Keynote – Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard Univeristy)
We are pleased to inform you that Professor Sven Beckert will deliver the keynote lecture at the Posthumus Conference 2026.
Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching center on the Professor Beckert is also co-chair of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University, co-chair of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) and co-editor of a series of books at Princeton University Press on ‘America in the World’.
His keynote lecture will be based upon his recent publication Capitalism. A Global History, a publication regarded as ‘a monumental book [and a] must read’, according to Thomas Piketty and glowingly reviewed widely and prominently, e.g., in the Guardian and the New York Times. In his lecture, he will at least answer one of the intriguing questions about capitalism, namely when did it start? But also, how capitalism changed over time and what triggered these transformations?