Weatherhead Initiative in Global History Workshop

Date and Time

October 19, 2012
09:00AM - 02:00PM EDT

“The Global 30's: The Great Depression and Global Response”

Opening Remarks: Sven Beckert

Session One: Beyond Market Economies

  • “’We are all Planners Now’: The New Deal in Global Perspective” Kiran Patel
  • “Competing Ideologies, Shared Technologies: Nazi and Soviet Responses to the Depression”Stefan Link

Session Two: The Colonial World

  • “The Great Entanglement: the Impact of the Depression on Global Nationalist Ideas”Kris Manjapra
  • Restrictionism: Colonial Responses to the Great Depression”Tariq Omar Ali


Lunch Break (Please RSVP to attend the lunch)

Open Discussion: Echoes of Depression? The Thirties and Today

Complete Program
http://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/content/global-30s-great-depression-and-global-responses

Speakers:

Sven Beckert, Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2012–2013). Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Kris Manjapra, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Tufts University.

Kiran Patel, Professor of European and Global History, University of Maastricht.

Tariq Omar Ali, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Stefan Link, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute; Former WCFIA Graduate Student Associate.

Chairs:

Sugata Bose, Faculty Associate. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.

Charles S. Maier, Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

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