Spring 2014

Title

Speaker

Date

Vertical-axis Continents: Contrasting Demography and State Development in Africa and the Americas, 200.000 BP – 1500 AD

Ewout Frankema (WUR/UU)

06-02-14

Persistent corporations: Guilds and urban government in late-medieval Europe

Arie van Steensel (UU)

13-02-14

State Capacity and Violence: Evidence from the Rwandan genocide.

Leander Heldring (University of Oxford)

20-02-14

Reconstructing labour relations for India 1500-now.

Jan Lucassen en Rombert Stapel (IISH)

27-02-14

Competing channels, diverse constituents : the construction of the market for beauty products 1940s-1990s.

Ludovic Cailluet (University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management)

06-03-14

Statistics and politics in the 18th century.

Table Amtmann Lippe

Lars Behrisch (UU)

13-03-14

Leniency versus Toughening? The prosecution of male and female violence in 19th century Holland

Manon van der Heijden en Marion Pluskota (Universiteit Leiden)

20-03-14

The Great Escape? The Contribution of the Empire to Portugal’s Economic Growth, 1500-1800

Jaime Reis (ULisboa), Leonor F Costa (Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão) and Nuno Palma (LSE and Queen Mary University)

24-03-14

Missionaries, Colonizers, and Gender Inequality in Africa: Evidence from Protestant Marriage Registers, 1895-2011​

Felix Meier zu Selhausen (UU)

27-03-14

Working Skills Derived from Occupations: The 'Deskilling Hypothesis' Revisited.

Sandra de Pleijt (UU) and Jacob Weisdorf (U Southern Denmark/UU)

03-04-14

​Smoothing the flow, currency circulation and payment techniques in the Low Countries, 1500-1800.

Joost Jonker (UvA/UU) and Oscar Gelderblom (UU)

10-04-14

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Tracy Dennison (Caltech) and Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge)

17-04-14