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'Patient Planet': An Environmental History of Globalization

UserJeremy Adelman (Princeton University / University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947

Jointly with the World History Seminar

UserEleanor Newbigin (SOAS, University of London) .

HouseLong Room, Gonville and Caius College (central site off Trinity Street).

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Political engagement, profession and socialist economics in fin-de-siècle Europe

UserMassimo Asta (University of Cambridge / IHC - NOVA FCSH).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century)

Jointly with the African Economic History seminar

UserKarin Pallaver (University of Bologna).

HouseAudit Room (Old Lodge), King’s College.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 17:15-18:45

The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in Chen Da’s studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_leow.htm

UserRachel Leow (Cambridge) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm

UserCléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (CRASSH).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 17:00-18:00

Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm

UserPedro Ramos Pinto (Cambridge) et al..

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 17:00-18:00

The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/bowie.html

UserNikolas Bowie (Harvard).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ogle.html

UserVanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/barreyre_lemercier.html

UserNicolas Barreyre (EHESS) and Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 15 September 2021, 17:00-18:00

The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ghosh.html

UserArunabh Ghosh (Harvard University).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 14 July 2021, 17:00-18:00

Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/zalc.html

UserClaire Zalc (IHMC/CNRS/EHESS).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2021, 17:00-18:00

Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell

Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/jenny_andersson.htm

UserJenny Andersson (Sciences Po Paris / Uppsala).

House Via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility

Register here for Zoom link:https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/trivellato.html

UserFrancesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s

Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/megan_black.htm

UserMegan Black (MIT) .

House Via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:00

Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution

Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/warde.html

UserPaul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

House Via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2021, 17:00-18:00

Prospecting and bioprospecting on Russia's Central Asian cotton frontier, 1880s - 1916

UserJennifer Keating (University College Dublin) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

The Religious Roots of Environmentalist Thought and Activism in Europe and America

UserMark Stoll (Texas Tech University / Rachel Carson Centre) .

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness

UserHarriet Ritvo (MIT).

HouseThe Parlour, Madgalene College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. 170 years on, the legacy and current thinking

UserGareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics/Queen Mary, and Karma Nabulsi, Oxford University.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 17:00-18:30

How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives (Panel discussion led by Gary Gerstle and Tim Harper)

Jointly with The American and World History Seminars

UserOrnit Shani, University of Haifa.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

An intellectual history of the universal basic income

UserDaniel Zamora, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

A World of Goods: Ecology and Commodity Production in Europe’s Empires

UserCorey Ross, University of Birmingham .

HouseNihon Room, Foundess Court, Pembroke College.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics

UserIan Kumekawa, Harvard University.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Lenin on the Train

UserCatherine Merridale (IHR).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 17:00-19:00

"Earth butchery": explaining the end of empire in Europe and America, c.1750-1865

UserPaul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

'The breath of history on our necks’: the European revolutionary left and Portugal, 1974-1975

UserPedro Ramos Pinto (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Industrialization, labour conflict, and the role of state and trade unions in Vietnam

UserPietro Masina (University of Naples L'Orientale / Clare Hall) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

UserGareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge and Queen Mary, London) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

From Antislavery to Colonialism

User Padraic Scanlan (London School of Economics) .

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Ethical Capitalism? The Rise of British Humanitarianism after 1947

User Tehila Sasson (Institute of Historical Research, London) .

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Nazi Atrocities, Soviet Justice, and International Law

UserFranziska Exeler (Centre for History and Economics/Clare Hall) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

The Scottish Question and the Break-up of Britain

UserColin Kidd (University of St Andrews) and David Runciman (POLIS, Cambridge) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 17:00-19:00

Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite

UserTeresa Tadem (University of the Philippines, Diliman).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Useful Past in Japan

UserJulia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Property and Portfolios: Spaces of Finance in Nineteenth-century France

UserAlexia Yates (CRASSH, University of Cambridge).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Black Networks after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration

UserKaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge) with Kenneth Chay (Brown University).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

The South Asian Monsoon: A History for the Anthropocene

UserSunil Amrith (Harvard University).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

The debate on inequality from Rousseau to Marx

UserFrancisco Bethencourt, King's College London .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Open Access: A Forum

UserPeter Baldwin (UCLA), Anne Jarvis (University Librarian, Cambridge), Ira Katznelson (Columbia; President, Social Science Research Council), Rachel Leow (Center for History and Economics, Harvard), Peter Phillips (Chief Executive, CUP).

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 17:00-19:00

Between Privilege and Property: Four Conceptions of Copyright in Late-Qing China

UserFei-Hsien Wang (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Poverty and Climate: A Conversation

UserDr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Director General, World Health Organization and Former Prime Minister of Norway; Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University and Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

The Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution (1947-1964)

UserRohit De (Centre for History and Economics & Trinity Hall).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

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