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The Haiti Seminar - Money, Finance and Sovereignty
Thursday
26
September
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Comment la Dette Odieuse fut Repayée : L’Emprunt intérieur de Libération Financière de 1947 et le Long Cycle d’Embellie de 1942-54

With Guy Pierre, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
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Zoom Online Seminar. Registration required.

The Seminar seeks to foster discussions that encompass both case studies and comparative approaches, and enable to put in historical perspective questions of debt sustainability, debt forgiveness, conditionality and political control.

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Programme

 

Thursday 26 September (from 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern Time, 18:30-19:30 Geneva Time)

"Comment la Dette Odieuse fut Repayée : L’Emprunt intérieur de Libération Financière de 1947 et le Long Cycle d’Embellie de 1942-54"

Guest Seaker: Guy Pierre (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México)

Discussants:  Gusti-Klara Gaillard (Université d’État d'Haïti) and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université de Lyon 2)

Chair: Marc Flandreau (University of Pennsylvania)

The panelists will be speaking in French. The Q&A session will take place in the language of choice of the speaker (English or French).

 

Registration

 

Please register here

 

The Haiti Seminar

 

The Seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to bring together scholars from diverse academic backgrounds. In particular, it will invite historians, economists and legal scholars to debate their perspectives and engage in fruitful exchanges. It seeks in particular to foster discussions that encompass both case studies and comparative approaches and enable to put in historical perspective questions of debt sustainability, debt forgiveness, conditionality, political control, etc.

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Organisation

 
 

The Haiti Seminar is led by Marc Flandreau at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and the School of Social Sciences and Government of the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.

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research grants

 

The Seminar is conceived to operate over a three-year period, commencing in 2023-24. The project will distribute a series of research grants. In particular, 10 Doctoral Prizes of 5,000 USD each will be awarded to registered PhD students located anywhere in the world and working on the history and economics of sovereign debt, a funding initiative supported by Crédit Mutuel, Paris.

The Seminar takes place online on Thursdays at 12pm (Haiti Time)/ 6 pm (Paris Time).

It will be concluded by an academic conference in the Summer of 2026.

Inquiries:  haiti.seminar@sas.upenn.edu

 

 

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