Past Graduate Workshops
December 4 2007
David Motadel
Islam in Germany, 1918-1945: A General Research Outline
February 26 2008
Sergio Silva-Castaneda
Far Away So Close: Mexico and Spain in the Second Part of the 20th Century
March 4 2008
Daniela Cammack
Karl Marx and the French Revolution
March 11 2008
Tariq Ali
Shifts in Economic Thinking in India, 1870s-1920s
March 18 2008
Dinyar Patel
Politics of the Construction of British-built New Delhi
April 1 2008
Shirley Ye
Business, Water, and the Global City: Hanseatic and Chinese Merchant Networks, 1829-1940
April 8 2008
David Singerman
“Any ass can manage a sugar factory”: Labor and the meaning of chemical control
April 15 2008
Julia Stephens
Mughal Prosperity and Colonial Decline: the Politics of Memory in British India
October 9 2008
Emile Chabal (University of Cambridge)
Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet and the French Revolution
November 13 2008
Rohit De (Princeton University)
Emasculating the Executive: Judicial Activism and Civil Liberties in Late Colonial India
November 20 2008
Philipp Lehmann
Germans in the Sandbox: the Colonial Encounter with the Southwest African Desert
December 11 2008
Angus Burgin
The Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of Neoliberalism
February 24 2009
Rowan Dorin
Failure to Launch: Savonese Trade in the Mediterranean, 1100-1250
March 10 2009
Heidi Evans
The Production of News: Germany, Modernity and the Global News Cartel, 1900-1931
April 2 2009
David Singerman
Keynes's Genetics and the Ethical Life
April 7 2009
Jennifer Thomson
'We Are the Burning Rage of this Dying Planet': The Earth Liberation Front and American Environmentalism
April 28 2009
Ekin Tusalp
Poetry, Diplomacy and the Languages of Political Conduct in Ottoman Society: The Story of Rami Mehmed Efendi (1654-1708)
October 27 2009
Josh Specht
A Failure to Prohibit: New York City's Underground 'Bob' Veal Trade
November 17 2009
Liora Halperin (UCLA)
Buying Babel: Language and the Jewish Commercial Sphere of Mandatory Palestine
December 8 2009
Melissa Teixeira
Moving towards Europe: An analysis of the Estado Novo regime’s approach to Portuguese emigration in the 1960s
February 16 2010
Josh Segal
Reparations Are Due: Sovereignty, Debt, and Memory in Haiti
March 2 2010
Rowan Dorin
Tolls and Triumphs: Strategic Taxation and the Expansion of Empire in the Late Roman Republic
March 30 2010
Elisa Minoff
Litigating the Right to Move: Migrants, Social Workers, and Lawyers in Shapiro v. Thompson(1969)
April 13 2010
Maya Peterson
Negotiating Empire in the Land of Seven Rivers: Environmental Change and Social Conflict in Russia's Central Asian Borderland, 1905-1917
April 27 2010
Silke Martini
Rising Asia: The Transnational Intellectual Discourse on the Future of India and China, ca. 1919-1939
October 12 2010
Philippa Hetherington
Victims of the Social Temperament: Prostitution, Migration and the Traffic in Women in Imperial Russia, 1890 - 1917
November 2 2010
Joshua Specht
The Consolidation of a National Beef Industry, 1880-1910
November 9 2010
Elizabeth Cross
The Myth of the Foreign Enemy: the Brunswick Manifesto and the radicalization of the French Revolution
November 30 2010
Ben Siegel
Two Blades of Grass: Henry Mann and the Birth of Agricultural Development in British India
December 7 2010
Niko Bowie
Czars and Strikes Forever: The Dispute over the Idea of Corporate Government before and during the 1894 Pullman Strike
December 14 2010
Caroline Spence
National Pride and Universal Values: British and French Abolitionism in Comparative Context
February 8 2011
Jeremy Zallen
Staging Lights: Dreams, Machines, and the Spatial History of Electric Illumination
February 15 2011
Philipp Lehmann
Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Desertification in the Nazi Plans for Environmental Transformation in the East
February 22 2011
Carla Heelan
Radicalism, Institutions, and Space in Vormärz German
March 8 2011
Carolin Roeder
Of Pigs and Politics: The Heydays of the Serbian Hog
March 22 2011
Kristen Loveland
Disabled Embryos and Humanness: Shifting Categories in the German Contergan Trial, 1968-1970
March 29 2011
Mircea Raianu
Of Plains and Hills: Landscape and Labor in Late Colonial Punjab
April 12 2011
Eli Cook
Statistically Significant: Economic Indicators and the Planning of American Capitalism, 1840-1940
April 19 2011
Greg Afinogenov
Andrei Ershov and the Soviet Information Age
April 26 2011
Sara Damiano
'To Well and Truly Administer': Female Administrators and Estate Settlement in Eighteenth-Century Newport, RI
May 3 2011
Julie Stephens
Ritual and Reason: Debating Ijtihad in Colonial India
September 27 2011
Shane Bobrycki
The Contio from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
October 18 2011
Caitlin Rosenthal
The Handwriting of the Visible Hand: Accounting for Coordination in American Factories, 1800-1850
November 8 2011
Eli Cook
The Wealth of a Nation: Economic Indicators in Early America
November 15 2011
James Martin
Paul Tillich and the Vision of a Religious Socialist Future for Postwar Germany
November 29 2011
Kristen Loveland
The Ethics of Future Reproduction: Emerging Debates on New Reproductive Technologies and their Regulation in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945 - 2010
December 6 2011
Carla Heelan
February 7 2012
Matthew Kustenbauder
Utopian Visions: South African Cosmopolitans in an Imperial World, 1880-1948
February 21 2012
Elizabeth Cross
The Political Economy of the Terror: The Compagnie des Indes and Foreign Commerce in the French Revolution
March 6 2012
Jason Jackson
The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Constructing Business Interests and Policy Preferences in Post-War India and Brazil
March 20 2012
Heidi Tworek
Darf Nichts Bringen: Nazi News at Home and Abroad, 1934-1945
April 3 2012
Benjamin Weber
Force and Fraud: Arbitrary Power in Workers’ Critiques of Capitalism’s Legitimacy in 19th-Century America
April 10 2012
James Bergman
'Smoothing the Cycles': The Promise of Long-Range Forecasting for New Deal Agricultural Planning
April 17 2012
Rowan Dorin,
Scandalous Aliens: The Boundaries of Sin and the Expulsion of Moneylenders in Late Medieval Europe
September 11 2012
Daniel Luban (University of Chicago)
Bernard Mandeville as Moralist and Materialist
September 18 2012
Rudi Batzell
Caught Between Rousseau and the Fiscal-Military State: Locating the Tensions in Adam Smith's Political Economy
September 25 2012
Lydia Walker
Revolutionary War on Trial: Raoul Salan and the French Empire v. the French Nation, 1962-1963
October 2 2012
Julie Stephens
Economizing Sharia: Islamic Economics and the Secular State in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
October 9 2012
Eli Cook
A Statistical Frontier: Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, Growth Culture, and the Making of Human Capital
October 16 2012
Benjamin Siegel
'Self-Help Which Ennobles a Nation': Rights, Citizenship, and the Obligations of Eating in India's Austerity Years
October 23 2012
Philipp Lehmann
Flooding the Sahara: Visions of Engineered Climate Change in the Sahara, 1860-1890
October 30 2012
Gabriel Winant (Yale University)
'You Will Feel Good about Yourself and Your Job': Gender, Class Formation, and Health Care Work in and around Pittsburgh, 1975-1985
November 6 2012
Tim Shenk (Columbia University)
Inventing the American Economy: Some Early Conjectures
November 13 2012
Philippa Hetherington
Sex at the Border: Imperial Governmentalities and the Traffic in Women between Odessa and Constantinople, 1890-1914
December 4 2012
David Singerman (MIT)
Fraud and Suspicion in the Atlantic Sugar Trade