BOOK LAUNCH – SYMPOSIUM

*** BOOK LAUNCH – SYMPOSIUM ***
For the new volume
War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in
Europe and the Mediterranean, 13001800, ed. J. Fynn-Paul (Brill, 2014)
Friday, 10 October 2014,
Gravensteen 1.11
Pieterskerkhof 6, Leiden
12:25-15:15
12:25-12:55
Lunch
12:55-13:00
Welcome – Marjolein ’t Hart (Amsterdam/Huygens)
13:00-13:30
Keynote Talk: “War, Entrepreneurship and
Economic Growth” Patrick O’Brien (LSE)
13:30-13:45
Reaction: Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden)
13:45-14:00
Reaction: Jeroen Duindam (Leiden)
14:00-14:15
Reaction: Peer Vries (Vienna)
14:15-14:45
Discussion – led by Marjolein ‘t Hart (w/David Parrott)
14:45-15:05
Coffee, Opportunity to Buy the Volume ~25% OFF~
15:15-16:45
The book launch will be immediately followed by a talk by
Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin), entitled “Heretics and neighbours. The
religious life of a Savoyard village 16th-18th century.”
*Funding for the book launch and symposium has been generously provided by the Leiden History
Institute, the N. W. Posthumus Institute, and Koninklijke Brill, N.v.