Workshop organizer: Joseph Ferrie, ferrie@northwestern.edu, phone 847-491-8210

September 24
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago)
"Portage, City Formation, and Increasing Returns in U.S. History"

October 1
Howard Bodenhorn (Clemson University)
"To Set Devils Free: Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Virginia"

October 8
Regina Grafe (Northwestern University)
Title TBA

October 15
Chris Hanes (State University of New York, Binghampton)
"Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America"

October 22
Joanna Lahey (Texas A&M University)
"Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Abortion and Birth Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition"

October 29
Phil Hoffman (Cal Tech)
Title TBA

Followed by All-Chicago Friends of Economic History Dinner
Speaker: Phil Hoffman (Cal Tech)
Title "Why Did Europe Conquer the World?"
Time: 6:30PM
Place: Loyola University Campus, School of Business Faculty Room, Maguire Hall, 1 East Pearson St.
Contact: Lou Cain.

November 5
No Seminar

November 12
John Parman (University of California, Davis)
Title TBA

November 19
Effi Benmelech (Harvard University)
Title TBA

November 26
No Seminar

December 3
Benjamin Chabot (Yale University)
Title TBA

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