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 1848 as a Turning Point in the History of Political Thought
11-12 April 2012
A two-day conference took place in King's College as part of the programme on The Interaction between Political, Economic and Religious Ideas 1750-1950. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the new project strand which examines 1848 as a turning point in the history of political thought. This will be a major investigation reconsidering the significance of 1848 both in Europe and the wider world. The events of the Arab Spring remind us how uncertain patterns, developments and successes of revolutions might be. Not only will we examine the Revolutions of 1848 in a global setting, but we shall also be applying the new approaches to the history of political thought, which have been developed in Cambridge and elsewhere since the 1970s.
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Oikonomia, Economy and War
19-20 March 2012
The Centre-supported fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History was held at King's College on 19-20 March 2012. The theme was 'Oikonomia, Economy and War'. The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for outstanding graduate students to present and discuss their work in a collegial and supportive atmosphere. The conference keynote speaker was Professor Andrew Gamble (POLIS, University of Cambridge) and eight graduate papers were presented across three panels.
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Population, economy and welfare, c. 1200-2000
16-18 September 2011
A Centre-supported conference, organised by Chris Briggs, Peter Kitson and Stephen Thompson in honour of Professor Richard Smith, took place on 16-18 September in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The principle purpose was to recognise and celebrate the scholarly achievements of Professor Richard M Smith and to bring together an international group of historians, demographers and economists, ranging from current graduate students to senior academics, to discuss long-run interconnections between population change, economic development, and welfare provision in past time.
His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire
31 May 2011
A panel discussion of Sugata Bose's new book on Subhas Chandra Bose. Panelists included Sugata Bose (Harvard), Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, London) and Sumit Mandal ((Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and the discussion was chaired by Tim Harper (Magdalene College, Cambridge).
Utopia and Dystopia: Politics of Commitment
20-21 May 2011
A workshop organised by Nick Stargardt took place at Robinson College, Cambridge. The workshop was organised around the work of Gareth Stedman Jones with a panel of his former Cambridge students. It was an experiment to see whether it is possible to generate new insights about what political idealism and commitment have meant in the period since the French Revolution. The small group of intellectual and cultural historians who werel present would more often be kept apart by the fences separating their periods, places and sub-specialisms.
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The transnational history of health in Southeast and South Asia, 1914-2014
14 May 2011
The initial planning meeting for a new programme in connection with the 100th anniversary of the China Medical Board took place in Magdalene College on Saturday 14 May 2011. The aim was to identify the core intellectual issues to be addressed in an eventual anniversary programme, to ensure substantive cooperation between the China and South East Asia/South Asia programmes, to involve participants from institutions in the region in the planning process, and to discuss papers to be commissioned for a first major conference, to be held in South East Asia in 2012.
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Politics, Order, Law
21-22 March 2011
The Centre supported Fourth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History took place in King's College, Cambridge on 21-22 March 2011. This year's theme was Politics, Order, Law and a keynote address was delivered by Dr Annabel Brett. Eight research papers were presented across three panels, followed by discussant comments and audience responses. The aim of the graduate conferences is to provide an opportunity for outstanding graduate students to present and discuss their work in a collegial and supportive atmosphere.
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Structures and Transformations in Modern British History
24 February 2011
An event to mark the publication of Structures and Transformations in Modern British History, a collection of essays in honour of Gareth Stedman Jones, edited by David Feldman and Jon Lawrence, took place at Trinity Hall on 24 February. Martin Daunton chaired a roundtable discussion with Mark Goldie, Catherine Hall, Frank Mort and Gareth Stedman Jones.
The Euro after the crisis: Lessons from the past and challenges for the future
15 December 2010
The workshop took place in the Bridgetower Room of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was organised by Luca Einaudi in cooperation with Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). It brought together various kinds of expertise to reassess historical precedents for dealing with rule changes within monetary unions; discuss the role and performance of the Euro during the crisis of 2009-2010; and discuss the future of the Euro, which has been at the centre of the construction of Europe for the last two decades. Speakers were Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Einaudi, Daniele Franco, Emma Rothschild, Francesco Saraceno, and Malcolm Sawyer.
Session at the Fitz: Europe's Asian Centuries
26 November 2010
A small workshop took place at the Fitzwilliam Museum. It brought together associates of the Centre and members of the project on 'Europe's Asian Centuries' at Warwick directed by Maxine Berg. There was a porcelain galleries and handling session with the curators Victoria Avery, James Lin and Nik Zolman. The potter Alan Bainbridge also discussed techniques for making blue and white porcelain. The workshop started in the seminar room and was followed by the galleries session. The focus of the workshop was on Asian export-ware porcelain and its impact on early European initiatives in porcelain production. More information about the project, ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830' is available here.
Environmental Histories: Local Places, Global Processes
Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
5 - 7 November 2010
A workshop, organised by Paul Warde, was held at Magdalene College and the Wren Building, Wicken Fen. Wicken Fen serves as an instructive example of different types of environmental change, anthropogenic and autogenic, long-term and short-term, as well as instances of continuity. At this site-specific workshop, a core team of mainly academic participants met with representatives of a local, non-university project partner to critically examine what we mean by ‘the environment’ and ‘environmental change’ in both current and past contexts, and on local and international scales. In addition to the paper presentations and discussions, the workshop included a trip to Wicken Fen to familiarise the participants with the different environmental management issues and history of the site. Click for the workshop program. For further information, please see the workshop website.
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Penang and the Indian Ocean: Mapping Exchanges and Interaction
1- 2 July 2010
Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge
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The Internationalization of the History of France and the French Empire
14 June 2010
This workshop, held in King’s College, Cambridge, examined the implications of recent trends in global, imperial and transnational history for the history of early modern France and her empire. Participants included Renaud Morieux, Frédéric Régent, François-Joseph Ruggiu, David Todd, Richard Drayton, Emma Rothschild and Robert Tombs. For further information, please see the event website.
Economic Crises and Health in Africa
8 June 2010
The meeting, organised jointly with the Centre of African Studies and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, took place on 8 June 2010. Topics covered included health and the state in Africa, and information technology and health. Participants included Ama de Graft Aikins, Isaac Holeman, Thandika Mkandawire, Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen, Sharath Srinivasan and Megan Vaughan.
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Morality and markets: thinking about Albert Hirschman in the 1970s » 
19 May 2010
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)
Writing World History
26 March 2010
This Centre-supported event took place in St John’s College and was a debate between the authors of The Transformation of the World and The Birth of the Modern World, Professor Jürgen Osterhammel and Professor Sir Christopher Bayly respectively, about their approaches to writing world history. The debate was followed by a roundtable discussion with the following participants: Andrew Arsan, Chris Clark, Richard Evans, Leigh Denault, Rosalind O' Hanlon and William O' Reilly. The event was organised by Ulinka Rublack.
Politics, Faith and Reason
15-16 March 2010
The Centre supported Third Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History took place in King’s College, Cambridge on March 15-16 2010. This year’s theme was Politics, Faith and Reason and papers were invited for consideration which dealt with any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present. The aim of the graduate conferences is to provide an opportunity for outstanding graduate students to present and discuss their work in a collegial and supportive atmosphere. Click for the programme and report.
A new phase in the crisis of 2008-????
1 March 2010
The panel discussed policy responses to the financial crisis, with a special focus on recent developments, including banking sector reform following the Obama-Volcker proposals and the Southern Europe public debt crisis. While economic growth is picking up in Asia and the US, Europe is still facing very slow growth, without a clear sense of the direction it will take. What is the state of international cooperation to restore growth and to reform financial regulation and international institutions? Members of the panel included Luca Einaudi, William Janeway, Emma Rothschild, and Pierpaolo Barbieri. For further information, please see the event website.
Economic Crises and Public Health in Historical Perspective: Health System Responses
15 December 2009
A one-day workshop was held in King's College, Cambridge on 15 December 2009 on the subject of Economic Crises and Public Health in Historical Perspective. This was the first in a series of workshops on the historical experience of economic crisis in relation to public health and health systems. The meetings are in connection with a new project on Economic Crises and Health in Historical Perspective. This workshop was made up of three sessions on the topics of public health and histories of economic crisis, public health research and crisis, and public health professionals and crisis. Papers were presented and participants included Sunil Amrith, Lincoln Chen, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Tim Harper, Richard Horton, Emma Rothschild and Simon Szreter. For further information, please see the conference website.
The 2008-2009 crisis in historical perspective: international cooperation and the emergence of the G20
27 November 2009
Dr Luca Einaudi, a senior economist and director at the G8 and G20 sherpa office of the Italian Prime Minister’s Office, and a research associate of the Centre, spoke in the weekly workshop of the Cambridge Finance group on 'The 2008-2009 crisis in historical perspective: international cooperation and the emergence of the G20'. For further details and an abstract of the paper, please see here.
The Roots of Global Civil Society
From the Rise of the Press to the Fall of the Wall
1-3 October 2009
This two and a half day conference, organised by the World History graduate workshop and supported by the Centre, took place in the Winstanley Lecture Hall in Trinity College. The concept of global civil society has gained currency in recent years among social scientists and public policy practitioners. However, it is often seen as a contemporary phenomenon -- a by-product of the wellspring of popular sentiment leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, or of the increasingly integrated global system emerging in its wake. The conference brought together both senior and junior scholars working across a broad range of periods and geographical areas to explore the idea of 'global society' from a variety of perspectives in an attempt to find common ground. By examining historical lineages of global civil society, the conference sought a critical understanding of the ideals of a deeply entangled global community and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan world. Click here for the programme and the conference poster.
The International Comparative History of Occupational Structure
29-31 July 2009
This Centre supported conference, held at King's College and organised by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Osamu Saito, brought together individuals and research teams working on the history of occupational structure. The aim was two-fold. Firstly, to present papers which provided case studies of the changing occupational structure of individual countries over the period of industrialisation. These papers were first drafts of chapters for an edited volume. Secondly, to allow other related work to be presented from research projects which were at an earlier stage. The intention was that all papers would use a consistent coding of occupations to ensure comparability. The system being used is the PST system developed by E.A. Wrigley. For further information, please see the conference website.
Réinterpréter l’Ancien Régime
1 July 2009
A meeting organised by David Todd and Pierre Singaravelou took place at the Collège de France on 1 July 2009. Participants included Christophe Charle, Jacques Revel, Daniel Roche, Emma Rothschild and Gareth Stedman Jones. For further information, visit the meeting web site.
History of Economic Ideas in South Asia
13 June 2009
An informal half-day meeting took place in King's College on 13 June 2009.
The meeting considered the History of Economic Ideas in South Asia and was
the first in a series of meetings in connection with a new project being
planned by the Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge and at Harvard.
Click here for the meeting agenda and the list of participants.
Re-thinking the 1820s: Europe, Latin America, and the Persistence of Mutual Influence in a Decade of Transformation
29-30 May 2009
Gabriel Paquette (Cambridge) and Michael Brown (Bristol) organised a Joint Centre supported symposium, that took place in Trinity College on 29-30 May 2009. The aim of the symposium was to bring together historians interested in the connections between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s, a decade better known for an ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New than for their convergence. For further information, visit the conference web site. A special issue of the European History Quarterly ('Europe and Latin America in the 1820s') was published in July 2011.
The Economic Crisis: What Just Happened, What's Next?
23 May 2009
An informal half-day meeting, organised by the Centre for History and Economics and chaired by Amartya Sen, took place in King's College on
Saturday 23 May. Brief presentations were given by Tony Atkinson, Harold James, Glen Weyl, and Martin Wolf, and other participants included Ross Harrison, Alisha Holland, David Richards, Emma Rothschild, Gareth Stedman Jones and Adam Tooze.
Towards the Transnational History of International Organizations: Methodology / Epistemology
6-7 April 2009
This was one of three international conferences prepared by the International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO History Project and relating to UNESCO's history. The conference was held at King's College and considered UNESCO as a case-study, and took a broader view of methodological issues relating to the study of the history of international organizations. The conference was part of an ongoing collaboration between the Centre and UNESCO in connection with the project on International and UN History and Archives. For further information, visit the conference web site.
A Workshop for Early Career Medieval Economic Historians
31 March 2009
There has been discussion recently about an apparent shortage of early career scholars in UK universities in the field of medieval social and (especially) economic history. The aim of this workshop, supported by the Centre, held over two half-days on 30-31 March 2009 in Downing College, Cambridge, was to discuss what can be done to coordinate efforts and strengthen the field for the future, and to ensure the continued production of high quality publications. The discussion focussed on identifying the 'big questions' in the field, and to propose ways of working collaboratively to address them. For further information contact Dr Chris Briggs or Dr James Davis. Additional details » .
Machine Tools and the International Transfer of Industrial Technology
30-31 March 2009
This Centre supported conference took place in King's College on 30-31 March 2009. Between the 1860s and the 1960s there was an extraordinary quantum leap in humanity's capacity to transform raw metal into highly complex machines. Tracing the development of these productive forces and the discourses that surrounded and impelled their development was the subject of this conference, which sought to explore and map the development of machine-tool technology from the late 19th century up to the 1960s. The concentration was on machine tools because they are the ubiquitous instruments of modern manufacturing and because right up to the 1980s they occupied an iconic position in debates about industrial modernization. The conference was organised by David Edgerton, Ralf Richter, Cristiano Ristuccia, Adam Tooze and Tomas Welskopp. For further information, visit the conference web site. A report by one of the participants at the conference
is available at hsozkult and H-net.
History and Sustainability: Environmental History and Education for
Sustainable Development
10 January 2009
This one-day event was organised as part of the History and Sustainability
project at the Centre and took place in University of East Anglia, Elizabeth
Fry Building, on 10 January 2009. The meeting, organised by Paul Warde,
featured presentations and discussions on current developments in
environmental history, and how they might relate to sustainability debates
and policy, and the role of history in wider education about sustainability
at all levels both within and without the formal education system. It aimed
to bring together specialists in the field to discuss their results and
practice, along with those new to the discipline and working in related
fields, and history education more broadly. For further information, visit
the conference web site.
 Centre events prior to 2009»
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