Advanced Seminars (Past)

Advanced Seminars (past)

Year Dates Location Host institution Theme Organisers 2019 12-17 May Prato, IT Datini Institute ‘Income, Wealth and Inequality' Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) 2018 13-19 May Prato, IT Datini Institute ‘Global Exchanges and Maritime Trades' Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) 2017 17-19 May Prato, IT Datini Institute ‘Natural Resources and Environment' Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) 2016 06-11 May Prato, IT Datini Institute 'Prices and Standards of Living' Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) 2015 08-13 May Prato, IT Datini Institute 'Shocks’ Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) 2014 02-04 May Prato, IT Datini Institute 'The Market and its Agents' Professor Paolo Malanima (Datini Institute) Dr Marijn Molema (N.W. Posthumus Institute) 2009 23-26 June Eindhoven, NL Eindhoven ‘The Economic History of Patents and Innovation’ Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’ Anna School of Advanced University of Studies, Pisa / Eindhoven University of Technology) Technology Astrid Kander (Lund University) Dr Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute / University of Groningen) 2008 29-30 August Leiden, NL Leiden University ‘The Political Economy of the Orien in conjunction with the conference ‘Empires and Emporia. The Orient in World-Historical Space and Time' 17-23 Swansea, GB University of ‘Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Professor Chris Williams (University of Swansea) September Swansea Representations – Past, Present and Future’ Dr Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute / University of Groningen) 2007 25-28 April Minho, PT University of Minho ‘The Transmission of Well-Being: Marriage Strategies Dr Isabel Sá (University of Minho) and Inheritance Systems in Europe from the Professor Marco van Leeuwen (International Institute Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries’ of Social History / Utrecht University) in conjunction with expert-meeting of European historians and demographers as part of the EU COST-program

© N.W. Posthumus Institute 2021-2026 Advanced Seminars (past) Page 1 of 4 Year Dates Location Host institution Theme Organisers 2007 19-23 July Bochum, DE Institute of Social ‘European Mining History, 19th and 20th Centuries: Dr Klaus Tenfelde (Institute of Social Movements, Movements, Bochum Work in Progress’ Bochum) Dr Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute / University of Groningen) (in cooperation with the Institute for Social Movements and the Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (Bochum)) 2004 30 March-02 Frankfurt/Oder, European University ‘Borders, Frontiers and Border-Regions in History’ Professor Helga Schultz (European University Viadrina April DE Viadrina Frankfurt Frankfurt) 05-08 April Frankfurt/Oder, European University ‘Education and Social Mobility in Europe: Historical Prof.Dr Helder Adegar Fonseca (University of Évora) DE Viadrina Frankfurt Approaches (18-20th Centuries)’ 29 March-03 London, GB SOAS University of ’Instruments of Social Control and Regimes of Professor Ian Brown (SOAS University of London) April London Surveillance’ 05-09 April London, GB SOAS University of ‘Port and Maritime History’ Professor Robert Lee London (University of Liverpool) 12-15 Tampere, FI University of Tampere ‘Infrastructure, Environment and Urban Culture: Professor Marjatta November Industrial and Post-Industrial Societies’ Hietala Riitta Aallos Dr Kimmo Antila Risto Kunnar Sari Pasto (all University of Tampere) 2002 21-26 February Athens, GR Panteion University ‘Urban History, a Multiform Discipline’ Professor Lydia Dracaki (Panteion University) Professor Pim Kooij (University of Groningen) 14-18 Ghent, BE Ghent University ‘Long-term Development of Rural Economies and Professor Bas van Bavel (Utrecht University) November Societies, 13th-19th Centuries’ 2001 13-18 Bari, IT University of Bari ‘The History of Violence and Social Movements’ Professor Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld University) November 2000 10-13 February Lisbon, PT Instituto Superior de 'New Trends in Urban History' Professor Henk van Dijk (Erasmus University Ciencias do Trabalho Rotterdam) Professor Magda Avelar Pinheiro (Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho) Professor Lars Nilsson (Lund University) 10-13 Trier, DE University of Trier ‘The Social History of Religious Groups (16th-20th Professor Andreas Gestrich (University of Trier) September Centuries)’ 07-12 Madrid, ES Complutense ‘Language, History and Art in Nationalistic Professor Andrès Barrera González (Complutense November University of Madrid Movements, 19th and 20th Centuries’ University of Madrid) 29 November- Umeå, SE Umeå University ‘Transport, communication and information Professor Lena Andersson- 02 December technology in the transformation of modern society, Skog Professor Olle Krantz 1850-2000’ (both Umeå University)

© N.W. Posthumus Institute 2021-2026 Advanced Seminars (past) Page 2 of 4 Year Dates Location Host institution Theme Organisers 1999 Madrid, ES Complutense ‘Minority Languages and Nationalistic Movements’ Professor Andrès Barrera González (Complutense University of Madrid University of Madrid) 01-06 October Évora, PT University of Ëvora ‘The History of European Elite Groups‘ Professor Helder Fonseca (University of Évora) 10-14 October Uppsala, SE Uppsala University ‘Gender, Property, and Economic Development’ Professor Maria Ågren (Uppsala University) 1998 Prato, IT Datini Institute ‘Historical Methodology’ Professor Paul Klep (Radboud University Nijmegen) Barcelona, ES Autonomous ‘Social And Economic Changes In Rural Societies’ Professor Ramon Garrabou (Autonomous University University of of Barcelona) Barcelona Jyväskylä, FI University of Helsinki ‘Trade, Transport and Communication Before 1850’ Professor Riita Hjerppe (University of Helsinki) Luxembourg, University of ‘Family and Industrialization’ Professor Jean-Paul Lehners (University of Luxembourg) LU Luxembourg 1997 Liverpool, GB University of Liverpool ‘Health, Medicine and Society’ Professor Robert Lee (University of Liverpool) Essex, GB University of Essex ‘Ethnicity and Race in Europe and the Non- Professor Sturat European World’ Woolf Dr Rainer Schulze (both University of Essex) Florence, IT ‘Institutions and Social Norms in Europe, 16th-19th Professor Laurence Fontaine (National Centre for Centuries’ Scientific Research) Dr Pieter Spierenburg (N.W. Posthumus Institute / University of Groningen) 1996 Paris, FR University Paris ‘Technological Change and Economic Growth’ Professor François Caron (University Paris Sorbonne-IV) Sorbonne-IV Professor Patrick Fridenson (EHESS) Amsterdam, NL International Institute ‘Guilds and Guildsmen in European Towns, 16th to Professor Jan Lucassen (International Institute of of Social History 19th Centuries’ Social History) Professor Catharina Lis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Montecatini ‘Economic Growth in Industrial and Preindustrial Professor Giovanni Federico (University of Pisa) Terme, IT Societies’ Professor Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen) Professor Paolo Malanima (University of Calabria) 1995 Bologna, IT University of Bologna ‘Gender Division of Labour’ Professor Carlo Poni (University of Bologna) Groningen, NL University of ‘Economic Growth and Distribution during the 19th Dr Bart van Ark (University of Groningen) Groningen and 20th Centuries’ Stuttgart, DE {} ‘Social History of Youth’ Professor Andreas Gestrich (University of Trier) 1994 Amsterdam, NL University of ‘Trade and Industry in Early Modern-Europe’ Professor Leo Amsterdam Noordergraaf Dr Clé Lesger (both University of Amsterdam) Rotterdam, NL Erasmus University ‘Migration, Ethnicity and Labour Relations’ Professor Willem van Schendel (Erasmus Rotterdam University Rotterdam) Dr Michiel Baud (Leiden University) © N.W. Posthumus Institute 2021-2026 Advanced Seminars (past) Page 3 of 4 Year Dates Location Host institution Theme Organisers 1994 Bielefeld, DE Bielefeld University ‘New Issues, Fields and Approaches in Women’sand Professor Gisela Bock (Bielefeld University) Gender History, 18th-20th Centuries’ 1993 Wageningen, Wageningen ‘Material Culture 1600-1900’ Professor Ad van der Woude (†) NL Agricultural University Halle, DE Martin Luther ‘Regional Identity versus National Identity’ Professor Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Martin Luther University Halle- University Halle-Wittenberg) Wittenberg Professor Henk van Dijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 1992 Lisbon, PT Technical University of ‘European Expansion: Trade and the World Professor Nuno Valério (Technical University of Lisbon) Lisbon Economy’ Pisa, IT University of Pisa ‘Industries before the Industrial Revolution’ Professor Paolo Malanima (University of Pisa) Cambridge, GB Cambridge University ‘European and Non-European Family Systems since Dr Richard Wall (Cambridge University) 1500 1991 Utrecht, NL Utrecht University ‘The Reconstruction of National Accounts for the Professor Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University) Nineteenth Century’ Professor Rainer Fremdling (N.W. Posthumus Institute / University of Groningen) Brussels, BE Vrije Universiteit ‘Changing Labour Relations in the Western and Professor Catharina Brussel Non-Western World’ Lis Professor Hugo Soly (both Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Odense, DK Odense University ‘Financial History’ Professor Hans Chr. Johansen (Odense University)