Pairing satellite and aerial data with photography, Julian Giordano (@historyecon.bsky.social) has created an online exhibition which reveals the places where invisible methane emissions occur in the coal and gas fields of southwestern Pennsylvania. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/landscapes-o...

Join us to hear from Lorraine Daston, exploring how the insurance industry confronts the uncertainty of catastrophic risks. 📆18 September, 5.30-6.30 pm 🌎Corpus Christi College, McCrum Lecture Theatre Register for in-person attendance here: bit.ly/4md1gO5

There is a new essay on the 1800 Histories website: Mariia Koskina’s micro-history of Novotroitsk, a Soviet steel town in the Urals. A ‘monotown’ where fixation on heavy industry & outdated tech left the region polluted and residents facing uncertain futures. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histori...

***Please Note*** The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.

The Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics is pleased to announce the 2025 Prize Fellows, @hdernity.bsky.social, @deivyhoueix.bsky.social and Lina Skoglund. For more information about the Program see histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/index.....

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

The Cambridge Centre warmly congratulates @pramospinto.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social‬ and @historyecon.bsky.social) and fellow editors on the publication of Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution!

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

Please join us on Tues 27 May @ 5pm when Shigeru Akita (University of Osaka/Clare Hall) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly w/ the Global Economic History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_akit...

Please join us on Tues 27 May @ 5pm when Shigeru Akita (University of Osaka/Clare Hall) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly w/ the Global Economic History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_akit...

📜Au programme d'"Entendez-vous l'éco" la semaine prochaine : classes moyennes et fiscalité, industrie sidérurgique dans le Lincolnshire (mais pas que), mondialisation façon 1850-1913, et un penseur de l'éco : William Stanley Jevons - rdv à 14h sur @franceculture.fr

As a special edition of our Coins of the Month series to mark the occasion of the Papal Conclave, Luca Einaudi has written an essay on the history, architecture and coinage of the Conclave in Rome. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/coins_May202...

New publication: The great dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please join us on Tues 6 May at 5pm when Emile Chabal (@emile-chabal.bsky.social) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly with the Modern European History Seminar). Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further info & abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_chab...

The Centre is pleased to publish a new essay in our Coins of the Month feature. In the first of a three part series, Luca Einaudi discusses 'Progressives and Conservatives in Spanish coinage in the nineteenth century'. Part I: 1808-1814.

Please join us on 29 April at the Harvard Center when Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po) will discuss his new book - 'The Real Economy: History & Theory' (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025) - with Emma Rothschild & Joel Suarez. 5pm, Bowie Vernon Room, CGIS-K262, 1737 Cambridge St. Reception to follow!

Please join us on 29 April at the Harvard Center when Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po) will discuss his new book - 'The Real Economy: History & Theory' (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025) - with Emma Rothschild & Joel Suarez. 5pm, Bowie Vernon Room, CGIS-K262, 1737 Cambridge St. Reception to follow!

Please join the Paris Centre on 11 April from 5-7pm as Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po) discusses his new book with Éric Monnet (PSE/EHESS). Sciences Po, Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin Campus, 1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, Paris 7e or Zoom. Further information and to register: www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/en/...

Please join us on Tues 8 April @ 12pm EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) when Maya Jasanoff (@europeatharvard.bsky.social) will speak about 'The Birth of the Family Tree'. Lunch will be served following the seminar! Click for further info, abstract and Zoom link: histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jas...

On 3 April @ 5pm, the Harvard Center will host a discussion of 'A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil & Portugal' with the author, Melissa Teixeira (@upenn.edu). All welcome! Reception to follow! History Dept Conference Rm, Robinson Hall, Rm 125 (Lower Library). histecon.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm

Please join us on Tues 8 April @ 12pm EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) when Maya Jasanoff (@europeatharvard.bsky.social) will speak about 'The Birth of the Family Tree'. Lunch will be served following the seminar! Click for further info, abstract and Zoom link: histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jas...

On 3 April @ 5pm, the Harvard Center will host a discussion of 'A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil & Portugal' with the author, Melissa Teixeira (@upenn.edu). All welcome! Reception to follow! History Dept Conference Rm, Robinson Hall, Rm 125 (Lower Library). histecon.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm

Please join the Paris Centre on 11 April from 5-7pm as Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po) discusses his new book with Éric Monnet (PSE/EHESS). Sciences Po, Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin Campus, 1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, Paris 7e or Zoom. Further information and to register: www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/en/...

This was a very interesting seminar by Melissa Teixeira, highly recommend the book!

This is the end of my job market journey. Beyond excited to share that I will join Columbia Business School @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2027—in my dream city, New York—after the Prize Fellowship at Harvard! @historyecon.bsky.social @harvard.edu

Please join us *tomorrow* Tues 11 March 11 at 5pm when Melissa Teixeira (@uofpenn.bsky.social) will be speaking at the History and Economics Seminar at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for further information and abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_teix...

Advanced notice for your 📆 ! Melissa Teixeira (@uofpenn.bsky.social) will be speaking at the next History and Economics Seminar on 11 March at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Please join us! Click for further information and abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_teix...

🎺 🎺 We are relaunching our Cambridge Working Paper Series in Economic and Social History! You have a paper and want feedback with a very quick turnaround or want to read the latest in the field? Follow us at @cwpeconhist.bsky.social and find us on www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_pape...

Please join us *tomorrow* Tue 25 Feb @ 5pm when Tehila Sasson (@tsasson.bsky.social) will discuss 'The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits & the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire'. Sem Rm 3, Cripps Ct, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for info & abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_sass...

Do have a look at our website '1800 Histories'. The project is an effort to understand the local circumstances of more than a thousand sites - the ultra-emitters of methane gas - that are of outsized importance in the causes of climate change. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histori...

Economic History, Climate & the Environment is a Joint Center for Hist & Econ initiative to encourage new histories of economic life & the environment. Our starting point is the need to "understand & reduce the loss & damage" caused by climate change (UNFCCC, 3/CP.18.) histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehc/

Please join us on Tue 25 Feb @ 5pm when Tehila Sasson (@tsasson.bsky.social) will discuss 'The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits & the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire'. Seminar Rm 3, Cripps Ct, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Click for info and abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_sass...

Please join us *today* Tue 4 Feb @ 5pm when Paul Warde (@pembroke1347.bsky.social & @camhistory.bsky.social) will discuss 'Fallacies of misplaced concreteness? The use of History in post-war environmental arguments'. Click for info and abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_ward...

Please join us *tomorrow* Tue 4 Feb @ 5pm when Paul Warde (@pembroke1347.bsky.social & @camhistory.bsky.social) will discuss 'Fallacies of misplaced concreteness? The use of History in post-war environmental arguments'. Click for info and abstract. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_ward...

The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Lent Term 2025 seminar schedule! Speakers include Paul Warde (@pembroke1347.bsky.social & @camhistory.bsky.social), @tsasson.bsky.social, & Melissa Teixeira (@uofpenn.bsky.social). Click for further details. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec....

We are delighted to share a new essay on the 1800 Histories website by Emma Rothschild, a micro-history of the trona industry and methane emissions in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histori...

Working with archival materials from #Madras again, and reminded of how fascinating it was to work on this essay c. 2019 around the #history of the #Dhanushkodi - #Talaimannar rail and ferry connection b/w India and Sri Lanka for @historyecon.bsky.social histecon.fas.harvard.edu/invisible-hi...

Do have a look at our website '1800 Histories'. The project is an effort to understand the local circumstances of more than a thousand sites - the ultra-emitters of methane gas - that are of outsized importance in the causes of climate change. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histori...

We are pleased to announce that the full library of Barriers and Borders thought pieces is now on our website. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/barriers/tho...

Please join us on 4 Dec for the next meeting of the Paris Centre's Climate & Capitalism Reading Workshop when we will be discussing 'The Limits to Growth: A Report for THE CLUB OF ROME'. Click for details. histecon.fr/climate_capi...

Please join us on Thurs Dec 5 at 5pm, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard, when Shane Bobrycki (Iowa) will discuss his new book 'The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages'. Click below for further information. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/bobrycki/

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by @urvikhaitan on the legacies of airfield runways in Bengal, built by over 30,000 Indian women during WW2 for US & British militaries. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss...