Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics Conference and Workshop

Date and Time

November 9, 2012
01:00PM - 06:30PM EST

“Histories of Land, Economy, and Power"

1:00PM: Opening Remarks by Walter Johnson

1:15PM, Session I: Land in a Form that can Circulate: Money, Fantasy, and the French Revolution by Rebecca Spang

2:30PM, Session II: Landed Property, Social Relations, and the Law: Reflections from Mexico by Emilio Kouri

3:45PM, Session III: Title TBA by Walter Johnson

5:00PM, Keynote, Session IV: Economentality: How the Future Entered Government by Timothy Mitchell

Conference Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/ehppf/land/index.html

 

Speakers:

Rebecca Spang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University-Bloomington.

Emilio Kouri, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago.

Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Columbia University.

Chair:

Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American History, Harvard University.

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