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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.
Spring 2026
Date | Speaker |
| 14/1 | [No seminar] |
| 21/1 | Kerstin Enflo (LU), Early Modern Inequality and Machine-Ready Sources – a Project Presentation. Presentation online. |
| 28/1 | Tobias Karlsson (LU): Industrialisation and the Paradox of Farmers’ Retirement: Evidence from Full-Count Swedish Censuses, 1880-1910. |
| 4/2 | Fabio Gatti (UNIBE, Switzerland): AI and Text Analysis for Renaissance Financial Data. Presentation online. |
| 11/2 | Lars-Fredrik Andersson (UmU): The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Morbidity Outcomes: Insights from Swedish Health Insurance Data. Presentation online. |
| 18/2 | Oskar Broberg & Orsi Husz (UU): The cash parenthesis – A cultural perspective on payments. |
| 25/2 | Giulia Martini: Gendered land access: how woman negotiated their rights in the Gold Coast colony. |
| 4/3 | Erik Green (LU) & Calumet Links: Collapse and Persistence before 1713: Rethinking Khoekhoen Political Economy at the Early Cape |
| 11/3 | Pablo Astorga (IBEI, Barcelona): Has oil richness been a force for income equality in Venezuela over the long term? Presentation online. |
| 18/3 | Sarah Washbrook (University of Southern Denmark): Wielding the “weapon…of chilled meat”: Trade reciprocity, economic nationalism and the 1933 Roca-Runciman treaty between Great Britain and Argentina. Presentation online. |
| 25/3 | Carolina Uppenberg (Södertörn): The benevolent patriarch? How crises reveal early modern households’ labour organisation and the reach of patriarchal care across the Baltic Sea, 1723–1809 |
| 1/4 | Raisa Maria Rubio: Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940. Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System |
| 8/4 | [Easter break – no seminar] |
| 15/4 | Klas Rönnbäck, Irene Elmerot & Leif-Jöran Olsson: Voices of the enslaved. Project presentation. |
| 22/4 | Jeanne Cilliers (LU): Legacies of Colonial Maternal Health Services in Africa. |
| 29/4 | Juan Pablo Ciarelli: Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Economic Nationalism: Lessons from Argentina’s Interwar Period (1912 – 1938) |
| 6/5 | Gustav Kjellsson (NEK GU), En mer likvärdig skolgång |
| 13/5 | Tom Raster (LSE): Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics. |
| 20/5 | Ellen Hillbom (LU): Indentured labour in Mauritius. |
| 29/5 (OBS the date!) | Jens Boberg (public defense): Growth Imperatives: Historical Perspectives on The Rationality of GDP. Opponent: Lars Magnusson. |
| 3/6 | Jakob Molinder (UU): What Did Workers Do? Using Job Ads to Analyse Changes in the Task Content of Work in an Industrializing Economy |
| 10/6 | Klara Järgenstedt: research-plan seminar, The Bankomat: A Parenthesis Between Paper, Plastic and Silicon |