The conference is free and open to the public.
Conference Schedule
Friday, February 24
1:15pm: Introduction
NAOMI LAMOREAUX (Yale University)
1:30 – 2:45pm Panel 1
Resources and State-Building I
Chair: SEVEN AGIR (Yale University)
JOE MANNING (Yale University)
Water, Irrigation and Their Connection to State Power in Egypt
BIN WONG (UCLA)
Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Resource Management in Chinese Empires
Respondent: DANIEL HEADRICK (Roosevelt University)
Break
3:15 – 4:30pm Panel 2
Resources and State-Building II
Chair: PETER PERDUE (Yale University)
ALAN MIKHAIL (Yale University)
Domestic Animals and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt
ANNE MCCANTS (MIT)
Building in Stone: Clerical and Lay Political Struggle in the High Middle Ages
Respondent: KEN POMERANZ (UC Irvine)
5:00 pm Keynote Lecture
RICHARD WHITE (Stanford University)
Incommensurate Measures: Nature, History and Economics
Introduced and moderated by JOHN MACK FARAGHER (Yale University)
Saturday, February 25
8:15am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:35am Panel 3
Empire and Resources in the Ancient Mediterranean
Chair: FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO (Yale University)
R. BRUCE HITCHNER (Tufts University)
Too Many Men: Population, Resources, and the Origins of Roman Expansionism
JOHN HALDON (Princeton University)
Resources, Markets and the State: The Case of Byzantium
Respondent: PETER TOMLIN (MIT)
Break
10:45 – 12:00pm Panel 4
Water
Chair: K. (SHIVI) SIVARAMAKRISHNAN (Yale University)
LING ZHANG (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow/Boston College)
From “Controlling Floods” to “Managing a River’’: The Chinese State and the Political History of the Yellow River
ARUPIYOTI SAIKIA (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow/IIT Guwahati)
Jute or Flood: Exploring the Fate of Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley
Respondent: RICHARD HORNBECK (Harvard university)
12:00 – 1:00pm Buffet Lunch
1:00 – 2:30pm Panel 5
Comparative Perspectives on Resources and Governance
Moderator: PAUL SABIN (Yale University)
NANCY LANGSTON (University of Wisconsin)
JOHN MCNEILL (Georgetown University)
TIMOTHY MITCHELL (Columbia University)