We invite you to join us next Friday, November 21 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at the Newberry Library for the British Studies Seminar with Professor Jim Livesey, presenting a paper titled “Indigenous Political Economy? Ireland, Economic Institutions and the Atlantic Economy 1600-1799.” You can see more information and register to receive the paper here.
The seminar is co-sponsored by the Graduate Cluster in British Studies at Northwestern, Northwestern History, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago.
About the Speaker
Jim Livesey is Established Professor of History and currently on sabbatical following his role as Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Galway. He is currently Visiting Scholar at NYU and concurrently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrew.
Jim works on historical instances of collective action problems in the early modern period. His forthcoming comparative history of transitions in history as a contribution to our understanding of the just transition is entitled Transitions in Global History: Social and Political Transformation in the Climate Crisis and will appear with Bloomsbury in 2026 . His monographs on the origins of social democracy, on civil society and on adaptation to technological change in rural France have been published by Yale and Harvard University Presses. He is currently PI on the Atlantic Futures project, a capacity-building project in the social sciences in the West of Ireland funded by the Higher Education Authority and is Co-I on PACESETTERS, a Horizon Europe project on the contribution of the creative economy to the climate transition.
This event is free, but all participants must register in advance. Space is limited, so please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.