Fall 2008

Title

Speaker

Date

“How Rich a Lawyer, How Poor a Tailor?: A Precise Economic Hierarchy of Urban Occupations in fifteenth-Century Spain”

Jeff Fynn-Paul (Utrecht University)

16-10-08

“Labour migrants and cross-border commuters. Comparative perspectives on mining labour markets in the Belgian-

Ad Knotter (UniMaas)

23-10-08

The culture of the public: assembly politics and the 'feudal revolution'

Chris Wickham, All Souls College, Oxford

24-10-08

“Megastructures of the Middle Ages: The Construction of Religious Buildings in Europe and Asia, c.1000-1500”

Maarten Prak (UU)

06-11-08

“Retroprojections of Portuguese expansion in the Early Modern Age: the internal impact of overseas dynamics in maritime societies (16-17th centuries)”

Amelia Polonia (University of Porto)

13-11-08

"CEO Communication with Financial Markets - The Case of Royal Philips NV, 1971-2001"

Abe De Jong (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

20-11-08

Unity or diversity? On the integration and efficiency of rice markets in Indonesia, c. 1920-2006

Daan Marks (IISH)

27-11-08

“The cost of health in early modern London”

Vanessa Harding (University of London)

04-12-08

"Was there a West-European trajectory of state formation? A comparison with the Ottoman Empire from a Dutch perspective"

Wantje Fritschy (VU)

11-12-08