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THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

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....

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

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.

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.

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.

ARNE WESTAD The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

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.

Visualizing Climate and Loss TURING'S TYGER by L. Mahadevan

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?

ARNE WESTAD The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ⬇️⬇️

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*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...

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

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.

Unfortunately, this is an in-person event only. But thank you for your interest, which has been fed back to the organisers.

“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).

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.

1800 Histories TONOPAH by EMMA ROTHSCHILD

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.

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

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

1800 Histories DEL RAY, CALIFORNIA by Melih Cevik

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.

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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*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/Camb_WO...

Not to this one, I am afraid. Our only hybrid seminars are posted here: histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ind.... However, it may be worth reaching out to Mariia Koskina (mk2303@cam.ac.uk). Thank you for your interest!