Day 1 - Thursday 6 June

14:00-14:30 Welcome coffee

14:30-14:45  Introduction 

Panel 1. Imperial Currencies and Imperial Space

Chair Panel: Anne Conchon (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

14:45-16:45

• Arielle Alterwaite, (University of Pennsylvania), “Political Economies of the Haitian Gourde, Counterfeit and Otherwise”.
• Gabriel Lietner (Université de Genève) and Gianandrea Nodari (Université de Genève), “London '33: Currency blocs and Imperial Monetary Policy”. 
• Brecht Nijman (Huygens Institute, KNAW), “Counting out the Money: Cataloging currencies in the Dutch East India Company archive then and now”.

16:45-17:15  Coffee Break

Panel 2. Monetary Agency in Empires

Chair Panel: Patrice Baubeau (Université Paris-Nanterre)

17:15-18:45

• Alessandro De Cola (Università di Bologna), “African Agencies in the Making of Colonial Currencies: The Case of Hassan Mussa El Akkad in the Italian Colony of Eritrea (1885-1890)”.
• Robin Frisch, (University of Bayreuth), “The Quest for Monetary Control in Interwar Togo: Unveiling Colonial Economic Ambiguities”.

 Day 2 - Friday 7 June 

8:30-9:00 : Welcome Coffee 

Panel 3:  Materiality of Money: Minting and Resources in Empires

Chair Panel : Jérôme Jambu (Université Le Havre-Normandie)

9:00-10:30

• Gustave Lester (Harvard University), “From Gold Standard to Gold Rush: Precious Metal Science and Money Politics Across Anglo-American Empires, 1750-1830”.
• Geoffrey Durham (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “A New Ruble for the Russian Empire: Mining and Minting Platinum in the 19th Century”. 

10h30-11h  Coffee break

Panel 4: Imperial and Colonial currencies in Economic Development

Chair Panel : David Todd (CHSP)

11:00-12:30

• Matteo Rossi, (Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Torino), “Monetary Independence Henry Carey, the Greenbacks and the United States in the World Market”.
• Dorcas Djonkui (Université de Douala), “La création du Franc CFA et ses répercussions en Afrique Centrale : le cas du déficit de la balance commerciale sur les produits alimentaires”.

12:30-14:00 Lunch at Sciences Po

Panel 5:  The Introduction of Imperial Currencies : Conquest, Law and Institutions.

Chair Panel: Nicolas Delalande (CHSP) 

14:00-16:00

• Ludovic Desmedt (Université de Bourgogne), “To issue paper money in the New World: the contrasting cases of New France and New England (17th-18th centuries)”. 
• Toyomu Masaki (Kanazawa University), “The French Invasion of the Haut Sénégal and payment issues: 1880-1900”. 
• Mohammadreza Eghbalizarch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, IHEID) and Soheil Ghasemi (IHEID), “The Sterling Capitulation: The Imperial Bank of Persia and the British Juridico-Monetary Intervention in Semi-Colonial Iran (1890-1919)”. 

16:00-16:15 Conclusion

16:30-18:00 : Visit of the Musée de la Monnaie (15mins by foot from Sciences Po)

Funded by the Centre for History and Economics in Paris and hosted by the Centre for History at Sciences Po.

Contact: imperial.colonial.currencies@gmail.com

 

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