4. The History of
Capitalism
in the United States Graduate Student ConferenCe
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Making and Unmaking Markets: advisor
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Transformation of ideational and The exportation of American N o aspec hou t
and established scholars from around the capitalism: American capitalism od wit alism.
economic spaces
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JULia Ott, The New School, presiding
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anDreW GOrDOn, Harvard University, presiding
seth rOCKMan, Brown University, comment
knowledge to situate American capitalism COLLeen DUnLaVY, University of Wisconsin,
sasha nichols-Geerdes, UCLA, “Ancient Customs”
in a transnational and global context. of Trade: Organizing Commerce in Colonial Boston Madison, comment
Ben sawyer, Michigan State University,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University
Emerson Hall, 4th Floor
Charles Warren Center
Graduate Student ConferenCe
Capitalism
The History of
susan Gaunt, The University of Chicago, “Labour
Thursday, November 6 and Mud Make all Men Equal”: The Boonesborough An American Company?: Singer Manufacturing
Company and American Capitalism in the Russian
The History of
Corn Compact of 1779
4:00 – 6:00 pm Imagination during World War I
rebecca tinio McKenna, Yale University,
Undergraduate Panel on the history of A “Commercial Awakening”: Marketplace Construc- todd scarth, University of Sussex, American State
capitalism in the United States at The Barker Center tion in the U.S. Colonial Philippines Formation and Internationalism’s “Capitalist Turn”
Capitalism
for the Humanities at Harvard. Kelly Patterson, Cornell University, Vetting the En- stefan Link, Harvard University, Henry Ford,
trepreneur: A Multi-Dimensional Study of Information, National Socialism, and Illiberal Visions of a Just
The His
Capita
6:00 –7:30 pm Economy in the USA and Germany, 1920–39
Graduate
Trust, and New Ventures in the Post-Bellum South
Charle
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opening conference reception
Cambr
Jason stanley, New York University, Confrontation
at Baker Library, Bloomberg Center, Harvard 1:00 –2:15 pm: Lunch and Concessions in an Integrated Commodity Chain:
s Warre
The Collapse of Cross-Border Unionism in the North
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Business School.
in the United States
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2:30 – 4:00 pm American Auto Sector, 1978–84
Graduate Student ConferenCe
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representations: identities and
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Friday, November 7
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f
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8:00 – 8:30 am: Light Breakfast in the United states
explorations of the employment of
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MiChaeL DenninG, Yale University, presiding
Ce
8:30 –10:30 am science in the capitalist enterprise
riCharD JOhn, University of Chicago at Illinois,
Private enterprise and Public
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Designs: The intersections of Public
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CharLes e. rOsenBerG, Harvard Law School,
Benjamin soskis, Columbia University,
interest and Private Action
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comment
Capita
“Millionaires Who Laugh Are Rare”: Sacrifice and
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School, presiding Stewardship in the Gilded Age Cheryl Lemus, Northern Illinois University,
LOUis hYMan, Harvard University, comment Luke stacks, The University of Iowa, Consumption Save Your Baby, Save Ten Percent: National Baby
and the 1930s Comics Page Week and the Shaping of the “Normal” Pregnancy
Jessica hennessey, University of Maryland,
as a Consumer Phenomenon, 1916–1940
Endogenous Institutional Change: Transforming Local ishan Cader, University of Sussex, Manifest erenCe
Governments Destiny and Abundance: The Aesthetic Transforma- David singerman, Technology, & Society, MIT,
Student Conf
s Graduate
d State
tion of the US Political Economy “Any Ass Can Manage a Sugar Factory”: Labor,
elizabeth tandy shermer, University of California,
nite
Efficiency, and Chemical Control
in the U
Santa Barbara, Creating the Sunbelt: The Political
and Economic Transformation of Phoenix, Arizona Dan Bouk, Princeton University, Scientific
Capitalism/Capitalist Science: “The Science of Life
Joanna Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, 4:30 – 6:00 pm Insurance” in the Early Republic
“Secession has produced a wonderful change in the Keynote address
Price of Goods”: Consumption and Civic Obligations
in the Civil War North steven hahn, 1:30–3:30 pm: Lunch and Faculty Panel
Katherine Unterman, Yale University, The Boodler University of Pennsylvania sVen BeCKert, Harvard University
and the Border: Embezzlement and the Evolution of “is There a future to Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
U.S. International Boundaries, 1880–1890 American capitalism’s Past?” seth rOCKMan, Brown University
November 6–8, 2008
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Robinson Hall, location of the October 17th symposium, is located Information regarding the Warren Center’s two 2008– 09 environmental
in the northwest corner of Harvard Yard. history symposia may be found on the Warren Center’s website. There
you may also learn about other Warren Center public events, including a
The Science Center, location of the April 17th symposium, is located
current series on “Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights
just outside Harvard Yard, at One Oxford Street.
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American
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