Research School for Economic and Social History

Agenda

28 February 2025
Utrecht University, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06

FRESH workshop ‘Empire and Economic Development’

On 28 February 2025, Utrecht University will host a FRESH workshop on Empire and Economic Development. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The purpose of the meetings is to enable scholars to present their ongoing research at an early stage to an audience of interested peers.

The keynote speaker of this particular meeting will be Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Organisers of the meeting are Maanik Nath and John Tang (both Utrecht University) in association with Sandra de Pleijt (Frontier Research in Economic and Social History series organiser. This meeting is made possible thanks to funding made available by the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) and the N.W. Posthumus Institute.

For an overview of the programme and selected speakers, you may download the program as pdf below.

FULL PROGRAMME (PDF)