Public talk: 
Kaveh Yazdani (University of Connecticut): "The Biography of Capitalism(s), 10th to 18th Centuries" 
Co-sponsored by the Department of Development Studies, the Department of Contemporary History, and the Research Focus Global History (FSP Globalgeschichte)

In the existing literature, capitalism’s “origin story” is oftentimes attributed to a limited set of linear processes occurring in a specific era and region, usually located in Europe. This, however, does not do justice to the delayed, intermittent and protracted histories of capitalisms across several centuries and within a number of core areas in Afro-Eurasia. In order to give due consideration to multilinear trajectories and the specific stages and phases of capitalist developments, a tentative non-Eurocentric periodisation of capitalisms in the longue durée is proposed, encompassing various world areas in long-drawn-out maturation processes spanning the 10th to 18th centuries.

Kaveh Yazdani received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Osnabrück in 2014. Research stays and fellowships at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Warwick Institute of Advanced Study; British Academy. Faculty position at the University of Bielefeld (2017-2020) before joining the University of Connecticut in 2021. In 2020, Yazdani was also Visiting Professor in Global Economic and Social History at the WISO, University of Vienna.