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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17.04.2024 SANDRA DE PLEIJT (WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY)
The deep roots of human capital formation and economic development in
Southeast Asia, ca. 1900-2000
24.04.2024

MATTHIEU LEIMGRUBER & GEOFFROY LEGENTILHOMME (UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH)
The golden layer. A sociography of the Zurich top wealth holders, 1890-1952

15.05.2024

KERSTIN ENFLO (LUND UNIVERSITY)
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market
outcomes (Raum 1.404; DOR 24)

 

22.05.2024

FRIEDRICH LENGER (JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITÄT GIEßEN)
Book presentation: Der Preis der Welt: Eine Globalgeschichte des
Kapitalismus. With a comment by JÜRGEN KOCKA (WZB BERLIN)

 

29.05.2024

CHARLOTTE BARTELS (DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG)
Inequality and voting

 

05.06.2024

GLENDA SLUGA (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE)
From the planetary to the global and other lost histories of the 20th century

 

19.06.2024

ALEKSANDRA KOMORNICKA (MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY)
Poland and European east-west cooperation in the 1970s: The opening up

 

26.06.2024

AGNES ARNDT (MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR BILDUNGSFORSCHUNG BERLIN)
Only for their own good? A history of the political economy of child welfare in Germany since 1949

 

03.07.2024

JEROME SGARD (SCIENCEPO)
The debt crisis of the 1980s: Law and competition

 

10.07.2024

STEFANO BATTILOSSI (UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III MADRID)
International banks and geopolitics in the Age of Imperialism, 1880-1914

 

17.07.2024 PAOLO BOZZI (HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN)
The circulation of modern tax knowledge in Italy, 1950-1970