# Community, Corporation, and the Institutions of Britain’s Early Modern International Trade ![Logo Weatherhead Center](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-11/Screenshot%202025-11-25%20at%201.11.52%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=0BT1XQAa) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 1, 2025** 03:45PM - 05:45PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Robinson Hall, Room 125, Harvard Yard** [35 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138 United States ]() Sponsor: Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar Speaker [**Edmond Smith**](https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/edmond.smith)**,** Professor in Economic Cultures, University of Manchester Commentator [**Siân Davies**](https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/people/sian-davies), Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH. PhD in Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh. [Register here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IjKsdYhZWwz6ugCbyxX-op3K7C2Bqt1i0hFrbHHtMjQ/edit)- you will receive the seminar paper approximately one week ahead of time. This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A/B *Approaches to Global History* and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty participants will present current research. Faculty participants will be drawn from several schools, and, most especially, from the group of fellows in global history who are spending the academic year 2025-2026 at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Discussions will be moderated by Professors **Sven Beckert**. See also:- [ Conferences and Lectures ](/event-categories/conferences-and-lectures) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/node/1936376/event-feed.ics) Copy link link