The New Histories of Rice

March 25-26, 2011

Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina Edda Fields Black, Carnegie Mellon University Dagmar Schäfer, Independent Research Group Concepts and Modalities

If you wish to participate as an observer, or require further information, please contact Gina Grzimek (ggrzimek@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

Rice is a crop whose history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of the early modern world economy and of the global networks of industrial capitalism. "The New Histories of Rice Workshop" brings together historians of rice technology, science, economy and culture in key regions of the emerging modern world-system for a comparative discussion on sources, research questions and analytical frameworks that transcends localisation. The goal is to develop a broader, more systemic treatment of rice within the history of capitalism.

Location

"New Histories of Rice"
to be held March 25-26, 2011,
at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin