Date/Time
Date(s) - 23 Mar 2016
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Deutsche Haus
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S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in History, Columbia University, March 23, 2016, 6-7:30pm, Deutsches Haus, followed by a reception
“Towards a Global Cultural History? Gifts, Commodities and Diplomacy in the First Global Age”
Giorgio Riello, Professor of History, and Director, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/go/giorgioriello
Giorgio Riello was trained as an economic historian, with a focus on material culture and the history of technology. After his work on the transformation of Italian and European industry in the eighteenth century, he turned to global history, becoming founding director of the Centre for Global History and Culture at Warwick University, one of the world’s leading programs focusing on the global history of material culture. Professor Riello’s multiply award-winning publications have ranged from the global history of cotton to south Asian textile production, to the global industry of shoe production.