9 June 2022
Poornima Paidipaty (King‘s College London)
Consumption and inclusion in Indian mid-century planning: The universal opulence of PC Mahalanobis

1 June 2022
The Centre will celebrate the publication of Franziska Exeler's book Ghosts of War. Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus.
Please join us for a virtual discussion with the author, chaired by Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin) and Emma Rothschild (Harvard/Cambridge), with comments by Iryna Ramanava (European Humanities University) and Lynne Viola (University of Toronto).

2 June 2022
Roundtable on Environmental History: reflections and directions
Harriet Ritvo, Sujit Sivasundaram, Paul Warde
Chair: Emma Rothschild

The Joint Centre for History and Economics mourns the death of Sir Tony Wrigley, a dear friend of the Centre for more than thirty years. His work was of foundational importance to economic history, the history of economic ideas, and the history of population, energy and work. He was a Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre, and a member of the Centre’s Executive Committee from 1998 to 2011. We will miss him greatly.

The Joint Centre for History and Economics is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established in 1991 to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic and social thought, economic history and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.

The Centre is supported by a generous gift from the David K. and Carol Richards Fund. In cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the History Project, and for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas; Energy History and Gender Bias in India.