Detailed programme
| Thursday 21 May |
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| 10:00-10:30 Entrance hall |
Arrival and registration |
| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 1A – Historical research and the Museum Organised by Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ |
| Mathieu Willemsen (Radboud University) – Objects and archives, a matching pair: Reading a musket instead of a book peer commentator: Paulien Daelman René de Kam (Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht) – The object and the story Esther Beeckaert (Stadsmuseum Gent) – The Parade. Research and curatorial practice in the upcoming collection exhibition of the Ghent City Museum |
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| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 1B – The economy of slave trade Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ |
| Vincent Laarman (VU Amsterdam) – The financial activities of the Dutch Reformed Church related to slavery peer commentator: Elene Vernaeve Britt van Duijvenvoorde (International Institute of Social History) – Outcasted into slavery: commercial enslavement and caste on the eighteenth-century Malabar Coast Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam) – The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the development of Europe |
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| 10:30-12:15 room tba |
Session 1C – For richer, for poorer Organised by Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’ |
| Jeroen Kole (University of Antwerp) – Material culture and social inequality in Antwerp, 1835-1912 peer commentator: Sophie Vries Julie De Groot (University of Antwerp) – Material culture and social inequality in Antwerp, 1835-1912 Robert Vonk (Utrecht University) – Poverty in an affluent society: Contours of a research project on post-war poverty in the Netherlands |
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| 12:15-13:15 Max Nettlau |
Poster presentation PhDs cohort 2025 |
| 13:15-14:15 Lunch room |
Lunch break |
| 14:15-16:00 room tba |
Session 2A – Social inequality and the origins of life chances Organised by Research Network ‘Life-Courses, Family and Labour’ |
| Tom Hacha (Ghent University) – Between birth and death: Social inequalities in stillbirth mortality in Antwerp, 1820-1923) peer commentator: Wieke Metzlar Sarah Wiertsema and Kristina Thompson (both Wageningen University and Research) – Exploring social mobility’s role in the social gradient in mortality in the Netherlands, 1850-2023 Daniel Franken (University of Groningen) – Maternal-infant health in Brazil: Evidence from the São Paulo Maternity Hospital, 1901-1925) |
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| 14:15-16:00 room tba |
Session 2B – Globalisation, trade, and productivity Organised by Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ |
| Maliene Kip (University of Antwerp) – Copra unfixed: The political lives of coconut oil trade in eastern Indonesia, 1940-1965 peer commentators: Merel Blok and Pieter Zhao Abe de Jong (University of Groningen), Tim Kooijmans (Taiwan National University) and Peter Koudijs (New York University) – Finance and the slave trade Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University & Research) – South-South comparisons of manufacturing productivity: A new benchmark of the Philippines and Mozambique, 1956 |
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| 14:15-16:00 room tba |
Session 2C – Nominees TSEG Essay Prize 2025 Organised by TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History – organizer: Astrid Verburg, moderator: Corinne Boter; the winner will be announced at the plenary meeting on the afternoon of 21 May 2026) |
| Paulien Daelman (Ghent University) – Who is afraid of insect capital? Rethinking the role of nature in economic history.
Sanne Hermans (University of Antwerp) – Society’s therapist Koen Hoogendoorn (Utrecht University) – Drugs: A debate without memory Josie Laüferts (Utrecht University / IISH) and Silke Baas (Utrecht University) – A call to action: Rethinking the historian’s responsibility in turbulent times Dulce van Vliet (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Speaking the same language: Re-imagining wellbeing monitors for social and economic (and environmental) history |
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| 16:15-17:00 Max Nettlau |
Plenary session
Welcome by Ewout Frankema, chair N.W. Posthumus Institute Introduction Keynote lecture by Professor Sven Beckert Announcement result TSEG Essay Prize 2025 |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner Restaurant Oceaan, R.J.H. Fortuynplein 29 |