Revisiting the History of Capitalism
| When: | Tuesday, 14 June 2016 - Wednesday, 15 June 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East Humanities Graduate Centre, South West Engineering Building |
| Start time: | 8:30 |
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, Wits) – 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, Wits Business School
Gill Hart (CISA, Wits) – Revisiting the History of Capitalism: Reflections from an African Perspective
Joseph Inikori (Rochester) – The Development of Capitalism in West Africa, 1450-1900
Bill Freund (Wits) – White Run South Africa as a Developmental State: An Interpretive Economic History of Twentieth Century South Africa
19:00 – Conference dinner
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