The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, in conjunction with the Jack Miller Center, seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Associate in the History of Representative Institutions for a one-year period beginning July 1, 2016 (AY2016-17). Areas of specialization include any aspect of the theory and practice of representative government in Britain or America between the British Revolutions of the seventeenth century and the American Civil War.
The salary for the Postdoctoral Associate will be $50,000 for the year. The teaching load will consist of two courses, one per semesterLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) would like to announce its upcoming book panel:
Machiavelli and the Modern State: A Book Panel Discussion of Alissa Ardito’s Account of Republicanism
Please mark your calendars for Friday, May 6, 2016 from 4:00-6:00pm (Luce 203), for a conversation following the publication of Alissa Ardito’s Machiavelli and the Modern State.
Comments will be offered by Harvey Mansfield (Harvard), Vickie Sullivan (Tufts), Michelle Clarke (Dartmouth), and Patrick Coby (Smith).
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The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by:
Margaret Newell
Ohio State University
“Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery”
Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 4:30PM
Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 401
Professor Newell’s research and teaching interests include colonial and Revolutionary America, Native American History, economic history, material culture, and comparative colonial American/Latin American History.
Supported generously by the John Templeton Foundation and theLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) would like to remind you of its upcoming book panel:
The Slave’s Cause: A Book Panel Discussion
of Manisha Sinha’s New Synthesis of Abolitionism
Please mark your calendars for Thursday, February 18, 2016 from 4:00-6:00pm, and come join us at the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven, for a conversation following the publication of Manisha Sinha’s The Slave’s Cause.
Comments will be offered by Eric Foner (Columbia), David Blight (Yale), John Stauffer (Harvard), and Link to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) would like to announce its upcoming symposium:
Taking Stock of the State in Nineteenth-Century America
Please mark your calendars for Friday, April 15th, 2016 from 9:00am- 5:30pm and Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from 8:00am-1:30pm, and come join us at the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven.
Participants include Stephen Skowronek (Yale), Richard John (Columbia), William Novak (Michigan), Robin Einhorn (Berkeley), Elisabeth Clemens (Chicago), Brian Balogh (Virginia), Adam Sheingate (JohnsLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions was pleased to welcome:
Sophus Reinert
Harvard Business School
“The Way to Wealth Around the World:
Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism”
Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 4:00PM
Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 401
Professor Reinert spoke about the surprising reach of Benjamin Franklin’s classic self-help book and its role in configuring global capitalism. He is the author of the pathbreaking and multiple award-winning monograph, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political EconomyLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) would like to announce its upcoming lecture:
War and the Fabric of Israeli Democracy
Ran Halévi
Director of Research at the CNRS and Professor at the Raymond Aron Center for Political Studies
Thursday, October 29th at 4:00pm
Whitney Humanities Center 208
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA) and the Whitney Humanities Center.
For inquiries related to the lecture, please contact the YCRI director Steven Smith (steven.smithLink to full article
