Past Graduate Workshops
2012-2013
14 March 2013
Alexa Rahman (Clare)
"Another lawyer": Harvard scientists and the technological reformation of the Cuban sugar industry
Chair: Alex Hurst
7 March 2013
Kate Jernigan (Clare)
Student and Youth Community Activism in Nashville, Tennessee, c. 1940-1970
Chair: Chenzi Xu
28 February 2013
Benjamin Hand (Emmanuel)
Bentham and the democratic turn
Chair: Peng Zhang
21 February 2013
Anna Rogantini Picco (Corpus Christi)
Common components in marginal expected shortfall: an analysis of systemic risk in Italy and Germany
Chair: Kate Jernigan
14 February 2013
Ian Kumekawa (Clare)
Between Hope and Science: A.C. Pigou's Ethics, Economics, and Wartime Disillusionment
Chair: Elizabeth Anne Reese
7 February 2013
Peng Zhang (Newnham)
Decentralization, Agglomeration Economics and Energy Intensity: a Perspective of Industrial Organization
Chair: Alex McCarter
24 January 2013
Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez (King's) [1:15pm start]
The causes and consequences of the Arab Spring
Chair: Chris Moffat
5 November 2012
Chris Moffat, Gonville and Caius
Truth and the Revolutionary's Present
8 November 2012
Introductory Session
The 2012-2013 Centre students give a brief insight into their planned research
2011-2012
12 March 2012
Natasha Pesaran, Trinity College
Global networks of Zionist extremism in the 1930s and 1940s
5 March 2012
Sebastian Keibek, Wolfson College
Three excerpts from a draft article on 'Rural by-employment on the eve of the Industrial Revolution'
Jesper Meijling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
A Perspective on Market Theory and History: The Livorno Constitution of 1593
27 February 2012
Jacob Currie, Trinity College
Council and Counsel under the Lancastrian Kings
20 February 2012
Devyani Gupta, St John’s College
Colonial Expansion and the Entanglement of Postal and Military Lines
13 February 2012
Anna Ross, Clare College
The Politics of Space: Municipal Governments, Cityscapes and the Revolutions of 1848/49
6 February 2012
Derek Elliot, Peterhouse
Missionaries and Violence in Company India, 1833-1858
2010-2011
9 March 2011
Tryggvi Gudmundsson
A primer in macroeconomic modelling
2 March 2011
Felix Waldmann
Further Letters of David Hume
23 February 2011
Atiyab Sultan
Imperialism and the Economic Transformation of 19th Century Punjab
16 February 2011
Gina Tangorra
Irish Female Domestic Servants in London, 1830-1890
9 February 2011
Neesha Harnam
The impact of financial crises on health: the case of East and Southeast Asia
2 February 2011
Jagjeet Lally
Central Asian Horses in India, 1600-1900
16 November 2010
Felix Waldmann
James Tyrrell, John Locke, and Patriarcha non Monarcha (1681)
Introductory Session
The 2010-2011 Centre students give a brief insight into their planned research. (27 October 2010)
2009 - 2010
For Glory, For Money
Pierpaolo Barbieri (3 June 2010)
The Making of Political Crime and the Kaiserreich
Rachel Hoffman (27 May 2010)
The "True" German socialist
Diana Siclovan (20 May 2010)
Tracing Penang Eurasian Family Networks, 1850-1950
Kirsty Walker (4 March 2010)
Hannah Arendt, Storytelling and Redemptive History
Waseem Yaqoob (21 January 2010)
L'inde retrouvée: loss and sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867-68
Akhila Yechury (12 November 2009)
The 2009-2010 Centre students give a brief insight into their planned research Introductory Session (23 October 2009)
2008-2009
Encouraging Emigration: An analysis of the Estado Novo's approach to emigration in the early 1960s in Portugal
Melissa Teixeira (14 May 2009)
The Wicksell Connection: Rethinking the Keynes-Hayek Debates
Tyler Goodspeed (7 May 2009)
Fichte as reader of Machiavelli
Hanna Margaret Weibye (5 March 2009))
The state and society in the Ottoman Empire between two Russian Wars (1854-1877)
Murat Remzi Siviloglu (19 February 2009)
John Stuart Mill, Group Rights, and the Problem of Knowledge
Tara Jane Westover (5 February 2009)
Huizinga, the Netherlands and the spirit of Europe, 1933-1945
Anne-Isabelle Richard (22 January 2009)
2007 - 2008
'The Pencil of the Sun': early photography and imperialism in Burma and Ceylon, 1852-1856
Andrew Jarvis (27 November 2008)
Creation of European Identity in Colonial Context, Cameroon c. 1890-1930
Alois Maderspacher (7 November 2008)
Compulsory notification, infectious disease and the
development of public health policy in Bolton, c.1865-1905
Rebecca Whyte (16 June 2008)
Victims and Agents: European Volunteer Workers in Britain, 1946-50
Quyen Vo, Jesus College (9 June 2008)
The First Repatriation Controversy: Nansen, the League of
Nations and Russian Return, 1922-1924
Katy Long, King’s College (2 June 2008)
State Visits of Persian Shahs to Germany, 1873-1905:
Non-European Monarchs and the European Theatre of Power in the Era of High
Imperialism
David Motadel (26 May 2008)
Cloots, Rousseau, and the Federalism-World State Debate
Alexander Bevilacqua (19 May 2008)
'Newspaper muck': Marx, Engels, and the New-York Tribune
Timothy Shenk (12 May 2008)
Where did all the Caucasians go? Or how American Psychiatry theorized race at the turn-of-the-century
Andrew Fearnley (22 November 2007)
Ghettos of the mind: Kenneth B. Clark and the psychology of the urban crisis, 1960-75
Dan Matlin (15 November 2007)
The Prostitute Experience and Prostitution Policy in Germany, 1914-1945
Victoria Harris (8 November 2007)
Economies of childhood: Pocket money, consumption, and criminality in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century England
Siân Pooley (1 November 2007)
Official statistics and the “Romantic” critique of the Poor Law, 1810-20
Stephen Thompson (25 October 2007)
Uses and abuses of history: memories of the République in late 20th century France
Emile Chabal (18 October 2007)
2006 - 2007
Colonial
communication: The development and failure of information networks in German
Southwest Africa
Philip Lehmann (24 May 2007)
Sultan Mahmoud and Napoleon: Franco-Ottoman
diplomacy in 1811 and 1812
Catherine Bosley (17 May 2007)
Stefan George, Hugo
von Hofmannsthal and the Poetics/Politics of Homoeroticism inthe Fin de
Siècle
Adam Bisno (10 May 2007 )
The Use of utility in J.B. Say's early
writings
Anna Plassart (7 March 2007)
The construction of compulsion: a case study of parental and state authority in elementary education in England, 1860-1910
Siân Pooley (1 March 2007)
“La crise d’intégration” and the political thought of French republicanism, 1980-2007
Emile Chabal (22 February 2007)‘Savage Chieftains’ with Loudspeakers at the Town Meeting of the World: A Conservative Internationalist Reviews the UN Charter
Neil Renwick (8 February 2007)
New Perspectives on absentee proprietorship in Jamaica, 1750-1810
Sasha Turner (25 January 2007)
Theorizing Race in Histories of Science and Medicine
Andrew Fearnley (7 December 2006)
Charles Abbot and the Politics of the 1800 Population Bill
Stephen Thompson, Trinity College (30 November 2006)
Taking Nellie Johnson’s Fingerprints: Prostitutes and Legal Identity in Early Twentieth-Century London
Julie Laite, St Edmund’s College (23 November 2006)
From Emigration, to Darwin, to Ireland: Using Victorian Periodicals to Examine Popular Perceptions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Amy Lloyd, St Edmund’s College (16 November 2006)
Nazis, Yetis and Cave-men in Tibet: Britishness in Boys’ Adventure Novels, 1949-1957
Tom Neuhaus, St John’s College (9 November 2006)
2005 - 2006
'Freemen Inslaved' or that 'most insensible imposition'? Understanding the polemical literature of the Restoration excise
D’Maris Coffmann, IHR/UPenn (30 May 2006)
Europe to the Asian Priests?: Science and Occultism in Travelogues of Interwar Tibet
Tom Neuhaus, St John’s (16 May 2006)
From care homes to concentration camps: forced internment of German prostitutes 1914-45
Victoria Harris, Selwyn (9 May 2006)
The Girl(s) behind the man behind the gun: The conflicting demands of
female patriotism in World War One
Katie Beal-Preston, Trinity Hall (9 March 2006)
Eighteenth-century theories of population and the decline of the republican tradition in Britain
Stephen Thompson, Trinity (2 March 2006)
Libertas religionis and the legitimacy of coercion from Tertullian to Augustine
Li Sheng Tan, Darwin (23 February 2006)
Maintaining the prestige of empire: British political and ideological responses to the 1947 Indo-Pakistani partition upheavals
Amanda Behm, Jesus (16 February 2006)
John Houghton’s Collection for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade: nature and reliability of the source
Giles Parkinson, St. John's (9 February 2006)
Reviewing the United Nations Charter, c. 1946-1955: A Study in the Role of Political Ideas in American Foreign Policymaking
Neil Renwick, Selwyn College (2 February 2006)
Richard Hofstadter in the 1960s: Consensus history in a decade of conflict
Robin Vandome, Christ's (26 January 2006)
Race and Civilisation: Pan-Africanism in Nineteenth-Century America.
Dan Matlin, Christ's (19 January 2006)
The New Abolitionists: The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, Prostitution Law and Feminist Discourses in early Twentieth Century Britain
Julie Laite, St Edmund's (2 December 2005)
2004 - 2005
Marx, Hayek and the politics of the market economy
Daniela Cammack, King's College (3 June 2005)
Gender and the economics of slavery, 1765-1810
Sasha Turner, Newnham College (27 May 2005)
The Significance of the Yamacraw-British alliance in Eighteenth Century Georgia
Claire Levenson St Catharine's College (20 May 2005)
Tragedy and romance: Europeans and the natural environment of Inner Asia
Tom Neuhaus, St John's College (13 May 2005)
Cornelie Beyer, Career Prostitute: An examination of the marginalisation of a prostitute woman across three systems of vice management, 1907-1940
Victoria Harris, Selwyn College (6 May 2005)
Relieving Unemployment with Emigration: The State-Directed Emigration Lobby and the Establishment of the Emigrants’ Information Office, 1883-1886
Amy Lloyd, St. Edmund’s (11 March 2005)
Marx, Hayek and the politics of the market economy
Daniela Cammack, King’s (4 March 2005)
Henry Adams’ Early Political Thought
Ganesh Sitaraman, Emmanuel (25 February 2005)
Britain and Germany in Inner Asia - context, methodology, sources
Tom Neuhaus, St. John’s (18 February 2005)
Gift Exchange Between American Indians and the British on the Southern Frontier: A Scholarly Debate
Claire Levenson, St. Catharine’s (11 February 2005)
Female Criminality during the Inflationary Period of the Weimar Republic
Victoria Harris, Selwyn (4 February 2005)
Women, Gender and Feminism: Pitfalls and Progress in British West IndianHistoriography
Sasha Turner, Newnham (28 January 2005)
‘Lift Up Yr Self!’: Amiri Baraka, Black Power and the Uplift Tradition
Dan Matlin, Christ’s (26 November 2004)
Theory,Experience and Sources: Some difficulties in writing a social history of a marginalized group
Julie Laite, St. Edmund’s (12 November 2004)
Duty and discharge: hydraulic equations as economic models and social technology in Indian irrigation 1850-1930
Mike Lewis, Christ’s (29 October 2004)
Apprenticeship in a Serf Society: Evidence from 19th-Century Rural Russia
Tracy Dennison, Robinson (15 October 2004)
2004
Sanayi Marcelline, Wolfson (7 June 2004)
Carter Johnson, Darwin (31 May 2004)
Andrew Fearnley, Sidney Sussex (24 May 2004)
The Life: Choosing and Controlling Prostitution in late-Victorian London
Julie Laite, St Edmund's (17 May 2004)
Making Science pay: Engineer and Foresters at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill 1869-1903
Mike Lewis, Christ's (10 May 2004)
Richard Hofstadter: A Historian and His Times
Robin Vandome, Christ's (3 May 2004)
The 1958 Riots in Sri Lanka
Sanayi Marcelline, Wolfson (1 March 2004)
Car Racing in the Third Reich - Revisiting a "success
story"
Carter Johnson, Darwin (23 February 2004)
The Life: the Social and Cultural History of Prostitutes in Late Victorian London
Julie Laite, St Edmund's (16 February 2004)
'"The Negro's most Powerful Weapon": Culture and Controversy in the Communities of Cleveland, c.1930-c.1937'
Andrew Fearnley, Sidney Sussex (9 February 2004)
Richard Hofstadter 1948 - 1968: From Consensus to Conflict
Robin Vandome, Christ's (2 February 2004 2004)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the Black Arts Movement and the Racial Politics of Masculinity
Dan Matlin, Christ's (19 January 2004)