October 27, 2020 (Zoom)
Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana University)
Everybody Loves Qianlong: Vernacular Fantasies, Cultural Consumption, and the “Prosperous Age” in Post-Imperial ChinaFebruary 26, 2020
Chenzi Xu (Dartmouth College)
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures
Seminar poster »February 18, 2020
Diana Kim (Georgetown University)
Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
Seminar poster »December 4, 2019
Joshua Specht (Monash University)
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
Seminar poster »November 13, 2019
Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT)
Esther Duflo (Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT)
Good Economics for Hard Times
Seminar poster »
October 30, 2019
Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
Seminar poster »September 25, 2019
Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University of Singapore)
Constructing the Index of Arabs - Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia
Seminar poster »April 12, 2019
Francesca Trivellato (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study)
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society
February 12, 2019
Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
‘For the benefit of the masses’: Socialist thinking before Socialism in Calcutta (1843-46)April 18, 2018
David Todd (King's College London)
Velvet imperialism: French commodities, culture, and informal rule in the nineteenth century
March 28, 2018
Glenda Sluga (Sydney)
Women, Men and the Origins of International Society, 1812-1822
(Co-sponsored with HIGHS)February 7, 2018
Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia)
Communicable Disease: The League of Nations and the Creation of World Epidemiological Intelligence
(Co-sponsored with HIGHS)December 6, 2017
Namrata Kala (MIT)
The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology
Seminar poster »November 15, 2017
Jonathan Levy (Chicago)
Volcker Shock: American Capitalism Before and After 1980
CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge StreetApril 26 2017
The Social Spaces of War Imprisonment in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)
April 5 2017
Resisting capitalism- working class economic strategies in early modern Europe
Laurence Fontaine (CNRS, EHESS)
(Co-sponsored with The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies)March 29 2017
‘Pressure from without’: Karl Marx, Capital and the 1867 Reform Bill
Gareth Stedman Jones (University of London, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge)
March 1 2017
Nature's Present: Environmental crossroads in 21st century India
Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University)
November 10 2016
Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene
(Co-sponsors - Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Mahindra Humanities Center)
October 27 2016
Climate and Capital: Barbara Ward, Margaret Mead, and the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment
Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
May 2 2016
Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics)
The logic, urgency and promise of tackling climate change: the road to and from Paris
(Co-sponsor – Harvard University Center for the Environment)
Seminar poster »April 13 2016
Surabhi Ranganathan (Kings College, University of Cambridge)
Global CommonsMarch 2 2016
Franziska Exeler (University of Cambridge)
The Soviet Union and the Global Moment of Postwar JusticeNovember 16 2015
Rohit De (Yale University)
How did a Cow Get into the Constitution? Economics, Politics and Violence in the Indian Beef Bans
Seminar poster »November 19 2014
Diasporic Legalities: Tracing Everyday Afterlives through Law's Imperial Archives
Julia Stephens (Yale University)
Seminar poster »October 29 2014
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London), Tim Harper (University of Cambridge), Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge) and Kirsty Walker (Harvard)
Seminar poster »April 16 2014
Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)
The Meritocrats: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste
February 26 2014
Professor Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)
On Liberty and Exclusion: The 'Jew Bill' in Western LiberalismFebruary 7 2014
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Beyond Capital: The Climate Crisis as a Challenge to Social Thought
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Co-sponsors: Harvard University Centre for the Environment and the Mahindra Humanities CenterNovember 20 2013
Brandon Terry (Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Harvard University)
Political Theory and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement: Exemplarity, Narrative, and Judgment
Seminar poster ZèNovember 13 2013
Jennifer Burns (Stanford University)
Milton Friedman: The Economist as Historian
*Co-sponsored with Harvard International & Global History Seminar
Seminar poster ZèOctober 2 2013
Sunil S. Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London )
Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
Seminar poster Zè
May 1 2013
Elisabeth Köll (Harvard University) and Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Railroads of China/Railroads of India ZèApril 17 2013
Fei-Hsien Wang (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
Catching Pirates in the Middle Kingdom: Shanghai Booksellers and Their 'Copyright' Regime
Seminar poster ZèFebruary 27 2013
Walter Johnson (Harvard University)
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Seminar poster Zè
February 21 2013
John McNeill (Georgetown University)
Global Energy History: The Last 10,000 Years
Seminar poster ZèDecember 5 2012
Peter Baldwin (UCLA)
What History Can Tell Us About the Copyright Wars
Seminar Poster ZèNovember 27 2012
Angus Burgin (The Johns Hopkins University)
Planning Against Planning: The Mont Pelerin Society and the Origins of Neoliberalism
Seminar Poster ZèApril 18 2012
Colin Kidd (Queens University Belfast)
Race, Difference and the Origins of British Anthropology
Seminar poster »April 11 2012
Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)
Warfare and welfare: how social pressure and global conflict in World War II changed China
Seminar poster »
February 8 2012
Hendrik Hartog (Princeton University)
A Life Transformed
Seminar poster »November 2 2011
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (MIT)
Poor Economics
Seminar poster »October 12 2011
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University of Leeds)
Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus's Germania in British India
Seminar poster »September 22 2011
Richard White (Stanford University)
Did Things Have to Turn Out This Way? Energy, Technology, Markets and the Environment in the North American West
Seminar poster »April 20 2011
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University, Department of Economics)
Triumph of the City
Event poster »March 30 2011
Tracy Dennison (Caltech)
Family Forms and Economic Development: Evidence from Imperial Russia
Event poster »November 10 2010
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)
Hope in the Age of Despots: the Political Economy of Albert Hirschman in the 1970sOctober 20 2010
Stephen Breyer (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View
The Korematsu CaseMay 5 2010
Seema Alavi (Delhi University), Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London), and Tim Harper (University of Cambridge)
The Archive of MobilityApril 21 2010
Barbara Ravelhofer (Durham University)
The poetical and political construction of 'Dracula the Tyrant', 1456-1500April 7 2010
Luca Einaudi (Center for History and Economics)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: European Common Currency, 1865-2010November 18 2009
Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford), Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkeley)
Economic Inequality in the Long RunOctober 21 2009
Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London)
Sojourners, Settlers, Citizens: Indians and Chinese in Colonial MalayaSeptember 30 2009
Harriet Ritvo (MIT)
The Dawn of GreenApril 30 2009
David Todd (Centre for History and Economics and Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Protectionism and Nationalism in 19th-century FranceApril 16 2009
Caitlin Anderson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Two Subjects of Empire: Race, Nation, and the Law from Jamaica to London, 1823-30March 12 2009
Sugata Bose, Walter Johnson, Mary Lewis, Daniel Smail (Harvard University)
Histories of Economic LifeNovember 19 2008
Ellen Fitzpatrick (University of New Hampshire/Radcliffe Institute)
How Progressive were the Progressives? A twenty first century Reappraisal of early twentieth century Social Criticism and ReformNovember 12 2008
Karuna Mantena (Yale University)
Codification in the East and West: Henry Maine and legal reform in British IndiaNovember 5 2008
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
Limits and growth: environment and energy supply in Britain, 1560-2000April 16 2008
Adam Tooze (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Contesting the Facts: Trade Statistics and the Question of Weimar's Stabilization 1918-1923April 2 2008
Gareth Stedman Jones (King’s College, Cambridge)
Radicalism and the Extra-European World: The Case of MarxMarch 12 2008
Maya Jasanoff, Walter Johnson, Mary Lewis, Emma Rothschild (Harvard University)
Histories of Economic LifeFebruary 27 2008
William St. Clair (Trinity College, Cambridge)
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
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