Detailed Programme – Tuesday 27 May 2025
Please note: this is a preliminary schedule and may be subject to change
| Tuesday 27 May |
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| 10:30-12:15 |
Session 1A – Energy multinationals: between the national, colonial, and global perspectives Organised by Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ |
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Lexy Remy (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Historical tensions between international business and national taxation peer commentator: Gianluca Ratti Marin Kuyt (University of Amsterdam) – Colonial carbon: how empire shaped the Dutch fossil fuel sector Marten Boon (Utrecht University) – Title tba |
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| 10:30-12:15 | Session 1B – Highs and lows: Income and living standards in the Low Countries (1750-1950) Organised jointly by Research Networks ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ and ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ |
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Matthias van Laer (University of Antwerp) – Seasons of stability. Seasonal wages, unemployment and the stability of labour income in the Netherlands, 1910-1950 peer commentator: {tba} Paul Puschmann (Radboud University), Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University), and Rick Schouten (Utrecht University) – Migrant inclusion in the 19th-20th century labor market: comparing migrant and native earnings using the Historical Income Panel of the Netherlands (HIP-NL) Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp) – Cheap coal, poor people: energy and working-class living standards in Belgium during the bicentenary age of coal (c. 1750-1950) |
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| 10:30-12:15 | Session 1C – New research on Central and East Africa Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ |
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Ivana Zecevic (University of Groningen) – Medicalization of reproductive health in Villa Maria and Mua Mission Hospitals, 1900s-1980s peer commentator: Marie Keulen Mesfin Ali (Wageningen UR) – Educational expansion and inequality in Ethiopia: 1940-2007 Margot Luyckfasseel (University of Antwerp) – Slavery and abolition in Congolese history: beyond colonial clichés |
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| 14:15-16:00 | Session 2A – Justice and the law Organised by Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility’ |
| Dave De Ruysscher (Tilburg University) – Justice eroded: appeals against judgments of the Cloth Hall (Antwerp, c. 1490-c. 1560)
Sherilyn Bouyer (University of Groningen) – Murder in Saverdun (1666): the bipartisan court of Castres and the Protestant litigants of the Languedoc seventy years after the French Wars of Religion Matteo De Vuyst (Ghent University) – Paths to justice. Crime, prosecution and punishment in Bruges (1870-1910) |
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| 14:15-16:00 | Session 2B – Food provisioning in western Europe in the 16th to 19th centuries Organised by Research Network ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between Humans and Rural-Urban Environment’ |
| Cécile Bruyet (University of Antwerp) – From garden to table – Urban and peri-urban agriculture in late medieval Antwerp peer commentator: {tba} Jessica Dijkman (Utrecht University) and Rogier van Kooten (Utrecht University / University of Antwerp) – War, harvest failure, and dearth: inequality and grain shortages in 16th-century Antwerp Dennis de Vriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – Fostering competition through competitions. The Boeuf Gras cattle contest as a means of steering a free market for meat in Brussels, 1830-1860 |
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| 14:15-16:00 | Session 2C – Coping with crisis Organised by Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ |
| Nelleke Tanis (University of Antwerp) – ‘The Social History of Finance: coping with crisis’ peer commentator: tba Janna Coomans (Utrecht University) – ‘Fire adaptation and crisis in Dutch cities, 1400-1550’ Edda Frankot (Utrecht University) – ‘Coping with grain crises in the late medieval Netherlands’ |
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