"Climate and Capital: Barbara Ward, Margaret Mead, and the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment"

Speaker:

Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, The University of Sydney.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier 
gauth@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about History and Economics Seminar

“The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change”

Speaker:

Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School of Economics.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about History and Economics Seminar

“Global Commons”

Speaker:

Surabhi Ranganathan, University Lecturer in International Law, King's College, University of Cambridge.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about History and Economics Seminar

“The Soviet Union and the Global Moment of Postwar Justice”

Speaker:

Franziska Exeler, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about History and Economics Seminar

"Burma’s Transitions in Historical Perspective"

Speakers:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Harvard University.

Charles Carstens, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion.

Diana Kim, Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics, Harvard University.

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor; Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University.

Kirsty Walker, Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

"How did a Cow get into the Constitution? Economics, Politics, and Violence in the Indian Beef Bans"

Speaker:

Rohit De, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

“Carbon and its Discontents: The Futures of Energy History”

Speakers:

Lisa M. Brady, Professor, College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, Boise State University.

Rania Ghosn, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.

Edward Melillo, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College.

Sara B. Pritchard, Associate Professor, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University.

Arianne Tanner,Chair for Science Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Paul Sabin, Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University.

Conevery B. Valencius, Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Julia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame.

This event is presented by the Center for History and Economics and co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Contact:

Jennifer Nickerson
jnickerson@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about Special Event: Energy History Seminar

"Diasporic Legalities: Tracing Everyday Afterlives through Law's Imperial Archives"

Speaker:

Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University.

Contact:

histproj@fas.harvard.edu

Panel Discussion: "New Directions in Energy History" (1:30PM–3:00PM)

"Ecological Teleconnections of the Industrial Revolution"

Speaker:

John R. McNeill, University Professor, Georgetown University.

"The Forgotten King: Coal, Energy, and History"

Speaker:

Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.

Comments and Response:

Paul Warde, Professor of Environmental History, University of East Anglia.

Chair:

Ian J. Miller, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.

Roundtable: "New Directions in Energy History" (3:30PM–5:00PM)

This workshop is part of the Global History of Energy project at the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Contact:

histproj@fas.harvard.edu

“Histories of Health in Southeast Asia”

Speakers:

Sunil Amrith, Historian of Modern South Asia, Birkbeck, University of London.
Tim Harper, Reader in Southeast Asian and Imperial History, University of Cambridge.
Rachel Leow, University Lecturer in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge.
Kirsty Walker, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics; PhD in History, University of Cambridge.

Chairs:

Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board
Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and Economics; Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

histecon@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/seminars_hec.htm

“Histories of Health in Southeast Asia”

Speakers:

Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London.

Tim Harper, University of Cambridge.

Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge.

Kirsty Walker, Harvard University.

Contact:

histecon@fas.harvard.edu

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"The Meritocrats: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste"

Speaker:

Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

“On Liberty and Exclusion: The 'Jew Bill' in Western Liberalism”

Speaker:

Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about History and Economics Seminar

"Beyond Capital: The Climate Crisis as a Challenge to Social Thought"

Speaker:

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

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Environment and the Mahindra Humanities Center.

Contact:

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu