AALAC/Mellon 23 Collaborative Workshop
Change and Continuity: Economic History in the Liberal Arts Context
Denison University, Granville, OH, April 26-28, 2013
Accommodations and Travel Info
Schedule
Friday:
7:00 Dinner (Location: The Granville Inn)
Saturday:
8:00-8:45 Breakfast (Location: Barney-Davis Board Room)
8:45-10:15 Session 1: The Rule of Law: Legislation and Institutions
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Session 2: Money and Banking
12:15-1:45 Lunch: Integrating teaching and research in economic history - Featuring Rick Steckel (Location: Sigma Chi House)
2:00-3:30 Session 3: Southern Exposure: U.S. Involvement in Latin American and Caribbean Development
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:30 Session 4: Mid-Century Modern: Housing and Insurance in the 20th century US
6:30 Informal Reception (Location: Faculty Common Patio, Burton Morgan)
7:00 Dinner and Keynote Speaker Price Fishback: "Housing Reform During the 1930s" (Location: Faculty Common Room, Burton Morgan)
Sunday:
9:00-11:00 Breakfast (Location: The Granville Inn)
Roundtable discussion: Economic history and the Liberal Arts
Session 1: The Rule of Law: Legislation and Institutions
Jessica Hennessey (Furman) and John Wallis
Title: The Special Nature of General Laws in American History
Discussant: Jenny Bourne (Carleton)
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Latika Chaudhary (Scripps) and Anand V. Swamy (Williams)
Title: A Policy Response to Predatory Lending in Colonial India: The Deccan Agriculturists’ Relief Act
Discussant: Nakul Kumar (Denison)
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Session 2: Money and Banking
Martha Paas (Carleton)
Title: Using Broadsheets to Research an Early Modern Inflation in Germany, 1619-23
Discussant: Bob Prasch (Middlebury)
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Andrew Jalil (Reed/Occidental)
Title: Monetary Intervention Really Did Mitigate Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Evidence Along the Atlanta Federal Reserve District Border.
Discussant: Kerry Pannell (DePauw)
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Session 3: Southern Exposure: U.S. Involvement in Latin American and Caribbean Development
Leticia Arroyo Abad (Middlebury) and Noel Maurer
Title: Charter Cities and Fiscal Receiverships: Lessons from the U.S. in Latin America, 1904-1934
Discussant: Sarah Pearlman (Vassar)
Alan Dye (Barnard)
Title: Where are All the Yankees? Ownership and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929
Discussant: Steve Nafziger (Williams)
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Session 4: Mid-Century Modern: Housing and Insurance in the 20th Century US
Dan Fetter (Wellesley)
Title: The Home Front: Rent control and the rapid wartime increase in home ownership
Discussant: Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
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John Murray (Rhodes)
Title: So far from all accident possibility removed: Selection bias reversal in 20c maternity insurance coverage
Discussant: Melissa Thomasson (Miami University)
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