Preliminary Programme

Showing: room K (all days)
Wed 4 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 5 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30
    19.00 - 20.15
    20.30 - 22.00

Fri 6 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 7 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 17.00

All days
Wednesday 4 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
K-1 ECO04 Comparative Historical Analyses of Economic, Occupational, and Geographical Change in Europe, Latin America, and Canada
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: Keith Sugden Discussant: Carmen Sarasua
Marc Badia-Miró, Anna Carreras-Marín : Latin America Occupational Structure: a Case Study of Chile, 1854-1907
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Uygar Karaca : A Comparative Analysis of Regional Economic Development and Urbanisation in Southeast Europe and West Anatolia, 1840-2000
Keith Sugden, Sebastian Keibek & Leigh Shaw-Taylor : Adam Smith Revisited: the Importance of Coal to the Location of the Woollen Manufacture in England Before Mechanization, c. 1500-1800
Roger Sugden : Economic Development and the Long Run Occupational Structure of Canada, British Columbia, and the Okanagan, British Columbia, 1881 - 2011



Wednesday 4 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
K-2 ECO05 Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Europe
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Cormac O'Grada
Organizer: Guido Alfani Discussant: Wouter Ryckbosch
Erik Bengtsson : Peasant Aristocrats? Wealth Inequality between Parliamentarians and their Voters in Sweden before 1865
Gabriel Brea Martinez, Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora : (De)composing Inequality along Four Centuries in the Barcelona Area, 1481-1880
Matteo Di Tullio : Long-term Trends in Wealth Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal-military State in the Republic of Venice (ca. 1450-1800)
Alpay Filiztekin, Hulya Canbakal & Irfan Kokdas : Inequality in the Ottoman Balkans 1660-1840
Walter Scheidel : Income and Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Greco-Roman World: what can we know?



Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
K-3 ECO06 Energy, Development and Sustainability
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chairs: -
Organizer: Cristián Ducoing Discussants: -
Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Magnus Lindmark : The Growth of the Green Sector in Sweden c 1970-2014
Cristián Ducoing : Machinery Prices and Wealth Measures
Diego Sesma : Water: the Overlooked Energy Resource
Dimitrios Theodoridis : The White Man’s Relief - the Ecological Foundations of British Trade in the Nineteenth Century



Wednesday 4 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
K-4 ECO07 Epidemiological Shocks with not so Inevitable Consequences? Capturing and Explaining the Economic Effects of Pre-industrial Plague Outbreaks
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Health and Environment Chair: Maarten Prak
Organizers: Daniel Curtis, Bram van Besouw Discussant: Wouter Ryckbosch
Daniel Curtis : Reconstructing Mortality in the Face of Plagues and Warfare during the Seventeenth Century Low Countries
Joris Roosen : Plague, Death-blow or Window of Opportunity? Market Speculation in Times of Plague in the County of Hainaut, 1349-1500
Tarek Sabraa, Stuart Borsch : Charting the Population Effects of the Black Death throughout the Middle East
Nukhet Varlik : The Black Death and its Long Term Political Consequences in the Ottoman Empire



Thursday 5 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
K-5 ECO08 Finance, the State and Development in Independent Africa
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Gareth Austin
Organizer: Gareth Austin Discussants: -
Denis Cogneau, Yannick Dupraz, Justine Knebelmann, Sandrine Mesple-Somps : The Evolution of Public Finance from Colonial Times to Today, through Structural Adjustment
Hanaan Marwah : Institutional Failure or an Unsustainable Foreign Debt Burden? Financing and Management of Ghana State-owned Electricity Distribution 1960-2002
Chibuike Uche : Nigeria and the Sterling Area 1967-80



Thursday 5 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
K-6 SPE02 The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century, by Walter Scheidel
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Antiquity , Economic History , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizer: Neville Morley Discussants: Guido Alfani, Lucy Grig, Willem Jongman, Brooks Kaiser, Geoffrey Kron, Wouter Ryckbosch, Walter Scheidel



Thursday 5 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
K-7 ECO09a Institutions of Labour Coercion: Towards a Global Perspective I
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Erik Green
Organizer: Mikolaj Malinowski Discussant: Gareth Austin
Piotr Guzowski : How to Measure the Level of Serfdom? The Index of Serfdom
Alexander Klein : Understanding Serfdom: Methodology for Limited Access Societies
Mats Olsson, Mats Olsson : Extraction from Coerced and Free Labour, Sweden 1750–1900



Thursday 5 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
K-8 ECO09b Institutions of Labour Coercion: Towards a Global Perspective II
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Mikolaj Malinowski
Organizer: Erik Green Discussant: Gareth Austin
Angus Dalrymple-Smith : Comparative Trajectories and Commercial Transitions in Three West African Export Economies 1630 to 1860
Erik Green, Jutta Bolt : How Important was Labour Coercion for the Success of European Settler Farming in Africa?
Calumet Links, Erik Green : Myth or Fact: the Adaptability of Coerced Labour on the Eighteenth Century Eastern Cape Colonial Frontier
Igor Martins : Slave Trade Act 1807: How does a Slave Import Ban Impacts Slave Purchasing Behavior of Farmers in Cape Colony?



Friday 6 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
K-9 ECO15 Transnational Connections of Slave-based Activities in the 18th and 19th Century
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Pepijn Brandon
Organizers: Tamira Combrink, Gerhard de Kok, Karin Lurvink Discussant: Pepijn Brandon
Tamira Combrink : Mapping Slave-based Commodity Chains
Nick Draper : Transnational Slave-ownership in Europe's Caribbean Colonies
Karin Lurvink, Gerhard Kok : International Involvement of Dutch Merchants in the Slave Trade and Insurance of Slavery in the 18th Century
Göran Rydén, Chris Evans : From the Forge to the Field: a Commodity Chain from Scandinavia to the Gold Coast
Anka Steffen : Silesian Serfs and their Contribution to the Atlantic Trade



Friday 6 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
K-10 ECO26 Measuring Wages and Wealth
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Tamás Vonyó
Organizers: - Discussant: Mikolaj Malinowski
Ernesto López, Mario García-Zuñiga : Building Wages in Madrid (1737-1800). On the Complexity of Wage Formation in Preindustrial Times
Jørgen Modalsli : Measuring Long-run Wealth Inequality
Jacob Weisdorf, Jane Humphries : Unreal Wages? A New Empirical Foundation for the Study of Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1860



Friday 6 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
K-11 ECO12 The Origins of Neoliberalism: Economic Thought and International Relations in the 1930s
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizer: Hagen Schulz-Forberg Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Martin Beddeleem : Embedding Liberalism within Science: the Epistemological Groundwork of Early Neoliberalism
Søren Friis : The Peaceful Science? Economics, Politics and Social Science Networking at a Nordic Interwar Think-Tank
Hagen Schulz-Forberg : The Institutional and Intellectual Birth of Neoliberalism



Friday 6 April 2018 16.30 - 18.30
K-12 ECO11 Societal Responses to Food Crises: Revealing Coping Mechanisms in Pre-Industrial Africa, Asia and Europe.
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Michiel de Haas
Organizers: Michiel de Haas, Kostadis Papaioannou Discussant: Michiel de Haas
Cedric Chambru : Weather Variations, Social Distress and Institutions in Pre-Indusrial France (1661-1789)
Jessica Dijkman : Urban Grain Stocks and Subsidized Bread Distribution in Towns in the Dutch Republic in the 16th-18th Centuries
Kostadis Papaioannou : Resource Endowments and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Africa: did Labour Seasonality and Food Security Drive Uganda’s Cotton Revolution?
Bram van Besouw : Warfare and the Rural Market for Recovery: Lease Markets and Sharecroppers in the Guelders River Area, 1520-1543



Saturday 7 April 2018 8.30 - 10.30
K-13 ECO13a Towards an Integrated Quantitative Account of European Economic Development at the Regional Level 1500-1914: the Promise of Occupational Structure. I
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Erik Buyst
Organizers: Sebastian Keibek, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussant: Guido Alfani
Maciej Bukowski, Piotr Korys, Maciej Tyminski : Late Feudalism or Start to Development? Evolution of Regional Occupational Structure of Polish Lands during Partitions (1750-1810)
Sebastian Keibek, Leigh Shaw-Taylor : The Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1580-1911: an Integrated Quantitative Account of Economic Development at National, Regional and Local Levels
Piotr Korys, Maciej Bukowski & Maciej Tyminski : The Road from Serfdom. Regional Occupational Structure of Polish Lands in the Nineteenth Century (1810-1921)
Carmen Sarasua : More Industrial than once thought. Occupational Structure in Eighteenth Century Spain



Saturday 7 April 2018 11.00 - 13.00
K-14 ECO13b Towards an Integrated Quantitative Account of European Economic Development at the Regional Level 1500-1914: the Promise of Occupational Structure. II
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Economic History Chair: Sebastian Keibek
Organizers: Sebastian Keibek, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Erik Buyst : Changes in the Occupational Structure of the Belgian Provinces, 1846-1910
Stanislav Knob : Occupational Structure of Austrian Silesia 1880-1910
Alexis Litvine, Laurent Heyberger : Reconstructing French Occupational Structure before the Censuses. A Case for using Conscription Records (1818-1901)
Michael Pammer : The Occupational Structure of Austrian Districts: a Comparison of Census Records and Church Registers, 1890



Saturday 7 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
K-15 POL08 Collaboration in WWII and Self-images of European Nations in Historiography
PFC/02/011 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Karin Dupinay-Bedford
Organizer: Radka Sustrova Discussants: -
Claus Bundgård Christensen : Collaboration, National Self-Image and Historiography in Denmark
Nicola Karcher, Øystein Hetland : Collaboration and Resistance during the Nazi Occupation of Norway
Radka Sustrova : Occupation without Czechs? The Political Players and Imagining of ‘National Interest’ in Czech Historiography
Ulf Zander : Utopia, Dystopia or Somewhere In-between? Sweden, the Second World War and the Moral Turn


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