Pre-WEHC Young Scholars Workshop

The YSI Economic History (EH) and YSI Africa Working Groups will lead a young scholar workshop at the occasion of the World Economic History Congress in Paris this summer. The WEHC is the major international event for our international community.

The workshop offers a one-day experience for early-career researchers with mentorship from the YSI EH and Africa community alumni and from senior economic historians, including africanists.

The central theme of this workshop is the inclusion of rare voices in economic history. While economic history has been biased toward European and American economic history, this workshop is focusing especially on African history, but also South American, Turkish, and Indian economic history.

Direction:
Salle 50, Centre des colloques, Aubervilliers.

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9:00 – 9:05 – Introduction: Jay D. Pocklington, manager of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)

9:05 – 10h05 – Economic History of Sanctions: Case studies from Africa: Chair: Maylis Avaro, University of Pennsylvania.

• Peter Uledi (Stellenbosch University), The Rhodesian Insurance Industry during UDI: Financial Mobilisation for Economic Survival, 1964-1980.
• Rumbidzai Chitaukire, (UNU-IIGH), Trade and Tariff Policy during the Sanctions Periods in Zimbabwe, 1965-2017.
  10min – break

10h15 – 11h15 – African Economic History: Chair: Barbara Tunidor Lopez, University Carlos III de Madrid.

• Mostafa Abdelaal, Cambridge University, Zambia’s industrial development amidst changing regional and global economic relationships, 1924-1973
• Jabulani Shaba, (Stellenbosch University) ‘Silent yet Salient?’ The colonial state, women and mining in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1890s to 1960s.

11h15 – 11h30 Coffee break

11h30 – 13h Roundtable – Knowledge Production, Research and Publishing in African Economic History: Chair: Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, King’s college.

• Stefano Battilossi, managing editor of the Financial History Review, Associate Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid.
• Denis Cogneau, Directeur d'études EHESS.
• Erik Green, Associate professor, Lund university.
• Victor Gwande, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Free State.
• Tinashe Nyamunda, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria.

13h – 14h30 – Lunch break

14h30-15h30 – Economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey chair: Gertjan Verdickt, KU Leuven.

• Şahin Yeşilyurt, (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University), Rethinking The Ottoman Economy: Taxation and The Ottoman Mindset.

• Onur Yükçü (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Domestic Market Integration in Interwar Turkey.

  10min – break

  15h40-16h40 – Monetary history and financial history chair: Anders Ögren, Uppsala University.

• Sergio Castellanos Gamboa, (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Los mismos en las mismas: The National Front and the incomplete development of a stock exchange.

• Víctor Pérez-Sánchez, (London School of Economics and Political Science), Early-modern leader and followers: Castilian monetary policy as shaper of European monetary changes (1575-1680).

10min – break

16h50-17h50 – Colonial Economic History, chair: Jean Lacroix, University Paris Saclay.

• Ariane Salem, (University of Geneva), The Negative Impacts of Colonization on the Local Population: Evidence from Morocco.
• Jordi Caum Julio, (University of Barcelona), Institutions, local agency and allegiance: rural healthcare provision in colonial India.

18h30 – A career in Economic history: networking event with young professionals

• Alain Naef, Economist, Banque de France
• Jean Lacroix, Associate Professor, University Paris Saclay
• Gertjan Verdickt, Associate Professor, KU Leuven.