Thursday December 3 2009

 

 

US Whig poster showing unemployment in 1837
US Whig poster showing unemployment in 1837.

 

Uncle Sam sick with the grippe
"Uncle Sam sick with La Grippe" -
cartoon from 1837

 

The Times
"The Times" - cartoon from 1837

 

Crowd outside NY Stock Exchange, 1929
Crowd outside New York Stock Exchange, 1929

 

Run on UK bank Northern Rock in 2007
A bank run outside a branch of Northern Rock in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2007

 

Introduction
10:00am

 

Session One
10.15am

Jessica Lepler (University of New Hampshire)
The Pressure of 1836: Interpreting Atlantic Bank Wars »

 

Commentator:
Sven Beckert
 

Session Two
11.30am

Jed Shugerman (Harvard Law School)
Economic Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review »

Appendices »

 

Commentator:
Richard Tuck


Informal Lunch
12.45pm-1.15pm 

 

Concluding Panel    
1.15pm-2.00pm

Walter Johnson
Emma Rothschild

 

Gallery Tour
3.15pm

Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises 1830s-1930s
A new Exhibit at the Historical Collections of the Baker Library, Harvard Business School.

 

For further information please contact Emily Gauthier: gauth@fas.harvard.edu

 

 

Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises 1830s-1930s, a new Exhibit at the Historical Collections of the Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Website »