December 4 2007
David Motadel
Islam in Germany, 1918-1945: A General Research OutlineFebruary 26 2008
Sergio Silva-Castaneda
Far Away So Close: Mexico and Spain in the Second Part of the 20th CenturyMarch 4 2008
Daniela Cammack
Karl Marx and the French RevolutionMarch 11 2008
Tariq Ali
Shifts in Economic Thinking in India, 1870s-1920sMarch 18 2008
Dinyar Patel
Politics of the Construction of British-built New DelhiApril 1 2008
Shirley Ye
Business, Water, and the Global City: Hanseatic and Chinese Merchant Networks, 1829-1940April 8 2008
David Singerman
“Any ass can manage a sugar factory”: Labor and the meaning of chemical controlApril 15 2008
Julia Stephens
Mughal Prosperity and Colonial Decline: the Politics of Memory in British IndiaOctober 9 2008
Emile Chabal (University of Cambridge)
Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet and the French RevolutionNovember 13 2008
Rohit De (Princeton University)
Emasculating the Executive: Judicial Activism and Civil Liberties in Late Colonial IndiaNovember 20 2008
Philipp Lehmann
Germans in the Sandbox: the Colonial Encounter with the Southwest African DesertDecember 11 2008
Angus Burgin
The Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of NeoliberalismFebruary 24 2009
Rowan Dorin
Failure to Launch: Savonese Trade in the Mediterranean, 1100-1250March 10 2009
Heidi Evans
The Production of News: Germany, Modernity and the Global News Cartel, 1900-1931April 2 2009
David Singerman
Keynes's Genetics and the Ethical LifeApril 7 2009
Jennifer Thomson
'We Are the Burning Rage of this Dying Planet': The Earth Liberation Front and American EnvironmentalismApril 28 2009
Ekin Tusalp
Poetry, Diplomacy and the Languages of Political Conduct in Ottoman Society: The Story of Rami Mehmed Efendi (1654-1708)October 27 2009
Josh Specht
A Failure to Prohibit: New York City's Underground 'Bob' Veal TradeNovember 17 2009
Liora Halperin (UCLA)
Buying Babel: Language and the Jewish Commercial Sphere of Mandatory PalestineDecember 8 2009
Melissa Teixeira
Moving towards Europe: An analysis of the Estado Novo regime’s approach to Portuguese emigration in the 1960sFebruary 16 2010
Josh Segal
Reparations Are Due: Sovereignty, Debt, and Memory in HaitiMarch 2 2010
Rowan Dorin
Tolls and Triumphs: Strategic Taxation and the Expansion of Empire in the Late Roman RepublicMarch 30 2010
Elisa Minoff
Litigating the Right to Move: Migrants, Social Workers, and Lawyers in Shapiro v. Thompson(1969)April 13 2010
Maya Peterson
Negotiating Empire in the Land of Seven Rivers: Environmental Change and Social Conflict in Russia's Central Asian Borderland, 1905-1917April 27 2010
Silke Martini
Rising Asia: The Transnational Intellectual Discourse on the Future of India and China, ca. 1919-1939October 12 2010
Philippa Hetherington
Victims of the Social Temperament: Prostitution, Migration and the Traffic in Women in Imperial Russia, 1890 - 1917November 2 2010
Joshua Specht
The Consolidation of a National Beef Industry, 1880-1910November 9 2010
Elizabeth Cross
The Myth of the Foreign Enemy: the Brunswick Manifesto and the radicalization of the French RevolutionNovember 30 2010
Ben Siegel
Two Blades of Grass: Henry Mann and the Birth of Agricultural Development in British IndiaDecember 7 2010
Niko Bowie
Czars and Strikes Forever: The Dispute over the Idea of Corporate Government before and during the 1894 Pullman StrikeDecember 14 2010
Caroline Spence
National Pride and Universal Values: British and French Abolitionism in Comparative ContextFebruary 8 2011
Jeremy Zallen
Staging Lights: Dreams, Machines, and the Spatial History of Electric IlluminationFebruary 15 2011
Philipp Lehmann
Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Desertification in the Nazi Plans for Environmental Transformation in the EastFebruary 22 2011
Carla Heelan
Radicalism, Institutions, and Space in Vormärz GermanMarch 8 2011
Carolin Roeder
Of Pigs and Politics: The Heydays of the Serbian HogMarch 22 2011
Kristen Loveland
Disabled Embryos and Humanness: Shifting Categories in the German Contergan Trial, 1968-1970March 29 2011
Mircea Raianu
Of Plains and Hills: Landscape and Labor in Late Colonial PunjabApril 12 2011
Eli Cook
Statistically Significant: Economic Indicators and the Planning of American Capitalism, 1840-1940April 19 2011
Greg Afinogenov
Andrei Ershov and the Soviet Information AgeApril 26 2011
Sara Damiano
'To Well and Truly Administer': Female Administrators and Estate Settlement in Eighteenth-Century Newport, RIMay 3 2011
Julie Stephens
Ritual and Reason: Debating Ijtihad in Colonial IndiaSeptember 27 2011
Shane Bobrycki
The Contio from Antiquity to the Middle AgesOctober 18 2011
Caitlin Rosenthal
The Handwriting of the Visible Hand: Accounting for Coordination in American Factories, 1800-1850November 8 2011
Eli Cook
The Wealth of a Nation: Economic Indicators in Early AmericaNovember 15 2011
James Martin
Paul Tillich and the Vision of a Religious Socialist Future for Postwar GermanyNovember 29 2011
Kristen Loveland
The Ethics of Future Reproduction: Emerging Debates on New Reproductive Technologies and their Regulation in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945 - 2010December 6 2011
Carla Heelan
February 7 2012
Matthew Kustenbauder
Utopian Visions: South African Cosmopolitans in an Imperial World, 1880-1948February 21 2012
Elizabeth Cross
The Political Economy of the Terror: The Compagnie des Indes and Foreign Commerce in the French RevolutionMarch 6 2012
Jason Jackson
The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Constructing Business Interests and Policy Preferences in Post-War India and BrazilMarch 20 2012
Heidi Tworek
Darf Nichts Bringen: Nazi News at Home and Abroad, 1934-1945April 3 2012
Benjamin Weber
Force and Fraud: Arbitrary Power in Workers’ Critiques of Capitalism’s Legitimacy in 19th-Century AmericaApril 10 2012
James Bergman
'Smoothing the Cycles': The Promise of Long-Range Forecasting for New Deal Agricultural PlanningApril 17 2012
Rowan Dorin,
Scandalous Aliens: The Boundaries of Sin and the Expulsion of Moneylenders in Late Medieval EuropeSeptember 11 2012
Daniel Luban (University of Chicago)
Bernard Mandeville as Moralist and MaterialistSeptember 18 2012
Rudi Batzell
Caught Between Rousseau and the Fiscal-Military State: Locating the Tensions in Adam Smith's Political EconomySeptember 25 2012
Lydia Walker
Revolutionary War on Trial: Raoul Salan and the French Empire v. the French Nation, 1962-1963October 2 2012
Julie Stephens
Economizing Sharia: Islamic Economics and the Secular State in Colonial and Post-Colonial South AsiaOctober 9 2012
Eli Cook
A Statistical Frontier: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Growth Culture, and the Making of Human CapitalOctober 16 2012
Benjamin Siegel
'Self-Help Which Ennobles a Nation': Rights, Citizenship, and the Obligations of Eating in India's Austerity YearsOctober 23 2012
Philipp Lehmann
Flooding the Sahara: Visions of Engineered Climate Change in the Sahara, 1860-1890October 30 2012
Gabriel Winant (Yale University)
'You Will Feel Good about Yourself and Your Job': Gender, Class Formation, and Health Care Work in and around Pittsburgh, 1975-1985November 6 2012
Tim Shenk (Columbia University)
Inventing the American Economy: Some Early ConjecturesNovember 13 2012
Philippa Hetherington
Sex at the Border: Imperial Governmentalities and the Traffic in Women between Odessa and Constantinople, 1890-1914December 4 2012
David Singerman (MIT)
Fraud and Suspicion in the Atlantic Sugar TradeFebruary 14 2013
Josh Specht
Amity with the United StatesFebruary 28 2013
Cristina Groeger
Service to Selection: Constructing the Boston Public School System, 1900-1930March 7 2013
Sarah Shortall
Catholicism in the State of Exception: A History of the French Church under the Third Republic from the Perspective of JerseyMarch 14 2013
Nick Crawford
Hunger Accounts: Slave Subsistence and Plantation Finance in the British Caribbean, 1790-1815March 28 2013
Shirley Ye
German Shipping and Empire and the Making of the China Coast, 1831-1914April 4 2013
Caroline Spence
Spanish Laws and the Amelioration of British SlaveryApril 11 2013
Yael Merkin
'We were much afraid of our voices for a long time': Intellectual Capital and Gilded Age New York's Female EliteApril 18 2013
Jeremy Zallen
Piney Light: Slaves, Seamstresses, and Treacherous Lamps in Antebellum AmericaApril 25 2013
Bryant Etheridge
Countervailing Trends and Contradictory Developments: Human Capital and Class Formation in Houston, 1929-1941May 2 2013
Stefan Eich
From History to Evolution: Jürgen Habermas and the Philosophy of HistoryMay 9 2013
Katrina Forrester
The Problem of Civil Disobedience in American Political Philosophy, 1964-1977September 24 2013
Robin Winkler
Did Nazis Save More? Household Saving and Ideology in Pre-War Nazi GermanyOctober 10 2013
Joshua Specht
Beefsteaks and Beef scandals: Red Meat in the Gilded Age and Progressive EraOctober 17 2013
Shane Bobrycki
'He seized me on account of my carelessness': Mediterranean Slavery and Carolingian Intellectual HistoryOctober 24 2013
James Bergman
From Civil to 'Climatic' Time: Seabrook Farms, Operations Research, and the Application of Climatology to Industrial AgricultureOctober 31 2013
Rowan Dorin
'Varied are the opinions of the doctors': Popes, Jurists and Jews in Fifteenth-Century ItalyNovember 7 2013
Johanna Conterio
The Progressive Provinces: Dismantling the Myth of the Backward Provinces in the History of the Globalization of Technology in the USSRNovember 14 2013
Tina Groeger
Hierarchies of Knowledge: The Changing Educational Landscape of BostonNovember 21 2013
Sarah Shortall
A New Christendom: The Revolution in French Catholic Political Theology, from Royalism to the Mystical Body of Christ (1926-1938)December 5 2013
Eva Bitran
February 6 2014
Charles Petersen
The Era of Programs: The University of Montana and Alternative Histories of Creative WritingFebruary 20 2014
Brandon Bloch
Contesting the Rechtsstaat: Constitutional Rights and Environmental Litigation in West Germany, 1969-1980March 13 2014
Michael Tworek
Polish Students, the Republic of Letters, and the Quest for Educational Reform in Early Modern EuropeMarch 27 2014
Paul Schmelzing
German Self-sufficiency in the Nazi Economy: Testing the Tooze Argument for the Example of RubberApril 3 2014
Carolin Roeder
Intimate Connections: East-West Encounters on the Roof of the World, 1958-1974April 8 2014
David Singerman
'Sugar Machinery Work is All of a Special Nature': Craftsmanship, Chemistry, and Paper from Glasgow to the CaribbeanApril 17 2014
Carla M. Heelan
The Gothic State: August Reichensperger and the Aesthetics of Particularism in Nineteenth-Century GermanyApril 22 2014
James McSpadden
A Culture of Exceptions: City Administration and Street Renamings in Nazi BerlinOctober 20 2015
Hannah Callaway
A Complicated Inheritance: The François Baudon Estate, Eighteenth-Century French Jurisprudence, and the Law in RevolutionNovember 3 2015
John Lee
Protect the Pines, Punish the People Forests and the State in Early Modern KoreaNovember 17 2015
Ian Kumekawa
A.C. Pigou, War, and the Concept of Economic WelfareDecember 1 2015
Jamie McSpadden
Informal Networks and Parliamentary Culture in Defence of the Weimar Republic, 1930-32February 2 2016
Elizabeth Cross
A Curious Performance: Speculation, Scandal, and the Survival of the Compagnie des Indes, 1787-1789March 1 2016
Aaron Bekemeyer
Healthy Bodies and Bottom Lines: Exercise at the Polaroid Corporation from Industrial Recreation to Health Promotion, 1943-1997Mar 22 2016
Mareike Bues
Between Globalization and Nationalization: The Emergence of the Free Port of Hamburg, 1880sMarch 29 2016
Tomasz Blusiewicz
The Return of the Hanseatic League or how Baltic Sea Trade Washed Away the Iron Curtain, 1956-89April 5 2016
Jon Booth
Law and labor control in post-emancipation JamaicaOctober 20 2016
Tim Barker
Apostle of Planning: Wassily Leontief in War and PeaceNovember 17 2016
Elizabeth Cross
Opération détestable: Political Economy and the question of the Compagnie des Indes after 1769December 1 2016
Ian Kumekawa
Refrigeration, Rations, and Red Tape: Meat and Economic Expertise in World War IFebruary 16 2017
Josh Ehrlich
Hastings, Knowledge, and the Company StateMarch 23 2017
Sam Payne
For a White Atlantic and a Civilized World: Americans Abolitionists and the Fight to End Slavery in Brazil, 1877-1901
March 30 2017
Yi Lu
A “Natural Machine”? The Belgian Elephant Expedition of 1879
April 13 2017
Sarah Balakrishnan
The Idea of 'Labour' and the Origins of the Modern SlaveryApril 20 2017
Liat Spiro
Drafting Protection for Immaterial Property in the Age of Heavy Industry, 1873-1914September 20 2018
Max Ehrenfreund
Cycle and Structure: The World Economy as Scientific Object, 1930-1939October 4 2018
John Gee
Building an Ethnographic Ethos: Sympathy and Detachment in Indigenist FieldworkOctober 25 2018
Sonia Tycko
The Question of Consent in English Colonial Indentured Servant Recruitment, 1640 –1700November 1 2018
Aden Knaap
The Reign of Law: International Courts and the Judicial Organization of the World, 1899-1946November 13 2018
Hardeep Dhillon (Hosted by the South Asia Workshop, CGIS K 108, 5:15pm)
Compensation in the Era of Empire: Revisiting the Punjab Disturbances of 1919
February 7 2019
Charles Peterson
Meritocracy in American Business: Silicon Valley, Gender, and the Explosion of Inequality, 1945-2000February 21 2019
Henry Gruber
The Hayes 91B HorizonMarch 7 2019
Simon Sun
Thomas Hancock's Empire of Tea: Chinese Commodities in 18th Century MassachusettsMarch 14 2019
Ian Kumekawa
The Imperialism of More-than-Free Trade: Business and State Growth in Interwar BritainMarch 21 2019
Louis Geraldan
Charting the history of misfortune: seventeenth-century disaster collecting in the Atlantic world and the arts of astrological prediction
April 4 2019
Tim Barker
The Crisis of 1958 and the Consolidation of a Military Keynesian ConsensusApril 25 2019
Aaron Bekemeyer
Varieties of Police Unionism: AFSCME, the FOP, and the Baltimore Municipal Strike of 1974October 10 2019
Tim Baker
"Mobilizing for Abundance: the Korean War Boom and the Politics of Economic Growth"October 31 2019
Will Sack
“An Underwater View of Korean Development”November 7 2019
Erin Hutchinson
TBANovember 21 2019
Akif Yerlioglu
“Shops for Healing: Regulating Medicine in the Early Modern Ottoman Marketplace”December 5 2019
Charles Petersen
“The Political Economy of Silicon Valley”February 13 2020
Ian Kumekawa
“Imperial Shelter: Big Business and the End of Free Trade in Britain”February 27 2020
Aaron Bekemeyer
"The New Reform Mayors: Managing the Philadelphia Police Department after Frank Rizzo, 1980-1991"March 19 2020
Salmaan Mirza
“The Bankrupt of Damascus : Prosecuting Private Insolvency in the Era of State Bankruptcy 1865-1908”April 9 2020
Zachary Wehrwein
"An Estimate of the Causal Effect of Slave Ship Rebellions On UK Insurance Markets, 1722 to 1775"
October 1 2020
Aaron Bekemeyer
"Policing the Police: FOP Lodge 5 and the Fight Against Civilian Review, 1958-1969"
October 15 2020
Laura Correa Ochoa
"The Agrarian Race Question: Black and Indigenous Rural Politics and the Limits of the Peasant Movement, 1967-1979"
October 29 2020
Sanoy Das
"The Development State and International Trade Law"December 3 2020
Aden Knaap
"Judging the League: The Permanent Court of International Justice and the League of Nations, 1922-1940"February 18 2021
Gili Kliger
The force in the thing: Marcel Mauss’s Essay on the GiftMarch 4 2021
Max Ehrenfreund
Opening the Caskets: Mathematical Economics in Fascist AustriaMarch 25 2021
Mike Borsk
Hunger and the Hunt: Partridges, Scarcity, and the Political Ecology of the Hudson’s Bay CompanyApril 8 2021
Ryan Low
Trust on the Margins in the Heart of 14th-Century Rural ProvenceApril 22 2021
G3 prospectus workshop (multiple short presentations)May 6 2021
Salmaan Mirza
‘Merchants only write that which they owe and that which they are owed’: Legal intermediaries and Commercial Law in late Ottoman SyriaOctober 7 2021
Fynn Jurgen Holm,
“The Japanese Zermatt: The Role of the Mountain Valley Kamikōchi in Creating the Japanese Alps, 1892-1938"October 21 2021
Stephanie Leitzel
“Monopoly making in the 16th century: Italian merchant-bankers and the political economy of Alum”November 4 2021
Deren Ertas
"Statistics and Population Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey”November 18 2021
Max Ehrenfreund
“Calculation in the Home: Accounts of Working-Class Households in Vienna, 1912-1913"October 4 2022
Salmaan Mirza
“Commercial Records and Law in late Ottoman Damascus”October 18 2022
Eve O’Connor
"Animate Economies: Collective Consumption and the Politics of Cooperatives."November 1 2022
Yi Ning Chang
"Political Founding after Anticolonialism: Rural Development and Self-Reliance in 1960s Malaya."November 29 2022
Max Ehrenfreund
"Calculative Reason in the Bavarian Soviet: Max Weber, Otto Neurath, and the Measure of Value."
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