Preliminary Programme

Showing: room J (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-1 ECO01 A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Structure Across Sub-Saharan Africa I. Southern Africa
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Gareth Austin
Organizers: Gareth Austin, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussants: -
Johan Fourie, Omphile Ramela : A Skill Divergence? Occupational Structures and South Africa’s Mineral Revolution
Erik Green : The Occupational Structure of Malawi, 1945-2010: Moving beyond Path Dependency
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva : The Occupational Structure of Mozambique, 1900-2000: Continuities and Changes



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-2 ECO02 A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Structure Across Sub-Saharan Africa II. Western and Eastern Africa.
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizers: Gareth Austin, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussant: Andreas Eckert
Gareth Austin : Occupational Structure and Urbanization in Modern Ghanaian History: a Preliminary Exploration
Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema : The Occupational Structure of Belgian Congo, Zaïre and DRC, 1920-present
Karin Pallaver : “Counting Huts, Heads and Labourers: Sources on Size and Structure of the Labour Force in Kenya and Tanzania (1921-2012)”
Marlous van Waijenburg : Occupational Structural in French West Africa since 1850



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
J-3 WOM18 Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective - Roundtable
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Economic History , Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Judit Acsády, Zsolt Mészáros : Rural Feminism and its Links to National and International Organizations in Hungary 1904-1918. Activities, Values and Connections
Jad Adams : ‘I Will Say “Yes Sir” to my Husband’: Women’s Suffrage in the Newly Independent Nations of the British Empire
Elizabeth Baker : Suffragette Palace: Sophia Duleep Singh, Hampton Court Palace, and Votes for Women
Sue Bruley : Women's Liberation - a View from a rRnge of English Towns
Natalia B. Gafizova, Olga Shnyrova : Russian Women's Socialist Movement (1907-1926): Collective Identity and International Women's Movement



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
J-4 ECO07 From Natural Resources to Human Capital: the Historical Development of Institutions for Knowledge and Skill Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizers: Ewout Frankema, Dacil Juif, Marlous van Waijenburg Discussant: Gareth Austin
Joerg Baten, Gabriele Cappelli : Colonial Influence or African Agency? Numeracy Across West African Regions, c. 1770 – 1900
Ewout Frankema, Marlous van Waijenburg : Here has all the Education Gone. The ‘Free-fall’ of Skill Premiums in Africa and Southern Asia in the Long 20th Century
Dacil Juif : Resource Curse or Blessing? The Impact of Mining Activities on Human Capital Formation in Zambia and Congo
Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen, Shane Doyle & Jacob Weisdorf : The Returns to Religious Conversion: Lessons from Ugandan Hospital Registry, 1908-1970



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-5 ECO05a Dynamics of Occupational and Demographic Change in Eurasia 1700-2000: Diverging Paths or Convergence in Occupational Structures and Population Densities? I
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Guido Alfani
Sven Damen, Erik Buyst : Industrialization and De-industrialization in Belgium, 1850-2010: What do Occupational Structures tell us?
Herman J. de Jong, Dirk Stelder : Industrialization and Occupational Structure in the Netherlands since 1800
Carmen Sarasua : Women’s and Men’s Occupational Structure in 18th Century Spain
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Xuesheng You : Female Occupational Structure in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-6 ECO05b Dynamics of Occupational and Demographic Change in Eurasia 1700-2000: Diverging Paths or Convergence in Occupational Structures and Population Densities? II
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Guido Alfani
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Gijs Kessler
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Berkay Kucukbaslar : Industrialisation and Urbanisation from the Ottoman Empire to Turkey, 1840-2000
Stanislav Knob : Occupational Structure and Industrialisation in the Czech Lands 1848-1914
Tokihiko Settsu, Masanori Takashima & Osamu Saito : Population Densities and Sectoral Shares of Output and Occupations in Early Modern Japan
Cheng Yang : Long Run Regional Economic Development and Population Density in Late Imperial China (1776-1953)



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
J-7 ECO04 Auctions as Market Platforms in Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Europe
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Yadira Gonzalez de Lara
Organizer: Lars Boerner Discussant: Yadira Gonzalez de Lara
Pernilla Jonsson : Auctions and Efficiency: the Valuation of Second-hand Goods in a Swedish Small Town during the 19th c.
Christiaan van Bochove, Lars Boerner : Auctions and Bidding Behavior on Financial Markets in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam
Anne Wegener Sleeswijk : The Meaning of Prices at Wine Auctions in Amsterdam (18th Century). A Prosopography of Sellers, Intermediaries and Buyers
Bernardo Wjuniski : Guiding the Invisible Hand: Market Equilibrium and Multiple Exchange Rates in Brazil



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-9 ECO08 Historical Roots of Regional Income Inequality
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat
Organizers: Maria Teresa Sanchis-Llopis, Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat Discussants: -
Erik Buyst : Spatial Inequality in 19th-century Belgium
Kerstin Enflo : The Development of Economic Growth and Inequality among the Swedish Regions 1860-2010. Evidence from Regional National Accounts
Emanuele Felice : Long Term Estimates of Regional Income Inequality in Italy: the North-South Divide
Maria Teresa Sanchis-Llopis, Joan R. Roses & Alfonso Diez Minguela : Regional Polarization in France the Long Run: 1840-2010



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-10 SOC22 New Directions in Welfare
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Pamala Wiepking
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Aurora Bosch : “The War on Poverty”, Socialist and Liberalism in the US in the Early Sixties
Birgitta Jansson : The Development of Income over 28 Years. A Study of Disposable Personal Income in Sweden from 1983 to 2010
Christina Reimann : The Emancipation and Exclusion Effected by the Workmen's Compensation Act: a Sociolegal Analysis of the Beginnings of the Dutch Welfare State
Maija Runcis : Swedish Sterilisations on Roma People and "Travellers" 1940-1955



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
J-11 ECO06 Foreign Direct Investment in 20th Century Southern Europe: Direct Impact and Indirect Spillovers
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Tamás Vonyó
Organizers: Adoración Álvaro-Moya, Andrea Colli Discussants: -
Veronica Binda, Mario Perugini : International Joint-ventures in Italy: a Long-term View
Andrea Colli : FDIs and Economic Growth: the Italian Case
Misael Arturo López Zapico : “US FDI in Spain During the Desarrollismo Years (1959-1973). Measuring its Impact in the Spanish Society
Nuria Puig, Adoración Álvaro-Moya & Eugenio Torres : How do Business Groups Interact with Foreign Investors?
Esther M. Sánchez Sánchez, Marc Prat : A Regional Asset? An Analysis of the French Economic Presence in Catalonia, 1939-1975



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
J-12 ECO11 The Introduction, Use and Circulation of Coins, ca. 500 BCE-1900CE: the Significance for Global Social History
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Christine Moll Murata
Organizer: Rombert Stapel Discussants: -
Jan Lucassen : Deep Monetization in South Asia
Rombert Stapel : Geographical Spread of Deep Monetization in Late Medieval Western Europe
Bas Van Leeuwen, Panagiotis Iossif & Bert van der Spek & Peter Foldvari : Introduction and spread of copper and silver coins in the Near East, ca. 500-50BCE
Yi Xu, Alejandra Irigoin & Bas van Leeuwen : Coin Circulation in Ming and Qing Dynasty China



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-13 FAM20 Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Lyndan Warner
Organizer: Lyndan Warner Discussant: Lyndan Warner
Gabriella Erdélyi : Marriage between Step-kin and Half-kin in Early Modern Hungary
Margareth Lanzinger : Emotional Bonds and Living Arrangements: Stepfamilies in the Catholic Dispensation Records of Eighteenth–Century Austria
Cathryn R. Spence : ‘Now Her Spouse’: Subsequent Marriages and Stepfathers in late Sixteenth– and Early Seventeenth–Century Scotland
Tim Stretton : Stepmothers at Law in Early Modern England



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-14 MAT04 What should we do with Family and Personal Photography?
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Laura King
Organizer: Jane Hamlett Discussant: Laura King
Jane Hamlett : Framing Intimacy: Photographs and Family Papers in England, 1880-1939
Nicole Hudgins : The Gender of Photography: Play, Performance, and Fantasy in Women’s “Private” Camera Work, c. 1850-1880
Annebella Pollen : Known Unknowns: Social and Historical Methodologies in Search of the Found Photograph
Penny Tinkler : Friendship in Focus: Photography and the Representation and Performance of Girls’ Friendships in England, 1950-70



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
J-15 ECO17 Pre-Industrial and Modern Trade
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Network: Economic History Chair: Tamás Vonyó
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Katharine Frederick : Global Trade, Local Markets: Quantifying Cloth Imports into East Africa, 1800-1940
Yadira Gonzalez de Lara : The Impact of Formal Monitoring on Financial Development: From Debt To Equity In Late Medieval Venice
Adolfo Meisel : Two Centuries of Export Fluctuations in Colombia: Trends and Structural Breaks, 1775-2013
Javier Silvestre, John E. Murray : Unification of European markets for coal, 1830-1900
George M. Welling : Specialization in Pre-modern Dutch Maritime Trade to and from the Baltic, 1635-1800


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