• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Asha Banarjee , Giuliana Freschi , Beth Kitson , Ben Schneider , Alex Wurfers
• Timing: Wednesdays 12:45 pm

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “Finnish demographic development 1648-1811. New estimates of birth, death and marriage rates”
  Miikka Voutilainen (University of Jyväskylä)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, and Modernity: Evidence from a Historical Episode of Industrialization”
  Janvier Mejia (Universidad de los Andes)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “The rise of the cotton trade in Brazil during the industrial revolution”
  Thales A. Zamberlan Pereira (University of São Paulo)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “Domestic Service in France and Britain in the Early 20th Century”
  Fanny Louvier (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “The Rise and Fall of Africa’s Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie: Public Employment and Pay in Kenya and Tanzania since Independence”
  Rebecca Simson (LSE)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “The Neutrality of Multiple Exchange Rates: Industrial Distortions in Brazil, 1953-1961”
  Bernardo Stuhlberger Wjuniski (LSE)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “Selection in Transatlantic Migration during the Interwar Period, 1920-39”
  Alexander Wulfers (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - “Fiscal Health and Debasement under the Emperor Trajan, AD 97-117”
  Katherine Thomson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Fatherless: The Long-Term Effects of Losing a Father in the U.S. Civil War’
  Andreas Ferrara (Univeristy of Warwick)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Hyperinflation and Stabilisation in Poland, 1919–1927: ‘War of Attrition’ or Diplomacy by Other Means?’
  Thea Don-Siemion (LSE)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Evolution of the European witch-hunts’
  Steije Hofhuis (Univeristy of Utrecht)

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Competition and Rent-Seeking During the Slave Trade’
  Jose Corpuz (Univeristy of Warwick)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - An equal sharing of miseries? Dimensions of gender inequality in a changing rural world, Italy 1880s-1930s’
  Giulia Mancini (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Doomed to decline? Interwar industrial performance and policy in Northern Ireland’
  David Jordan (Queen’s Belfast)

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - ‘Initial Determinants of Mexican Mass Migration’
  David Escamilla-Guerrero (LSE)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The Wage Depressing Effects of Equality? Japan 1750–1868’
  Yuzuru Kumon (UC Davis)