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DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Riello will deliver The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture 
 on Tuesday\, April 5 at 5:30 pm. His talk is entitled “Global Things: Trad
 e and Material Culture in the First Age of Globalization\, c. 1500–1800.”W
 e are often told that we live in an age of globalization\, one of growing 
 homogenization of consumption\, increasing communication\, and cultural an
 d economic integration. Yet the study of material culture suggests that to
 day’s global connectedness is not new. The early modern period (c. 1500–18
 00) can be seen as the ‘first age of globalization.’ More than ever before
 \, contact between different parts of the world intensified. Trade and the
  appreciation of commodities from different continents made material goods
  integral to cultural encounters and the establishment of long-lasting rel
 ationships. Two aspects are worth highlighting: first\, the fact that Euro
 pe assumed a key role in global exchange but was not the only force shapin
 g material culture in this period. Second\, material exchange was not just
  about commodities but included gifts\, looted artifacts\, captured cargoe
 s\, and war prizes. Global connectivity—today as in the past—is as much ab
 out violence and force as it is about trade and cultural exchange. This ta
 lk will map early modern globalization through an investigation of materia
 l culture\, reflecting on what types of connections material artifacts cre
 ated and how the study of material culture has reshaped our understanding 
 of early modernity.Giorgio Riello is the recipient of the 2016 Iris Founda
 tion Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar. He is Professor of Global H
 istory and Culture and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at the 
 University of Warwick. He is the author of A Foot in the Past (OUP 2006)\,
  Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (CUP 2013\, winner of the 2
 014 World History Association Bentley Book Prize)\, and Luxury: A Rich His
 tory (OUP 2016\, co-written with Peter McNeil). Riello has published exten
 sively on the history of fashion\, design\, and consumption in early moder
 n Europe and Asia. He is the co-editor of Shoes (Berg 2006\; pb 2011)\, Gl
 obal Design History (Routledge 2011)\, Writing Material Culture History (B
 loomsbury 2014)\, The Global Lives of Things (Routledge 2015)\, and severa
 l other volumes. He is currently completing a book entitled Back in Fashio
 n: A History of Fashion since the Middle Ages to be published by Yale Univ
 ersity Press.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Global Things: Trade and Material Culture in 
 the First Age of Globalization\, c. 1500–1800
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