Schedule
Harvard University, 8-9 June 2022
S-030, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge St
Wednesday, June 8
2:00 pm: Welcome
2:15 pm: Introductory remarks
2:30 - 4:00 pm: Panel I: Survival (or Prosperity) in Times of Crisis
Chair: Lola Zappi (Harvard/University of Paris-1)
Discussant: Kalyani Ramnath (Harvard/University of Georgia)
Elsa Génard (Harvard): “Prison in the face of crisis: the case of Fontevrault (France), 1920s-1930s”
Simon Bittmann (CNRS): “Cashing in on the Depression? Workers' Credit in the Early 1930s Kentucky”
Aditya Balasubramanian (ANU): “Crossings Initiated in the Age of Interruption? A Microhistory of the Great Depression Across South and Southeast Asia”
Thursday, June 9
10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee and croissants
11:00 am -12:00 pm: Panel II: Fortifying and Contesting Empire
Chair: Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins)
Meghna Chaudhuri (Boston College): “Temporalities of the Great Depression: Deflation and Ideology in South Asia”
Ian Kumekawa (Harvard): “Tariffs and State Capture as Responses to the Great Depression ”
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm: Panel III: Retooling the State in Economic Life
Chair: Elsa Génard (Harvard)
Discussant: Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po)
Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): “Capitalism and its Alternatives: Corporatist ‘Third Paths’ in interwar Europe and Latin America”
Michael O’Sullivan (Harvard): “Turkstroy: Soviet Capital in the Making of Turkey's Five-Year Plan, 1934-1938”
2:30 pm: Closing remarks and discussion