Histories of Land, Economy, and Power

Conference Program

Friday, November 9th 2012
Afternoon sessions and the Evening Keynote will take place in CGIS-S020

1pm: Opening remarks
Walter Johnson (Department of History, Harvard University)

Session I, 1:15pm
Rebecca Spang (Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington)
Land in a form that can Circulate: Money, Fantasy, and the French Revolution

Session II, 2:30pm
Emilio Kouri (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Landed Property, Social Relations, and the Law: Reflections from Mexico

Session III, 3:45pm
Walter Johnson (Department of History, Harvard University)
From the Empire for Liberty to the Cotton Kingdom: A Jeffersonian Nightmare in the Mississippi Valley

Keynote, Session IV, 5:00pm
Timothy Mitchell (Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University)
Economentality: How the Future Entered Government

Saturday, November 10th 2012
All sessions will take place in CGIS-S050

Breakfast available for participants, 9am

9:15am: Opening remarks
Emma Rothschild (Department of History, Harvard University)

Panel I – 9:30-10:45am
Comment: Neil Brenner (Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)

Meg Rithmire (Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School)

Noam Maggor (Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History, Vanderbilt University)

Panel II – 11am-12:15pm
Comment: Elizabeth Blackmar (Department of History, Columbia University)

Desmond Fitz-Gibbon (Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College)

Alexia Yates (Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University)

Lunch for participants

Saturday: Panel III – 1:30pm-2:45pm
Comment: Robert Travers (Department of History, Cornell University)

Fahad Bishara (Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University)

Peter Samuels (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University)

Panel IV: 3:00pm-4:15pm
Comment: Emilio Kouri (Department of History, University of Chicago)

Jo Guldi (Society of Fellows, Harvard University)

Edward Murphy (Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University)

Closing Comment, 4:15pm
Charles Maier (Department of History, Harvard University)

Closing Reception, 4:45pm