Seminars are in person unless otherwise indicated.
Time: Wednesdays 1-2pm
Venue: PAR.LG.03 (Parish Hall)
Summer Term 2023
3 May
- Youssef Ghallada (visiting from Free University of Brussels)
- Sterling Bills Market and International Trade
10 May
- Julius Koschnick (LSE)
- Did a feedback mechanism between propositional and prescriptive knowledge create modern growth?
17 May
- Federica lo Polito (visiting from Toulouse University)
- ‘Italians first’: Refugee Reception Policy and nation Building
24 May - postponed due to illness
31 May
- Mikhail Kolosov (LSE)
- Farm servants in England in 1851 – 1911
7 June
- Ruoran Cheng (LSE)
- The transport situation in late 17th and 18th century China
14 June
- Tehreem Husain (LSE)
- Understanding Determinants of Railway Securities 1880-1913
28 September
- Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark)
- A perfect storm and the natural endowments of trade-enabling infrastructure
05 October
- Ziming Zhu (LSE)
- Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911
12 October
- Victor Perez-Sanchez (LSE)
- Should we debase? The Castilian monetary institutional setting in the 17th century
19 October
- Alexandra Quack (LSE, University of Zurich)
- Model Deidealisation in Practice: The Role of Narratives
26 October
- Gianni Marciante (University of Warwick)
- When nation building goes south: draft evasion, government repression, and the origins of the Sicilian Mafia
09 November
- lentBrecht Rogissart (University of Manchester/European University Insititute)
- Financialisation from Industrial Crisis: The Long Depression and the Belgian Financial System (1870-1914)
16 November
- Paul Winfree (Queen’s University, Belfast, Centre for Economic History)
- The Long-Run Effects of Temporarily Closing Schools: Evidence from Virginia, 1870s - 1910s
23 November
- Magnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies)
- The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development
30 November
- Xizi Luo (LSE)
- Parental Dictates: Marriage Sorting and Social Mobility in Imperial China, 1614-1854
- Job market presentation
07 December
- Tom Raster (Harvard University / Paris School of Economics)
- When Labor Scarcity Raises Coercion: Evidence from the Great Northern War Plague
18 January
- Quan Le (Princeton University)
- Platform competition and exclusive contracts: evidence from historical news agencies
25 January
- Jen Yu-Chien (University of Carlos III, Madrid)
- A comparative study of agricultural production in the United Kingdom and Taiwan from 1809 to 1818: the long-term influence of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815
Tuesday 31 January - please note this is a change to the regular time slot and venue
- Anna Molnar (King’s College, London)
- The participation and role of women in urban financial affairs of late medieval Vienna
- Room: PAR LG.03
- Time: 2-3pm
8 February
- Giacomo Plevani (University of Turin)
- Cities’ industrialisation and social mobility: evidence from Turin
15 February
- Adam Dawson (University of Oxford)
- Piracy at the Dawn of Capitalism: Accounts from the High Court of the Admiralty 1686-1710
1 March
- Paulo Bozzi (Humboldt University of Berlin)
- Towards a new fiscal contract: taxation and politics in Italy (1960-1990)
8 March
15 March
- Mirek Tobiáš Hošman (University of Bologna and Paris City University)
- Lending is an Art and Not a Science: The Rise and Fall of Supplementary Finance Scheme at UNCTAD and the World Bank
22 March
- Hillary Vipond (LSE)
- Locating technological unemployment in 19th century Britain
29 March
- Roberto Ganau (New York University)
- Death to the bankrupts! The moral and political origins of bankruptcy legislation in early modern Europe