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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30.04.2025

ABAH DANLADI (UNIVERSITY OF GHANA; UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN)

Traditional Rulers, Economy and the Politics of Tax Administration in Colonial Igala Society of Northern Nigeria

 

07.05.2025

GERDA ASMUS-BLUHM (UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM)

Independence Movements and Ethnic Politics: Colonial Repression and Ethnic Voting in Kenya

 

14.05.2025

ANDREAS FERRARA (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)

The U.S. Civil War’s Impact on Women’s Work and Political Participation

 

21.05.2025

FABIO LAVISTA (UNIVERSITY OF PISA)

Industrial Policy, Specialization, and Growth: Suggestions from the European Experience (1962-2022)

 

27.05.2025

Droysen Lecture (Tuesday, 18:00 Einstein-Saal, BBAW)

LYNDAL ROPER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)

Geschichte(n) erzählen. Der Bauernkrieg 1525

 

04.06.2025

MATTHIAS WEIGAND (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Crisis, State Capacity, and the Making of Autocracy: A Design-based Analysis of the Thirty Years' War

 

11.06.2025

MONA MORGAN COLLINS (KING’S COLLEGE LONDON)

Suffrage, Turnout and the Household: How Marriage Mobilized Newly Enfranchised Wives and their Husbands in Urban Sweden

 

18.06.2025

TOM RASTER (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Breaking the Ice: The Persistent Effects of Pioneers on Trade Relationships

 

25.06.2025

SANDRINE KOTT (UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA)

A World More Equal. An internationalist Perspective on the Cold War 

 

02.07.2025

FRANCESCO CINNIRELLA (UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO)

Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation

 

09.07.2025

PETER KRAMPER (UNIVERSITY OF BIELEFELD)

TBC

 

16.07.2025

AGNES ARNDT (TU DRESDEN)

Child Welfare and Child Endangerment. A History of the Political Economy of Care in Post-War Germany