#  Cap-con 2017: Before the City/Beyond the City: Capitalism in the Countryside 

 



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 **October 20, 2017** 

 10:00AM - 03:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Law School, Lewis 214A**  



 

 



 

 Before the City/Beyond the City:  
*Capitalism in the Countryside*  
**October 19-20, 2017**  
**Harvard Law School, Lewis 214A**

 **KEYNOTE: Thursday, October 19 at 6:00PM**  
[Claudio Saunt](http://history.uga.edu/directory/claudio-saunt), University of Georgia  
  
**PLENARY PANEL: Friday, October 20 at 3:30PM**  
[Walter Johnson](/people/walter-johnson), Harvard University  
[Tania Li](http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/tania-li/), University of Toronto  
[Sarah Phillips](https://www.bu.edu/history/faculty/sarah-t-phillips/), Boston University  
[Sven Beckert](/people/sven-beckert), Harvard University

 **Conference Schedule**

 **October 19, 2017**  
  
**Panel I: Rural Labor and Race, 1:00 - 3:00PM**

 Adrian De Leon, University of Toronto, "Vagrant Accounts: Racial Transplantations and the Financial Production of Sakada in Hawai'i, 1882-1914"  
Commentator: Justin Jackson

 Jermaine Thibodeaux, University of Texas, "The Strange Career of Sucrose: Sugar, Convict Labor, and the Growth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1871-1913"  
Commentator: Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University

 Bernard Moore, University of London, "Like Weeds in the Garden: Scientific Agriculture, Predator Extermination, and Labour Transformations in Apartheid Southern Namibia"   
Commentator: Christopher Conz, Tufts University

 **Panel II: Moral Economy, 3:30 - 5:30PM**

 Cristina Espinoza, University of Arizona, "Spatial Legacies in the Borderlands: U.S. Colonization of Northwestern Mexico, 1883-1930s"  
Commentator: Micol Seigel, Indiana University, Bloomington

 Matthew Wormer, Stanford University, "An Object of Great Utility: Liberal Political Economy and the East Indies Opium Trade, 1828-1839"  
Commentator: Mou Banerjee, Harvard University

 Alyssa Penick, University of Michigan, "The Power of the Parish"   
Commentator: Christine Desan, Harvard Law School

 **Keynote Presentation,** **6:00 - 7:00PM**  
Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

 **October 20, 2017**

 **Panel III: Dispossession and Repossession, 10:00AM - 12:00PM**

 Emilie Connolly, New York University, "How the West Was Financed: Indian Trust Funds and the Midwest's Transportation Revolution"  
Commentator: Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

 Basma Fahoum, Stanford University, "Tobacco in Palestine"  
Commentator: Samuel Dolbee, Brandeis University

 María Cristina Hernández, Universidad de los Andes, "The Dark Side of Colombian Coffee: Manuel Quintin Lame and the Struggle for Land in the Twentieth Century"  
Commentator: Charles Maier, Harvard University

 **Panel IV: Reimagining Capitalism from the Countryside, 1:00 - 3:00PM**

 Danielle Dumaine, University of Connecticut, "'Harmonious, Enlightened People': Capitalism and Communal Projects in the 1960s United States"  
Commentator: Lisa McGirr, Harvard University

 Amanda Gibson, College of William and Mary, "'Used to Pay a Debt': African American Borrowing and Lending in Antebellum Virginia"   
Commentator: Mycah Conner, Harvard University

 Zhaojin Zeng, University of Texas, "Transitioning Out of the Countryside: Ordnance Bureaucracy and the Making of Chinese Economic Apparatus, 1937-1949"  
Commentator: Victor Seow, Harvard University

 **Closing Plenary Panel, 3:30 - 4:30 PM**  
Walter Johnson, Harvard University  
Tania Li, University of Toronto  
Sarah Phillips, Boston University  
Sven Beckert, Harvard University

 The CFP for "Before the City/Beyond the City: Capitalism in the Countryside" can be found [here](http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/content/cfp-history-capitalism-graduate-student-conference-deadline-331). This conference is open to the public. Please contact <capcon@fas.harvard.edu> with any questions.

 **Conference Organizers**  
Aaron Bekemeyer  
Joan Chaker  
Balraj Gill  
Samantha Payne  
Rachel Steely

 **Faculty Sponsors**  
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History  
Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law



 

 



 

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