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 (18-19:15h) in Unter den Linden 6, room 2095A.

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15.04.2026

RICHARD FRANKE (KÖLN)

Forced Migration and Industry Diffusion: Evidence from Germany after 1945

 

22.04.2026

ELISABETH ALLGOEWER (HAMBURG)

Women in the early Years of the German Economics Profession:
The Female Members of the Verein für Socialpolitik, their Research and Careers

 

29.04.2026

MARK HAY (BONN)

“Lending in the Dutch Manner”: Resilience, Adaptation, and the Migration of the
Market for International Government Finance, 1780–1825

 

06.05.2026

MOHAMED SALEH (LSE)

Social Conflict and Democratization in Agrarian Autocracies

 

27.05.2026

ANDREAS WIRSCHING (LMU)

Droysen Lecture, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

 

03.06.2026

CHRISTOPH BERNHARDT (HU BERLIN)

Historical Climate Debts

10.06.2026

KATJA WEZEL (GÖTTINGEN)

Riga as a Global Port City. From Imperial Russia’s Most Successful Trading Hub
to Latvia’s Capital of Trade, 1855–1939

 

17.06.2026

HILLARY VIPOND (VIENNA)

Young Workers and Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain:
The Mechanization of the English Bootmaking Industry

 

01.07.2026

THOMAS P. SØRENSEN (EUI FLORENCE)

The Rise and Fall of a Cartel – the Balt-White Timber Scheme 1935–1938

 

08.07.2026

FRANK UEKÖTTER (BOCHUM)

Welche Wirtschaftsgeschichte brauchen wir?

 

15.07.2026

EMMANUEL DIDIER (CNRS, CENTRE MARC BLOCH)

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