Higher seminar in Economic History

Date 

Speaker 

3/9 

Dimitris Theodoridis (SU) and Klas Rönnbäck: Colonial market integration – commodity price convergence in the British Caribbean, ca. 1830–1940. 

10/9 

Klara Järgenstedt, Brage Utne Iyer, Shreeya Bhayana: presentations of new doctoral students’ masters-theses and research areas. 

17/9 

Pierre Strandberg (Dept of history, GU), Gothenburg’s transoceanic sugar trade ca. 1810–1850. 

24/9 

Giulia Martini (half-time seminar): Regaining Access to Property: women's strategies in navigating colonial institutions in the Gold Coast 1860 - 1940. Discussant: Luka Miladinovic. 

1/10 

Raisa Maria Rubio (half-time seminar): Economic development and public policies in Peru. A long-run perspective. Discussant: Jakob Molinder. 

8/10 

Bart van Holsteijn (half-time seminar): Corporate Imperialism on the Guiana Coast: the dynamics of slavery and political power under the Society of Berbice in the Eighteenth Century. Discussant: Stephanie Decker. 

15/10 

Lovisa Broström (Dept for Social Work, GU): The Middle-Class Attitudes Towards Progressive Taxation in Sweden 1970-2016 

22/10.  
NB: starting time 12.15 

Per Hallén, When the herring disappeared - how the fishing industry in the North Sea changed 1965-1975.  

29/10  
(autumn break in Gbg schools) 

Meredith Paker (Grinnell College, US), Patrick Wallis (LSE, UK) and Judy Stephenson (UCL, UK): Predictive Modeling the Past. Presentation online. 

5/11  

Ernesto Lopez Losa (University of the Basque Country, guest researcher GU): Labour Incomes in Early Modern Spain: Measurement and Interpretations. 

14/11 (Observe the date!) 

Juan Pablo Julia Ciarelli (public defense): Trade, Policy, and Conflict during a change of Economic Regimes: essays on Argentina’s economic history (1895 – 1950). Opponent: Leandro Prados de la Escosura. 

19/11 

Anna Missiaia: Globalisation, Labour Markets and Conflict: Evidence from Strike Activity in Italy, 1881--1911. 

26/11 

Susanna Fellman: Tools for market control: Businesses, governments and international commodity agreements in the 20th century. 

3/12 

Jonatan Andersson (IBF, Uppsala Universitet): Economic impacts of the metro: evidence from 1950s Stockholm 

10/12 

Jonas Helgertz (LU), Martha Bailey, Joaquin Serrano and Connor Cole: Reconciling the Evidence on False Links in Historical Data. 

17/12 

Christian Dahl & Torben Johansen (Syddansk Universitet): Agentic AI for Automated Archival Data Processing