The Global 30s: The Great Depression and Global Responses

Date and Time

October 19, 2012
09:00AM - 04:00PM EDT

Location

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room, S020

The Global 30s: The Great Depression and Global Responses

Program

9:00–9:15: Opening Remarks: Sven Beckert

9:15–10:45 Session One:  Beyond Market Economies 

  • Kiran Patel, University of Maastricht
    ‘We are all Planners Now’: The New Deal in Global Perspective
  • Stefan Link, European University Institute
    Competing Ideologies, Shared Technologies:  Nazi and Soviet Responses to the Depression
  • Comment by Charles Maier

10:45–12:15 Session Two: The Colonial World  

  • Kris K. Manjapra, Tufts University
    The Great Entanglement: The Impact of the Depression on Global Nationalist Ideas
  • Tariq Omar Ali, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
    Restrictionism: Colonial Responses to the Great Depression
  • Comment by Sugata Bose

12:15–1:00 Light lunch available
(Please RSVP if likely to attend the lunch)

1:00–2:00 Open Discussion: Echoes of Depression? The Thirties and today,

Contact

Please contact Jessica Barnard with any questions or to RSVP for lunch.
E-mail: jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu