History & Social Science Workshop: For DPhils working on history and social science topics

Session I 9:30-11 AM
Giacomo Gabbuti (Economic & Social History/St Antony’s College)
Gatsby in the country of the Leopard: Surnames and the History of intergenerational mobility in Italy (1872–1977)
Andres Guiot-Isaac (Area Studies/St Antony’s College)
The Making of Economic Technocrats in Colombia

Coffee Break 11-11:30 AM (Common Room)

Session II 11:30 AM-1 PM
Benjamin Schneider (Economic & Social History/Merton College)
Rural Building Wages and Labor Market Integration in England, 1700–1800
Kiran Mehta (History/Wolfson College)
Becoming prisoners: Making the London prison system, 1760–1850

Lunch 1-2 PM (Common Room)

Session III 2-3:30 PM
Alexander Wulfers (Economic & Social History/St John’s College)
The protectionist shift in the Weimar Republic and the political economy of trade policy in German elections
1928-1932
Victoria Gierok (Economic & Social History/Nuffield College)
Economic inequality in pre-industrial Germany: a long-run view

Coffee Break 3:30-4 PM (Common Room)

Session IV 4-5:30 PM
Amanda Zhang (Oriental Studies/St Antony’s College)
Women’s Work, Party Work and Revolutionary Work: Recruiting Female Chinese Communist Party Cadres and
Mobilising Underground Spies, 1920–1937
Mikhail Nakonechnyi (History/St Peter’s College)
‘Dead souls’: mortality, disability and medical release in GULAG, 1930–1955

Post-Workshop Drinks & Dinner 6 PM (King’s Arms)

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