Fall 2012

Title

Speaker

Date

Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: a Test for an Advanced Economy

Guido Alfani

04-10-12

Origins of the European Marriage Pattern at the Turn of the Middle Ages from the Perspective of Polish History

Piotr Guzowski (University of Bialystok)

11-10-12

Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK

Eric Schneider (University of Oxford)

25-10-12

Thinking Long-Term: Economic or Civilizational Analysis

Toby Huff (Goettingen University and Harvard University)

02-11-12

The Textile Industries of Medieval Egypt: Social and Economic Aspects

Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan University)

08-11-12

From colonial empires to developing countries and on to emerging economies: the international expansion of the Dutch brewere Heineken, 1930-2010

Keetie Sluyterman & Bram Bouwens (Utrecht University)

15-11-12

Pearls, a girl's best friend? Sri Lankan women's status at the beginning of the 20th century as the roots of their current position

Sarah Carmichael (Utrecht University)

22-11-12

Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Re-interpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape

Stan du Plessis (Stellenbosch University)

06-12-12

Socio-economic history and language change: urbanisation in England 1400-1700

Anita Auer (Utrecht University)

13-12-12