Trinity
Term 2009 Seminars in ESH Thursdays at 12.45 pm in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College
TBA
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.
Inquiries to:
Sarah Cochrane, Leigh Gardner, William Hynes, Kiril Kossev
Week 1
30 April | ‘Education versus Fertility: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition’
Francesco Cinnirella, IFO Institute Munich
| Past seminar, lectures and workshops in Economic and Social History at Oxford:
Staff and Student Series in ESH: The Tuesday Seminar
Special Lectures
(including Hicks)
Seminars around Oxford | Week 2
7 May | ‘Swedish-belligerent
trade in the Second World War: iron ore, ball bearings and machine
tools guarantee survival; but what of Swedish neutrality?’
Eric Golson, London School of Economics
| Week 3
14 May | ‘From the Cradle to the Craze: A Study on China’s Indigenous Automobile Industry, 1953-2007’
Yungtai Hsu, St John’s College, University of Oxford | Week 4
21 May | ‘Socialist industrialisation or post-war reconstruction? Understanding Hungarian economic growth, 1949-67’
Tamas Vonyo, Balliol College, University of Oxford | Week 5
28 May | ‘Competition,
religion and liability: Measuring the stability of the Dutch
cooperative banking sector prior to the financial crisis of the 1920s’
Chris Colvin, London School of Economics
| Week 6
4 June | Civil Violence, Protection and Trade: Genoa and Barcelona during the Commercial Revolution
Agostino Inguscio, St John’s College, University of Oxford | Week 7
11 June | ‘The Seed of Abundance and Misery. Peruvian Living Standards from the Early Republican Period to the End of the Guano Era’
Linda Twrdek, University of Tuebingen | Week 8
18 June | ‘The Dynamics of Consumption and Investment in the Late Victorian Economy’
Nicholas Dimsdale, Queens College, University of Oxford
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Hilary
term 2009 Seminars in ESH Thursdays at 12.45 pm in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College
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.
Inquiries to:
Sarah Cochrane, Leigh Gardner, William Hynes, Kiril Kossev Week 1
22 Jan | ‘Subsidized migrants? Settlement law and rural-urban relief transfers in Belgium, 1750 – 1900’
Anne Winter, Research Foundation Flanders | Week 2
29 Jan | ‘A geographical explanation of the August 1911 British railway strike’
Peter Anderson, Jesus College, University of Oxford | Week 3
5 Feb | ‘Imperialism in reverse? Fiscal consequences of decolonization for Kenya and Zambia’
Leigh Gardner, Jesus College, University of Oxford | Week 4
12 Feb | ‘Financial repression and the spread of financial innovations in the Middle Ages’
Mark Koyama, Wadham College, University of Oxford | Week 5
19 Feb | ‘Height inequality indices for the World regions, 1810s – 1980s’
Matthias Blum, university of Tuebingen | Week 6
26 Feb | ‘Tory economic discourse in the Age of Restriction, 1791 – 1819’
Garth Patterson, Somerville College, University of Oxford | Week 7
5 Mar | ‘Farm servants and saving in pre-industrial Europe’
Thijs Lambrecht, University of Gent | Week 8
12 Mar | ‘Does modern labour market theory accurately describe historical labour markets?
The case of Lancashire cotton, 1780 – 1850’
Paul Minoletti, Mansfield College, University of Oxford |
LAST TERM Michaelmas Term 2008 Seminars in ESH
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Thursdays at 12.45 pm in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College
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.
Inquiries to:
Sarah Cochrane, Leigh Gardner, William Hynes, Kiril Kossev
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Week 1
16 October |
‘Accounting for Six-Decades of Urban Containment: An Alternative History of Town Planning’
Julian McGill, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
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Week 2
23 October |
‘Marital Fertility, Wealth and Inequality in Transition Era France, 1750-1850’
Neil Cummins, London School of Economics
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Week 3
30 October |
‘The Politics of Measuring Progress: The Development of Social Reporting in the U.S., 1965-1969’
Ian Hart, St Cross College, University of Oxford
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Week 4
6 November |
‘The Biological Standard of Living in Mexico (c.1953-1982): Concentration of Urban Population and Inter-Regional Inequality’
Roberto Velez-Grajales, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
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Week 5
13 November |
‘Economic Growth or Stagnation during the Interwar Period: The performance of British European colonies’
Alexander Apostolides, London School of Economic |
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Week 6
20 November |
‘Tall and Shrinking Muslims, Short and Growing Europeans: The Long-Run Welfare Development of the Middle East, 1850-1980’
Mojgan Stegl, University of Tuebingen
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Week 7
27 November
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‘A Theory of the Islamic Revival’
Jean-Paul Carvalho, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
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Week 8
4 December
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‘Anthropometric Evidence of Gender Inequality in India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’
Aravinda Guntupalli, University of Southampton
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