Agenda
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.
The organisers will accommodate around 10 speakers. Please note that the submission date for abstracts already passed on 13 December 2024.