Please join the National History Center for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Marc Levinson (GC PhD 2009) on Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

Globalization is one of the most contentious subjects of our time—but it has a history. In Outside the Box, Marc Levinson explains why the complex value chains that defined it starting in the 1980s were merely the third stage in a phenomenon that has evolved over two centuries. Subsidies and misjudgments of risk arguably led to excessive globalization in the early 21st century. By the 2010s, the world economy entered a fourth phase of globalization in which trading services will come to matter more than shipping goods.

 

Panelists:

Marc Levinson is an independent historian living in Washington, DC. His previous books include The Box, an acclaimed history of how container shipping made globalization possible; The Great A&P, which tells the story of a struggle between small business and big business that tore America apart; and An Extraordinary Time, a history of the global economic slowdown of the 1970s and its political consequences. He holds a doctorate from City University of New York.

 

Margaret O’Mara is the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, the history of U.S. politics, and the connections between the two. O’Mara is the author of Cities of Knowledge (Princeton, 2005), Pivotal Tuesdays (Penn Press, 2015), and The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019). She is a coauthor, with David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, of forthcoming editions of a widely used United States history college textbook, The American Pageant (Cengage). O’Mara received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Northwestern University. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the Clinton White House and served as a contributing researcher at the Brookings Institution.

 

Maya Jasanoff is the X. D. and Nancy Yang Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the author of the prize-winning books Edge of Empire, Liberty’s Exiles, which received the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize, and The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, which won the 2018 Cundill Prize in History. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. She is a frequent contributor to publications including The New Yorker and The Guardian, and is Chair of judges for the 2021 Booker Prize.

 

 

Monday, February 22 at 4:00 pm ET

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