Seminars in Ancient and World History

Spring Term 2018

Seminar at the Saxo Institute, South Campus, 12.3.07

  • April 20th 2018, 10:15-18:00

Beyond the Postcolonial?
In search for a global history before European hegemony?

All are welcome. Read the program here


Spring Term 2017

The Saxo Institute invites all interested parties to The Ancient History Seminar.
The forthcoming seminars for Spring 2017 include:

   

Autumn Term 2016

  • 5. September, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 3.00 pm: Dingxin Zhao (Chicago & Zhejiang): Collective Actions in Post-Mao China: Between Chaos and Discipline: https://www.thinkchina.ku.dk/calendar/dingxin/
  • 6 September, KUA2, room 12.4.07 11am - 2 pm, Dingxin Zhao: The Confucian legalist State. A New Theory of Chinese History. (Please register at: pbang@hum.ku.dk)
  • 6 September, KUA2, room 12.4.07, 3 pm: Yanfei Sun (Zhejiang): The Rise of Protestantism in Post-Mao China: State and Religion in Historical Perspective, https://www.thinkchina.ku.dk/calendar/yanfei/
  • 23 November, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2:15 pm: Maria Cecilia Aquilar (Harvard), Demons, punctuation and printing in the early 17th century
  • 30 November, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2:15 pm: Ahmad Khan (Hamburg): The Early Islamic Empire: The View from the Province
  • 6 December, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2.15 pm: Myles Lavan (St. Andrews): Rethinking the spread of Roman citizenship in the provinces
  • 16 December, Christian Thomsen, Title to be announced

Spring term, 2016

  • 20 April, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2.15-4.00 pm: The great leveller: violence and 5,000 years of income and wealth inequality. Walter Scheidel (Stanford).
  • 27 April, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2.15-4.00 pm: Was Thucydides a political philosopher? Ryan Balot (Toronto).
  • 20 May, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 2.15-4.00/5.00 pm: Rome and historical sociology I: The ancient state, whither next?
    - From the ancient Near East and Mediterranean to world history? Walter Scheidel (Stanford).
    - The ancient state – and the European perspective. Peter Eich (Freiburg).
    - Territoriality, Governmentality, and Colonial Rule: A Global History of the War on Non-Sedentary Peoples and Itinerant Cultures during the Long 19th Century. Martin Müller (Copenhagen).
  • 23 May, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 11.15-4.00/5.00 pm: Rome and historical sociology II:
    - Ancient history and the challenge of sociology. Peter Eich (Freiburg).
    - Ancient history and early modern state formation. A new look at the concept of path dependence. Gunner Lind (Copenhagen).
    - Sociology and the challenge of ancient history. John Hall (McGill).
    - Pre-modern China and historical sociology. Lars-Emil Nybo Nissen (Copenhagen)
    - China-Rome comparisons, further thoughts. Justine Walter (Leipzig).
  • 21 June, KUA2, room 12.3.07, 12 am - 2 pm, 

    Kenneth Pomeranz (Professor of Modern Chinese History, The University of Chicago), will give a speech with the following title: China’s Mid-Imperial Transitions in Comparative Perspective or, Whatever Happened to the Military-Fiscal State?