David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at University of Copenhagen on 27 April 2016, 9.00-11.00. The seminar is organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies. Venue: 4th floor meeting room, KUA 2, Karen Blixens vej 4, 2300 Copenhagen S.

David Ludden started off his academic career translating Tamil poetry. Later he shifted focus from literature to economics and social history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked in the university’s faculty until 2007 when he shifted to New York University. David’s field of study is South Asia and his research interests are world history, globalization, agrarian history and economic development. He has edited several volumes, written many articles and is the author of India and South Asia: A Short History (Oxford: OneWorld Publishers, 2002), An Agrarian History of South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Peasant History in South India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985). 

The theme of the lecture derives from David Ludden’s latest research. He is currently working on a book (with the same name as the title of the seminar) in which, he focuses on the reproduction and transformation of imperial forms of knowledge, power, authority, and inequity inside the world of nations under globalization. More information.