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Giacomo Bonan (University of Turin) .
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 17:00-18:00
History and Economics Seminar
Contact: Dr AM Price
2 upcoming talks View 74 archived talks
"The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World": Houston and the History of Climate Change
A History of Non-Sustainable Integration: High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the "Nordic Triangle", 1985-2005
⚠️ Joint meeting with the Modern European History Research seminar.
Peter Pan Pachyderms? What a doomed experiment to reintroduce elephants taught us about animal cultures
⚠️ Joint meeting with the World History seminar.
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
⚠️ Joint meeting with the Global Economic History seminar.
Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947
⚠️ Jointly with the World History Seminar
A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century)
⚠️ Jointly with the African Economic History seminar
The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in Chen Da’s studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia
⚠️ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_leow.htm
Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989
⚠️ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm
Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective
⚠️ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm
The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/bowie.html
Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ogle.html
The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/barreyre_lemercier.html
The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century
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Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/zalc.html
Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell
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The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link:https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/trivellato.html
Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/megan_black.htm
Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution
⚠️ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/warde.html
How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives (Panel discussion led by Gary Gerstle and Tim Harper)
⚠️ Jointly with The American and World History Seminars
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
The Kenyatta Trial as an International Legal Event: Decolonization, Diaspora, and Rebellious Lawyers
Modern Times: Work, play and Afro-diasporic rhythms, from Moreau de Saint-Méry to Siegfried Kracauer
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