The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture:
Jessica Lepler
University of New Hampshire
“The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis,”
Thursday, April 16th at 4:30pm
Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street, Room 241
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The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is excited to announce its upcoming conference on Adam Smith’s political thought:
“Adam Smith: Critic of Capitalism?”
Friday, April 10th, 2015
9:45 AM – 5:45 PM
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street, Room 211
For more information, email yiftah.elazar@yale.edu or mschwarze@wisc.edu.
Schedule
9:45 Opening Remarks
Steven Smith,Link to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is looking forward to welcoming Professor Furstenberg and Professor Lepler, as part of our ‘Commercial Republic’ series this upcoming spring semester.
Francois Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins)
“Trans-Atlantic Land Speculation in the 1790s United States: An Economic Interpretation?”
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 at 4:30pm (Location TBA)
Jessica Lepler (University of New Hampshire)
“The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis”
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 at 4:30pm (LocationLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is excited to announce its upcoming talk in the ‘Commercial Republic’ lecture series:
François Furstenberg
Johns Hopkins
“Trans-Atlantic Land Speculation in the 1790s United States: An Economic Interpretation?”
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 at 4:30pm.
Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 401
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The YCRI would like to announce an upcoming lecture in Yale’s History Department:
“Leather Apron Men: Benjamin Franklin & Philadelphia’s Artisans,”
an illustrated talk by Jay Robert Stiefel on the “Handiworks” of Franklin
and other admired artisans of his period.
Monday, January 26, 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, Room 211, New Haven, CT
In 1740, Franklin would have the readers of his Pennsylvania Gazette believe that he was no more than “a poor ordinary Mechanick of this City.” They knew better. America’s earliest printing magnate, Franklin became aLink to full article
Co-sponsored with Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT), this one-day conference brought together scholars of Hume and Montesquieu to discuss points of commonality and divergence across multiple dimensions: questions of method and intellectual approach; issues of marriage and sexual morality, in their relation to law and politics; and both thinkers’ distinctive, ambivalent approach to republican and monarchical traditions of thought, and to the particular question of English politics.
Schedule
Opening Remarks by Andrew Sabl (Yale University)
9:45AM: Method
Bryan Garsten (Link to full article
The Yale Early American Historians and the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions were pleased to welcome:
SVEN BECKERT
Laird Bell Professor of History
Harvard University
“Empire of Cotton: A Global History”
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
4:00PM
William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 116
Professor Beckert spoke about his upcoming new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf, 2014), which tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
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