2009-2010
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2-4PM in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 2, 2009
Jonathan Levy, Department of History, Princeton University
"Farmers and Risk: The Fate of Landed Independence in 19th Century America”
November 6 , 2009
Ekaterina Pravilova, Department of History, Princeton University
"Public Goods and the Censure of Private Property in Imperial Russia"
Note that due to an event connected to Homecoming on the 6th , this session will meet in College Hall 209.
December 4, 2009
Anne Sudrow, Technische Universität München and Deutsches Museum
"The Concept of a Comparative Product History and its Contribution Towards a Global History of Production"
January 22, 2010
Marina Martin, Department of Economics, Yale University
"Hundi in the Dock: The Impact of the British Indian Courts on a South Asian Indigenous Credit Institution”
February 19, 2010
Claire Priest, Law School, Yale University
“Creating an American Property Law: The Colonial Transformation of Property and Inheritance Law and the Formation of an American Legal Order, 1650-1850”
April 2, 2010
Mary O'Sullivan, Management Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Bonding and Sharing Corporate America : The US Securities Markets, Industrial Dynamics and Corporate Development, 1885-1930”
April 23, 2010
Warren Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
“The Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies”
