Fall 2015

Title

Speaker

Date

Born in a Bad Year? Effects of Birth Environment on Later-Life Reproduction, Survival and Their Trade-Off in Historical Finland 

Virpi Lummaa (University of Sheffield) 

24-09-15

All We Are Is Dust in the Wind - The Constant Threat of Sand Drifts

Maika de Keyser (Utrecht University)        

 

01-10-15

Family Types and Intimate-Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

Ana Tur-Prats (Pompeu Fabra University)

08-10-15

Premarital Cohabitation in Early Modern Amsterdam

Anita Boele, Tine de Moor & René van Weeren (Utrecht University)

15-10-15

Iceberg Transport Costs

Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam) & Eltjo Buhring (Utrecht University)

22-10-15

Hierarchy, Agency and the Great Divergence in EurAsia

Sarah Carmichael, Sandra de Pleijt & Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)

29-10-15

"The Illusion of Control”. Risk management in Dutch Banking

Gerarda Westerhuis (Utrecht University)        

05-11-15

The Cape of Good Hope Panel: Problems and Possibilities

Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University)

12-11-15

The Genealogy of Novelty: An Evolutionary Explanation of Breakthrough Inventions in Science, Technology, and the Arts

Koen Frenken (Utrecht University)               

19-11-15

‘Til Death Us Do Part: a Comparative Study of Marriage and Longevity Using Historical Population Datasets

Charlotte Störmer & Corry Gellatly (Utrecht University)     

26-11-15