Advanced Research Seminar (IHEPB)
Since its founding in 1970, the advanced research seminar has invited many prominent economic and social history scholars to the University of Geneva. The seminar takes place approximately six times per semester. Its sessions provide an ongoing discussion of current research results, at the international, national, and local levels.
PROGRAM FALL 2024
Thursday 3 October 2024 CANCELLED
Peter Solar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
« American Ingenuity & the Transformation of the Market for Cotton »
N.B. : this seminar is jointly organized with the FNS project The Fabric of Profit
@ Unimail, bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, salle M5020, 18h15-20h
Thursday 17 October 2024
Xabier Lamikiz Gorostiaga, University of the Basque Country
« Popularity and decline of the maritime loan in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1740-1830 »
@ Unimail, bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, salle M5020, 18h15-20h
Thursday 14 November 2024
Johanna Gautier Morin, Central European University et Sciences-Po
« Living in Abstraction: A Critical History of Economic Indicators »
@ Unimail, bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, salle M5020, 18h15-20h
Thursday 21 November 2024
Bernhard Schär & Amal Shahid, Université de Lausanne
« European fundraising for protestant proselytism in the British Empire. The Basel Mission in India and the Paris Evangelical Mission Society in Southern Africa, ca. 1815-1900 »
@ Unimail, bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, salle M5020, 18h15-20h
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