Seminars
Schedule for Academic Year 2024-25
Sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Lecture Series
All seminars meet in Diamond 341 unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2024
October 11 – Seminar – @1-2pm, Diamond 141
Topic: “Before apartheid: Labor Markets, Political Parties and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century South Africa”
Kara Dimitruk (Hamilton)
October 25 – Seminar – 11:30-12:30, Diamond 341
Topic: “Beliefs, Signal Quality, and Information Sources: Experimental Evidence on Air Quality in Pakistan”
Sanval Nasim (Colby)
November 1 – Seminar
Topic: What Drives Trends in Employment and Hours Worked per Worker? A Cross Country Analysis
Brendan Epstein (UMass Lowell)
November 7 – Seminar – 4-5pm Diamond 122
Topic: Political Implications of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from India
Ryu Matsuura ’17 (Northwestern University)
November 15 – Seminar – 1-2pm Diamond 141
Topic: Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Transfer Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital
German Reyes (Middlebury College)
Spring 2025
March 19 – Goldfarb- Page Commons 6:00 pm
Greg Ip
Topic: The New Age of Economic Competition: How Trump Is Remaking The Rules of Economic and Geopolitical Relations
April 16 – Grossman Lecture- 4:oo pm Ostrove
Alan Auerbach(Univ. California, Berkeley)
Topic: Will You Collect Social Security?
April 24 – Seminar – Ostrove 5:00 pm
John List
Topic: How Your Colby Economics Degree can Help You Change the World