Ulbe Bosma obtained his PhD in history at Leiden University in 1995. From 1993 to 2007 he acted as coordinator of the Sephis programme. Since 1997 he is Senior Researcher at the IISH and since 2012 professor of 'International Comparative Social History' at the Free University of Amsterdam. The endowed chair covers empirical research into labour and labour relations, from a comparative social historical and geographical perspective. At present he is also visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His main fields of interest are the histories of labour and commodity production, especially sugar, and international labour migration.Conférences

Free and unfree labour in colonial Southeast Asia
Dans le cadre du séminaire de Maurice Aymard Économies, sociétés et cultures du monde méditerranéen, XV^e-XX^e siècle
Lundi 10 mars de 17h-20 h, salle 1 (105 bd Raspail)

Global sugar and local taste in India
Dans le cadre du séminaire de Françoise Sabban
Jeudi 13 mars de 11h-13 h, salle 681 (Bât. Le France)

Commodity production and transforming village production: comparing Madras and Java
Dans le cadre du séminaire de Laurent Berger Ethnographie globale de la mondialisation
Lundi 17 mars de 11h-13 h, salle 4 (105 bd Raspail)

From colonial to global knowledge: circuits of botanists
Dans le cadre du séminaire du CASE Transitions critiques en Asie du Sud-Est
Jeudi 27 mars de 10h-12 h, salle 628 (bât. Le France)

Accueil

• Invité par Alessandro Stanziani

Durée du séjour

1 mois