Center for History and Economics

2020 Feb 18

History and Economics Seminar

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Public Gathering Room (S030)

"Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia"

Speaker:

Diana Kim, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Comments:

Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and Economics; Faculty Associate. Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

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2019 Nov 13

History and Economics Seminar

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

"Good Economics for Bad Times"

Speakers:

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact: 

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

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2019 Sep 25

History and Economics Seminar

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, S030

"Constructing the Index of Arabs: Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia"

Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

2019 Apr 12

History and Economics Seminar

4:15pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"

Speaker:

Francesca Trivellato, Professor, School of Historical Studies, Early Modern History, Institute for Advanced Study.

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2016 Nov 09

Center for History and Economics Special Event

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030)

"The Calling of History: A Public Conversation with Sunil Amrith"

Speaker:  

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago 

Moderator:  

Sunil Amrith, Director, Center for History and Economics; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

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