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 Dorotheenstraße 24, room 1.404.
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| 22.10.2025 |
ADAM BRZEZINSKI (LSE)
The rise of neoliberal narratives
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| 29.10.2025 |
KIRSTEN WANDSCHNEIDER (WIEN)
Germany’s anti-inflationary monetary policy, 1945–1973
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| 05.11.2025 |
JADE PONSARD (ENS LYON)
Exposure to women’s political mobilization and gender roles
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| 12.11.2025 |
STEFFEN MURAU (FU BERLIN)
The Mefo operation: A macro-financial analysis of camouflaged sovereign borrowing through off-balance-sheet fiscal agencies, 1933–1945
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| 19.11.2025 |
MONIQUE REISKE (HU BERLIN)
The political costs of debt deflation: Agricultural crises and the rise of the Nazi Party
(online at CEPR International Macro History Seminar, registration link)
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| 26.11.2025 |
FELIX HAASS (HU BERLIN)
Selective university admissions as a strategy of autocratic rule
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| 03.12.2025 |
ALEX KLEIN (SUSSEX)
Transport infrastructure and agricultural productivity: Evidence from the antebellum United States
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| 10.12.2025 |
THOMAS ERTL (FU BERLIN)
The property market in late-medieval Vienna: Sources – actors – prices
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| 17.12.2025 |
IRIS WOHNSIEDLER (ESRI DUBLIN)
Breaking boundaries: Women, labor unions and political activism in early 20th-century Germany
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| 07.01.2026 |
FLORIAN PLOECKL (ADELAIDE)
To drink or save? Postal savings and the impact of the prohibition in the US
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14.01.2026
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CHRISTOPH BERNHARDT (HU BERLIN)
Historical climate debts
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21.01.2026
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MARCIN WROŃSKI (SGH WARSAW)
Economic growth and regional convergence in interwar Poland: Detailed historical national accounts
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28.01.2026
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GUNNAR TAKE (STUTTGART)
A socialist fight against cash: Monetary policy, agency, and compromise in the GDR,
1948–1961 (in cooperation with Stefanie Middendorf)
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04.02.2026
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DANIELA FELISINI (ROME TOR VERGATA)
Between state and market: Private healthcare businesses in Italy, 1978–2018
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11.02.2026
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CHRISTOPH TREBESCH (KIEL INSTITUTE) & JÖRG ROCHOLL (ESMT)
Money and power: How finance shapes geopolitics (in cooperation with the European
Association of Banking History)
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