Seminar series

Economic History Seminar Series

This seminar series is organised by the YCG project Work and Wellbeing in History, led by Ben Schneider (OsloMet).

The series is comprised by five historical seminars, and will run in the month of April.

We invite everyone who is interested to sign up for the seminars.

Past segments

Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression

This seminar will be held by Dr. Meredith Paker, who is Assistant Professor of Economics at Grinnell College. 

Dr. Paker is a Marshall Scholar, has a DPhil in Economic and Social History from Oxford, and has been a finalist for the Gerschenkron Prize from the Economic History Association. Her research has been published in the Economic History Review, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. She will be presenting joint work with Jason Lennard (LSE) on the recovery from the Great Depression.

Wages and Working Time in Normandy, 1300–1600

This seminar will be held by Dr. Cédric Chambru from ENS de Lyon.

Dr. Chambru is Assistant Professor in Economics at ENS de Lyon, and his research encompasses a diverse range of economic history from living standards to historical conflict studies. His work has been published in the Economic History Review, the European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and perhaps most notably, the American Political Science Review.  He received his PhD from the University of Geneva and was a finalist for the Gino Luzzatto Prize from the European Historical Economics Society.

Power for Progress: The Impact of Electricity on Individual Labor Market Outcomes

This seminar will be held by Dr. Jakob Molinder (with Kerstin Enflo and Jonathan Jayes) form Uppsala University and Lund University.

Dr. Molinder is Associate Professor of Economic History at Uppsala and a Researcher at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research has been published in the Journal of Economic History, the Economic History Review, the European Review of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. 

Conductors of Progress: Upper Tail Human Capital in Electrifying Sweden

This seminar will be held by Jonathan Jayes from Lunds University.

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

This seminar will be held by professor Jane Whittle from the University of Exeter.