Fintech Accounting: Continental Grift
Hans-Helmut Kotz comments on the German Wirecard scandal.
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Repairing Damage: The Slave Ship Marcelin and the Haiti Trade in the Age of Abolition
Between 1814 and 1831, French slave traders trafficked approximately 200,000 individuals. Among those, a small but still surprising number stopped over in Haiti on their return voyage after selling captives elsewhere in the Americas.
The Future Was His
Would anything about this strange moment have surprised H.G. Wells? He was called “the man who invented tomorrow” because he seemed to have the future figured out.
Maya Jasanoff Reviews, Sarah Cole's new book: Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
Why Republicans Play Dirty
They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Their behavior is a threat to democratic stability.
In translation, he found his raison d’être
Surely there are more direct routes to becoming a respected French-language translator than going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a Ph.D. in mathematics, getting caught up in the Vietnam draft ...
History of Emotions - An Interview with Derek Penslar (In German)
An interview with Derek Penslar about his upcoming book “Zionism: An Emotional State.”
Published in Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur, #4, 2020, pp.46-47. (In German)
Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will
Can President Trump's appeal to ethnonationalism succeed in the 2020 elections? Two research studies by CES faculty Peter Hall and former affiliates Noam Gidron and Moritz Schularick are cited in this opinion piece by Thomas Edsall, The New York Times.
History Lessons: Can We Learn from the Past?
CES Affiliate Rosemary Taylor delves into comparisons of Covid-19 with other major diseases in world history, from the Spanish Flu to SARS. She notes that history often fails to teach leaders and experts the “lessons” we might expect. She notes that new popular understandings about diseases (such as animal-human transition) have led to complicated policy responses with mixed results. While history may not always clearly tell us what to do, it can warn us.
CES Accepts 10 New Graduate Student Affiliates
The CES community continues to grow and add new, exciting members to its community.
CES Grants 17 Fellowships to Graduate Students from Harvard & MIT
Four graduate students from Harvard University were awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship and thirteen graduate students from Harvard and MIT were the recipients of Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowships from CES this year.
