Conversations on New Histories of Capitalism (CNHC) is a working group and webinar series hosted by the Department of History and Civilisation and the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Check out the podcasts of the fourth season of the CNHC series, with highlights from our Conference “Commodification and the Law”!
Selected proceedings of our Conference “Commodification and the Law” held at the EUI in December 2022
Check out our past events page to discover the full programme and list of contributions.
- Dialogue and Debate: Symposium on Commodification and EU Law in European Law Open (2/2, June 2023) featuring an opening statement “Commodification and EU Law: A Genealogy” by chairs Ian J. Murray and Tommaso Fia as well as contributions by Bob Roth, Martjin W. Hesselink, Linus J. Hoffmann, Maurizio Borghi, Ian J. Murray and Candida Leone.
- Volume 24/3 of Global Jurist entitled “Law, Commodification, and the Distribution of Resources” (2024) featuring an opening statement by chairs Ian J. Murray and Tommaso Fia as well as contributions by Armel Campagne, Vincent Seffinga, Charlotte Ducuing, Teodora Groza and Beatriz Botero Arcila.
CNHC Newsletter
The CNHC series brings together advanced scholars and early career researchers from around the world in a dialogue on the emerging field of the “New History of Capitalism.”
CNHC was conceived as an innovative way to engage scholars from around the world online during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. The first season mapped “New Histories of Capitalism” as a dynamic field crossing disciplinary boundaries to examine capitalism as a social, cultural, political and economic system across early modern, modern and contemporary history.
The second season about “Intersectional Histories of Capitalism” presented theoretical and empirical work by scholars who have chosen an intersectional perspective on the history of capitalism, encouraging researchers to develop comprehensive analyses of how capitalism shaped the historical trajectories of political institutions, cultural imaginaries, economic conduct, identities and subjectivities.
In our mid-term lecture we speak with historian Claire Lemercier (CNRS/SciencesPo – CSO) and sociologist Pierre François (CNRS/SciencesPo – CSO) about the difficulties of (re)defining what the word “capitalism” means within and outside of academia.
The third season of Conversations on New Histories of Capitalism presented research on capitalism and international institutions to help us better understand their reciprocal development from the early modern period until the late twentieth century.
The CNHC working group also organised or co-hosted different events such as book launches, conferences, and the EUI Summer Talks series on Connected Histories of Capitalism. Make sure to check our past events page.
Discover short interviews with outstanding scholars in our new format CNHC Speed-Date Café.
Discover the podcasts of the first three seasons of Conversations on New Histories of Capitalism in our Podcasts section.