More than 150 alumni and friends gathered at the Yale Center Beijing on Aug. 16 for a conversation on food and culture featuring Paul Freedman, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, and Xiaoqing Chen, the celebrated director of “A Bite of China,” a documentary series on the history of Chinese food.
Dec. 9–Kyle Harper, Classics, University of Oklahoma, “Geography, Infectious Disease, and Economic History: The Known Unknown”
Dec. 2–Kris Mitchener, Economics Santa Clara University
Nov. 18–Joseph Price, Economics, Brigham Young
Nov. 11–Belinda Archibong, Economics, Barnard College, “Constructing Capital in the Twentieth Century: Prisons and Forced Labor in British Colonial Africa”
Nov. 4–Gillian Brunet, Wesleyan
Oct. 28–Michael Andrews, NBER, “Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention”
Oct. 21–Taylor Jaworski, Economics, University of Colorado, “Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry” (co-authored with Walker Hanlon)
Oct. 14–Susan Wolcott, Economics, Binghamton University, “Anticipating Independence, No Premonition of Partition: Lessons from Bank Branch Expansion on the Indian Subcontinent, 1939 to 1946” (co-authored with Viet Nguyen)