Dear all，
The forth lecture of ShanghaiTech Seminar in Global Humanities will be hold at 18:30 on October 13th in Conference Center. Welcome!
Title: Political Money：A History of the Russian Ruble, 1768-1924
Abstract:
The history of the Russian ruble offers an opportunity to explore the logic behind the deliberate preservation of supposedly “backward” institutions. Why did a country with an industrializing economy, solid private property rights, and a near-perfect reputation as a rock-solid repayer of its debts stick for such a prolonged period with an inconvertible currency? An answer requires that we eschew the binary opposition between the institutional complexity of monetary systems based on metal (gold, silver, or bimetal) and the ideological chaos and institutional vacuum of the “paper standard.” The lecture will focus on three main principles of the Russian imperial political system that are rarely considered in connection to the “ruble question”: autocracy, nationalism, and empire.
Speaker:
Ekaterina Pravilova is Rosengarten Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Professor of History and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at the Department of History at Princeton University. Pravilova is a historian of Imperial Russia, and her research interests range from the development of Russian law, economy and governance, to the study of imperial art and historiography. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018-2019. Her previous book A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (2014) received several awards, including the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association “for the best work in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500,” and the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies for “the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.”
Inviter:Igor Fedyukin , Associate Professor of History, Institute of Humanities, ShanghaiTech University
Registration link:https://wenjuan.shanghaitech.edu.cn/vm/w2LNQFi.aspx
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“全球人文讲座系列”（ShanghaiTech Seminar in Global Humanities）的创建宗旨是服务于上海科技大学人文院的前瞻性学科建设，突出全球人文学的跨学科、跨国界的视野。以各学科前沿的新实践、新方法论为基点，全方位探索人文学不同研究领域的未来路径。从2023年底开始筹备至今。我们采取学院内PI教授邀请并提名的策略。受邀者在海外名校任职，讲座内容是未发表或者发表一年以内的最新研究成果。2024年将陆续有六位在各自领域里成就卓著的知名学者加盟全球人文讲座系列。敬请关注。
Global Humanities aims to foster the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University by highlighting its interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. It focuses on new practices and methodologies in various disciplines of Arts and Humanities. Preparation started at the end of 2023 and is ongoing.
Speakers are nominated and invited by Primary Investigators in the Institute. The lectures must be unpublished or at least be published within the previous year. So far, we have invited six leading scholars from world-renowned universities, who have delivered talks or will be arriving between June and December 2024. These include Ling Hon Lam (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, USA), Anke Hein (Peter Moores Chair Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Britain), Ekaterina Pravilova (Rosengarten Chair Professor, Princeton, USA), Jeehee Hong (Gretta Chambers Chair of East Asian Art History Associate Professor, McGill, Canada), and Nam-lin Hur (Professor, UBC, Canada), etc.