BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Conference: The Global E. P. Thompson PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_79671_0 SUMMARY:Conference: The Global E. P. Thompson DESCRIPTION:

"The Global E.P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working Class after Fifty Years"

Keynote Speaker:

Cal Winslow, Fellow in Environmental History at the University of California, Berkeley; Director, Mendocino Institute.

Presenters and commentators are a diverse group of twenty-eight international academics.

Conference Organizers:

Rudi Batzell, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University.

Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History.

Gabriel Winant, PhD Candidate, History, Yale University.

To view the full program and to register, visit the conference website: http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/global-thompson-program.

The presentations will be live-streamed, and the website contains information on how to participate.

Made possible by a Major Conference Grant from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Co-sponsored by The Program on the Study of Capitalism and The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. With generous support from: The Committee for African Studies; the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; the South Asia Institute; the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

LOCATION:CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010) STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20131004T140000Z DTEND:20131004T213000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR