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2005–2006
Michaelmas Term
Hilary Term
Trinity Term
Michaelmas Term 2005 Seminars
Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5pm
in the Wharton Room, All Souls College
Convenors: Professor Robert Allen, Dr Knick Harley,
Professor Jane Humphries, Professor Avner Offer
Week 1 (11 October)
Professor Alexander Field (Santa Clara University)
The Impact of World War II on U.S. Productivity Growth
Week 2 (18 October):
Dr Tak Wing Chan (New College)
The Instability of Divorce Risk Factors in the UK, 1960–1989
Week 3 (25 October)
Dr Abigail Barr (Department of Economics)
Exploring the Origins of Fairness: An Experimental Investigation across 15 Small Societies
Week 4 (1 November)
Professor Jan de Vries (Berkeley):
The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World
Week 5 (8 November)
Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University):
Mobility, Creativity, and Technological Development
Week 6 (15 November):
Karine Gabay (Jerusalem):
Coercion
Power, Property Rights, and Technology Adoption: Construction of
Watermills in Ponthieu, France during the 11th–12th Centuries
Week 7 (22 November)
Professor Chris Wickham (All Souls College):
Rethinking the Structure of the Early Medieval Economy
Week 8 (29 November)
Dr Valpy Fitzgerald (St Antony's College):
Productivity in Latin America during the Twentieth Century
Michaelmas Term 2005 Special
Lectures
Professor Patrick O'Brien (LSE):
"The British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture in Global History"
Monday, 24 October at 5 p.m. in the Examination Schools. All welcome
Michaelmas Term 2005 Workshops
Thursdays at 5 pm in The Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
13 October (Week 1)
Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen, Oxford )
Rousseau, French Medicine and the Invention of Paediatrics
20 October (Week 2)
Richard Smith (Cambridge )
Epidemiological
Change and Human Agency in the Determination of Infant and Early
Childhood Mortality in England and her Neighbours c.1650-1850
27 October (Week 3)
Alice Reid (Cambridge )
Child Mortality in Britain 1880 to 1945
3 November (Week 4)
Paul Weindling (Brookes)
Children as Victims of Nazi Medical Research: Context, Motives and Answers
10 November (Week 5)
Stuart Murray (Leeds )
Narratives of Fascination: Children and Autism in Contemporary Literature and Film
17 November (Week 6)
George Rousseau (MHRU, Oxford )
Laurence Sterne’s ‘Tristrapaedia’ and Other Enlightenment Systems Describing the Stages of Child Development
24 November (Week 7)
Ilana Lowy (CNRS, Paris)
Jozefa Joteyko (1866-1928) and the Attempt to Create a Universal ‘Science of Childhood’
1 December (Week 8)
Roland Littlewood (UCL)
Reason and Necessity in the Specification of Genetic Sexual Attraction (Incest)
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Seminar Room, Nuffield College
Wednesdays at 12.45 pm
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Week 1
Oct 12th
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‘Have Gun Give Food: Agriculture, Nutrition and Civil Wars
in Sub-Saharan Africa’
Alexander Moradi, Dep. Economics, University of Oxford |
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Week 2
Oct 19th |
‘Fraternity versus equality? Collective action and social exclusion
in two English cities, 1945–1995’
Harold Carter, St. John's College, University of Oxford |
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Week 3
Oct 26th |
‘Marriage and Class: The role of occupational change
in explaining Irish marital patterns since independence’
Carmel Hannan, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Week 4
Nov 2nd |
‘Legitimacy and the Defence of Property Rights:
A Case Study of Royal Government in 12th-Century Scotland’
Leigh Gardner, Jesus College, University of Oxford
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Week 5
Nov 9th |
‘How costly did the external constraint come under the
Classical Gold Standard? A cross-country study, 1870s–1913’
Matthias Morys, Department of Economics, University of Oxford
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Week 6
Nov 16th |
‘A "Hegemonic Enterprise"? Hospitals in British India,
1880–1900’
Emily Ludwig, New College, University of Oxford
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Week 7
Nov 23rd |
‘Roots of the 1960s "Social Indicators Movement" ’
Ian Hart, St. Cross College, University of Oxford
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Week 8
Nov 30th |
‘Grain Trade and Grain Markets in 18th- and 19th-Century India’
Roman Studer, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Students and academics of all
disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides researchers with an
opportunity to present their work in a friendly and relaxed
environment. Papers are normally ‘work in progress’ rather than
polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 20 minutes is
followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is
provided.
Inquiries to : Tommy E. Murphy - tomas.murphy@economics.oxford.ac.uk
Hilary
term 2006 Seminars
Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Seminar meets on Monday at 5pm
in the Seminar Room of the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road (St. Antony’s College)
Convenors: Professor Robert Allen, Dr Knick Harley,
Professor Jane Humphries, Professor Avner Offer
Week 1 (16 January)
Professor Avner Offer (All Souls College):
Self-control and well-being: The challenge of affluence
Week 2 (23 January)
Professor Stefano Battilossi (Carlos III, Madrid):
Financial repression in post-1950 Western Europe
Week 3 (30 January)
Professor Larry Neal (University of Illinois):
Lessons from the transitions: From the enlargement of the European Union to the enlargement of the Euro
Week 4 (6 February)
Professor Alan Milward (Cabinet Office):
Why have countries joined the EC/EU? Britain's accession in wider perspective
Week 5 (13 February)
Professor Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III, Madrid):
Growth, inequality, and poverty in OECD and Latin America: historical evidence and conjectures
Week 6 (20 February)
Professor Alan Taylor (University of California at Davis):
Collateral damage: Trade disruption and the economic impact of war (with Reuven Glick)
Week 7 (27 February)
Dr Matthias Morys (Department of Economics)
Adjustment under the classical Gold Standard: How costly did the external constraint become to the European periphery?
Week 8 (7 March)
Professor Joe Ferrie (Northwestern University):
‘Vive la différence’? Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in France and the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries (with Jérôme Bourdieu and Lionel Kesztenbaum)
Hilary Term 2006 Special
Lectures
School of Archaeology Interdisciplinary Research Seminars:
On the move: studying past diasporas, movements, and migrations
Conveners: Hannes Schroeder, William Pettigrew and Chris Gosden
Seminars are being held Wednesdays, 5pm in the Lecture Room at the Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford
18 January: James Walvin (University of York):
Historians and the African Diaspora
25 January: David Miles (English Heritage):
Who were Britain's First Farmers? An everyday story of country folk
1 February: Janet Montgomery (University of Bradford):
Dead Men don’t talk but they still carry a passport: How to spot a migrant with rain, rocks and a little bit of chemistry
8 February: Helena Hamerow (University of Oxford):
Migration theory and the Anglo-Saxon identity crisis
15 February: Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester):
A People so Subtle: Sephardic Jews of the English West Indies
22 February: Vincent Macaulay (University of Glasgow):
Dispersals of genes from Africa
1 March: Dan Hicks (University of Bristol):
Houses and households, migrations and 'home': scales of analysis in the historical archaeology of the early modern Atlantic
8 March: David Coleman (University of Oxford):
Migration to Europe: a glimpse into the future
The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Professor Şevket Pamuk (
Professor of Economic and Economic History,
Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
will give a lecture on
“Selective Evolution of Ottoman Financial Institutions in the Early Modern Era”
on Tuesday 7 February at 5pm in the Middle East Centre Library,
68 Woodstock Road
Commonwealth History Seminar
Week 5 (Friday 17 February) at 5.00pm in the History Faculty building:
Emma Reisz (Jesus College):
Economic Imperialism and the Culture of Technology: Rubber in the British Empire 1800-1940
Hilary Term 2006 Workshops
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Seminar Room, Nuffield College: Wednesdays at 12.45 pm
Week 1
Jan 18th
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‘From Volume to Weight: Measurements in London Coal Trade c1830 -
A Case Study in Standardization’
Aashish Velkar, London School of Economics & Political Sciences |
Week 2
Jan 25th
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‘Fiscal Redistribution in Early Modern States: The Example of 18th Century Bern’
Stefan Altorfer, London School of Economics & Political Sciences |
Week 3
Feb 1st
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‘The missed opportunity of Initial Public Offerings by tender:
A case study in British capital market failure’
David Chambers, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
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Week 4
Feb 8th
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--SPECIAL PRESENTATION--
‘The Origins of the Great Divergence:
European Wages in the Era of the Black Death’
Sevket Pamuk (Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History,
Boğaziçi University (Turkey) |
Week 5
Feb 15th |
‘Reassessing urban women's work before the Black Death: a case study, 1300-49’
Matthew Stevens, University of Oxford |
Week 6
Feb 22nd
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‘Friendly Societies: the Rise and Fall of Mutual Aid in 19th Century Britain’
Robert Schiff, New College, University of Oxford
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Week 7
Mar 1st
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‘Inflation in Russia and China from Command Economy to Transition Economy: 1919-2000’
Sale Lilly, New College, University of Oxford
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Week 8
Mar 8th
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‘Cooperation and Conflict in the Newcastle Newspaper Trade, 1760-1820’
Victoria Gardner, St. John’s College, University of Oxford
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Students
and academics of all disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides
researchers with an opportunity to present their work in a friendly and
relaxed environment. Papers are normally ‘works in progress’ rather
than polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 25 minutes
is followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is
provided.
Enquiries to:
Trinity
Term 2006 Seminars
Business History Seminar
(Saïd Business School, Economics Department, and History Faculty)
The seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5.00pm
in the Andrew Cormack Seminar Room, Said Business School
Convenors: Dr David Chambers, Dr Christopher McKenna, Professor Avner Offer
Week 2 (2 May )
Shinobu Majima (University of Manchester):
Fashion and Mass Consumer Society in Britain, c. 1950–2000
Week 3 (9 May)
Gerben Bakker (University of Essex):
The
Emergence of Rights-Based Multinationals: Sunk Costs, Intellectual
Property Rights and the Political Economy of Globalisation, 1870–2000
Week 4 (16 May)
David Kirsch (University of Maryland):
Was there too little Entry in the Dot Com Era?
Week 5 (23 May)
David Chambers (Department of Economics):
Gentlemanly
Capitalism Revisited: A Case Study of the Underpricing of Initial
Public Offerings on the London Stock Exchange 1946–1986
Week 6 (30 May)
David Nye (University of Warwick):
Electrical Blackouts as a Cultural Rorschach Test: The US Since 1965
Week 7 (6 June)
Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow):
The Agricultural and Mercantile Meanings of ‘Improvement’ in America
Additional session to be held in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, at 5.00pm:
Week 8 (13 June)
Jason Long (Colby College):
Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain, 1851–1901
Trinity Term 2006 Special Lectures
Hicks Lecture,
2006
Friday 12 May 2006
Examination Schools, 5pm
Professor Maxine Berg (University of Warwick):
The Asian Century: The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Consumer Revolution
Professor Berg is the author of many influential books and articles, most recently:
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Trinity Term 2006 Workshops
Graduate
Workshop in Economic and Social History, Trinity term 2006
Seminar Room, Nuffield College: Wednesday at 12.45 pm
Week 1
26 April
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‘Retailers of Hope: Alternative and Complementary Practitioners Selling their Services to the Terminally Ill’
Jure Stojan, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
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Week 2
3 May
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‘A Model of Smithian Growth and Intercontinental Trade in Early Modern Europe’
Guillaume Daudin, OFCE Paris
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Week 3
10 May
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‘Slave Mortality and Survival in the British West Indies: Some Case Studies’
Simon Smith, University of York and All Souls College
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Week 4
17 May
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‘Power and Prejudice: Death Penalty Practices in Malawi, c. 1900-1955’
Stacey Hynd, St Cross College, University of Oxford
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Week 5
24 May
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‘The Spanish Empire and its Legacy: Fiscal Re-distribution and Political Conflict in Colonial and Post-Colonial Spanish America’
Regina Grafe, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Maria Alejandra Irigoin, The College of New Jersey
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Week 6
31 May
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‘Did Spain Gain So Much from the Railways? The Contribution of Railway Technology to Spanish Economic Growth (1858-1913)’
Alfonso Herranz Loncan, Universitat de Barcelona
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Week 7
7 June
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‘An Analysis of the Expansion of Compulsory Schooling in Europe after the Second World War’
Martina Viarengo, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
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Week 8
14 June*
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‘Guilds
and Working Time: Did the Removal of Institutional Barriers Allow
Working Hours to Increase in London during the Eighteenth Century?’
Tom Marshall, Worcester College, University of Oxford
*Please note: this session will be held in the Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
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Students
and academics of all disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides
researchers with an opportunity to present their work in a friendly and
relaxed environment. Papers are normally ‘works in progress’ rather
than polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 25 minutes
is followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is
provided.
Enquiries to:
Leigh Gardner
Ian Hart
Other seminars
Medieval Economic and Social History seminar
Seminar list for Trinity Term 2006
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