Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Social and Economic History

Research Colloquium

The Berliner Forschungskolloquium Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte is organised by the Institut für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Nikolaus Wolf) and the Lehrstuhl für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Alexander Nützenadel).


The colloquium takes place on Wednesday (17-18:15h) in Unter den Linden 6 (main building), room 2095A

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16.10.2024

 

 

OLIVER WACH (FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN)
Building Socialism on Abandoned Land: Collectivization and Civic Engagement in Poland

23.10.2024

JANE HUMPHRIES (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)
The Milk of Human Kindness. Breastfeeding in England: Extent and Value

 

30.10.2024

RILEY LINEBAUGH (HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN)
’Caesar's Wives’. Secretaries and Secrecy in the British Empire

 

06.11.2024

ANDREAS LINK (FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG)
The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the West

 

13.11.2024

SEBASTIAN KOHL & MATTHIAS RÖMER (FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN)
Insurance Crises and Financial Stability: A Long-Run View”

 

20.11.2024

TRISTAN OESTERMANN (HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN)
Decolonizing Quinine: A Political History of the Pharmaceutical Industry After Empire, 1945-1998

 

27.11.2024

HARTMUT KAELBLE (HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN)
International European Social Policy and the National Welfare States, 1880s-2020

04.12.2024

PIERRE EICHENBERGER (UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE)
Business of the World, Unite! The Creation of the International Chamber of Commerce after WWI

11.12.2024

LUIS BOSSHART (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)
Political Competition and Economic Divergence: European Development Before and After the Black Death

18.12.2024

MARTIN BEMMANN (ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG)
On the Way to International Scientific Institutes? CMEA’s Coordination Centres and the Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Socialist World, 1960s to 1980

08.01.2025

VALERIA RUEDA (UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM)
Residential Security Mappings and Local Public Finances

 

15.01.2025

FELIPE GONZALES (QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
Government Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Chile’s Road to Socialism

 

22.01.2025

PAULA GOBBI (UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES)
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline

 

 

29.01.2025

AGNES ARNDT (MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR BILDUNGSFORSCHUNG)
Child Welfare and Child Endangerment. A History of the Political Economy of Care in Post-War Germany

 

05.02.2025

THOMAS ERTL & JULIAN HELMCHEN (FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN)
House Prices in Late-medieval Vienna. First Results and Comparisons

 

12.02.2025

MARTINA HEßLER (TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT)
Do we need a history of technological errors? An argument for the analysis of everyday errors in technological societies