Owl Workshop
Owl Workshop
Thursday 4 Oct 2018This one-day workshop takes place twice a year and brings together top scholars in economic history from Oxford University, the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics.
Date: Friday 5 October
Location: Radcliffe House, University of Warwick
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10.00 – 10.30 |
Arrival and coffee |
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10.30- 10.45 |
Welcome |
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10.45- 11.30 |
James Fenske (Warwick), Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India |
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11.30- 12.15 |
Brian Ahearn and Valeria Rueda (Oxford), Italian economic unification, 1861-71: A Geographic Perspective |
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12.15- 13.00 |
Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE), Economic Origins of Modern Science: Technology, Institutions, and the Market for Ideas |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
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14.00 - 15.15 |
Keynote Noam Yuchtman (LSE and Berkeley) – The Analysis of Natural Experiments in History |
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15.15 – 16.00 |
Eric Melander (Warwick), Mobility and Mobilisation: Railways and the Spread of Social Movements |
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16.00 – 16.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.30 – 17.15 |
Wilfried Kisling (Oxford), A Microanalysis of Trade Finance: The Auslandsbanken and Brazilian coffee exports, 1880-1913 |
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17.15 – 18.00 |
Karolina Hutkova (LSE), Commodity trade and the Empire: Political Economy and Silk production in Britain and Bengal, 1830s-60s |
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18:15 |
Drinks and dinner |