Institutional Perspectives On Early Modern Britain And Its Empire

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale

Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24, 2012
Luce Hall Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT

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Friday, March 23

9:00 – 10:30 Introductory Roundtable: Why Think With Institutions?
Chair: William Bulman (Yale University/Lehigh University)
Benjamin Polak (Yale University)
Gary Cox (Stanford University)
Joseph Manning (Yale University)

10:45 – 12:15 Panel One: Partisan Politics
Chair: James Vaughn (Yale University\The University of Texas at Austin)
Chris Dudley (East Stroudsburg University)
Abigail Swingen (Texas Tech University)
Comment: James Vaughn

1:30 – 3:00 Panel Two: Information Exchange
Chair: Jason Peacey (University College London)
Rachel Weil (Cornell University)
Noah Millstone (Harvard University)
Comment: Jason Peacey

3:30 – 5:00 Panel Three: Empire
Chair: Margaret Hunt (Amherst College)
Justin DuRivage (Yale University)
Philip Stern (Duke University)
Comment: Margaret Hunt

Saturday, March 24

8:30 – 10:00 Panel Four: Credit
Chair: John Shovlin (New York University)
Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
Comment: John Shovlin

10:15 – 11:45 Panel Five: Labor
Chair: Keith Wrightson (Yale University)
Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
Eleanor Hubbard (Princeton University)
Comment: Keith Wrightson

12:45 – 2:15 Panel Six: Corporations
Chair: Emily Erikson (Yale University)
Brent Sirota (North Carolina State University)
Rupali Mishra (Auburn University)
Comment: Emily Erikson

2:45 – 4:15 Closing Roundtable: Historians, Institutions, and the Social Sciences
Chair: William Bulman
Michael Braddick (The University of Sheffield)
Steven Pincus (Yale University)
Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University)