2010 Guest Lectures UW Madison

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"Slave versus Free Labor in Western Culture"

A lecture by

Seymour Drescher, 
Professor of History and Sociology
University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, October 28th, 2010
4:00 PM
Room L-140, Chazen Museum of Art, Elvehjem Building

Coerced and free labor have coexisted from antiquity to Auschwitz. Only at end of the eighteenth century, however, did Western writers and political activists begin to discuss the comparative performance of slave and free labor as systems of production and the accumulation of wealth. This talk will first address the issue of how and why such comparisons became a salient issue during the last 250 years. It will then consider some of the historical outcomes of policies that were subsequently based upon the substitution of one form of labor for the other. 

Sponsored by The George L. Mosse Program in History and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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"Deglobalization and the Global Rise of Anti-Hegemonic Party States"

by Diego Olstein

Date:  April 26, 2010
Time:  12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Location:  206 Ingraham
Sponsor:  Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Co-Sponsor:  George L. Mosse Program in History

Overview:
Historians offer multiple plausible accounts of the history of globalization. One prevalent narrative portrays it as a U-shaped graph representing one peak from 1850 to 1914, and a second from 1973 until the present day. This lecture will examine several ways of approaching this history, and will offer an interpretation of the valley between the two peaks of globalization within the context of global politics (1917-1976).

Speaker Biography:
Diego Olstein received his PhD from the  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. He has taught  in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2004. This year he is the  George L.Mosse Visiting Faculty Scholar affiliated with the George L. Mosse Program in History where he is teaching an undergraduate seminar on Medieval Spanish history. His research and teaching concentrates in two major fields: Medieval Spain and World History.

 

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