Calendar - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Ann M. Carlos, Professor and Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence

John Henderson, Department of History, Birkbeck College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection

Werner Troesken, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism

Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History

Frank Trentmann, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness

Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Unfree Labour: Did Indenture Reduce labour supply to Tea Plantations in Assam?

Bishnupriya Gupta, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Warwick,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time

Jenann Ismael, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Aspects of Mathematical Explanation

Marc Lange, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Ancestry Matters: Socioeconomic Determinants of Descent Line Growth and Extinction in Qing (1644-1911) China (joint work with Xi Song and James Z. Lee)

Cameron Campbell, Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom

John A. Ragosta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Slavery's Scientific Management: Plantation Accounts in Antebellum America

Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History, Harvard Business School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Baxter B125

Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition

Jennifer Nagel, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Final Passages: Slave Trafficking from the Caribbean to North America

Gregory E. O'Malley, Assistant Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Political Parties and the Politics of Market Access in the Aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution

Dan Bogart, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Leah Platt Boustan, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome

Daniel Stolzenberg, Department of History, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

*NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED* Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in the Northern Labor and Housing Markets

Leah Platt Boustan, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion

Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English , University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop

James N. Green, Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science

Sarah Dry, Independent Scholar,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France

Emma Rothschild, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank

Lawrence Baron, Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History, Department of History, San Diego State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Baxter B125

How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Changing Visions of the Last Supper in Early Modern Europe

Anthony Grafton, Professor of History, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The Printed Book

Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, American University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Debt Policy Under Constraints Between Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese Bankers

Christophe Chamley, Department of Economics, Boston University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

'Throw That Junk!': The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane

Jeffrey Knapp, Chancellor's Professor of English, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125

You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Where's recursion?

Daniel Everett, dean of arts and sciences, Bentley University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Écrasez l'infâme: Voltaire and the Battle for Religious Liberty

Edwin Curley, professor of philosophy, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Peak Coal in 1789: Predicting Exhaustion in Britain's Industrial Revolution

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, assistant professor of British history, the University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

A Case of the Nerves: William James and Neurasthenia in His Era

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor of history, Smith College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Reenchanting the Reformation

Margreta de Grazia, professor of the humanities, the University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Mumro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

What Can We Learn from Analogy in Mathematics?

Paul Bartha, associate professor of philosophy, University of British Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar—cancelled

Baxter B125

Daniel Everett, dean of arts and sciences, Bentley University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Experiments and Causal Discovery

Frederick Eberhardt, Washtington University in St. Louis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Evolution, Risk and Rational Decision

Samir Okasha, professor of philosophy of science, Department of Philosophy, Bristol University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

How Does Knowledge Diffuse? The Case of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States, 1880-1930

Shawn Kantor, UC Merced,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works

Sheldon Smith, associate professor of philosophy, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia 500-1000

Patrick Geary, professor of history, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Understanding Machine Tool Development in the United States: Uniting Economic and Business History

Ross Thomson, associate professor of economics, University of Vermont,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Fiction and Scientific Modeling

Roman Frigg, senior lecturer in philosophy, London School of Economics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Self's Silent Partners: American Publishing and the Invention of Autobiography

Christopher Hunter, instructor, Lehigh University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Paradise, Hell, and Imperial Geopolitics in Oviedo's Summary of the Natural History of the Indies (1526)

Nicolas Wey-Gomez, visiting associate professor of the history of Science, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows

John Kerrigan, professor of English, University of Cambridge,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Do Natural Resouces Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse

Stephen Haber, professor of political science, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Coherence, Causation, and Confirmation: How the Causal Relations between Hypothesis and Evidence Matter

Richard Scheines, professor of philosophy, Machine Learning Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

War, Moral Hazard, and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution

Gary W. Cox, professor of political science, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Rethinking in Worst (with Pasolini)

Rei Terada, professor of comparative literature, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

The Battles Against Animal Diseases: Science, Policy, and the Origins of Economic Regulation in the United States

Paul Rhode, professor of economic history, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Consumption, Social Capital, and the Industrious Revolution in Early Modern Germany

Sheilagh Ogilvie, professor of economic history, Cambridge University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Representation and Modest Scepticism in Hume's Metaphysics of Space

Donald Ainsle, professor of philosophy, University of Toronto,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Why Was the Industrial Revolution British?

Allen Robert, professor of economic history, Oxford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century

Jon Mee, University of Warwick,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The British Intercolonial Slave Trade in the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Gregory O'Malley, Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in History, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Putting the Pieces Together: Modeling Integrated Cognition

David Danks, associate professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The 'Quixote' Myth and the New Eastern Europe: A Hermeneutic Study Based on Films

Jorge Latorre, University of Navarre,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Wason Task and the Paradox of Confirmation

Branden Fitelson, associate professor of philosophy, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Transatlantic Islam: Carlyle, Emerson, Irving

Wai Chee Dimock, professor of English and American studies, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Origins of Morality—Empathy, Rules, and Causal Reasoning

Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Grace Nicholson: Pasadena's Merchant Princess

Kathleen Peck, independent scholar and reader, the Huntington Library,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

American Pastorals: Philip Roth and the Mid-Century Discourse of Happiness

Mary Esteve, visiting associate professor of English, Caltech, and associate professor of English, Condordia Univeristy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Moral Intuitions as Heuristics

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, professor of philosophy, Dartmouth College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Electrolysis Before the Modern Ionic Theory: Underdetermination, Closure, and Pluralism

Hasok Chang, senior lecturer in philosophy of science, University College London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination

Jonathan Walker, research fellow in history, University of Sydney,

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