Judging Books in Early Modern Europe
Noah Millstone (University of Birmingham and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
April 15 2024
Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Center for History and Economics and the Early Modern Workshop in the History Department, Harvard University.
Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism
April 12-13 2024
Harvard University
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
Early modern Europeans were haunted by the problem of religious difference. Perhaps even more fundamentally, they were haunted by the question of how far religions were, in fact, different at all. Versions of this problem emerged in dealing with non-Christian populations in Europe; in imperial and missionary activities; and in navigating the fractured landscape of post-Reformation Christianity. The composition of 'confessions' is usually understood as an attempt to draw clear lines around belief and practice, clarifying who was in and who was out. But even these documents continued to be contested for decades after they were created, and efforts to distinguish religions or confessions from one another had to be regularly renewed. In this conference, leading scholars outlined how early modern people understood and responded to the problems posed by religious difference.
Speakers and topics included:
Elena Bonora, Università degli Studi di Parma. 'Facing Multidenominational Europe: Transformations of the Roman Catholic Perspective between the 16th and 17th centuries.'
Anastazja Grudnicka, European University Institute. 'A Prince of Strange Repute: Holy Roman Emperor Matthias I and the Making of Habsburg Catholicism.'
Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University. '1572 and the Confessionalization of Europe.'
Anthony Meyer, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. 'To Stretch the Heart: The Flexible Contours of Confession in the Indigenous Church of New Spain.'
Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield. '"Confessionalization creep": 1590-1618.'
Sarah Mortimer, Christ Church Oxford. 'Political society or mystical body? Rethinking the Church during the Short Peace.'
David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier. 'Confessional Identity and Divergence: The Logic of Corruption in English Religious Polemics, 1590-1610.'
Stefano Villani, University of Maryland. 'Mapping Irenicism: Edwin Sandys and A Relation of the State of Religion (1605).'
Spencer J. Weinreich, Harvard University. 'In the Hands of Two Leopards: Precarious Lives in Elizabethan London.'
Elsa Génard (Harvard) discussed her new book, Routines of Punishment: A Comparative History of Everyday Sanctions (19th-20th century).
December 6, 2023
Harvard University
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Christopher Blattman (Chicago) discussed his recent book Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.
November 28, 2023
Harvard University
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Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India
September 8, 2023
Harvard University
Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University) discussed his new book with Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia University) and Amy Offner (University of Pennsylvania).
Chaired by Ian Kumekawa (Harvard University).
A reception followed the discussion.
Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po)
United against Capital. European Workers and the Practice of Transnational Labor Solidarity (c. 1860 -1914)
Harvard University
April 20, 2023
Andrew Liu (Villanova)
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
March 2, 2021
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Networks in the Macroeconomy
Harvard University
September 5-6, 2019This two day workshop, organized by Matt Elliott and Ben Golub, aimed to bring together the most exciting research on networks in macroeconomics and related fields, in both theory and applications.
Normative and Historical Ideas of Political Office
Papers by Chiara Cordelli and Melissa Lane
Harvard University
April 25, 2018
Workshop on France in the History of Capitalism
Harvard University
April 17, 2018
Workshop on Gender Inequality between Bangladesh and India
Harvard University
April 16, 2018
History of the World Health Organization Workshop
Harvard University
September 28, 2018
Roger Maioli
Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel: Fielding to Austen
Book talk and reception
October 23, 2017
Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
The Calling of History: A Conversation with Sunil Amrith
November 9, 2016
Sustainable Development Goals
December 1, 2015
Q & A with Abhijit Banerjee and Emma Rothschild
Burma’s Transitions in Historical Perspective: A Roundtable
November 19, 2015
Speakers: Sunil Amrith, Charles Carstens, Diana Kim, Amartya Sen, Kirsty Walker
The History of Energy and the Environment
October 22-23, 2015
The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, held its fourth conference at Harvard University. A presentation of research by conference participants and Harvard University scholars ran concurrently in the CGIS South Concourse. The projects were on display all day Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23. The research exhibition was open to the public.
Carbon and Its Discontents: The Futures of Energy History
Friday, May 8, 2015 at 4:00 PM
Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street
A Roundtable Discussion with Lisa M. Brady, Rania Ghosn, Christopher F. Jones, Edward Melillo, Ian J. Miller, Sara B. Pritchard, Paul Sabin, Arianne Tanner, Julia Adeney Thomas, Conevery B. Valencius and Paul Warde, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Joint Center for History and Economics.
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Information Transmission in Networks
May 1-3, 2015
Littauer Center, 1805 Cambridge Street
A conference on Information Transmission in Networks was hosted by the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University. The conference was the first in a series on Network Science in Economics, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Center for History and Economics and the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University. The conference featured 32 talks over three days, as well as a poster session. About 50 researchers from all over the world attended.
New Histories of Paperwork
April 24, 2015
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) – South Building, Room S250
1730 Cambridge Street
This workshop offered a forum for historians working in a wide range of fields to share arguments, findings and methods related to the history of bureaucratic work. How have routine practices of office work – data entry, measurement, accountancy, inventory – shaped the archives upon which historians rely? How did bureaucrats conceal or promote information? How should historians frame efforts at reform, audit, investigation and transparency undertaken in the past? The workshop was organized by Padraic X. Scanlan and was sponsored by the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics and the Center for History and Economics.
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Early Modern Political Practice
December 5-6, 2014
A workshop was organized by Noah Millstone and supported by the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics and the Center for History and Economics.
New Directions in Energy History - Panel Presentations and Roundtable
November 14 2014
Harvard University
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Chair: Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)
John R. McNeill (Georgetown University): Ecological Teleconnections of the Industrial Revolution
Christopher F. Jones (Arizona State University): The Forgotten King: Coal, Energy, and History
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia): Comments and Response
100 Years of Health in Asia: China, Southeast Asia, India
October 29, 2014
Harvard University
Organized by the Joint Center for History and Economics and the China Medical Board.
Institutions, Credit and the State
October 17-18, 2014
Yale University
The History Project, in cooperation with the History Department and the European Studies Council at Yale University, and the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, held its third conference on October 17-18, 2014 at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. The conference was concerned with institutions and the state, especially in relation to public and private credit.
Energy History and the History of the Future
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
April 25 2014
CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
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Means of Transport: Technology, Mobility, and Energy in Modern Asia
24-25 April 2014
Harvard University
A workshop organized by the Joint Center for History and Economics was held in Harvard on April 24-25, 2014. The workshop was part of the program on the global history of energy, supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and brought together scholars working on the history of transportation in modern Asia.
Visualizing Data for Historical Research: An Introduction to Palladio
Dan Edelstein (Stanford University)
April 24 2014
CGIS-K262, 1737 Cambridge Street
Workshop on Manufacturing and Economic Development
April 18 2014
Harvard University
The purpose of this workshop was to bring together economists who have been inspired by recent research in development and industrial organization to look more deeply at the determinants of productivity for firms in developing countries. Research on development has made progress in understanding the constraints and benefits of micro-entrepreneurship, but the process of development involves the growth and productivity of larger firms. New empirical approaches are needed to understand these firms and their economic environment.
Rethinking the Market in Modern China
April 3-4, 2014
Harvard University
A workshop organized by the Joint Center for History at Economics was held in Harvard on April 3-4, 2014. The agenda-setting workshop brought together scholars who are working on the history of business and commercial practices, legal and administrative institutions, and economic thought in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China.
Defining the Economy in Political Crisis: Revolution, Rupture and the Law
October 4 2013
Harvard University
Historians and social scientists have turned to examine the relationship between economics and its object. Scholars increasingly argue that the 'economy' itself is a recent product of socio-political practice. With the integration of markets and the rise of global economic institutions, there is a tendency to see this as a universal process playing out similarly in different jurisdictions. The aim of this meeting was to examine how contingency, violence and ideologies were involved in redefining the economy. How was the economy constructed after revolutionary change or decolonization? What tools and technologies did new political orders adopt? Given that drastic political change was accompanied by both chaos and violence, we are interested in examining the ways in which the contingencies of the everyday shaped conceptions of property, wealth, exchange and commodities. The workshop also examined the ways in which the the 'economy' is a creature of laws and regulations. In the workshop we hoped to bring into focus not just the processes of law making, but also the everyday life of the law and the role it plays in constructing the economy.
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Commerce, Corporations and the Law
September 27-28 2013
Dickinson Hall, Princeton University
The History Project, in cooperation with the History Department at Princeton University and the Joint Center for History and Economics, held its second conference on September 27-28 2013 at Dickinson Hall, Princeton University. The conference was concerned with cross-cultural trade, firms, and legal systems around the world.
"Whose Crime is This?": Finance Capitalism and Market Economics in Early Twentieth Century China
Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon)
April 18, 2013
Asia and the New History of Energy
February 21-22, 2013
Harvard University
This meeting was part of an ongoing series of events designed to open new horizons in the global and comparative history of energy. The workshop reexamined the history of Asia through what might be called the "new history of energy," an approach that expands research on energy history and energy policy in order to better account for the particular characteristics and uses of energy sources, from fossil fuels and renewable alternatives to human and animal labor. The workshop placed energy at the center of inquiry in Asian history, asking how energy production and consumption interacted with larger social and environmental processes. We also used the focus on energy to reconsider well-known narratives within national and regional histories.
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The Economic History of Poverty, the first conference of the History Project, was held at MIT on November 29 - 30 2012. The conference was concerned with poverty in historical perspective and examined the economic lives of the poor, in different periods and places.
Histories of Land, Economy, and Power
The first conference of the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics, was held at Harvard on November 9 - 10 2012. The conference explored the political economy of land from a range of national perspectives.
Federal Credit in Historical Persepective
May 7, 2012
The purpose of this workshop was to explore the extension of federal credit in a historical perspective and consider today's realities within the context of longstanding debates over public sector risk management, including, for example, federal loan insurance and credit.
Representing the Race: the Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Professor Kenneth Mack
April 30, 2012
Globalising Scottish History
April 17 2012
CGIS, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
This one-day conference, organized by Valerie Wallace, aimed to place Scotland's history in a global context. Speakers, including David Armitage, Bernard Bailyn, Colin Kidd and Emma Rothschild, addressed large global concerns, including imperialism and warfare, from a Scottish perspective. By considering transregional interconnections and the exchanges of legal, political, economic and religious ideas, they explored relationships between the individual, the local and the global.
Units, Ideas, and Images in the History of Energy
17 - 18 November 2011
CGIS, 61 Kirkland Street, Room 24
The workshop sought to explore changes in the depiction, understanding, and measurement of energy in the early modern and modern periods. How did people think about energy in relation to natural forces and economic processes? What were the competing ideas about the nature of energy and its relation to work? Why do we use the units we do today when quantifying energy and why were alternative units discarded? In considering these questions, the workshop also aimed to examine how new ideas about society and political economy have, in turn, influenced the history of energy production and consumption as well as larger social and environmental processes. This workshop is part of an ongoing series of events on the global and comparative history of energy, with the support of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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The Future of Labor
September 19 2011
CGIS- South 050, 1730 Cambridge Street
William Brown, University of Cambridge
Energy and Environment: A Global History
April 22 2011
Harvard University Center for the Environment
The workshop considered energy history in a global perspective. It presented new research by graduate students from Harvard and MIT, and concluded with a roundtable session of faculty from both institutions. The workshop was the first in a series of events hosted by the Energy History Project, an initiative that explores the ways in which the historical study of energy use and its transformations can contribute to the understanding of economic, social, and environmental change. Participants included David Blackbourn, Alison Frank, Richard Hornbeck, Ian Miller, Harriet Ritvo and Emma Rothschild. The workshop website can be found here.
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Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit
A new exhibition at Harvard Business School, curated by Caitlin Anderson, Visiting Fellow at the Center for History and Economics, draws on materials in Baker Library’s Historical Collections to show how previous generations devised creative ways of lending and borrowing long before credit cards.
Income Maintenance Programs in America From 1920s to the Present Day: A Progress Report on New Evidence
November 10 2010Price V. Fishback
Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Co-Editor, Journal of Economic HistoryThe event was jointly sponsored by the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics and the Joint Center for History and Economics. Further reading: A Patchwork Safety Net»
Crisis, Migration and Public Health
May 5 2010
The Center for History and Economics held the second in a series of workshops on the historical experience of economic crisis in relation to public health and health systems. The first meeting was held at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics in December 2009. The meeting was made up of four sessions: an overview of migration and health in historical perspective; a session on the migration of health personnel; a panel discussion on the health of migrants; and a concluding roundtable discussion on economic crises, health and health policy. The workshops are in connection with a Joint Centre project on Economic Crises and Health in Historical Perspective, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Crises and Health
May 4 2010
This workshop was concerned with health and economic crises in Latin America and Lusophone countries, in the context of global trends. It included four sessions over one day and a concluding panel. The first session explored the impact of economic crises in the twentieth century on public health institutions in Brazil, and the second considered these themes in a broader context by looking at the work of international health organizations during past global economic crises, specifically the Great Depression and the oil crises of the 1970s. The third session focused more specifically on how Latin American countries have, in the recent past, attempted to reform their health systems and explore potential consequences of the present financial crisis for access to healthcare and health inequalities. The fourth session focused on the evolution of the welfare state from a Lusophone perspective, exploring the changing role of the state and its ability to guarantee health rights. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Joint Center for History and Economics, DRCLAS-Brazil Studies Program, Mexican Health Foundation, and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia).
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Haiti in History
May 3 2010
1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Public Gathering Room CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
The workshop, organized by the Center for History and Economics and the Program on Justice, Welfare and Economics, explored recent work on Haiti/Saint-Domingue in the long history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Speakers included Julia Gaffield (Duke University), Malick Ghachem (University of Maine), Walter Johnson (Harvard University), Martha Jones (University of Michigan), Emma Rothschild (Harvard University), Edward Rugemer (Yale University), Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan), David Todd (University of Cambridge), and Edward Widmer (Brown University).
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What just happened? What's next? How will we ever know?
April 30 2010
2:00 - 6:00 pm, CGIS K354, 1737 Cambridge Street
The Center for History and Economics and the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics held a workshop to discuss the uses of history in the financial crisis that began in 2008. The discussion was framed by three broad questions: What are the histories of previous crises? How were those histories invoked in the recent crisis? What sorts of information will be available to future historians as they seek to write the history of the present period of change? Speakers included Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale di Pisa), Luca Einaudi (Center for History and Economics, Harvard University), Thomas Ferguson (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo), Robert A. Johnson (Institute for New Economic Thinking), Anna Paulson (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and MIT), Amartya Sen (Harvard University), and Adam Tooze (Yale University). For further information, please see the meeting website.
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The Political Consequences of Financial Panics
December 3 2009The Pressure of 1836: Interpreting Atlantic Bank Wars
Jessica Lepler (University of New Hampshire)Economic Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review
Jed Shugerman (Harvard Law School)
Economic Inequality in the Long Run
November 18 2009
Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford), Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkeley)
Expertise for the Future: Histories of Predicting Environmental Change
November 16-17 2009
The Center for History and Economics, together with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, organised a two day colloquium on Expertise for the Future: Histories of Predicting Environmental Change. Presenters included Alison Bashford (Harvard University), Maria Bohn (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), Libby Robin (Australia National University), Sverker Sörlin (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), Edmund Russell (Virginia Tech), and Paul Warde (University of East Anglia).
Keynes: The Return of the Master
November 16 2009
The Center for History and Economics, the Project on Justice, Welfare & Economicsand the Tobin Project presented Lord Skidelsky (University of Warwick) who spoke on Keynes: The Return of the Master.
Re-thinking the 1820s: Europe, Latin America, and the Persistence of Mutual Influence in a Decade of Transformation
29-30 May 2009
Gabriel Paquette (Cambridge) and Michael Brown (Bristol) organised a Joint Centre supported symposium, that took place in Trinity College, Cambridge University on 29-30 May 2009. The aim of the symposium was to bring together historians interested in the connections between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s, a decade better known for an ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New than for their convergence. For further information, visit the conference web site.
Religion and the Law Workshop
February 23 2009, 4.00pm - 7.00 pm
A workshop was organized by the Center for History and Economics and the South Asia Initiative. The papers presented engaged the problem of religious belief and its relationship to the law, in different times and places. The purpose of the workshop was to combine a discussion of the specific work of scholars doing innovative work in the fields of law and religion with a broader discussion of shared theoretical and methodological concerns.
Economic Crises and Health: Risk or Opportunity?
December 2 2008
The Center for History and Economics and the China Medical Board jointly organized a meeting on Economic Crises and Health on December 2. Participants and speakers included Lincoln Chen, Julio Frenk, Felicia Knaul, Charles Rosenberg, Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen and Keizo Takemi.
History and Sustainability
October 31 2008
The Center for History and Economics and the Center for the Environment at Harvard University jointly organized a meeting on the history of sustainability on October 31 in the Lower Library of Robinson Hall. Participants and speakers included David Blackbourn, Alison Frank, Emma Rothschild, Paul Warde (University of East Anglia), and Sverker Sörlin (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).
Economic Inequality in Historical Perspective
May 7 2008
Roundtable discussion with Professor Sir Tony Atkinson.
Transnational Histories of Public Health in Asia
May 6 2008
Meeting organized by the Center for History and Economics and the
China Medical Board.
Informal Conversations on the Historian's Craft
April 14 2008
Lower Library, Robinson Hall,
The next in the series of conversations organized by the Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political ideas since 1760 was with Professor Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Earlier conversations were with Professor C.A. Bayly (October 25 2005), Professor Bernard Bailyn (November 22 2005), Professor Drew Gilpin Faust (November 1 2006), and Professor Robert Darnton (November 20 2007).
Early World Histories
March 17 2008
A roundtable discussion with Dr. William O’Reilly (Cambridge University).
Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760.
Who Owns Knowledge
February 28 2008
A roundtable discussion with William St. Clair (Trinity College, Cambridge University).
Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760.
Japanese Initiatives for Global Health and Human Security
December 11 2007
The Common Security Forum, together with the Program on US-Japan Relations, the Reischauer Institute, the Global Equity Initiative, and the Takemi Program in International Health, organized a meeting at Harvard on December 11, 2007, on Japanese Initiatives for Global Health and Human Security. Keizo Takemi was the main speaker, and he was introduced by Yoichi Suzuki, Consul-General of Japan, and Emma Rothschild. The discussants were Susan Pharr, Amartya Sen, and Lincoln Chen. The Common Security Forum is a transnational network of scholars and public figures, organized at present by the Centre for History and Economics, at King's College, Cambridge.
Digitization of History Project
December 3 2007
There was an informal discussion meeting on Monday December 3 about ways of using Google Books in historical research.
Informal Conversations on the Historian's Craft
20 November
The next in the series of conversations organised by the Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political ideas since 1760 was with Professor Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. Earlier conversations were with Professor C.A.Bayly (October 25, 2005), Professor Bernard Bailyn (November 22, 2005), and Professor Drew Gilpin Faust (November 1, 2006).
Histories of Economic Thought
7 November
Roundtable Discussion with Erik Grimmer-Solem (Wesleyan University), David Armitage, and Emma Rothschild.
Slavery and the Law
30 October
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and author of Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius, Professor Walter Johnson, and Professor Emma Rothschild.
Biblical Exchanges: The Hebrew Republic in Early Modern Europe
November 9
The Cambridge-Harvard Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political held a colloqium on Biblical Exchanges: The Hebrew Republic in Early Modern Europe on Thursday November 9 from 4.00pm to 6.00pm, in the Political Theory Seminar Room, CGIS N401. There were presentations by Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa University) and Eric Nelson (Harvard University).
Fania Oz-Salzberger spoke on "Seventeenth-Century Political Hebraism: Mapping the Field". Background reading: https://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=230
Eric Nelson spoke on "'Talmudical Commonwealthsmen' and the Rise of Republican Exclusivism". For a copy of his paper, please contact him at enelson@fas.harvard.edu.
Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
November 1
The series of informal conversations in which historians discuss their research experiences and sources with graduate students continued this semester. The meetings are organized by the Harvard-Cambridge Mellon Program on Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760, and past events have included informal teas with C. A. Bayly and Bernard Bailyn. At 4:00pm on Wednesday, November 1, in Robinson Lower Library, the program hosted a conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and author of, among other books, 'Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War', 'Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, and 'A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South'. Graduate students in all departments were invited and encouraged to attend. For further information, please contact Angus Burgin (burgin@fas.harvard.edu) or Emma Rothschild (rothsch@fas.harvard.edu).
The Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe
October 27-28
The Heidelberg session of the "Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe" Conference took place in the Department of History, South Asia Institute (SAI) at the University of Heidelberg between 27 and 28 October 2006. Papers were given by Sudipta Kaviraj, Ayesha Jalal, Manu Goswami, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Ben Zachariah, Dilip Menon, Reba Som, Amit Das Gupta, Doug McGetchin, Kate O’Malley, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Stanislava Vavrouskova, Claude Markovits, and Joachim Oesterheld. Click for the programme.The Harvard Session of the "Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe" Conference took place October 28-29, 2005. The schedule can be found here.
Bentham in the World
June 5
A one-day workshop, organised by Caitlin Anderson, took place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University on 5 June 2006. The workshop looked at the ideas and influence of Jeremy Bentham across the world. David Armitage, Chris Bayly and David Todd gave papers and other participants included Karuna Mantena, Uday Mehta, Jennifer Pitts, Emma Rothschild and Richard Tuck. Attendance and participation in the discussion was open to the academic community. Click for the programme. Click for a list of participants.
Informal tea on the historian’s craft
November 22
Bernard Bailyn spoke about his work in one of a series of informal teas designed to bring together graduate students and distinguished historians. Lower Library, Robinson Hall.
"Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe"
Conference (Harvard)
October 28-29
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Informal tea on the historian’s craft
October 25
Chris Bayly spoke about his work in one of a series of informal teas designed to bring together graduate students and distinguished historians. Lower Library, Robinson Hall.
Atlantic Legalities, 1500-1825
April 16
A workshop of the Atlantic History Seminar, organised by Caitlin Anderson in collaboration with the Centre for History and Economics, took place at Harvard University on 16 April 2005. The workshop concentrated on the roles of law in Atlantic history. Attendance and participation in the discussion was open to the academic community. Historians at the beginning of their career were especially encouraged to attend.
April 7
South Asian Intellectual History - A South Asian History Workshop at Tufts University
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