Global History Initiative (Queen's University) and the Poverty Research Network (University of Glasgow)
Poverty & Scarcity in Global History Keynote Address
Department of History
Queen's University, Kingston ON
February 4, 2022
"Poor Creatures: Food Aid for People and other Animals in the Eighteenth Century" with Dr. Anya Zilberstein (Department of History at Concordia University)
Moderator: Swen Steinberg
Dr. Anya Zilberstein examined the intertwined history of human and non-human welfare and food assistance in Britain in her lecture
The Global History Initiative hosted the 2022 Poverty & Scarcity in Global History Conference on February 3 & 4, in collaboration with the Poverty Research Network at the University of Glasgow.
The conference interrogated the interface between poverty, scarcity, and the field of global history through three broad areas: production, power, and affect. The conference addressed a number of questions: How is poverty produced through global processes, and how are questions of resources-animal, organic, and nonorganic- tied to the production of poverty and its concomitant scarcity?
Drawing from interdisciplinary vantage points and perspectives from both the premodern and the modern era, the conference worked to uncover the agentive roles that turn real or perceived scarcity into structural poverty. Presenters examined the important role that the material conditions of poverty, and socio-political fears and anxieties of poverty, have driven global history across interlocking temporal and spatial scales and how ideas about poverty and scarcity have shaped the emergence of global connections and processes.
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