Detailed programme – Wednesday 28 May 2025
Please note: this is a preliminary schedule and may be subject to change
| Wednesday 28 May | |
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| 09:00-10:45 | Session 3A – Trajectories of regional investment/political economies in the global economy Organised by Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ Bram Hulshoff (Wageningen UR) – FDI policy regimes and patterns in Southeast Asia (1900-1939) Markéta Malá (Erasmus University Rotterdam / Charles University, Prague) – Foreign direct investments and other engagements of socialist multinational enterprises : a case study of Skoda Works in the 1970s and 1980s Robrecht Declercq (Ghent University) – Capital in shifting gears. Belgian investments after World War I |
| 09:00-10:45 | Session 3B – Health I: Continuity and change in outcomes and policies Organised jointly by Research Networks ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ and ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between Humans and Rural-Urban Environment’ Philippe Paeps (Ghent University) – Explaining Belgian cancer mortality in relation to local and regional living conditions (1905-1991) Silke Baas (Utrecht University) – Reinforcing career paths: how formal institutions shaped women physicians’ access to medical specializations, 1950 – 2000 Robert Vonk (Utrecht University) – Calculated relations. Econometrics and the quest for evidence based health policy in the Netherlands, 1960-1980 |
| 09:00-10:45 | Session 3C- Land grabbing in early modern histories I Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ Tzu-Yi Hsu (VU Amsterdam) – Title tba Sam Miske (VU Amsterdam) – Title tba Paul van der Linde (Radboud University) – Title tba |
| 11:15-13:00 | Session 4A – Contexts of collective action and cooperation Organised by Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ Jens Aurich (International Institute of Social History) – Collective labor action and institutional change: Calico Printing in Berlin 1750-1848 Aaron Roberts (Utrecht University) – Cooperation, cooperatives and development (SCOOP-project) Ben Gales (University of Groningen) – Local communities and damage in the post-mining era |
| 11:15-13:00 | Session 4B – Health II: Continuity and change in outcomes and policies Organised jointly by Research Networks ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ and ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between Humans and Rural-Urban Environment’ Klaus Fonseca Hoeltgebaum (Wageningen UR) – Migrant mortality in Recife and Fortaleza during the 1877-1879 drought and famine Lise Bevernaegie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – Title tba Speaker 3 tba – Title tba |
| 11:15-13:00 | Session 4C – Land grabbing in early modern histories II Organised by Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ Tim Soens (UA) – Title tba Maika de Keyzer/Seb Verlinden (KU Leuven) – Title tba Speaker 3 tba – Title tba |
| 14:00-15:45 | Session 5A – Institutional dimensions of inclusion and exclusion Organised by Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility’ Maarten van Dijck (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Networks of power. Social capital of political institutions in the Cape Colony (1668-1688) Meggy Lennaerts (University of Groningen) – Elusive claims in muddy area: the foundation of Bunderneuland in 1605 Chris Vlam (Utrecht University) – The associative order in the Netherlands: the impact of cross associations [kruisverenigingen] on healthcare accessibility in the twentieth century’ |
| 14:00-15:45 | Session 5B – Highs and lows: Income and living standards in the Low Countries (1750-1950) Organised jointly by Research Networks ‘Life-courses, Family, and Labour’ and ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between Humans and Rural-Urban Environment’ Matthias van Laer (University of Antwerp) – Seasons of stability. Seasonal wages, unemployment and the stability of labour income in the Netherlands, 1910-1950 Paul Puschmann (Radboud University) and Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University) – Historical Income Panel for the Netherlands, 1851-1922 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) |
| 14:00-15:45 | Session 5C – 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 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 |