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Hilary Term 2012: The Tuesday Seminar in ESH
The Seminar meets on
Tuesdays at 5pm AT THE WHARTON ROOM, ALL SOULS COLLEGE
*** Note the change of venue ***
Convenor: Dr James Fenske
Week 1
17 January
| Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex)
"Revolutionizing Transport: Modern Infrastructure,
Agriculture and Development in Ghana"
Paper available here
| Week 2
24 January
| Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)
"Shadows of the
Captain of the Men of Death: Long Run Impacts of Early Life Exposure to
Pneumonia"
Paper available here
| Week 3
31 January
| Rui Esteves (University of Oxford)
"The Belle Epoque of International Finance.
French Capital Exports, 1880-1914"
Paper available here
| Week 4
7 February
| Olivier Accominotti (London School of Economics)
"Asymmetric
Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression"
Paper available here
| Week 5
14 February
| Geoffrey
Kron (University of Victoria)
"Democracy, social justice, and economic development: Comparative
perspectives on Greco-Roman antiquity and early industrial England."
Handout
| Week 6
21 February
| Markus Lampe (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"How much trade liberalization was there in the world before and
after Cobden-Chevalier?"
| Week 7
28 February
| Debin Ma (London School of Economics)
"Money and Prices of the Northern
Chinese Economy on the Eve of Opium War: Evidences from Tong Taisheng Account
Books (1800-1850)"
| Week 8
6 March
| Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (University College Dublin & University of Tasmania)
"Morbidity and Mortality
on Convict Voyages to Nineteenth Century Australia"
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Michaelmas Term 2011: The Tuesday Seminar in ESH
The Seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All Souls College
Convenors: Professor Jane Humphries, Professor Kevin O'Rourke and Dr Deborah Oxley
| Week 1 |
Professor Alex
Field, Santa
Clara University
11
Oct.: ‘A Great Leap Forward:
1930s Depression and U.S. economic growth.’
| | Week 2 | Dr Tim Leunig, London School of Economics
15
Nov.: ‘Spinning welfare, driving progress: Why process
innovations are as important as new products.’
| | Week 3 |
Professor Mark
Casson, University of Reading
25
Oct.: ‘Population growth in nineteenth
century Oxfordshire: Modelling the role of local markets.’
| | Week 4 |
Dr Sibylle
Lehmann, University of Köln
1
Nov.: ‘Taking firms to the stock market: IPOs and
the importance of Universal Banks in Imperial Germany 1896-1913.’
| | Week 5 |
Professor Simon
Szreter, Cambridge
8
Nov.: ‘The Royal Commission on Venereal Disease
1913-16: A reappraisal of its evidence on the prevalence of VD.’
| | Week 6 | Dr Jane Gray, National University of Ireland
15 Nov.: ‘The circulation of children
in early Twentieth-Century Ireland.’
| | Week 7 |
Alessandro Nuvolari, Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
22
Nov.: ‘Inventive activities, patents and the first industrial revolution: A synthesis of research issues.’
| | Week 8 |
Professor Joanna
Bourke, Birkbeck College
29
Nov.: ‘Rhetorics of pain: Historical reflections
1760 to the present.’
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Trinity
Term 2012: The Tuesday Seminar in ESH
Tuesdays at 5pm, Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College HOW TO GET THERE
Convenors: Dr Rui Esteves, Dr Florian Ploeckl
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