Papers and speakers for this seminar will be: ‘Family Background, Exam Performance, and the Appointment and Promotion of Qing Civil Officials, 1830-1912’ by Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); ‘Marriage choices and Social Homogamy through 19th and 20th centuries: the case of Milan’ by Giulia Corti (University of Trento); ‘The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden’ by Martin Hällsten (Stockholm University) with Martin Kolk