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’ Lexy Remy (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Historical tensions between international business and national taxation Marin Kuyt (University of Amsterdam) – Colonial carbon: how empire shaped the Dutch fossil fuel sector Marten Boon (Utrecht University) – Title tba |
| 10:30-12:15 | Session 1B – The social fabric of the early modern and 19th century economy Organised by Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ Martijn Collijs (Ghent University) – Urban segregation in early 19th-century Ghent: spatial analysis of residential patterns during early industrialisation Bas Spliet (University of Antwerp) – Title tba Eline Rademakers (Leiden University) – Empire state of mind: negotiaties and the Dutch Atlantic networks in the 18th century |
| 10:30-12:15 | Session 1C – Social capital and education in Central and East Africa Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ Margot Luyckfasseel (University of Antwerp) – Title tba Ivana Zecevic (University of Groningen) – Title tba Mesfin Ali (Wageningen UR; tbc) – Title tba |
| 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) |
| 14:15-16:00 | Session 2B – Women at work: Labour and agency in the past and present Organised by Research Network ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ Claudia Hacke (Utrecht University) – Uncovering women’s work in family firms. Findings from Dutch department stores, 1870s-1930s Boike Teunissen (University of Groningen) – How female agency shaped a rural kinship network throughout the 19th century Sam Geens (University of Antwerp) – The rewards of female labour in late medieval Flanders (1250-1550) |
| 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’ Maite de Sola Perea (University of Antwerp) – ‘Business finance and development of financial markets in Belgium in the 19th century’ Speaker 3 tba |