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Seminar with Torsten Persson

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Torsten Persson is Director of the IIES at Stockholm University, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and has held visiting positions at leading universities as Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley. Persson is the 2008 President of the Econometric Society, and was President of the European Economic Association in 2003. His scientific prizes include the 1997 Yrjö Jahnsson Medal, given biannually to “the best young economist in Europe”. Persson’s work has spanned different areas, but he is most well-known for his articles and books on political economics. His current research focuses on development, civil war, and climate change.

This seminar is part of the Comparative Politics Workshop in the Department of Political Science and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.

 

Torsten Persson Director of the IIES at Stockholm University and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics Speaker
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Economic History Workshop: Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy

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Omer Moav is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.

This workshop is part of the Economic History Workshop series in the Department of Economics and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.

 

Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy
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Conference Room B
351 Landau Economics Building
579 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

Omer Moav Professor of Economics Speaker Warwick University
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Economic History Workshop: Time for Growth

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This paper studies the impact of the early adoption of one of the most important high-technology machines in history, the public mechanical clock, on long-run growth in Europe. We avoid endogeneity by considering the relationship between the adoption of clocks with two sets of instruments: distance from the first adopters and the appearance of repeated solar eclipses. The latter instrument is motivated by the predecessor technologies of mechanical clocks, astronomic instruments that measured the course of heavenly bodies. We find significant growth rates between 1500 and 1700 in the range of 30 percentage points in early adoptor cities and areas.

Lars Boerner is an Assistant Professor of Economic History at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

This workshop is part of the Economic History Workshop series in the Department of Economics and is co-sponsored by The Europe Center.

 

Time for Growth
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351 Landau Economics Building
579 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

Lars Boerner Assistant Professor Speaker The London School of Economics and Political Science
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Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 2)

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Image for Grand Tour
Participants: Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Melissa Calaresu, Giorgio Caviglia, Jeffrey Collins, Paul Davis, Thea De Armond, Paula Findlen, Simon Macdonald, Rachel Midura, Grant Parker, Carole Paul, Sophus Reinhert, Catherine Sama, Rosemary Sweet, Elaine Treharne, and Caroline Winterer.

Organized by Giovanna Ceserani at Stanford University, with the generous sponsorship of the Classics Department, and co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of History, The Europe Center, the Division of Cultures, Languages and Literatures, and the Departments of English and Art History.

For more about The Grand Tour Project, go to grandtour.stanford.edu.

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by March 1st. (RSVP also accepted by email to dearmond@stanford.edu)

Program

Saturday, March 5th 2016
 
10: 00 am - 10:30 am – Coffee and Pastries
 
10:30 am - 12:30 am
Session III: Sciences of the Grand Tour
Chair: Grant Parker, Stanford
 
10:30 am
Paul Davis, Princeton University
Climate Change and the Grand Tour
 
11:30 am
Sophus Reinhert, Harvard Business School
Mapping the Economic Grand Tour
 
12:30 pm – Lunch
 
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Session IV: Professing Arts and Tourism on the Grand Tour
Chair: Elaine Treharne, Stanford
 
1:30 pm
Malcolm Baker, UC Riverside
Sculpture, Sculptors and the Grand Tour: Intersections and Agency
 
2:30 pm
Simon Macdonald, European University Florence
‘Virtù in tale genere’: British equestrian performers in late eighteenth-century Italy
 
3:30 pm – Afternoon Coffee
 
4:00 pm
Carole Paul, UCSB
Ciceroni and Their Clients: Making a Profession of Tourism
 
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Discussion
 
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Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center

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Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 1)

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Image for Grand Tour
Participants: Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Melissa Calaresu, Giorgio Caviglia, Jeffrey Collins, Paul Davis, Thea De Armond, Paula Findlen, Simon Macdonald, Rachel Midura, Grant Parker, Carole Paul, Sophus Reinhert, Catherine Sama, Rosemary Sweet, Elaine Treharne, and Caroline Winterer.

Organized by Giovanna Ceserani at Stanford University, with the generous sponsorship of the Classics Department, and co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of History, The Europe Center, the Division of Cultures, Languages and Literatures, and the Departments of English and Art History.

For more about The Grand Tour Project, go to grandtour.stanford.edu.

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by March 1st. (RSVP also accepted by email to dearmond@stanford.edu)
 
Program:
 
Friday, March 4th 2016
 
10:00 am – Check-in, Coffee and Pastries
 
10:30 - 11:00 am 
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Giovanna Ceserani
 
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session I: Circles and Networks of the Grand Tour
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford
 
11:00 am 
Catherine Sama, The University of Rhode Island
Going Digital: Mapping Connections Between Rosalba Carriera and British Grand Tourists
 
12:00 pm
Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate College, NYC
Counting the Woodcocks: Snapshots from the Tour
 
1:00 pm – Lunch
 
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm 
Session II: Beyond Rome
Chair: Caroline Winterer, Stanford
 
2:00 pm 
Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University
Life and Death in Naples: The Italian presence in the Grand Tour (Explorer)
 
3:00 pm
Rosemary Sweet, Leicester University
Other cities of the Grand Tour: Turin, Padua and Bologna seen through the Grand Tour Explorer
 
4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee
 
4:30 pm
John Brewer, Caltech
Naples with and without Sir William Hamilton, 1764-1800
 
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Roundtable on the Grand Tour Explorer led by designer Giorgio Caviglia with graduate researchers Thea De Armond and Rachel Midura, Stanford
 
For full program, see attachment below.

 

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Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center

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LAD Course: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

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This module addresses the challenges faced by public sector leaders as they foster economic growth in politically charged environments. Offered in partnership with the Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) at Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, it uses case studies (mostly drawn from Asia) on how public policy can help the private sector be a constructive force for economic growth and development. A driving principle of the LAD module is that policy reform is not like engineering or other technical fields that have discrete skills and clear, optimal solutions. Instead, successful reformers must be politically aware and weigh a broad range of factors that influence policy outcomes. They must have a solid grasp of country-specific economic, financial, political and cultural realities. Most importantly, they must have a sense of how to set priorities, sequence actions and build coalitions. LAD provides participants with an analytical framework to build these leadership abilities and operate effectively under adverse conditions. 

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Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Singapore

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Human Capital and Labor Market of China

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9:30-12:00 Session 1: Inequality of Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes
Location: Goldman Conference Room, Encina Hall East (4th floor)
 
The Health and Nutrition Roots of China's Human Capital Crisis
Speaker：Scott Rozelle, Stanford University, US
 
Trade Liberalization, Social Policy Development and Labour Market Outcomes of
Chinese Women and Men in the Decade after China’s Accession to the World Trade
Organization
Speaker：Xiaoyuan Dong, The University of Winnipeg, Canada
 
Mismatch of the Boston Mechanism: Evidence from Chinese College Admission
Speaker：Binzhen Wu, Tsinghua University, China
 
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall (3rd Floor)
 
1:00-3:00 Session 2: Determinants for Labor Market Outcomes
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall (3rd Floor)
 
Does Informal Employment Push college graduates into Low Income Trap?
Speaker：Xiaoying Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Speaker：Qiuqiong Huang, University of Arkansas, US
Institutional Labor Market Segmentation and Public Sector Reform in China
Speaker：Xiaohua Li, Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, China

Goldman Conference Room
Encina Hall East (4th Floor)

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15th Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum

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In this fifteenth session of the Strategic Forum, former senior American and South Korean government officials and other leading experts will discuss current developments in the Korean Peninsula and North Korea policy, the future of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, and a strategic vision for Northeast Asia. The session is hosted by the Korea Program in association with The Sejong Institute, a top South Korean think tank.

 

Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum

Heritage Bureaucracies: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (Day 2)

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This conference aims to further our understanding of the institutional cultures, funding schemes and power structures underlying transnational institutions, with a particular focus on heritage bureaucracies. We bring together scholars working at the intersection of archaeology, anthropology, sociology and law to offer a broader understanding of the intricacies of multilateral institutions and global civic society in shaping contemporary heritage governance. Speakers will provide ethnographic perspectives on the study of international organizations, such as the UN and EU, in an effort to show the entanglement of political and technical decision-making.

A 2-day international conference organized by Claudia Liuzza and Gertjan Plets.

Speakers:

Brigitta Hauser-Shäublin (Institute of Ethnology, Göttingen University)
Ellen Hertz (Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel)
Miyako Inoue (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University)
Claudia Liuzza (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University)
Brigit Müller (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Elisabeth Niklason (Department of Archeaology, Stockholm University)
Gertjan Plets (Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University)
Cris Shore (Department of Anthropology, The University of Auckland)
Ana Vrdoljak (Department of Law, University of Technology, Sydney)

Co-sponsored by Stanford Archaeology Center, Cantor Arts Center, Department of Anthropology, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, The Europe Center, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, The Mediterranean Studies Forum.

Contact: heritagebur@gmail.com

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Heritage Bureaucracies: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (Day 1)

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heritage bureaucracies

This conference aims to further our understanding of the institutional cultures, funding schemes and power structures underlying transnational institutions, with a particular focus on heritage bureaucracies. We bring together scholars working at the intersection of archaeology, anthropology, sociology and law to offer a broader understanding of the intricacies of multilateral institutions and global civic society in shaping contemporary heritage governance. Speakers will provide ethnographic perspectives on the study of international organizations, such as the UN and EU, in an effort to show the entanglement of political and technical decision-making.

A 2-day international conference organized by Claudia Liuzza and Gertjan Plets.

Speakers:

Brigitta Hauser-Shäublin (Institute of Ethnology, Göttingen University)
Ellen Hertz (Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel)
Miyako Inoue (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University)
Claudia Liuzza (Department of Anthropology, Stanford University)
Brigit Müller (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Elisabeth Niklason (Department of Archeaology, Stockholm University)
Gertjan Plets (Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University)
Cris Shore (Department of Anthropology, The University of Auckland)
Ana Vrdoljak (Department of Law, University of Technology, Sydney)

Co-sponsored by Stanford Archaeology Center, Cantor Arts Center, Department of Anthropology, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford Humanities Center, The Europe Center, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, The Mediterranean Studies Forum.

Contact: heritagebur@gmail.com

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488 Escondido Mall
Stanford University

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