The fall of the Berlin Wall, the financial crisis of 2008, growing inequalities of income and wealth, the return – after a long eclipse – of China to the forefront of the global economy, and the climate crisis all form the backdrop to a remarkable upsurge in research in the history of capitalism. As the New York Times pointed out, not without irony, in 2013, “in History Departments, It's Up With Capitalism”. This lecture series offers the opportunity to discuss how these approaches contribute to renew our understanding of key themes in social and economic history.

DOING CAPITALISM !
GESCHICHTE UND NUTZEN EINER PERSPEKTIVE AUF DIE WIRTSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE
2.12.2024 (flyer (PDF, 145 KB))
Prof. Laura Rischbieter, Universität Basel

CAPITALISM WITHOUT DEMOCRACY? 
18.11.2023 (flyer (PDF, 201 KB))
Prof. Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley University (USA)
In collaboration with University of Fribourg – PhD program "Regimes of Inequality" as well as Karl der Grosse - Das Debattierhaus

WRITING A HISTORY OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM CAPTURING THE HINTERLAND, 1780-1860
22.05.2023 (flyer (PDF, 147 KB))
Prof. Sven Beckert, Harvard University (Boston USA)

ANDREW MELLON’S MILLIONS, OR CAPITALISM ON TRIAL DURING THE NEW DEAL, 1935-1941
21.03.2023 (flyer (PDF, 161 KB))
Prof. Romain Huret, EHESS, Paris

CAPITALISM & COLONIES: BRITAIN’S RESTIVE ATLANTIC EMPIRE IN THE MID-1780s
02.11.2022 (flyer (PDF, 284 KB))
Prof. Mary O’Sullivan, Université de Genève

DOES ECONOMIC HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE?
27.09.2022 – THIS CONFERENCE WAS CANCELLED
Prof. Francesco Boldizzoni, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim