Graduate Student Workshop 2018
Saturday, October 6, 2018
UC Berkeley
Chou Hall, Room N340/N344

Program of Events

 8:45 AM      Coffee, Fruit and Pastries

9:00 AM      Introductions

9:10 AM      “American Indian Reservation Boundaries and Land Characteristics”
                     Laura D. Taylor, University of Arizona

10:05 AM    “Life Annuities and Adverse Selection: The Case of Early Modern Holland”
                     Mark Hup, UC Irvine

11:00 AM     Break

11:30 AM     “Housing Market Channels of Segregation”
                      Nicholas Li, UC Berkeley

12:25 PM     Lunch

1:25 PM       “The Legacy of Mass Population Removal: Lessons from Czechoslovakia’s Postwar Expulsions”
                     Patrick Testa, UC Irvine

2:20 PM      “Loans For the Little Fellow:” Credit, Crisis and Recovery in the Great Depression
                     Sarah Quincy, UC Davis

3:15 PM       Break

3:45 PM      “Modernizing Business Practices in the Middle East and International Commercial Exhibitions (1882-1939)”
                    Semih Gokatalay, UC San Diego

4:40 PM      “Wealth Dynamics and Inequality over the Long Run Pre-industrial Rural Japan 1694-1872”
                     Yuzuru Kumon, UC Davis

5:35 PM      Wrap up, submit questions for dinner discussion.

6:00 PM      Reception and Dinner
                     Berkeley Faculty Club, Heyns Room
                     Discussion of the job market process and strategies by the faculty.