Preliminary Programme

Showing: room D (all days)
Wed 12 April
    08.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 13 April
    08.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 14 April
    08.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 15 April
    08.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00

All days
Wednesday 12 April 2023 11.00 - 13.00
D-2 ECO02 Historical Legacies of the Cash Crop Boom
B22
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chairs: -
Organizer: Thomas Westland Discussants: -
Gareth Austin : The Political Economy of Growth in Beverage-Crop Economies in Independent Africa: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983
Michiel de Haas : Africa and the ‘New History of Capitalism’: Colonialism, Coercion and Cotton, 1820-1960
Per Hallén : Company Organization and Technological Change in Scandinavian Fishing until 1945
Thomas Westland : The Colonial Commodity Lottery: Linkages from Agriculture to Industry in the Tropics, c.1950-1970



Wednesday 12 April 2023 14.00 - 16.00
D-3 ECO04 New Uses of Individual Financial Instruments in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Trade
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Janine Maegraith
Organizers: Craig Muldrew, Joris van den Tol Discussant: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd
Craig Muldrew : Measuring the Use of Inland Bills in Early Eighteenth Century England
Ellen Nye : Tax Farming Assignments as Credit Instruments in an Ottoman Era of Fiscal Innovation, 1690-1720.
Moto Takahashi : Savings Institutions in Eighteenth Century Japan
Joris van den Tol : Capital Colony: Credit on Barbados, 1634-1659



Wednesday 12 April 2023 16.30 - 18.30
D-4 ECO19 The Causes and Effects of Economic Inequality since 1700
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Christiaan van Bochove
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Alfonso Diez Minguela, Alicia Gómez-Tello, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat : State Capacity and the Uneven Cost of Nation Building: Language Mismatch and Literacy Levels in Valencia
Jonas Geweke, Katja Rost & Malte Doehne : Determinants of Early Modern State Capacity: the Case of Swiss City-States, 1650-1798
Mikolaj Malinowski : Incredible Commitment: Oligarchy and State Failure in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth



Thursday 13 April 2023 08.30 - 10.30
D-5 ECO15 Measuring and Comparing Past Economic Performances
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Mikolaj Malinowski
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Mario Holzner : Estimation of the Gross Domestic Product in Prussia from 1688-1806
Elena Korchmina, Mikolaj Malinowski : Income and its Extraction in Tzarist Russia in a Global Perspective
Svante Prado, Erik Bengtsson & Jakob Molinder : New Estimates of Swedish Historical National Accounts from the Income Side, 1860–1910



Thursday 13 April 2023 11.00 - 13.00
D-6 ECO06 Technology, Work, and Wellbeing
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Alexandra de Pleijt
Organizer: Benjamin Schneider Discussant: Alexandra de Pleijt
Benjamin Schneider : The Race Between Productivity and Job Quality: British and American Cotton Spinning, 1830–1910
Guy Solomon, Joshua Rhodes : Work, Occupational Change, and Technological Adoption: Britain, 1851–1911
Hillary Vipond : Technological Change and Labour Displacement in Historical Perspective



Thursday 13 April 2023 14.00 - 16.00
D-7 ECO07a The Eldercare Revolution: Agency and Strategy in the Care of the Aged in Early Modern Europe I
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn
Organizers: Thomas Max Safley, Jaco Zuijderduijn Discussants: -
Mauro Carboni : Early Steps of Eldercare in Early Modern Italy: Bologna’s Asylum for Septuagenerians
Heidi Deneweth : Patterns of Cohabitation for and with the Elderly in Bruges and Brussels during the 18th Century
Ludwig Pelzl : Old Age, Social Mobility and Saving in South Germany, 17th to 18th Centuries



Thursday 13 April 2023 16.30 - 18.30
D-8 ECO07b The Eldercare Revolution: Agency and Strategy in the Care of the Aged in Early Modern Europe II
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Heidi Deneweth
Organizers: Thomas Max Safley, Jaco Zuijderduijn Discussants: -
Thomas Max Safley : Financing Eldercare: the Transformation of Financial Markets and Changing Approaches to Old Age in Early Modern Germany
Anton Svensson : Old Age and Retirement in Premodern Stockholm
Jaco Zuijderduijn : Three Logics of Premodern Commercial Retirement



Friday 14 April 2023 08.30 - 10.30
D-9 ECO09 The Territories of the Illicit in the Colonial Situation (19th-20th Centuries)
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Nicola Schalkowski
Organizer: Béatrice Touchelay Discussant: Sandra Bott
Thomas Claré : Opium Smuggling as Transgression: a Socio-economic History of Fraud Practices in French Indochina (1898-1940)
Aparajita Mukhopadhyay : Transient Borders of Licit and Illicit: a case Study of Railway Crime in 19th Century British India
Léa Renard, Raffaela Pfaff : Negotiating the Boundary between Licit and Illicit Labour Coercion in the Colonial Situation: the ILO Committee of Experts on Native Labour (1927-1938)
Ned Richardson-Little : Guns Through the Grey Zone: Imperial Germany’s Support and Sabotage of Controls over the Arms Trade to Africa and the Middle East, 1890-1914



Friday 14 April 2023 11.00 - 13.00
D-10 ECO18 Economic Development and Well-being of Workers
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Mikolaj Malinowski
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jonatan Andersson : Staying or Leaving the Local Labour Market: the Migration Decisions of Young Adults During the Second Industrial Revolution in Sweden
Robin Philips, Bas van Leeuwen : Evidence on Worktime and Working Conditions in the Netherlands at the End of the 19th Century
Stephan Sander-Faes : Dead Ideas Walking: Agrarian Dualism and the “Little Divergence” Revisited



Friday 14 April 2023 14.00 - 16.00
D-11 POL15 Science, Medicine and State Politics
B22
Network: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Alison Carrol : Imagining Channel Crossings in 1920s Europe
Hannah Proctor : Technologies of the Inner Self: US Social Science, Projective Testing and the 'Soviet Mind' at the Dawn of the Cold War
Anastassiya Schacht : International Advocacy Groups Opposing the Political Use of Psychiatry in the USSR of the 1970-1980s
Vaclav Smidrkal : Antifascists into Patients. Transnational Medical Knowledge and War Participants’ Welfare in Czechoslovakia after 1945



Friday 14 April 2023 16.30 - 18.30
D-12 ECO16 Industries and Industrial Development in the Long 19th Century
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Christiaan van Bochove
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Aditi Dixit : Industrial Development, State Policies, and Trade Relations: a Comparison between India and Japan, ca 1850 to 1940
Stylianos Panagiotidis, - : The Formation of a New Empire: Analyzing the German Coal and Steel Industry 1871-1914



Saturday 15 April 2023 11.00 - 13.00
D-14 ECO13 Demand and Supply on Early Modern Credit Markets
B22
Network: Economic History Chair: Christiaan van Bochove
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Staffan Albinsson : Jenny Lind's Financial Legacy
Nurhan Davutyan : The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd : Credit and the Poor in Pre-Industrial France
Alberto Feenstra : Innkeepers and other Middlemen. Financial Intermediation in Early-modern Dutch Debt


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