Center for History and Economics

"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...

"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...

"Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" Speaker: Fei Hsien Wang, Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard.edu Chairs: Sunil Amrith, Director, Center for...

"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

"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...

"'For the benefit of the masses’: Socialist thinking before Socialism in Calcutta (1843-46)" Speaker: Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor of Cultural Studies; Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard...

"The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology" Speaker: Namrata Kala, Assistant Professor in Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard.edu Commentator: Emma Rothschild...

"Volcker Shock: American Capitalism Before and After 1980" Speaker: Jonathan Levy, Professor of US History, Fundamentals, and the College, Department of History, University of Chicago. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard.edu Commentator: Emma...

"Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel: Fielding to Austen" Speaker: Roger Maioli, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard.edu

"The Social Spaces of War Imprisonment in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France" Speaker: Renaud Morieux, Senior Lecturer in British History, University of Cambridge. Contact: Emily Gauthier gauth@fas.harvard.edu Chair: Emma Rothschild, Director, Center...