GSU Spring Conference
on Global and Economic History
Connecting Local and Global Economic Histories
Sponsored by:
Georgia State University
Global Studies Institute, GSU
Asian Studies Center, GSU
Young Scholars Initiative (Institute for New Economic Thinking)
Time and Place
Saturday-Sunday, April 13-14, 2019
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday, April 13th
Registration and Keynote Address (Classroom South, 4th Floor Lobby):
8:00-9:00am: Registration and Coffee (Classroom South, 4th Floor/Lobby)
9:00-9:10am: Welcome from Georgia State University and Practical Matters (Mr. Jeremy Land), and Introduction of Keynote Speaker (by Dr. Ghulam Nadri) – Classroom South, Room 407
9:10am-10:30am: Keynote Address: Globalization in History: Perspective from an Economic Historian
Şevket Pamuk, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Turkey
10:30am
Coffee Break
Concurrent Sessions
11:00am-12:30pm
| Location: Classroom South 407 | Location: Classroom South 409 |
| Session A: Connecting the Local and the Global | Session B: Labor, Globalization, and Monetary Policy |
| Chair: Heather Welch (Georgia State University) | Chair: Charles Hankla (Georgia State University) |
| Lashonda Slaughter (Georgia State University): “The Forgotten Witch: A Look at Male Witch Prosecutions in Early Modern Europe”
Discussant: Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida) |
Simon Mollan (University of York): “Hyperscale: Oligopoly, Financialization, and the Strategies of Bigger Businesses”
Discussant: Charles Hankla (Georgia State University) |
| Thomas Storrs (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): “Gate City B&L, the Great Depression, and HOLC”
Discussant: Paul Custer (Lenoir-Rhyne University) |
Alba Roldan (University of Barcelona): “Why Was Europe’s Southern Periphery not Capable of Being or Staying in the Gold Standard? The Case of Spain”
Discussant: Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Minho) |
| Michael Haupert and Lisa Giddings (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse): “There’s a Girl on the Field, but Who’s in the Stands? The Demand for Professional Women’s Baseball”
Discussant: Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki) |
Mark Hup (University of California, Irvine) “Forced Labor and State Capacity: The Case of Colonial Indonesia, 1880-1920”
Discussant: Ian Fletcher (Georgia State University) |
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch (Classroom South 4th floor)
Concurrent Sessions
2:00-3:30pm
| Location: Classroom South 407 | Location: Classroom South 409 |
| Session C: New Approaches to Imperial History | Session D: New Methodologies in Economic History |
| Chair: Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University) | Chair: Seung Woo Kim (Graduate Institute of Geneva) |
| Kostadis Papaioannou (Lund University): “The Horns of a Dilemma in Colonial Policies: Health, Rice and Living Standards in the Malay Peninsula”
Discussant: Chris Nierstrasz (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida): “Kievan Rus’ Political Folkways: Bifurcations of Subordinate Political Influences in a Global Perspective”
Discussant: Jeremy Land (Georgia State University) |
| Gordon Holmes (Mongolia International University): “Managing Britain’s Imperial Economy: Growth in Statistical Information from the Creation of the Board of Trade in 1697 to the Colonial Blue Books of the 1830s”
Discussant: Suzanne Litrell (Georgia State University) |
John Lovett (Texas Christian University): “The Right Type of Iron Ore and an Abundance of Shallow Coal: Why England was the First to Industrialize”
Discussant: Peter Meyer (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
| Pavel Osinsky (Appalachian State University): “The Nomadic Empires of the Inner Asia”
Discussant: Dariga Abilova (Georgia State University) |
Peter B. Meyer (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics): “The Great Aviation Patent Spike of 1910”
Discussant: Thomas Storrs (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) |
3:30-4:00pm
Coffee Break (Classroom South 4th floor)
Concurrent Sessions
4:00-6:00pm
| Location: Classroom South 407 | Location: Classroom South 409 |
| Session E: Wars, Border, and the Economy | Session F: New Gendered Analyses of Economies and Societies |
| Chair: Ian Fletcher (Georgia State University) | Chair: Suzanne Litrel (Georgia State University) |
| Benjamin Sawyer (Middle Tennessee State University): “Carl Marks vs. the Soviet Union: Prerevolutionary Russian Bonds and the Pursuit of Repayment after World War II”
Discussant: Dariga Abilova (Georgia State University) |
Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki) and Judkin Browning (Appalachian State University): “Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight? Re-examination of Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War”
Discussant: Art Carden (Samford University) |
| Andreas Ferrar, Sascha O. Becker, Eric Melander (University of Warwick) and Luigi Pascali (UPF): “Wars, Local Political Institutions, and Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Six Centuries of German History”
Discussant: Jeremy Land (Georgia State University) |
Zachary Bleemer (University of California, Berkeley) “Gendered Evaluation: Student Outcomes and Long-Run Persistence”
Discussant: Leonard A. Carlson (Emory University) |
| Johnny Fulfer (University of South Florida): “The Gold Bugs Go Global: International Financial Advisers and the ‘Authority’ of Neoclassical Economics after the Wars of 1898”
Discussant: Simon Mollan (University of York) |
Alexander Persaud (Richmond University): “Matchmaking Gone Wrong: Quantifying Bias and Methods Using Non-Western Data”
Discussant: Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki) |
6:30-9:00pm
Dinner in Downtown Atlanta (RSVP with Jeremy Land)
Sunday, April 14th
8:30-9:00am: Registration and Coffee (Classroom South 4th floor)
Session
9:00-10:30am
| Location: Classroom South 409 |
| Session G: Global Trade and Industrialization |
| Chair: Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Minho) |
| Murari Kumar Jha (Nalanda University, Harvard University): “Local Commodity in the Global Network of Trade: Bihar Saltpeter in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”
Discussant: Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University) |
| Eric Oakley (Kennesaw State University): “Boston: America’s First Pacific Port”
Discussant: James Fichter (University of Hong Kong) |
| John Lovett (Texas Christian University): “A Series of Unfortunate Events: How Political Borders Delayed the Development of Continental Europe’s ‘Fertile Crescent’ of Industry”
Discussant: Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Minho) |
10:30-11:00am
Coffee Break (Classroom South 4th floor)
11:00am-1:00pm
Closing Plenary Session
| Location: Langdale Hall 409 |
| North America’s Long-Distance Maritime Trade: 18th-19th Centuries |
| Chair: Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University) |
| James Fichter (University of Hong Kong): “Atlantic Markets and the Myth of East Indian Monopolies: The Overlapping Networks of American Transatlantic and East Indian Trade” |
| Chris Nierstrasz (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “’Dutch trade’: American and Dutch Interaction in Global Maritime Trade (1700-1820)” |
| Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Minho): “The Salt-Wheat Diplomacy: North American/U.S. Commercial Linkages with the Portuguese Atlantic Empire” |
| David Doran (Georgia State University): “Wharves to Waterfalls: Salem’s Maritime Trade with Asia & Early Industrialization: 1783–1820” |
| Jeremy Land (Georgia State University): “Trans-Imperial Maritime Trade of Colonial Boston, New York, and Philadelphia” |
Conference ends.
Special Thanks To:
GSU History Department
Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Global Studies Institute of GSU
Asia Studies Center of GSU
GSU Spring Conference on Global and Economic History 