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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first Harvard Center Tea Talk of the 2026-2027 academic year will be given by Emma Rothschild entitled "Two Views of France in 1774". It will take place on Monday 5 October 2026 from 4:30-5:30 pm in CGIS S-050. All welcome and light refreshments will be provided!

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are pleased to publish a new essay for the 1800 Histories website by Mariia Koskina (@dornsife.usc.edu) that sheds light on methane emissions on Raspadskaya coal mine in Kuzbass, Russia.

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Raspadskaya, Kuzbass: Tragedies Measured in Lives per Ton of Coal by MARIIA KOSKINA

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Cambridge Centre is now inviting applications for a number of Prize Research Grants for the 2026-2027 academic year. Please click below for eligibility, further details and deadlines.

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2026-2027 Prize Research Grants

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Cambridge Centre is now inviting applications for a number of Prize Research Grants for the 2026-2027 academic year. Please click below for eligibility, further details and deadlines.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Please join us on Thurs 4 June at 5pm when @mattinbiglari.bsky.social will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly with the World History Seminar) on 'Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation & Colonial Modernity, 1933-51'. Click for abstract and further details.

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Mattin Biglari

Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-1951

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Please join us on 26 May at 5pm when Charles Troup (@ihr.bsky.social) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene'. Click for further details.

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Charles Troup

The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In celebration of the recent anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution (25th of April), Cambridge Centre member @pramospinto.bsky.social will be discussing 'Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution'. Drinks will be provided after the talk. 11 May 2026, 5pm, Trinity Hall, Bridgetower Room.

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: Illegal trade and colonial expansion in Greenland, 1780-1800 Anna Knutsson (Cambridge) 5 pm, Thursday 14 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Looking forward to this screening and panel discussion of our new film, OVERBURDEN, hosted by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. Set in #Liberia, the film is emblematic of issues at the intersection of #mining and #conservation across West Africa. www.cambridgeconservation.org/events/film-...

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Film Screening: OVERBURDEN - Cambridge Conservation Initiative

Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Please join us on 5 May at 5pm in @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Sophie FitzMaurice (Cambridge) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Movement on the US-Mexico Border, 1910s-1940s'. Click for abstract & details.

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Sophie Fitzmaurice

Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Movement on the US-Mexico Border, 1910s-1940s

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Cambridge Centre's Paul Warde will be taking part in this memorial conference and will be speaking about 'Tamlaght 1840: women's work in an Irish community'.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Please join us on Monday 27 April 2026 at the Harvard Center for the next Tea Talk! Rebecca Haw Allensworth (Harvard Law) will be discussing "Monopoly Prizes: The Sherman Act's Double Edge for Innovation." 4pm, Room CGIS K262. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Easter Term 2026 seminar schedule. Speakers include: Sophie FitzMaurice (Cambridge), Charles Troup (Yale) and @mattinbiglari.bsky.social (Bristol). Please join us! Click for dates, times and abstracts! www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec....

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Please join us on 6 April 2026 at the Harvard Center for the next Tea Talk! @maidino.bsky.social (Harvard / History of Science) will be discussing "Welfare as Debt: On the Computerization of the US Welfare State." 4pm, Room CGIS K262. Light refreshments will be provided.

Data Entry for the Mississippi Application Verification Eligibility Reporting and Verification System, 1981, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Please join us at the Harvard Center on Thursday, April 2, 2026 when Tyler Goodspeed (ExxonMobil) will be discussing his new book "Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It." 4:00pm, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS-S010, 1730 Cambridge Street. Reception to follow.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On Wednesday 1 April at 12pm EDT Arne Westad (Yale) will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.

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ARNE WESTAD

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We are delighted to share a new essay on the Visualizing Climate and Loss website by L. Mahadevan entitled “Turing’s Tyger.” What can a tiger’s stripes tell us about the origins of its genetic diversity?

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TURING'S TYGER by L. Mahadevan

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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ARNE WESTAD

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

On Wednesday 11 March at 12pm EDT Mélanie Lamotte (Duke) will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.

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MÉLANIE LAMOTTE

By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Please join us at the Harvard Center for the next Tea Talk! Anna Russo (Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows) will be discussing 'Waiting or Paying for Healthcare: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration'. 4.30pm, 9 March 2026, CGIS S050. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Centre member Melissa Lane (Princeton) will be discussing 'Moses & other Lawgivers in Philo & Josephus: on the Roles of Law & Writing in Ethical Education', followed by a comment from Benjamin Gray (Cambridge). Mon 9 March at 5pm, in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Please join us on Tues 10 March at 5pm at @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Giacomo Bonan (Turin) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s–1910s)'. Click for abstract and further information.

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Giacomo Bonan

A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s to 1910s)

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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MÉLANIE LAMOTTE

By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Last chance to register: major conference celebrating 250 years of 'The Wealth of Nations': the most famous text in the history of political economy and economics. Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century. Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️

Last chance to register: landmark conference to mark 250 years since publication of The Wealth of Nations.

‘Modern Enquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’
5-6 March 2026
Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge: Thursday, 9.15am – 5pm, and Friday, 9.00 – 12.45. Free, registration required.
Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site: concluding public forum, Friday, 2-4 pm. No booking required, arrive early to secure a seat.
All free and open to the public, students especially welcome.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

*Conference announcement* Modern Enquiries into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations: International Prosperity and Development 250 Years After Adam Smith. King's College, Cambridge. 5-6 MARCH 2026. Further information & to register via Eventbrite: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/docs/Kings_W...

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

**Rescheduled due to the storms!!** We will now meet on 2 March at 4.30pm in room CGIS S050! Light refreshments will be provided!

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Please join us on Tues 24 Feb at 5pm at @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Marta Macedo (NOVA Lisbon) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'Maroon ecologies and the São Tomé plantation world: histories of black insurgency'. Click for abstract and further information.

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Marta Macedo

Maroon ecologies and the São Tomé plantation world: histories of black insurgency

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Please join us at the Harvard Center for the next Tea Talk with Idriss Fofana,who will be discussing 'Abolitionist Liberalism and its Others: Regulating Labor Migration on the South China Coast and in the Senegal River Valley in the Nineteenth Century'. 4.30pm, 23 Feb 2026, CGIS K262.

“Ouvriers chinois à Kenge-Lemba,” reproduction of a photograph by Dr. Élie-Joseph Étienne, published in A.-J. Wauters, ed., Le Congo illustré, vol. 2 (1893).

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We are delighted to share a new essay on the 1800 Histories website by Emma Rothschild, a micro-history of Tonopah, Arizona, from a methane plume in the desert to solar power plants and data centers.

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1800 Histories

TONOPAH by EMMA ROTHSCHILD

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Please join us for a celebration of the publication of Keith Baker's new book Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror. Wed 11 Feb, 5pm, Harvard University, CGIS-S020, 1730 Cambridge St. Hosted by the Harvard Center & the MIT Global France Seminar. Reception to follow. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A new essay on our 1800 Histories site! Del Rey is a town often overlooked on the map, but one map will always have it marked, the 1800 Histories map. A super-emitter event reveals a story rooted in agriculture, industry, energy, & a community grounded in history as it continues to hope for growth.

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DEL RAY, CALIFORNIA by Melih Cevik

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please join us on Tues 3 Feb 5pm @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Mariia Koskina (Cambridge) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'Little Corners of Freedom, Green Dictatorship, & the Sublime in the Late-Soviet Nature Reserve'. Click:  www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_kosk...

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We draw your attention to the Oceanic and Maritime History workshop co-convened by Aristide Chryssoulis and @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social (Centre Prize Student 2024-25 and Student Mentor 2025-26).

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Harvard Center is delighted to announce the Spring series of Tea Talks. Speakers include Idriss Fofana, Anna Russo, @maidino.bsky.social & Rebecca Haw Allensworth. Please join us for the first talk on 2 Feb when @jingyihuang.bsky.social will discuss 'Help Wanted: New Jobs in the U.S. since 1860'

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TEA TALKS

Help Wanted: New Jobs in the U.S. since 1860

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Centre is pleased to publish a new essay in our Coins of the Month feature. In the second of a three part series, Luca Einaudi discusses 'Progressives and Conservatives in Spanish coinage in the nineteenth century'. Part II (1814-1868).

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COINS OF THE MONTH

Progressives and Conservatives in Spanish coinage in the nineteenth century (Part II: 1814-1868)

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by Julian Giordano exploring how satellite data and photography reveal the hidden geographies of methane emissions in coal and gas regions.

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Visualizing Climate and Loss

VISUALIZING LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY by Julian Giordano

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Lent Term 2026 seminar schedule. Speakers include: Mariia Koskina (Cambridge), Marta Macedo (NOVA Lisbon) and Giacomo Bonan (Turin). Please join us! Click for further details.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.

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Fellowships

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Please join us Thurs 4 Dec for the next Core Seminar, 5:15pm in St John's Lightfoot Room when former Centre Prize Student @emilianotravieso.bsky.social (Madrid) will discuss 'Free souls, poor soils: the nature of slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay'. Abstract: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Please join us *today* 27 Nov for the next Core Seminar. 5:15pm in St John's Lightfoot Room. Gareth Austin (Cambridge) will speak about 'Coercion & Markets: reconciling economic & social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900'. Abstract: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

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