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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 2025

Date 

Speaker 

15/1 

No seminar 

22/1 

Research application session  
Christopher Absell and Jeremy Land 
Anna Missiaia 

29/1 

Research application session  
Christopher Absell – Cultural Roots of ecological crisis 

5/2 

Staffan Albinsson (University of Gothenburg) 
King Gustaf III as founder and funder of royal Swedish cultural institutions 

12/2 

 

19/2 

Patrick van der Geest (Lund University)
Ledger to Letter: Developing a Methodology to Study Hope & Co.’s Integration of European and Colonial Trade and Finance

26/2 

No seminar 

5/3 

Amélie Allegre (University of West Anglia) 
The Colonial Roots of Gender Disparities in Education: Evidence from the French Protectorate in Morocco 

12/3 

Satyendra Peerthum (Aapravasi Ghat – World Heritage Site) 
Slavery, Maroonage and the Bagne Prison in Mauritius 

19/3 

Juan Pablo Juliá Ciarelli – Final Seminar 
Opponent: Alan de Bromhead (University College Dublin) 

26/3 

Saska Heino (University of Gothenburg) 
Self-sufficiency, wages in-kind and the limits of monetary concepts of inequality in history: The Nordics, c. 1865–1959 

2/4 

Emma Maltin (University of Stockholm) 
Stockfish and dried skates: Regional fish trade in the Skagerrak during the 16th century 

9/4 

Christopher Absell and Stefania Galli (University of Gothenburg) 
Who Gained from the Decline of British Imperial Preference? 

30/4 

Laura Maravall (University of Alcalá) 
tba 

7/5 

Andrea Schneider Braunberger (The Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte – Society for Business History) 
tba 

14/5 

Hélder Carvalhal (Uppsala University) 
tba 

21/5 

Michael Chanda Chiseni (University of Gothenburg) 
tba  

28/5 

Leo Dolan (Universidad Carlos III)
Unearthing Profit: Coercive Labour and Firm Performance in 20th Century African Diamond Mines

05/06 (Thursday) 

Bezawit Abebe - Final seminar 
Opponent: Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena)