China: Craft Production, Labour and the Issue of State Support
10:00-11:00 – Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell) – Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia?
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
Chair: Professor Peter Vale, Director, Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study
11:15-12:15 – Pedro Machado (Indiana) - Indian Ocean Merchants in the 18th and 19th Centuries – Institutional Mechanisms and Financial Instruments
12:15-1:15 – Joseph Inikori (Rochester) - The First Capitalist Nation in the World: The Development of Capitalism in England
13:30-14:30 – Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 – Thinking Capitalism from Africa: A Roundtable
Chair:Lumkile Mondi, Senior Lecturer, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½ Business School
Gill Hart (CISA, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½)  – Revisiting the History of Capitalism: Reflections from an African Perspective
Joseph Inikori (Rochester) –  The Development of Capitalism in West Africa, 1450-1900
Bill Freund (ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½) – White Run South Africa as a Developmental State: An Interpretive Economic History of Twentieth Century South Africa
19:00 – Conference dinner X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study will host a conference on capitalism.

Programme for Conference:


14 June 2016


8:30-9:00 – Opening remarks from Professor Dilip Menon and Peter Vale


9:00-10:00 – Kaveh Yazdani (CISA, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½) – The Histories of Capitalisms – Overview of Debates and the Case of 18th century Mysore (South India)


10:00-10:15 – Coffee Break


Chair: Professor Eric Worby, Director Humanities Graduate Centre


10:15-11:15 – Henry Heller (Manitoba) – The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective


11:15-12:15 – David Washbrook (Cambridge) – INDIA: Capitalism and its Avatars


12:30- 1:30 – Lunch Break


Chair: Dr Kaveh Yazdani, Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa


13:45-14:45 – Nelly Hanna (American University, Cairo) - Textile artisans in Cairo and capitalism from below 1600-1800


14:45-15:45 – Rudolph Matthee (Delaware) – Iranian Capitalism: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development


15:45-16:00 – Coffee Break


16:00-17:00 – Discussion


19:00- Conference Dinner 


15 June 2016


Chair: Prof Dilip Menon, Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa


 


9:00-10:00 – Anne Gerritsen (Warwick) – The View from China: Craft Production, Labour and the Issue of State Support


10:00-11:00 – Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell) – Capitalism's Missing Link: What Happened to Southeast Asia?


11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break


Chair: Professor Peter Vale, Director, Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study


11:15-12:15 – Pedro Machado (Indiana) - Indian Ocean Merchants in the 18th and 19th Centuries – Institutional Mechanisms and Financial Instruments


12:15-1:15 – Joseph Inikori (Rochester) - The First Capitalist Nation in the World: The Development of Capitalism in England


13:30-14:30 – Lunch Break


15:00-17:00 – Thinking Capitalism from Africa: A Roundtable


Chair:Lumkile Mondi, Senior Lecturer, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½ Business School


Gill Hart (CISA, ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½)  – Revisiting the History of Capitalism: Reflections from an African Perspective


Joseph Inikori (Rochester) –  The Development of Capitalism in West Africa, 1450-1900


Bill Freund (ΡξΉσεϊ΄«Γ½) – White Run South Africa as a Developmental State: An Interpretive Economic History of Twentieth Century South Africa


19:00 – Conference dinner

SUMMARY:Revisiting the History of Capitalism END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR