Workshop: Comparative and Historical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The History, Nature and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Europe team warmly welcomes you to a one-day workshop on Friday, October 17, 2014  at the University of Helsinki.

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Seminar Room 136, Ground Floor, Fabianinkatu 24 A

Programme, Friday 17.10.2014

10.30–10.45 Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki), Opening remarks

10.45–11.30 Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School): “The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism”

11.30–12.15 Peter Hallberg (Malmö University): “The Politics of Comparative Constitutionalism: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) in Sweden”

12.15–13.30, Lunch

13.30–14.15 Alison Martin (University of Reading): “Translating Nature and Empire: German editions of Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799)”

14.15–15.00 Laura Tarkka (University of Helsinki): “The Reception of East India Company’s Code of Gentoo Laws (1776) in European Review Journals”

15.00–15.30, Coffee and tea

15.30–16.15 Koen Stapelbroek (University of Helsinki, Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Instruments of Economic Integration and the History of Humankind: Eighteenth-Century Outlooks onto Global Trade”

16.15–17.00 Jani Marjanen (University of Helsinki, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin): “Eighteenth-Century Economic Societies and Comparative Models for Economic Improvement”

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