Spring 2018

Title 

Speaker(s)

Date

The horns of a dilemma in colonial policies: rice, rubber and living standards in the Malay Peninsula

Kostadis Papaioanno  (University of Lund)        

1/3/2018

Historical family and European contemporary developmental inequalities: is there a long-term effect? Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

8/3/2018

Orphans and their money in times of urban growth and migration: explaining the orphan chambers of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht

Josje Schnitzeler (UtrechtUniversity)

22/3/2018

An episode in the era of mass migration: German-speakers and the transition from slavery in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1830-1880)

Bruno Witzel (University of Gӧttingen)

19/4/2018

Social mobility in 14th century Ghent: in search of the social impact of the Black Death

Wouter Ryckbosch (VU Brussel), Sam Geens (Antwerp University)

26/4/2018

A history of the political economy of markets in Western Europe

Craig Muldrew (Cambridge University)

3/5/2018

Unequal socio-economic consequences of climatic shocks in 17th century western Finland

Heli Huhtamaa (Utrecht University)

17/5/2018