June 17th @ Seminarraum Geschichte 2, Hauptgebäude Universität Wien, 2. Stock, Stiege 9

Chair: Thomas Ertl (University of Vienna)

14:00 // Patrick O’Brien (LSE)
First Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture in Global History

15:00 // Andrea Komlosy (University of Vienna)
Entanglements of Catching-up. Rethinking “Industrial Revolution” from a Global Perspective

16:00 // Coffee break

16:30 // Erich Landsteiner (University of Vienna)
Steel, Arms and the Contest of Empires. The Growth and Decline of Steel Manufacturing and the Armaments Industry in Early Modern Central Europe (16th/17th Centuries)

18:00 // Key Note (chaired by Eric Vanhaute, Ghent University)
Peer Vries (University of Vienna)
Political Economies of Growth and Stagnation in the Early Modern World

June 18th @ VSIG, Rechte Wienzeile 3/9, 1040 Wien

Chair: Peter Berger (WU Vienna)

9:30 // Ernst Langthater (Institute of Rural History, St. Pölten/Fellow Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society LMU München)
The 'Miracle Bean'. A History of Globalization since 1870

10:30 // Kent Deng (LSE, Department of Economic History)
Was there any unilinear Growth Pattern in Global History? The Case of Ming-Qing China

11:30 // Guided Walk (Karlskirche und Karlsplatz as Imperial Sites of Remembrance)

Junior Global Academy. Chair: Andreas Obenaus (VSIG)

14:00 // Rolf Bauer (University of Vienna), A Drain of Wealth? India's Economy in the Age of High Imperialism

14:30 // Ashley Hurst (University of Vienna), Reassessing Traditional Dynastic Empires in a System of Nation-States

15:00 // Coffee break

15:30 // Eberhard Crailsheim (CSIC Madrid & VSIG): Seville and Manila. Illegal Trade and Corruption in the Spanish Empire (17th and 18th Centuries)

16:00 // Birgit Tremml-Werner (Tokyo University & VSIG): Recent Debates on Tokugawa Japan’s Early Modern Growth