Spring 2025 Wednesday Seminar Series
The Seminar Series, now over 40 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture, which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session.
The Spring 2025 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Natalya Naumenko and coordinated by Lisa Hill-Corley and Kashiff A. Thompson. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information, call the Center: (703) 993-2316.
Seminars will be held from 12 - 1:15pm in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. A light lunch for seminar participants will be available at 11:30 am.
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| 1/29 |
Romain Wacziarg, UCLA
Presentation: Malthusian Migrations
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2/5
(Virtual)
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Andrea Matranga, University of Torino
Presentation: TBA
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| 2/12 |
No Seminar
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| 2/19 |
Charles Angelucci, MIT
Presentation: Organizing a Kingdom
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| 2/26 |
Eoin McGuirk, Tufts University
Presentation: Development Mismatch? Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa
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| 3/5 |
Dan Bogart, University of California at Irvine
Presentation: The Global Transport Revolution from the Age of Sail to the Age of Steam
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| 3/12 |
Spring Break, No Seminar
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| 3/19 |
Yuri Zhukov, Georgetown University
Presentation: Repressed Memories: State Terror and the Street Politics of Memorialization
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| 3/26 |
Seminar Cancelled
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| 4/2 |
Steve Nafziger, Williams College
Presentation: The Political Economy of Rural Schooling in Late Imperial Russia
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| 4/9 |
Michael Poyker, University of Texas at Austin
Presentation: Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
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| 4/16 |
Mitchell Harvey, Stanford University
Presentation: The Price of a Nation: The Effects of Financial Incentives on Support for Union in Scotland
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| 4/23 |
Hui Ren Tan, National University of Singapore
Presentation: TBA
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| 4/30 |
Priya Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presentation: Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India
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