2015

Workshop: Global Capitalism and Commodity Frontiers. A Research Agenda

International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherland. 4-5 December 2015

The aim of this workshop was to formulate a research agenda for one or more research projects on commodity frontiers.


Workshop: Environmental Histories of Commodities 1800-2000

University College London. 11 September 2015

One-day conference organised by Commodities of Empire project, Ferguson Centre (Open University) and the Institute of the Americas (UCL)

Conference programme

Conference report

The aim of this one-day conference was to showcase state-of-the-art research on nature’s contributions to, as well as the environmental impact and consequences of, the historical production, circulation and consumption of commodities in the modern period.


Hidden Histories of Things

UCL Institute of Making, 26 January 2015 – organised by Commodity Histories

Workshop report