Dedicated to the memory of Robert E. Prasch III

Friday, April 24th, 2015
6:30 pm – Cocktails and Dinner: Swift House Inn (by invitation)

Saturday, April 25th, 2015
8:00 – 8:50 am: Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 am: Welcome!
9:00 – 11:00 am: Session 1 – Axinn 229
Chair: Dan Fetter (Wellesley)
Justin Bucciferro (Eastern Washington). “Race Inequality in Brazil from Independence to the Present”
Discussant: Catalina Vizcarra (UVM)
Greg Niemesh (Miami) and Katharine Shester (Washington and Lee). “Residential Segregation Infant Health, 1970-1990”
Discussant: Caitlin Myers (Middlebury)
Jenny Bourne (Carleton). “Labor-Market Inequality between Blacks and Whites: How Demography, Geography, and History Matter”
Discussant: Dan Fetter (Wellesley)
11:00 – 11:30 am: Coffee break
11:30 – 12: 30 pm: Keynote session – Axinn 229
Keynote speaker: Robert A. Margo (Boston). “Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality”
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch 
2:00 – 4:00 pm : Session 2 – Axinn 229 
Chair: Jessica Hennessey (Furman) 
Sarah Pearlman (Vassar). “Missing Men and Female Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from large-scale Mexican Migration”
Discussant: Steve Nafziger (Williams)
Martin Saavedra (Oberlin). “Early-Life Disease Exposure and Occupational Status: the Impact of Yellow Fever during the 19th Century”
Discussant: Erick Gong (Middlebury)
Jessica Bean (Denison). “Women’s Work and Wages during the First World War in Britain”
Discussant: Tanya Byker (Middlebury)
4:00 – 4:30 pm: Coffee break 
4:30 – 6:30 pm: Session 3 – Axinn 229 
Chair: Steve Nafziger (Williams) 
John Murray and John Silvestre. “New Process Technology in European Coal Production, 1850-1900: The Case of Mine Ventilation”
Discussant: Amanda Gregg (Yale/Middlebury)
Marie Duggan (Keene). “Property Rights of Mission Indians: Los Angeles 1780 to 1830”
Discussant: Leticia Arroyo Abad (Middlebury)
Steven Smith (Haverford). “From Communal Irrigation to Irrigation Districts: An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition”
Discussant: James Siodla (Colby)
Taylor Jaworski. “World War II and the Industrialization of the American South”
Discussant: Matt Jaremski (Colgate)
7:00 PM Keynote session and dinner – Kirk Alumni Center (by invitation)
Peter H. Lindert (UC-Davis). “Where Has Modern Equality Come From? Lucky and Smart Paths in Economic History”

Sunday, April 26th, 2015
9:00 – 10:30 am: Breakfast and roundtable discussion – Middlebury Inn (by invitation)