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Presentations

 

Conferences

  • "Capital Goods, Imperial Infrastructure Building, and Central Banking, 1898-1924," Social Science History Association Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (November 2018) [paper accepted]
  • "Power Conveyance: Descriptive Geometry and Learning to Draw in the Mechanic Trades of the Atlantic World, 1818-1871," Learning by the Book Conference, German Historical Institute and Princeton University (June 2018)
  • "Drafting Protection for Immaterial Property in the Age of Heavy Industry," Panel on Knowledge Production and Economic Life in the Long Gilded Age, American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January 2018)
  • "'Griff nach dem Weltmarkt': The German New Middle Class, Overseas Infrastructure-Building, and Empire, 1885-1914," Harvard-Stanford-UGA History of Capitalism Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 2014)
  • “Universal Connector:  Konrad Wachsmann and the Packaged House System from the Weimar Republic to America’s Cold War,” Sources in International History Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (March 2014)
  • “The People’s Angestellten: German Political Refugees, Civil Service Reform, and the Making of Trans-Atlantic Progressivism, 1848-1906,” Mobility, Migration, and Movements Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (March 2013)

Workshops and Invited Talks

  • "'Through Education to Freedom or Through Freedom to Education?': German Models and the Racial Politics of Industrial Education in America, 1865-1918," History of Capitalism Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (November 2017)
  • "Drafting Protection for Immaterial Property in the Age of Heavy Industry, 1873-1914," Center for History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2017)
  • "Drafting Empire: German and American Capital Goods in China, 1865-1924," Center for European Studies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (March 2017)
  • "Prime Movers: Revolutions in Skill, Tools, and Trade in Britain, 1824-1851," History of Capitalism Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (December 2016)
  • "Drawing Capital: Print Culture and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century," Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (June 2016)
  • “Drafting Plans: Engineering and Politics in Four Twentieth-Century Germanies,” History of Capitalism Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 2013)
  • “Making the Land the Sea: Liquidity and the British Example in Friedrich List’s Political Economy,” History of Capitalism Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (March 2013)

Comments

  • “Liberals into Progressives; ‘The Fall of the House of Labor’; Industrial Empire; Racialized Capitalism,” Comment on Steven Hahn’s chapter, “Wheels of Capital,” from his book, A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830 to 1910, Political Economy of Modern Capitalism Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (02/24/2014)