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Economic and Social History Seminar
The Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University annually organises two series of seminars, one in spring and one in fall. Papers on a range of different topics related to economic and social history, from antiquity to recent times, are presented by scholars from within and outside the Netherlands.
The seminars are held in-person in the city centre of Utrecht on Thursdays at 12 noon CEST.
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ESH Seminar events 2024
| Thursday 15 February | Pierre-Yves Donzé (Osaka University), Japanese trading companies and the development of healthcare business in Asia, 1970-2020. Venue: Drift 21, 0.05 (Sweelinckzaal) |
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| Thursday 29 February | Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po), From Numbers to Boundaries, from Boundaries to Numbers: Apprentices in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France. Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Thursday 14 March | Maïka de Keyzer (KU Leuven), Does industriousness do the trick? Welfare levels in peasant and market economies (1670-1790) Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Thursday 28 March | Anne Winter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Survival and adaptation: Household strategies of rural linen workers in the wake of the 1840s subsistence crises in Flanders Venue: Drift 21, 0.05 (Sweelinckzaal) |
| Thursday 11 April | Elise Dermineur (Stockholm University), Networks of Solidarity in Preindustrial Europe Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Wednesday 17 April | Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi), Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Monday 13 May | Quamrul Ashraf (Williams), Structural Change, Elite Capitalism, and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation Venue: tbd |
| Thursday 30 May | Raphael Adès (Oxford), The perpetrators and circumstances of crime in early modern England Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Thursday 6 June | Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study), Title to be announced Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
| Thursday 20 June | Leander Heldring (Northwestern), Title to be announced Venue: KNG 80, 1.06 |
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