UPEL Conference 2023: Program
Institute of Advanced Studies and American University of Paris
May 25-26, 2023
Day One, Institut d’Études Avancées
10:00-10:30: Introduction
Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS)
10:30-12:00: Infrastructure
Chair: Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University)
Sveinn M. Jóhannesson (University of Iceland), “Engineering the Antebellum Transportation Revolution”
Susan J. Pearson (Northwestern University), “Human Bookkeeping: Vital Registration and Political Economy in the United States”
Benjamin Kodres-O’Brien (Columbia University), “Network Federalism, Electric Power, and US Industrial Production Before 1917”
Commentator: Martin Giraudeau (Sciences Po)
1:00-2:30: Banking and Money
Chair: Sofia Valeonti (American University of Paris)
Jonah Estess (American University), “‘By the General Consent of Mankind’: State Courts, Bank Notes, and the Paradox of Private Monetary Sovereignty in the Antebellum United States”
Mikael Omstedt (Uppsala University), “‘A Country of Long Credits and Long Seasons’: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Asynchronies of Agrarian Capitalism”
Manuel Bautista-Gonzalez (Oxford University), “New Orleans, the ‘Natural Depot’ for Mexican Specie (1821-1861)”
Commentator: Goulven Rubin (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
3:00-4:30: Thinking the US Development State:
Chair: Nicolas Barreyre
Matteo Rossi (Turin): “The ‘Interfering Social Power’: Daniel Raymond, Friedrich List and the Political Economy of the American Developmental State”
Ariel Ron (SMU) & Sofia Valeonti (AUP), “Central Monetary Services without Centralization in Stephen Colwell’s The Ways and Means of Payment”
Maria Bach (University of Lausanne): “Emancipatory National Accounting: Evidence from India and America, 1850-1870”
Commentator: Elisa Grandi (Université Paris Cité)
5:30-7:00: Keynote roundtable: Beyond Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in a New Global Age
Chair: Noam Maggor
Gary Gerstle (Cambridge University)
Thomas Piketty (EHESS)
Felicia Wong (Roosevelt Institute)
Day Two, American University of Paris
9:45-11h15: Corporations:
Chair: Ariel Ron
Brian Murphy (Rutgers University), “Great Falls: Water, Power, and Federalism in Early America”
Alexia Blin (Paris 3 University), “The State and ‘the Good Association of Producers Against the Bad Combination of Capitalists’: The 1913 Wisconsin Market Commission.”
Sarah Haan (Washington and Lee University), “Voting Rights in Corporate Governance: History and Political Economy”
Commentator: Claire Lemercier (CNRS)
11:30-1:00: Development and Power Hierarchies
Chair: Sofia Valeonti
Dael A. Norwood (University of Delaware), “Organizing Businessmen for Civic Ends: ‘Commercial Secretaries’ and the Elaboration of Infrastructural Power at the Municipal Level in the American Developmental State”
Keri Leigh Merritt, “Southern Exceptionalism: Infrastructure, Development, and Power”
Brian Schoen (Ohio University), “Hercules out of the Cradle: Slavery, Empire, and the Fracturing of the American Developmental State”
Commentator: Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po)
2:00-3:30: Land
Chair: Nicolas Barreyre
Robert Lee (Cambridge University), “Indigenous Land, Sovereign Wealth, and the Paradox of Plenty in Antebellum Connecticut”
Richard John (Columbia University), “Land Monopoly and Economic Development in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France”
Elsbeth Heaman (McGill University): “The Development State as Canadian Paradigm?”
Commentator: Andrea Rosengarten (AUP)
3:45-5:30: Was there an American Developmental State?
Chair: Eli Cook (Haifa University)
Nils Gilman (Berggruen Institute)
Anton Jäger (KU Leuven)
Alexander Keyssar (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
Gautham Rao (American University)
Dina Waked (Sciences Po)
