Past History and Economics Seminars (1989 - )
2023 - 2024
12 October 2023
Maria Bach (Université de Lausanne)
A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR
2022 - 2023
1 June 2023 – jointly with the World History Seminar
Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS, University of London)
Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947
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16 May 2023
Massimo Asta (University of Cambridge)
Political engagement, profession and socialist economics in fin-de-siècle Europe
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Dorothee Brantz (TU-Berlin)
Springtime in the City: Time, Seasons, and the Transnational Urban Environment
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(Jointly with the African Economic History seminar)
Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna)
A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century)
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Roseanna Webster (University of Cambridge)
Building Barrios and seeking sexual rights: women's activism in Spain from the 1950s to the 1980s
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Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics)
German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
2021 - 2022
9 June 2022
Poornima Paidipaty (King‘s College London)
Consumption and inclusion in Indian mid-century planning: The universal opulence of PC Mahalanobis
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26 May 2022
Madeline Woker (Cambridge)
Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire, 1900-1950s
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5 May 2022
Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po Paris)
Regimes of work precarity. Workers' uncertainty in France during the postwar economic boomRachel Leow, Cambridge (7 March 2022)
Leaving home, going home? Mass deportations to southern China during the Malayan Emergency (1948-60)
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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, CRASSH (24 February 2022)
Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989
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Book launch, jointly with Modern British Economic History seminar (27 January 2022 )
Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective, Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto (eds), (Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2021)
Commentators: Liz Fouksman (KCL) and Simon Szreter (Cambridge)
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Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge/Centre for History and Economics (25 November 2021)
The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain
2020 - 2021
Jenny Andersson, Sciences Po Paris / Uppsala (2 March 2021)
Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell
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Megan Black, MIT (2 February 2021)
Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s
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2019 - 2020
Claire Lemercier, Sciences Po (21 January 2020)
Courts, commerce, and labor. Investigating lay courts in nineteenth century Paris and France
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Jennifer Keating, University College Dublin (3 December 2019)
Prospecting and bioprospecting on Russia's Central Asian cotton frontier, 1880s - 1916
Mark Stoll, Texas Tech University / Rachel Carson Centre (12 November 2019)
The Religious Roots of Environmentalist Thought and Activism in Europe and America
Annabel Brett, University of Cambridge (30 October 2019)
Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations
Jointly with Legal Histories Beyond the State
2018 - 2019
Harriet Ritvo, MIT (28 May 2019)
Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness
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2017 - 2018
Panel discussion led by Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics/QMUL, and Karma Nabulsi, Oxford University, and with contributions from panellists Thomas Jones, University of Buckingham, Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, and Anna Ross, University of Warwick (14 June 2018)
The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. 170 years on, the legacy and current thinking
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Melissa Teixeira, Harvard University (29 May 2018)
South Atlantic Capitalisms: dictatorship, law, and economic life in interwar Portugal and Brazil
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Ornit Shani, University of Haifa (20 February 2018)
How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives
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Daniel Zamora, Université Libre de Bruxelles (6 February 2018)
An intellectual history of the universal basic income
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Corey Ross, University of Birmingham (23 January 2018)
A World of Goods: Ecology and Commodity Production in Europe’s Empires
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Ian Kumekawa, Harvard University (9 November 2017)
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
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2016-2017
Catherine Merridale, IHR (13 June 2017)
Lenin on the Train
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Harriet Ritvo, MIT (6 June 2017)
New Earths, Newer Animals: Repairing Nature's Oversight
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Rohit De, Yale University (23 May 2017)
The Kenyatta Trial as an International Legal Event: Decolonization, Diaspora, and Rebellious Lawyers
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Paul Warde, Pembroke College, Cambridge (28 February 2017)
"Earth butchery": explaining the end of empire in Europe and America, c.1750-1865
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Pedro Ramos Pinto, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (21 February 2017)
'The breath of history on our necks’: the European revolutionary left and Portugal, 1974-1975
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Pietro Masina, University of Naples L'Orientale / Clare Hall (31January 2017)
Industrialization, labour conflict, and the role of trade unions in Vietnam
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Gareth Stedman Jones, QMUL (6 October 2016)
Pressure from without: Karl Marx and the Politics and Economics of 1867
2015-2016
Catherine Evans, Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard / Magdalene College (3 May 2016)
A Killer In Search of a Trial: Criminal Lunacy in the British Empire
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Padraic Scanlan, LSE (8 March 2016)
From Antislavery to Colonialism
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Tehila Sasson, Institute of Historical Research, London (16 February 2016)
Ethical Capitalism? The Rise of British Humanitarianism after 1947
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Franziska Exeler, Centre for History and Economics/Clare Hall (19 January 2016)
Nazi Atrocities, Soviet Justice, and International Law
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2014-2015
Colin Kidd, University of St Andrews, and David Runciman, POLIS, Cambridge (11 June 2015)
The Scottish Question and the Break-up of Britain
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Teresa Tadem, University of the Philippines, Diliman (13 May 2015)
Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite
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Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (28 April 2015)
The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Useful Past in Japan
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Alexia Yates, CRASSH, University of Cambridge (10 March 2015)
Property and Portfolios: Spaces of Finance in Nineteenth-century France
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Kaivan Munshi, University of Cambridge, with Kenneth Chay, Brown University (3 March 2015 )
Black Networks after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration
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Sunil Amrith, Harvard University (27 January 2015)
The South Asian Monsoon: A History for the Anthropocene
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Professor Paul Warde, UEA (6 November 2014)
Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750
2013-2014
Julia Stephens, Centre for History and Economics/Trinity Hall (10 June 2014)
Everyday Afterlives: Tracing Diasporic Inheritances through India's Imperial Archives
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary, University of London (6 May 2014)
Red Fortress: History and Illusion in Russia
Natasha Pairaudeau, University of Cambridge (4 March 2014)
Inter-Asian métissage: Other boundaries of rule and indigenous social hierarchies in French Indochina
Francisco Bethencourt, King's College London (18 February 2014)
The debate on inequality from Rousseau to Marx
Widukind de Ridder, CEGESOMA, Brussels (11 February 2014)
The development of the labour movement and political thought in Belgium in the 19th century
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King's College London (28 January 2014)
Modern Times: Work, play and Afro-diasporic rhythms, from Moreau de Saint-Méry to Siegfried Kracauer
Craig Muldrew, Cambridge (7 November 2013)
From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics
2012-2013
Amira Bennison, Magdalene College, Cambridge (6 June 2013)
Constructions of Authority in 14th Century Morocco: The Material Argument for Marinid Rule
Fei-Hsien Wang, Magdalene College, Cambridge (28 May 2013)
Between Privilege and Property: Four Conceptions of Copyright in Late-Qing China
Iza Hussin, The University of Chicago/Clare Hall (30 April 2013)
Circulations of Law: Majalla and Constitution in the Making of a Muslim State
Rohit De, Centre for History and Economics & Trinity Hall (14 March 2013)
The Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution (1947-1964)
Cormac Ó Gráda, University College, Dublin (26 February 2013)
Hunger and Human Capital in England before the Industrial Revolution
Jane Humphries, All Souls College, Oxford (19 February 2013)
Girls and the Industrial Revolution
Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins/CRASSH & Centre for History and Economics (29 January 2013)
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Professor Jim Secord, Cambridge (1 November 2012)
The Machinery Question, the Press and the Decline of Science Debate in the 1830s
2011-2012
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Trinity College, Cambridge (6 June 2012)
Consumption and social capital in early modern Europe
Barbara Koenczoel, Pembroke College, Cambridge (22 May 2012)
The commemoration of Luxemburg and Liebknecht during the interwar years and in the GDR
Romain Bertrand, CERI-Science-Po-CNRS (8 May 2012)
Missed Encounters. An Anti-Eurocentric Perspective on Early Dutch-Javanese Relations (1596-1646)
Pernille Røge, Corpus Christi, Cambridge (13 March 2012)
Why the Danes got there first - a trans-imperial response to the abolition of the Danish slave trade in 1792
Renaud Morieux, Jesus College, Cambridge (6 March 2012)
Fishing Disputes and Maritime Borders in Europe and Newfoundland in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Daniel Matlin, Queen Mary, University of London (28 February 2012)
The American Black Power movement and the idea of Africa
Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS (10 November 2011)
The political economy of democracy: some thoughts on nationhood and citizenship in post-colonial India
2010 - 2011
Nigel Leask, University of Glasgow (7 June 2011)
Robert Burns and Poverty
Sugata Bose, Harvard, Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, London and Sumit Mandal, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (31 May 2011)
His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire
Chair: Tim Harper, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Tara Alberts, Jesus College, Cambridge (24 May 2011)
Medicine, Magic and Exchange in Southeast Asia, c.1500-1700
Maxine Berg, University of Warwick (1 March 2011)
East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War
Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney (1 February 2011)
The Twentieth Century as the Age of Internationalism
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University/Magdalene College, Cambridge (28 October 2010)
Economic Thought and Economic Information: the East and West Indies in the Eighteenth Century
2009 - 2010
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University (19 May 2010)
Morality and markets: thinking about Albert Hirschman in the 1970s
Jo Whaley, Gonville and Caius College (12 May 2010)
The Holy Roman Empire
Dame Gillian Beer, Clare Hall (24 February 2010)
Late Darwin: extinction, aesthetics, and the human
Barbara Ravelhofer, University of Durham (10 February 2010)
The Monster from the East: Literary Migrations in Early Modern Europe
Philippe Minard, Université Paris-8, IDHE-CNRS/EHESS-Paris (27 January 2010)
Facing uncertainty: markets, norms and conventions in the 18th Century
Helen McCarthy, Queen Mary, University of London (18 November 2009)
Empire and Internationalism in Britain, c.1918-1945
Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania (14 October 2009)
The American Welfare State and Social Contract in Hard Times
2008 - 2009
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University (10 June 2009)
Apocalypse in the stacks?
Robert Travers, Cornell University (13 May 2009)
Some Indian views on land-rights in eighteenth century Bengal: petitions as political thought
David Runciman, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge (29 April 2009)
Does it make sense to discount liberty?
Emma Rothschild, Centre for History and Economics/King's College, Cambridge (11 March 2009)
The Inner Life of Empires
Jack Rakove, Stanford University (4 March 2009)
Thinking about Madison Thinking
Humeira Iqtidar, South Asian Studies Centre/King's College, Cambridge (11 February 2009)
Secularising Islamists? Conceptual Confusion and Political Reality
David Todd, Trinity Hall/Centre for History and Economics (3 December 2008)
A French Imperial Meridian, 1815-1870
Ananya Kabir, University of Leeds (19 November 2008)
Consecrated Groves: The Imperial Utility of a Tacitean Theme
Gregory Claeys, Royal Holloway, University of London (22 October 2008)
The Origins of British Anti-Imperialism Reconsidered, 1850-1920
2007 - 2008
Natalie Ceeney, Chief Executive, The National Archives and David Thomas, Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer, The National Archives (28 May 2008)
Research in a digital age - experience from The National Archives
Herrick Chapman, New York University (21 May 2008)
Democracy Embattled in the Age of Expertise: French Reconstruction after World War II
Bain Attwood, Monash University/Smuts Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College (7 May 2008)
Repudiating Aboriginal sovereignty and rights to land in Britain's Australian colonies: The case of Batman's treaty
Eric Foner, Columbia University (12 March 2008)
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Rights of Black Americans
Jan Otmar Hesse, University of Frankfurt (27 February 2008)
The "Americanisation" of German Economics after 1945
Natalia Mora-Sitja, Downing College, Cambridge (13 February 2008)
Gender, Economics, and History in Modern Spain
Paul Warde, UEA (30 January 2008)
The Invention of Sustainability: Agronomy in Britain and Germany c.1500-1850
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Queen's University Belfast (28 November 2007)
The Race and Racism of the Late-Victorian Irish
Richard Tuck, Harvard University (14 November 2007)
Edgeworth and Utilitarianism
Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics (31 October 2007)
Radicalism and the Extra-European World: The Case of Marx
2006 - 2007
Lynn Hunt, UCLA (30 May 2007)
Inventing Human Rights in the 18th Century
Tamar Herzog, Stanford University (23 May 2007)
Dispossessing the Barbarians: Citizenship and exclusion in Spain and Spanish America (16th to 19th Centuries)
Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford (2 May 2007)
The Economic Legacy of the League of Nations
Tony La Vopa, North Carolina State University/IASH, Edinburgh (14 March 2007)
Politeness and work in the Scottish Enlightenment: Revisiting the Boswells
Patrick Weil, CNRS/Paris I (28 February 2007)
Exceptional decisions in normal and exceptional times: denaturalisations in the US, the UK, Germany and France in the 20th Century
Caroline Humfress, Birkbeck College, University of London (14 February 2007)
Citizenship and heresy in the later Roman Empire
William Nelson, Centre for History and Economics/Trinity Hall, Cambridge (17 January 2007)
The Enlightenment and the origins of modern economics
Caitlin Anderson, Trinity College, Cambridge (15 November 2006)
British Consular Intervention and Legal Pluralism: Buenos Aires, 1825-1875
Melissa Lane, King’s College, Cambridge (1 November 2006)
‘Demagogue’, ‘Tyrant’ and ‘Statesmen’ in Ancient Athens
John Hope Mason, Queen Mary, University of London (18 October 2006)
At the Limits of Toleration: Rousseau and Atheism
2005 - 2006
Mary Beth Norton, Cornell Univerity/Pitt Professor of American History (24 May 2006)
A New Look at Nathaniel Bacon and his Rebellion (Virginia, 1675-1676)
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Jesus College, Cambridge (10 May 2006)
Regions and structural change: A new view of the industrial revolution in England 1750-1881
Liana Vardi, University of Buffalo, New York (8 March 2006)
Economics and Culture in the Late French Enlightenment
Christopher Clark, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (22 February 2006)
Revolution in Government: Europe After 1848
Poul Holm, University of Southern Denmark/Churchill College (8 February 2006)
The last Fish? A Historical Perspective on the Exploitation of the North Sea
Peter Garnsey, Jesus College, Cambridge (25 January 2006)
"Communism" in the Republic and Laws: from Plato to Plethon
Adam Tooze (Jesus College, Cambridge (23 November 2005)
Hitler and the problem of American economic power, 1928-1945
Maruska Svasek, Queen’s, Belfast/Oxford University (9 November 2005)
Moving moves: emotions and (forced) migration in the 20th and 21st century
Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics (26 October 2005)
Language and British Left Historians. From Thomas Carlyle to Edward Thompson
Anja Pistor-Hatam, Seminar für Orientalistik Islamwissenschaft, CAU Kiel (12 October 2005)
Al-e Ahmad's glimpses at the past: An intellectual's reflections on selected periods of Iranian history
2004 - 2005
Robert Evans, Modern History Faculty, Oxford (1 June 2005)
'The Manuscripts': Forgery in the Culture and Politics of Central Europe
Sverker Sörlin, Centre for History and Economics/Pembroke College (18 May 2005)
The Nature of Success: Narratives of National Performance before the Welfare State - Sweden ca 1890-1940
Megan Vaughan, King's College, Cambridge (4 May 2005)
Africa and the Birth of the Modern World
Alastair Reid, Girton College, Cambridge (16 March 2005)
United We Stand. A history of Britain's trade unions
Ananya Kabir, University of Leeds (2 March 2005)
Language, identity, political conflict: the case of Kashmiri
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University (16 February 2005)
When affirmative action was white
Jürgen Kocka, WZB-Social Science Research Center Berlin/St Anthony's College, Oxford (2 February 2005)
From the history of labour to the history of work?
Bee Wilson, St John's College, Cambridge (17 November 2004)
Frederick Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food (1820)
Douglas Moggach, University of Ottawa (3 November 2004)
Republicanism and the Hegelian Left
Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics (20 October 2004)
An End to Poverty?: The French Revolution and the Promise of a World without Want
2003 - 2004
Colin Kidd, University of Glasgow (26 May 2004)
Radicalism, Tradition and the Covenanting Margins of the Atlantic
Emma Rothschild, Centre for History and Economics (12 May 2004)
Language and Empire, circa 1800
William O'Reilly, National University of Ireland Galway/Centre for History and Economics (25 February 2004)
Competition for Colonists. Europe and her Colonies in the 18th Century
Christian Topalov (EHESS-INED, Paris, (11 February 2004)
Inventing the working-class community (London, Boston, Paris, 1957-1966)
Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick (28 January 2004)
Servant Tax, Servant's Labour. The Business of Life, England 1770-1820
Nick Phillipson, University of Edinburgh (3 December 2003)
Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments in biographical contexts
Tracy Dennison, Robinson College/Centre for History and Economics (19 November 2003)
Problems of serfdom: The case of nineteenth-century Russia
Paul André Rosental, EHESS-INED, Paris (22 October 2003)
A national passion: Demography in France 1930-1960
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan (8 October 2003)
Writing the history of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
2002 - 2003
Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics (4 June 2003)
Conflict and oil
Peter Baldwin, University of California Los Angeles (21 May 2003)
The political culture of public health
Tony Wrigley, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (7 May 2003)
The occupational structure of England in the mid-nineteenth century
Charles Maier, Harvard University (30 April 2003)
An American empire?
Marc Flandreau, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (5 March 2003)
Sovereign risk and globalization: an anthropology of the market mechanism, 1870-1913
Quentin Skinner, Christ's College, Cambridge (19 February 2003)
Hobbes on rights and hereditary right
Justine Crump, Centre for History and Economics (5 February 2003)
The perils of play: 18th century ideas about gambling
Susan Pedersen, Harvard University (22 January 2003)
Colonial governance: what difference did the League of Nations make?
Christopher Bayly, St Catharine's College (20 November 2002)
The Death of a Colonial Metropolis, Yangon (Rangoon), 1940-48
Paul Kennedy, Yale University/Christ's College (13 November 2002)
The Conundrum of the Security Council
Claude Imbert, École Normale Supérieure (30 October 2002)
From Mauss to Levi-Strauss: Another Perspective on Social Relations
Richard Tuck, Harvard University (16 October 2002)
Kenneth Arrow and the High Theory of Democracy in the 1950s
2001 - 2002
Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh (12 June 2002)
Antiquarianism, the Scottish Science of Man, and the Emergence of Modern Disciplinarity
Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (22 May 2002)
Attention and the Creation of Value in Enlightenment Natural History
Richard Drayton, Corpus Christi College (6 March 2002)
Bordeaux and the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
Sugata Bose, Harvard University (27 February 2002)
Poet as Pilgrim: Rabindranath Tagore's Discovery of the Indian Ocean
Catherine Merridale, Bristol University (13 February 2002)
Redesigning History in Contemporary Russia
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Clare Hall (21 November 2001)
Sir Henry Maine, India, and the Anglo-Saxon Past
William St Clair, Trinity College (14 November 2001)
The Explosion of Reading in the Romantic Period
Knud Haakonssen, Boston University (31 October 2001)
Adam Smith and Epicureanism
Tore Frängsmyr, Uppsala University/The Nobel Foundation (17 October 2001)
Alfred Nobel - Technician, Inventor, Donor
2000 - 2001
Harold James, Princeton University (23 May 2001)
Backlashes against globalization
Melissa Lane, King's College, Cambridge (9 May 2001)
Before Popper: English- and German-language readings of Plato's politics in the half-century before 1933
Craig Muldrew, Queen's College, Cambridge (7 March 2001)
Self-Control and Savings in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Britain
Eric Hobsbawm, Birkbeck College, London (28 February 2001)
The Future of Democracy
Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford (14 February 2001)
Top Incomes in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Emma Rothschild, Centre for History and Economics (31 January 2001)
Globalization in Historical Perspective: The East India Company and the American Revolution
Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics (1 November 2000)
The 'Communism' of the Communist Manifesto
Sylvia Nasar, Columbia University/Churchill College (25 October 2000)
Alfred Marshall and the Third Way
Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck College (18 October 2000)
Beyond the Nation-State: The Search for a New Global Political
Economy, 1914-1930s
1999 - 2000
Donald Winch, University of Sussex (31 May 2000)
Ruskin and political economy
Caroline Humphrey, King's College, Cambridge (24 May 2000)
Inequality and exclusion
Simon Szreter, St John's College, Cambridge (10 May 2000)
The state and social capital in historical perspective
Reinhart Koselleck, University of Bielefeld (1 March 2000)
'Die Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht': Schiller and Hegel
Ross Harrison, King's College, Cambridge (16 February 2000)
Government is good for you
Robert Darnton, All Souls College, Oxford (2 February 2000)
Songs and the Police in 18th Century Paris
Hans Medick, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen (19 January 2000)
Weaving and Surviving in Laichingen 1650-1900: Micro-History as History and as Research Experience
John Burrow, Balliol College, Oxford (24 November 1999)
Victorian Exceptionalism?
Sissela Bok, Harvard University (17 November 1999)
Henry Sidgwick's Practical Ethics: A Century's Perspective
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University (27 October 1999)
Hamlet in Purgatory
Hans-Joachim Voth, Centre for History and Economics and Robinson College, Cambridge (13 October 1999)
The Longest Years--Time and Work in Britain, 1750-1830
1998 - 1999
Jonathan Haslam, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (26 May 1999)
The Politics of the Balance of Trade
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge University (28 April 1999)
Women and the "Second Serfdom": Evidence from Bohemia
David Feldman, Birkbeck College, London (10 March 1999)
Migrants, immigrants, and welfare in England, from the old poor-law to the welfare state
Melissa Lane, King's College, Cambridge (24 February 1999)
Is security the minimal good?
Emma Rothschild, Centre for History and Economics (10 February 1999)
"Of systems of equality": Malthus, Necker, and the French Revolution
Richard Smith, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (27 January 1999)
Malthus, methodological individualism and certain conceptual demographic preferences
Mamta Murthi, Clare Hall, Cambridge (2 December 1998)
Fertility in India: Evidence from the 1991 Census
Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics (25 November 1998)
The Vanity of Rigour in Economics
Paul Warde, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (11 November 1998)
Land, Labour and Livestock: Ecology and Employment in Early Modern Germany
Jonathan Steinberg, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (28 October 1998)
Gold, History and the Deutsche Bank
1997 - 1998
Fritz Stern, Columbia University (27 May 1998)
Death in Weimar
Jacques Revel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (13 May 1998)
Simiand and the Historians: the Origins of Social History
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (29 April 1998)
Smithianismus and Enlightenment in 19th Century Europe
Jan De Vries, All Souls College, Oxford (4 March 1998)
The Industrious Revolution as a Concept of Economic and Social History: Were Eighteenth Century People Aspiring Consumers or Oppressed Workers?
John Hatcher, Corpus Christi, Cambridge (18 February 1998)
Labour, Leisure and Charity from the Black Death to the New Poor Law
Kirsty McNay, St. Catharine's College, Jane Humphries, Newnham College, and Stephan Klasen, King's College, Cambridge (4 February 1998)
Death and Gender in Victorian England
Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge (21 January 1998)
Rational Dissent and the Origins of English Socialism
Erik Grimmer and Roberto Romani, Nuffield College, Oxford and Darwin College, Cambridge (19 November 1997)
Historical Political Economy, 1870-1900
Ursula Vogel, University of Manchester (5 November 1997)
Romantic Communitarianism: Adam Müller's Critique of Modern Commercial Society
Martin Daunton, Churchill College, Cambridge (22 October 1997)
Material Politics: The State and Consumption in Britain since 1850
Bertram Schefold, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (8 October 1997)
The Afterglow of the German Historical School, 1945 - 1960
1996 - 1997
Melissa Lane, King's College, Cambridge (4 June 1997)
Political Theory and Time
Jürgen Kocka, Freie Universität, Berlin (7 May 1997)
Rapprochment and New Distance: Historians and Social Scientists between the 1950s and today
Ben Polak, Yale University (5 March 1997)
A Predatory State
Stephan Klasen, King's College, Cambridge (19 February 1997)
Gender Inequality and Survival: Excess Female Mortality, Past and Present
Wolfgang Mommsen, Heinrich Heine Universität (5 February 1997)
Max Weber mediating between the 'Historical School' and the 'School of Theoretical Economy'
Joanna Innes, Somerville College, Oxford (22 January 1997)
State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare, 1690-1850
Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge (4 December 1996)
Hegel and the Economics of Civil Society
Peter Clarke, St. John's College, Cambridge (20 November 1996)
Keynes, Buchanan and the Balanced Budget Doctrine
Caroline Humphrey, King's College, Cambridge (6 November 1996)
Traders, 'Disorder' and Citizenship Regimes in Provincial Russia
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (16 October 1996)
Transitions and Mentalities
1995 - 1996
Keith Tribe, University of Keele (12 June 1996)
The Historicisation of Political Economy
Amartya Sen, Harvard University (1 May 1996)
Asian Values
Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex (6 March 1996)
The Political Economy of Jean Baptiste Say's Republicanism
Jane Humphries, Newnham College, Cambridge (21 February 1996)
Female Headed Households and the Industrial Revolution
Ian Ross, University of British Columbia (7 February 1996)
A Biographer's Approach to Adam Smith: Focus on the Wealth of Nations
Olwen Hufton, European University Institute (15 November 1995)
Poverty in 18th Century France Revisited
Catherine Merridale, University of Bristol (1 November 1995)
Death and Remembrance in Soviet Russia
Adam Tooze, Robinson College, Cambridge (18 October 1995)
Counting Chaos: Economic Statistics and the German Hyperinflation
Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge (4 October 1995)
`Unable to Speak its Meaning in Words': Carlyle, Engels and the Constitution of Social History
1994 - 1995
Jon Elster, University of Chicago (1 March 1995)
Rationality and Emotions
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Trinity College, Cambridge (15 February 1995)
Institutions and Economic Development in Early Modern Central Europe
Mary Morgan, London School of Economics (8 February 1995)
The Moral Economy of J.B. Clark
Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge (23 November 1994)
The First Debate on the "Industrial Revolution": Say vs Sismondi
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (9 November 1994)
The Economic History of Rationality
Gavin Wright, Christ's College, Cambridge (19 October 1994)
The Origins of Free Labour
1993 - 1994
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University (15 June 1994)
German Credit Cooperatives, 1870-1914
Richard Smith, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Oxford (11 May 1994)
The Communal Management of Risk and Uncertainty and its Implications for Past and Present Demographic Patterns
Keith Baker, Stanford University (4 May 1994)
Enlightenment and the Institution of Society
Sylvana Tomaselli, Newnham College, Cambridge (27 April 1994)
Wollstonecraft: Critic of Modern Commercial Society?
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (16 February 1994)
The 'Bloody and Invisible Hand'
Walter Eltis, Department of Trade and Industry (2 February 1994)
The Failure of French Market Economics: Quesnay, Turgot and Condillac
Donald Winch, University of Sussex (19 January 1994)
Luxury and Inequality
David Landes, Harvard University (29 November 1993)
The Fable of the Dead Horse: Was the Industrial Revolution really Revolutionary?
Zvi Razi, Tel Aviv University & Wellcome Institute, Oxford (24 November 1993)
The Making of State and Society in Late Medieval England: A View from the Manorial Court
Caroline Barron, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (10 November 1993)
Nobles, Merchants and the Economy of London
Mark Bailey, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (13 October 1993)
Serfdom on the Manor in England, c.1180-1348
1992 - 1993
Alaka Basu, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University Enclave (26 May 1993)
Old Prejudices and New Technology: Trends in Women's Status, Son Preference and Fertility in India
Carlo Poni, University of Bologna (12 May 1993)
Fashion as Innovation: the Strategies of the Silk Merchants of Lyon in the 18th Century
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Trinity College, Cambridge (28 April 1993)
Women's Work and Economic Development: A German Industrial Countryside, 1580-1740
Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics (14 January 1993)
Mill and Menger
Emma Rothschild (26 November 1992)
Condorcet on Mathematics and Economics
Richard Tuck, Jesus College, Cambridge (19 November 1992)
The Imperfect History of Perfect Competition
Nations, States and Empires / War, Reconciliation and the State (1989 - 1998)
1998 - 1999
Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics/University of Sussex (19 November 1998)
The Political Economy of New Wars
Miri Rubin (Pembroke College, Oxford (5 November 1998)
Narrative and Violence in Late Medieval Europe: the Host Desecration Accusation
1996 - 1997
Alain Blum, Institut National des Études Demographiques, Paris (13 May 1997)
Stalinism and the Statisticians: The Case of Demographers
1995 - 1996
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University (30 May 1996)
Thinking in an Emergency
Bernard Williams, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (23 May 1996)
Moralism and Realism in Liberal Politics
1995 - 1996
Thoma Mastnak, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (8 February 1996)
The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, European Union and the Turk
1994 - 1995
Linda Colley, Yale University (1 June 1995)
Frontiers and Empire: Re-evaluating the Seven Years War
Istvan Hont, King's College, Cambridge (11 May 1995)
State and Nation in the French Revolution
J.G.A. Pocock, Johns Hopkins University (26 April 1995)
Gibbon and Raynal
1993 - 1994
Romila Thapar, Jawarharlal Nehru University, Delhi (17 June 1994)
The Appropriations of the Theory of the Aryan Race in India
Berndt Weisbrod (26 May 1994)
German Unification and the National Paradigm
Myles Burnyeat, Robinson College, Cambridge (12 May 1994)
Did the Ancient Greeks have a Concept of Human Rights?
Comments: Quentin Skinner
Maurizio Viroli, Princeton University (17 February 1994)
The Meaning of Patriotism
1992 - 1993
Janos Kis, Central European University (1 June 1993)
Dimensions and Value of Freedom
Lincoln Chen, Harvard University (27 May 1993)
Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention
Ayesha Jalal, University of Columbia (13 May 1993)
Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining
1989 - 1992
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (1992)
Condorcet and the Conflict of Values
Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge (1992)
The Idea of Class Struggle
Stuart Hampshire, Oxford (1992)
"Justice is Strife"
Egon Bahr (1991)
The Future of Germany
Ernest Gellner (1991)
Is Nationalism a 'Stage' of Social Development?
Patricia Crone (1991)
The Islamic Concept of Jihad
John Thompson (1991)
The Downfall of Fortress America, 1938-41
Bernard Williams, Oxford (1990)
Is a Nietzschean Politics Possible?
Amartya Sen trinity College, Cambridge (1990)
War and Famine
Eric Hobsbawm (1990)
Transformations of Nationalism
Nathan Rosenberg (1990)
Adam Smith and the Stock of Moral Capital
Caroline Humphrey, King's College, Cambridge (1990)
Genghis Khan
Myles Burnyeat (1990)
Anger and Revenge
Daniel Pick (1989)
Representations and Mythologies of War, 1870-1918
Geoffrey Hawthorn (1989)
Possibilities of Peace in East Asia since 1945
Emma Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge (1989)
The Economics of Deterrence since the 1780s: Are Nuclear Weapons Cheap?
Richard Tuck, Jesus College, Cambridge(1989)
The State System as a Mirror of the State of Nature