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Higher seminar in Economic History

Here is the schedule for the Higher seminar in Economic History. Unless stated otherwise, the seminar takes place on Wednesdays between 12:00 and 13:00, in the conference room at floor 5 at Viktoriagatan 13.

Date Speaker 
2 September 

Raisa Rubio: Somos libres, seámoslo ¿siempre?” 

Real tariff protection in Peru, 1902—1940. Evidence from a price-driven system 

9 September Shreeya Bhayana: research plan seminar. Discussants: Markus Lampe and Bart van Holsteijn 
16 September Ana Catelén (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata): Distributive conflict, economic policy, and macroeconomic volatility in Argentina (1890–2020). Online only
23 September Vacant 
30 September Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) and Miguel López-Morell (Universidad de Murcia): Technological Innovation and Organisational Change in Mexican Retail Banking since the 1970s. Online only
7 October 

Brage Iyer: research plan seminar. Discussants: Svante Prado and  

Raisa Rubio 

14 October Saska Heino (University of Helsinki): Histories of tax privileges, class, and inequality in Finland and Sweden, 1644–1864 
21 October Suvi Heikkuri, Svante Prado, Onur Yükçü: Agricultural mechanization and gender patterns in post-WWII Sweden 
28 October Onur Yükçü & Ernesto López Losa: The Tyranny of Distance or the Distant Tyranny? Cod Prices and Market Integration in Spain, 1650–1800  
(Autumn break in Gbg schools) 
4 November Maanik Nath (Utrecht): Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India. 
11 November Pim de Zwart (Wageningen): Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast Asian deforestation since 1880. Online only
18 November Malin NIlsson (LU) and Birgit Karlsson (GU): Public or private? Organisation of poor relief in Gothenburg 1890-1920 
25 November Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki): Factories, Frictions, and the Foundations of Growth: Microdata from the Russian Empire, 1795–1908 (joint work with Marvin Suesse) 
2 December Giulia Martini: Commercialisation of Cocoa and Land: Tenure and Conflicts in the Colonial Courts of Southern Ghana, 1860–1940 
9 December Per Hallén, Poul Holm and Patrick Hayes: Socio-ecological planning of MPA. (Biodiversa project) 
16 December                                                                              Christian Alexander Abildgaard Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark): Surnames & Social Mobility in Denmark, 1750-2020