Spring 2024
The seminar runs monthly on Thursdays, from 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST (Eastern Standard Time), on zoom.
29 Feb. 2024: Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Harvard University) and Ishac Diwan (Paris School of Economics)
"The Economic Legacy of the French Mandate in Lebanon"
Discussants: Jean-François Brière (SUNY-Albany), Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Chair: Sam Segura Cobos (Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara)
28 March 2024: "Debt, Fraud and the Making of Countries: A Book Panel."
Panel on the occasion of the translation of Damian Clavel's Créer un pays, le royaume de Poyais Gregor MacGregor, emprunts d’État et fraude financière 1820-1824
With: Damian Clavel (University of Zurich), Maria Christina Chatziioannou (Institute of Historical Research, NHRF), Anna Gelpern (Georgetown University), and Nathaniel Millett (Saint Louis University)
Chair: Trevor Jackson (University of California, Berkeley)
Postponed: Guy Pierre (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México)
"How was the Odious Debt Repaid: The Domestic Loan of 1947/Comment la Dette Odieuse fut Repayée: L´emprunt intérieur de 1947"
Discussants: Ronald Gabriel (Banque de la République d'Haïti), Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon 2), Remy Montas (Independent)
The seminar runs monthly on Thursdays, from 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST (Eastern Standard Time), on zoom.
29 Feb. 2024: Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Harvard University) and Ishac Diwan (Paris School of Economics)
"The Economic Legacy of the French Mandate in Lebanon"
Discussants: Jean-François Brière (SUNY-Albany), Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Chair: Sam Segura Cobos (Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara)
28 March 2024: "Debt, Fraud and the Making of Countries: A Book Panel."
Panel on the occasion of the translation of Damian Clavel's Créer un pays, le royaume de Poyais Gregor MacGregor, emprunts d’État et fraude financière 1820-1824
With: Damian Clavel (University of Zurich), Maria Christina Chatziioannou (Institute of Historical Research, NHRF), Anna Gelpern (Georgetown University), and Nathaniel Millett (Saint Louis University)
Chair: Trevor Jackson (University of California, Berkeley)
25 Apr. 2024: Guy Pierre (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México) (Postponed)
"How was the Odious Debt Repaid: The Domestic Loan of 1947/Comment la Dette Odieuse fut Repayée: L´emprunt intérieur de 1947"
Discussants: Ronald Gabriel (Banque de la République d'Haïti), Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon 2), Remy Montas (Independent)
Fall 2023
12 Oct. 2023: Malick Ghachem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The Debt and the Indemnity: Reconstructing French and Haitian Finances, 1720-2025."
Discussants: François Velde (Federal Reserve, Chicago), Arnaud Orain (EHESS).
Chair: Marc Flandreau (University of Pennylvania)
2 Nov. 2023: Arielle Alterwaite (University of Pennsylvania)
"Counterfeit Empire: Speculative Currency and the 1825 Haitian Indemnity."
Discussants: Stephen Mihm (University of Georgia), Rebecca Spang (Indiana University)
Chair: Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles)
14 Dec. 2023: Michael Kwass (Johns Hopkins)
“'Penelope’s Shroud': French Imperialism, Haitian Sovereignty, and the ‘Demi Droit’ Affair, 1825-1831.”
Discussants: Mary D. Lewis (Harvard University), David Todd (Sciences Po)
Chair: Larry Neal (University of Illinois)