International Workshop: ‘The Political Economy of Capital in the Pre-Modern World’

It is a pleasure to announce that the international workshop ‘The Political Economy of Capital in the Pre-Modern World’ (funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, the Baden-Würrtemberg Ministry of Science, and the Economic History Society) will take place on the 8th and 9th October 2025 at the Universität Tübingen (Seminarbibliothek – Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Hegelbau, Wilhelmstraße 36, 2nd floor).

This workshop will explore the complex forms in which capital shaped commercial exchange in the pre-modern world from a global perspective, with the twofold aim of promoting an appreciation for historical diversity and of elaborating a shared framework of analysis beyond the insulation of single disciplines.

List of speakers:

• Mekhola Gomes (Amherst College)
• Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Crete)
• Maxim Korolkov (University of Heidelberg)
• Paolo Tedesco (University of Tübingen)
• Nicholas Matheou (University of Edinburgh)
• Lorenzo Bondioli (Harvard University)
• Khodadad Rezakhani (University of Leiden)
• Rebecca Darley (University of Hyderabad)
• Digvijay Kumar Singh (Cotton University)
• Zachary Sell (University of Notre Dame)
• Yiwen Li (City University of Hong Kong)

Organiser:

• Eugenia Vitello (University of Oxford and Tübingen)

Participation to the workshop and its final roundtable, both in person and remotely, will be free. For further information, details on the full program, and how to participate remotely, please feel free to contact the organiser (eugenia.vitello@gmail.com).