Modern and Comparative Summer Term 2012

Seminars take place in KSW.G.01 from 5:00 to 6:30pm

 

April 26

• Presenter: John Tang (ANU)
• Title: "Railroad expansion and entrepreneurship: evidence from Meiji Japan"

May 3

• Jagjit Chadha (Kent)
• Midas, transmuting all, into paper.: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars (Jagjit S. Chadha Elisa Newby)
• Convertibility Suspension Paper

May 10

• Dan Raff (Wharton)
• Intention and Cognition in Business History
• Room KSW G01

May 17

• Jaime Reis (Lisbon)
• A Tale of Two Regimes: Educational Achievement and Institutions in Portugal, 1910-1950

 

24 May

• Leticia Arroyo Abad (Middlebury)
• The Long Arm of History? Inequality and colonial institutions in independent Peru"

 

May 31

• Peter Solar (Brussels)
• The Triumph of Cotton in Europe

 

June 7

• Prassanan Parthasarathi (Boston)
• The  History of Indian Economic History

June 14

• tbc

June 21

• Nissim Mannathukkaren, Associate Professor, International Development Studies, Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
• Modernity, or Alternative Modernity? A Case Study of Kerala, India