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