March 2015

George Chauncey prepares amicus brief on the history of antigay discrimination submitted to the Supreme Court

Professor George Chauncey prepared the amicus brief on the history of antigay discrimination which the Organization of American Historians submitted to the Supreme Court in this spring’s marriage equality cases.  The brief was submitted in the same-sex marriage case, Jam

“Leather Apron Men: Benjamin Franklin & Philadelphia’s Artisans,” an illustrated talk by Jay Robert Stiefel

“Leather Apron Men: Benjamin Franklin & Philadelphia’s Artisans,” an illustrated talk by Jay Robert Stiefel on the “Handiworks” of Franklin and other admired artisans of his period

Hall of Graduate Studies, Room #217A, Yale University, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 4:00 p.m.

CHESS: Margaret C. Levenstein, March 27

Margaret C. Levenstein, Executive Director of the Michigan Census Research Data Center, Associate Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center; Adjunct Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Room 129 of the Yale Law School (127 Wall St).  Please note, lunch will be served from 12:00pm and the Workshop will begin at 12:30pm and end at 2:00pm.

Paola Bertucci awarded the James L. Clifford Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Paola Bertucci has been awarded the James L. Clifford Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for her article “Enlightened Secrets: Silk, Intelligent Travel, and Industrial Espionage in Eighteenth-Century France,” published in the journal Technology and Culture in 2013.   The prize is awarded to an outstanding article “on some aspect of eighteenth-century culture, interesting to any eighteenth-century specialist, regardless of discipline.”

Workshop: The Eighteenth-Century City, Beinecke Library

In preparation for an upcoming special issue, Eighteenth-Century Studies, which is a cross-disciplinary journal committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture, is hosting a one-day workshop on the theme of “the city.”  This workshop will explore a wide variety of topics, including cities as economic engines, cultural depictions of urban life, new repertoires of state control over increasingly large concentrated populations, concerns over the effect of the city on morality, and the extent to which the eighteenth century might be de

Economic History Workshop: Elizabeth Kaske, Carnegie Mellon, "Rank selling, Taxation, and Government Debt in Late Qing China: Exploring Institutional Constraints for Fiscal Reforms"

2:30pm Elizabeth Kaske, Carnegie Mellon, “Rank selling, Taxation, and Government Debt in Late Qing China: Exploring Institutional Constraints for Fiscal Reforms”