CHESS-EHESS Conference 2015
Yale’s Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences (Yale CHESS) & l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) present
2015 Annual Conference: States and Capitalism: Past, Present, and Future
2-3 October 2015 | Yale University | Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Room 203
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2
9:00-10:00am: Plenary Session I:
Chair: Alejandra Dubcovsky (Yale)
Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern): “Of Rules, Rule, and Revenue: rethinking states and capitalism”
10:30-12:00pm: Graduate Student Panel I:
Chair: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale)
Discussant: Laurent Berger (EHESS)
- Bruno Pepe Russo (EHESS): “State, Mining Capital and Citizenship in Zambian Copperbelt: Figures of an African Modernization Case Study”
- Wei Luo (Yale): “Principles of Conflict: a case study of families, networks, and industrialization in republican Shanghai, 1910s-1940s”
- Flore Pavy (EHESS): “Dual currency system and process of unification. An ethnography of monetary practices in a Caribbean island”
2:00-3:00pm: Plenary Session II:
Chair: Emily Erikson (Yale)
Christine Desan (Harvard Law): “The 18th Century Innovation That Constituted Capitalism: New Money and its Epochal Aftermath”
3:30-5:00pm: Prospectus Workshop for Early-Stage Graduate Students
Chair: Rohit De (Yale)
- Catherine Tourangeau (Yale): “An Ocean of Joiners: Voluntary Associations in the British Atlantic, 1730-180
- Tommaso Bardelli (Yale): “Governing the margins: state control in advanced capitalism”
- Ece Zerman (EHESS): “Domestic interiors as an autobiographical source: The late Ottoman Empire and early Republic of Turkey”
- Romain Le Cour Grandmaison (EHESS): “Criminal organizations in Michoacan, Mexico: the birth of cartels and the evolution of reciprocity in political-criminal intermediation since the 1980s”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
9:00-10:30am: Graduate Student Panel II:
Chair: Nicholas Wilson (Stony Brook)
Discussant: Jérôme Bourdieu (EHESS)
- Sébastien Malaprade (EHESS): “Rethinking political and economical structures in the 17th century Spanish monarchy through an individual case”
- Amy Watson (Yale): “The Malt Tax Crisis of 1725: Partisanship, Political Economy, and Patriotism in Post-Union Scotland”
- Jonathan Endelman (Yale) : TBD
11:00-12:00: Plenary Session III:
Chair: Julia Stephens (Yale)
Parthasarathi (Boston College): “Money and Ritual in Eighteenth-Century South India”
2:00-3:30pm: Graduate Student Panel III
Chair: Justin duRivage (Yale)
Discussant: Jean-Louis Fabiani (EHESS)
- Victor Amoureux (EHESS): “Public debt and inequalities. Explorations from the British case in the 19th century”
- Ben Zdencanovic (Yale): “The Politics of Comparison: The National Association of Real Estate Boards, Western European Social Housing, and the Shaping of the 1949 Housing Act”
- Graedon Zorzi (Yale): “Democracy versus Capitalism? A Tocquevillian Defense of Commerce”
4:00-5:00 pm: Wrap-Up Session
EHESS Co-Chairs: Katia Beguin, Didier Georgakakis
Yale Co-Chairs: Julia Adams, Steven Pincus
With thanks to the European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf fund.