Long-Term Processes in Human History: A Tribute to Johan Goudsblom
Date: 17-19 March 2022
Location: The Trippenhuis, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Main programme
Thursday 17th March
12.30-13.15 Reception and registration
13.30-14.00 Stephen Mennell (University College Dublin): Remembering Johan Goudsblom.
14.00-14.30 Hermann Korte (University of Hamburg): The Early Thirty Years.
14.30-14.45 Questions and discussion
14.45-15.00 Break
15.00-15.30 Frans Saris (Foundation Sanegeest): Towards a Fourth Regime.
15.30-15.40 Discussion
15.40-16.10 Nico Wilterdink (University of Amsterdam): Goudsblom’s Law of Three Stages: The Spread of Power Assets in Human History.
16.10-16.20 Discussion
16.20-16.35 Break
16.35-17.05 Abram de Swaan (University of Amsterdam): The Global Coordination Problem. Collective Action Among Unequal States.
17.05-17.15 Discussion
17.15-18.15 Drinks
Friday 18th March
9.15-9.45 David Christian (Macquarie University, Sydney): The Trajectory of Human History (lecture through Zoom).
9.45-9.55 Discussion
9.55-10.10 Break
10.10-11.10 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (1)
11.10-11.25 Break
11.25-12.25 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (2)
12.25-13.25 Lunch
13.25-13.55 Nina Baur (Technische Universität Berlin): Long-Term Processes as Obstacles against the Fourth Ecological Transformation. Ecological Sustainability and the Spatial Arrangements of Food Markets.
13.55-14.05 Discussion
14.05-14.20 Break
14.20-15.20 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (3)
15.20-15.35 Break
15.35-16.35 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (4)
16.35-16.50 Break
16.50-17.20 John R. McNeill (Georgetown University): Bisons, Elephants and Whales: Keystone Species and the Industrial Revolution (lecture through Zoom).
17.20-17.30 Discussion
Saturday 19th March
9.15-9.45 Giselinde Kuipers (Catholic University Leuven): The Expanding Beauty Regime and its Social Consequences.
9.45-9.55 Discussion
9.55-10.10 Break
10.10-11.10 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (1)
11.10-11.25 Break
11.25-12.25 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (2)
12.25-13.25 Lunch
13.25-13.55 Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics): Performing Civility.
13.55-14.05 Discussion
14.05-14.20 Break
14.20-15.20 Paper presentations in parallel sessions (3)
15.20-15.35 Break
15.35-16.05 Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania): Sexual Revolution and the Future of the Family (lecture through Zoom).
16.05-16.15 Discussion
16.15-16.30 Reflections and final words.