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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 2h

The Joint Center is pleased to announce its Online Seminar Series. On Friday 21 Nov at 12 EST @malickghachem.bsky.social will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.

MALICK GHACHEM

Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 9h

We draw your attention to the next Core seminar.
Thursday 16 October 2025
Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster)
"The Settlement of the Poor in England c. 1660–1780: Law, Family, and Community"
17:15-18:45pm
Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 13d

Global History and Planetary Histories

On 9 October, 17.30 GMT, join the 1st session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories seminars, a panel discussion with Emma Rothschild 👉 loom.ly/30DV37s

Organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello with Andrew Fitzmaurice and Thomas Simpson

Panel Discussion: “Global History and Planetary Histories”

Planetary Histories seminar- session 1

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 7d

We draw your attention to the first Core seminar of the term. Thursday 9 October at 5:15pm in St John's College Lightfoot Room.
Professor Eric Schneider (London School of Economics)
'Born in Smog: The Health Consequences of Historical Air Pollution’.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 15d

The Harvard Center is hosting a new series of Tea Talks - informal gatherings bringing together scholars working at the intersection of history, economics & politics.Speakers include Quinn Slobodian, Linda Kinstler, David Yang & Anne McCants. Please join us!  histecon.fas.harvard.edu/tea_talks.html

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 22d

Pairing satellite and aerial data with photography, Julian Giordano (@historyecon.bsky.social) has created an online exhibition which reveals the places where invisible methane emissions occur in the coal and gas fields of southwestern Pennsylvania.
histecon.fas.harvard.edu/landscapes-o...

LANDSCAPES OF METHANE

Photographs from Southwestern Pennsylvania by JULIAN GIORDANO

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us to hear from Lorraine Daston, exploring how the insurance industry confronts the uncertainty of catastrophic risks.

📆18 September, 5.30-6.30 pm
🌎Corpus Christi College, McCrum Lecture Theatre

Register for in-person attendance here: bit.ly/4md1gO5

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

There is a new essay on the 1800 Histories website: Mariia Koskina’s micro-history of Novotroitsk, a Soviet steel town in the Urals. A ‘monotown’ where fixation on heavy industry & outdated tech left the region polluted and residents facing uncertain futures.
histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histori...

1800 Histories

NOVOTROITSK: THE ACHING BACKBONE OF RUSSIA by Mariia Koskina

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Aug 31

***Please Note***
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.

Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Prize Research Grants

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics is pleased to announce the 2025 Prize Fellows, @hdernity.bsky.social, @deivyhoueix.bsky.social and Lina Skoglund. For more information about the Program see histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/index.....

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Prize Research Grants

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Cambridge Centre warmly congratulates @pramospinto.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social‬ and @historyecon.bsky.social) and fellow editors on the publication of Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution!

Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · Jun 19

Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution edited by Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha & Pedro Ramos Pinto locates the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena.

Out now! 📚 bit.ly/435Ym5m

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Prize Research Grants

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 20

Please join us on Tues 27 May @ 5pm when Shigeru Akita (University of Osaka/Clare Hall) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly w/ the Global Economic History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_akit...

SHIGERU AKITA

From 'Green Revolution' to 'Economic Liberalization' in the 1970s-80s' India: Impacts of Oil Crises in a global perspective

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 20

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 20

Please join us on Tues 27 May @ 5pm when Shigeru Akita (University of Osaka/Clare Hall) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly w/ the Global Economic History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_akit...

SHIGERU AKITA

From 'Green Revolution' to 'Economic Liberalization' in the 1970s-80s' India: Impacts of Oil Crises in a global perspective

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Aliette Hovine @alietteh.bsky.social · May 18

📜Au programme d'"Entendez-vous l'éco" la semaine prochaine : classes moyennes et fiscalité, industrie sidérurgique dans le Lincolnshire (mais pas que), mondialisation façon 1850-1913, et un penseur de l'éco : William Stanley Jevons - rdv à 14h sur @franceculture.fr

Lundi : entre fiscalité et redistribution, les classes moyennes en ont-elles pour leur argent ? Avec Pierre Madec et Lisa Darbois.

Mardi : direction le nord-est de l’Angleterre où la carte de la nationalisation est jouée pour sauver les deux derniers hauts fourneaux du pays - avec Catherine Mathieu et Marc Lenormand.

Mercredi : Léo Charles et David Todd nous parlerons de la première mondialisation, où la tentative de penser protectionnisme et croissance de concert.

Jeudi : le portrait de l'éco sera consacré à William Stanley Jevons, et c'est Antoine Missemer et Nicolas Chaigneau qui le dresseront pour nous.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 7

As a special edition of our Coins of the Month series to mark the occasion of the Papal Conclave, Luca Einaudi has written an essay on the history, architecture and coinage of the Conclave in Rome.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/coins_May202...

COINS OF THE MONTH

On the history, architecture and coinage of the Conclave in Rome

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Ambio - A Journal of Environment and Society @ambio-journal.bsky.social · May 4

New publication:
The great dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance

Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The great dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance - Ambio

This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of e...

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 3

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · May 3

Please join us on Tues 6 May at 5pm when Emile Chabal (@emile-chabal.bsky.social) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly with the Modern European History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_chab...

EMILE CHABAL

Transition, revolution, modernity: (re)thinking capitalism with Eric Hobsbawm

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · Apr 29

The Centre is pleased to publish a new essay in our Coins of the Month feature. In the first of a three part series, Luca Einaudi discusses 'Progressives and Conservatives in Spanish coinage in the nineteenth century'. Part I: 1808-1814.

COINS OF THE MONTH

Progressives and Conservatives in Spanish coinage in the nineteenth century (Part I)

www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk

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