Asia Economic History Seminars 2025-26

Seminar organisers:  Zoey Shen, Tom Learmouth, Andy, Anggi Novianti

Venue:

Autumn Term: CKK.2.18 (Cheng Kin Ku Building) unless otherwise stated

Time: 12-1pm, unless otherwise stated

Autumn Term 2025 - 2026

28 October

• Masato Shizume (Waseda) and Makoto Fukumoto (Waseda)
• Modern Banking Reforms and Financial Activities of Indigenous Merchants: A Case from Japan in the Late 19th Century
• Abstract:
  TBC

18 November

• Mohd Shazwan Mokhtar (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
• Constructing Colonial Cost of Living Index in British Malaya during the interwar years
• Abstract:
  TBC

25 November

• Hugh Whittaker (Oxford)
• TBD
• Abstract:
  TBC

02 December

• James B. Lewis (Oxford)
• The East Asian War in World History and the Beginning of the Early Modern in East Asia
• Abstract:
  TBC

Spring Term 2025 - 2026

03 February

• Pim de Zwart (Wageningen University)
• Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850
• Abstract:
  TBC

03 March

• Şahin Yeşilyurt (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University)
• Attracting Starlings: Locust Invasions, Taxation, and the Role of Starling Sheikhs in Ottoman Society
• Abstract:
  TBC