Week of Events
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Making of Global Capitalism
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets […]
Of Time and Space
Of Time and Space
At 4PM on April 5, Prof. Zorina Kahn (Bowdoin College) will discuss a paper entitled "Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovation in early U.S. Industrialization." Kahn is chair of Bowdoin's economics department and the author of the award-winning The Democratization of Innovation . Her talk assesses the role of institutional […]
Of Human and Divine Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine
Of Human and Divine Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine
A specialist on the later Roman Empire and its transformation into a Christian state,Professor Elm’s research bridges intellectual and social history and focuses on interactions between Christians and “pagans” in late antiquity. In this talk, she asks how ideas of bondage and practices of unfree labor influenced the formation of theological maxims in the writings […]