[Sci-tech-public] Histories of Land, Economy, and Power

[Margo F Collett]

Histories of Land, Economy, and Power
Conference and Workshop, Harvard University
November 9th and 10th, 2012

Program

Friday, November 9th
Sessions are open to the public, and will take place in CGIS-S020

1pm: Opening remarks, Walter Johnson, Department of History, Harvard University

Session I, 1:15pm: Rebecca Spang, “Land in a form that can Circulate: Money, Fantasy, and the French Revolution”

Session II, 2:30pm: Emilio Kouri, “Landed Property, Social Relations, and the Law: Reflections from Mexico”

Session III, 3:45pm: Manu Goswami, “Uneven Development in the Global History of Capitalism”

Keynote, Session IV, 5:00pm: Timothy Mitchell, “Economentality: How the Future Entered Government”

Saturday, November 10th
Pre-circulated paper workshop; please contact Alexia Yates (ayates at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ayates at fas.harvard.edu>) for details on participation and to register for access to papers.

Panel I – 9:30-10:45am
Comment: Neil Brenner, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Paper participants: Meg Rithmire, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Noam Maggor, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Panel II – 11am-12:15pm
Comment: Elizabeth Blackmar, Department of History, Columbia University
Paper participants: Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College
Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University

Panel III – 1:30pm-2:45pm
Comment: Manu Goswami, Department of History, New York University
Paper participants: Fahad Bishara, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University
Peter Samuels, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University

Panel IV – 3:00pm-4:15pm
Comment: Emilio Kouri, Department of History, University of Chicago
Paper participants: Jo Guldi, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Edward Murphy, Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University

Closing Comment, 4:15pm:  Charles Maier, Department of History, Harvard University


Conference Sponsor:
Prize Fellowship on Economics, History, and Politics

With support from:
Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics
Weatherhead Initiative on Global History




Alexia Yates
Prize fellow in Economics, History, and Politics
Center for History and Economics
Harvard University
CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge St
Cambridge MA 02138
ayates at fasmail.harvard.edu<mailto:ayates at fasmail.harvard.edu>, 617-797-1442
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/ehppf/yates.html

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