New Directions in Economic History
Full Program:
Friday March 3, 2023
Institute for Advanced Study Campus, Rubenstein Commons, Room 5
1:30pm Welcome
1:40-3:40pm
Session 1: U.S. Capitalism
Chair: David A. Bell (Princeton University)
* Claire Priest (Yale University), Reflections on Scholarly Work on Slavery and Capitalism
* Trevon Logan (Ohio State University), "All We Have Is The Truth”: Burdened Individuality, Abstract Equality, and Anti-Blackness in Economic History
* Jonathan Levy (University of Chicago), The Real Economy
Discussant: Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University)
3:40-4pm Coffee Break
4-5:30pm
Session 2: African Economic History
Chair: Francesca Trivellato (IAS)
* Mariana Candido (Emory University), Centering Africans and Africa in Economic Histories
* Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), The Atlas of Colonial Capitalism in Africa
Discussant: Bruce S. Hall (UC-Berkeley/IAS)
Dinner for invited guests @ IAS
Saturday March 4, 2023
Princeton University Campus, Dickinson 211
9:30-11:30
Session 3: Technology and Environmental History
Chair: Harold James (Princeton University)
* Elizabeth Chatterjee (University of Chicago), The Real Energy Revolution: The Infrastructural Turn in Environmental History
* Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt University), Ecology, Energy, and the Chinese Economic History
* Petra Moser (New York University), Inequality in Science
Discussant: Andrew Needham (New York University/Davis Center)
11:30-12:30pm Lunch
12:30-2:30pm
Session 4: Sources and Methods
Chair: Laura Edwards (Princeton University)
* Emily Klancher Merchant (UC-Davis), Big Data and the Economic/History Divide
* Arnaud Orain (Université Paris VIII), Practicing Economic History on the Eve of Deglobalization and the Return to the “Terrestrial”
* Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta), Touch, Look, Listen: the Agency of ‘Things’ in Economic & Social History in the Imperial Atlantic c. 1660-1880
Discussant: Sophus Reinert (Harvard University-HBS)
2:45pm-4pm
Wrap up session introduced and moderated by Jacob Soll (University of Southern California)
This is a hybrid event. For Zoom link information please contact Brett Savage: bsavage@ias.edu, no later than March 1, 2023.