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Working Lunch with Edward Cavanagh
On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at 11am, the Institute for European Global Studies invited to a Working Lunch with Visiting Fellows. This time, Edward Cavanagh talked about “Corporations and Territorial Acquisition in Global History and International Law: Some Key Cases and Events, 1606-1919”.
Edward Cavanagh is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, specializing in comparative histories of colonialism, settler colonialism, and imperialism. At the Institute for European Global Studies, he advances his research on “Empire’s Companies: Settler Colonialism and Property Law in World History”. In this context, he provides an analysis of the legal methods of territorial acquisition by European corporations across the wide period of 1603 to 1923, exploring the activities of those corporations in the Atlantic world (1603-1707), in India (1707-1784), the Pacific world (1784-1870), and in Southern Rhodesia (1889-1923).
Edward Cavanagh holds the Trillium Foundation Scholarship and the R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship for Canadian Legal History. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Settler Colonial Studies. His most recent book, Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.
Working lunches are a platform for communication initiated by Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch. They provide visiting fellows with a forum to present their research and to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.
Please register at europa@clutterunibas.ch, if you would like to participate in the event.