Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St)


2014-11-05 17:00: The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.  (Professor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.)

2015-01-19 17:00: What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s (Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay, University of Warwick)

2015-02-02 17:00: Going beyond ‘market versus state’: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act  (Rasheed Saleuddin, Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-09 17:00: Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings (Dr David Gill, University of Nottingham)

2015-05-06 19:00: The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015 (Dr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10.)

2015-05-25 17:00: Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company (Professor Bjørn L. Basberg, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen)

2016-01-25 17:00: Individual investors in the late nineteenth century:  what did they invest in, and why? (Professor Janette Rutterford, The Open University Business School)

2016-02-08 17:00: Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695 (Dr Anthony Hotson, Wolfson College, Oxford and Centre for Financial History)

2016-02-22 17:00: The end of the Swiss economic model (Professor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania)

2016-03-07 17:00: The ‘Bimetallic Controversy’ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900 (Sabine Schneider, St John's College, Cambridge and Centre for Financial History)

2016-04-25 17:00: Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization (Professor Zorina Khan)

2017-01-30 17:00: UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report (Oliver Bush, Bank of England and London School of Economics)

2017-02-13 17:00: The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis (Dr Brian O'Sullivan, Kings College London)

2017-02-27 17:00: Why did Britain have broad money supply targets? (Dr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History)

2017-03-13 17:00: Money: the unauthorised biography (Dr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies )

2017-04-25 17:00: Staging Poland: Vaudeville, Melodrama, and the Appropriation of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century French Theatre (Maeve Devitt Tremblay (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge))

2017-05-02 17:00: 1848 in Germany and Austria (Christos Aliprantis (Pembroke College, Cambridge) and Sarah Schaefer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal))

2018-02-05 17:00: Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century (Dr Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2018-02-12 17:00: Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50 (Dr Aaron Graham, University College London)

2018-02-26 17:00: Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance (Dr Daisuke Ikemoto, Meijigakuin University and Darwin College)

2018-03-13 17:00: Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899 (Professor Ian Phimister, University of the Free State)

2018-05-07 17:00: Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange     (Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, UCL and Centre for Financial History)

2018-05-14 17:00: What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies? (Graham Turner, GFC Economics)

2019-03-11 17:00: Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach. (Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England)