Talks

2025

• 20th World Economic History Congress, Lund (scheduled)

• Summer school in Economic History of the Middle Ages, University of Valencia (keynote speaker) (scheduled)

• Seminar at Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht (scheduled)

• Seminar at Sant'Anna, Pisa 

• Economic & Social History Seminar at Nuffield College, Oxford 

2024

• Workshop on Colonialism and Development, Utrecht University

• Financial, Economic and Business History Summer School, University of Groningen (keynote speaker)

• UCLouvain FRESH workshop on Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: Lessons from pre-modern Europe

• Conference on Institutions and prosperity, Utrecht University

• Economic History Society Conference, Northumbria University

• Seminar at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

2023

• Seminar at Carlos III University, Madrid

• European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Vienna

• 9th World Congress of Cliometrics, Trinity College Dublin 

• Workshop on Education and Development in History: New Data and Methods, Valencia 

• 14th European Social Science History Conference, Gothenburg (expert commentator) 

• Association for Asian Studies Conference,  Boston 

• Seminar at Utrecht University

2022

• Workshop on Discrimination and Labour Markets, Radboud University, Nijmegen (expert commentator) 

• North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago (expert commentator, online) 

• Discussant in panel on ‘Degrowth’, Nacht van de Geschiedenis, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 

• 19th World Economic History Congress, Paris 

• European Historical Economics Society Conference, Groningen 

• Seminar at the Free University Brussels 

• Seminar at Wageningen University 

• Economic History Society Conference, University of Cambridge

2021

• Seminar at Sapienza University of Rome 

• Seminar at the University of Geneva 

• Workshop on Inequality, organised by editors of the Economic History Review (online)

2019

• Seminar at Queens University Belfast 

• Economic History Society Conference, Queens University Belfast

2018

• Workshop on The New Malthusianism, Jesus College, University of Cambridge 

• Seminar at International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam 

• 18th World Economic History Congress, Boston (presented in three sessions) 

• Economic and Social History Research Seminar, Wadham College, University of Oxford 

• CEPR Workshop on Economic Divergence and Convergence in History, NYU-Abu Dhabi 

• Oxford-Warwick-LSE meeting, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

2017

• Workshop on Time Preference, Capital Markets, Interest Rates and Savings and Investment Behaviour, University of Stellenbosch 

• Workshop on Elite Human Capital and the Road to Modernity: The East vs the West, University of Marseilles 

• European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Tübingen 

• 8th World Congress of Cliometrics, Strasbourg 

• Seminar at University of Vienna 

• Economic History Society Conference, University of London 

• Seminar at University of Oxford

2016

• Seminar at University of Tübingen 

• EINITE conference on inequality, University of Bocconi 

• Economic History Association 2016 annual meeting, Boulder 

• Seminar at Rutgers University 

• 65th Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association, Nancy 

• CAGE Economic History Workshop, University of Southern Denmark 

• Cliometrics Conference Pittsburgh (Participant) 

• ASREC Culture and Religion Workshop, University of Copenhagen 

• Economic History Society Conference, University of Cambridge 

• CEPR Economic History Conference, NYU-Abu Dhabi 

• Seminar at Utrecht University 

• Seminar at London School of Economics 

• Seminar at Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

2015

• Workshop on Economic Growth, Utrecht University 

• Business History Seminar, Harvard Business School 

• Seminar at Utrecht University 

• 17th World Economic History Congress, Kyoto 

• Posthumus Conference, Brussels 

• Seminar at University of Oxford

2014

• Seminar at Radboud University Nijmegen 

• Workshop on Accounting for the Great Divergence, Venice 

• 10th European Social Science History Conference, Vienna 

• Seminar at Utrecht University 

• Workshop on the Landscape of Occupations in Pre-Industrial Britain and Central Europe, University of Exeter

2013

• Seminar at University of Southern Denmark 

• Warwick Summer School in Economic Growth, University of Warwick 

• Workshop on Agency, Gender and the World Economy, Utrecht University 

• CAGE Workshop on Accounting for the Great Divergence, University of Warwick 

• Seminar at University of Groningen 

• CAGE/CEPR workshop on Long-run Economic Growth: Unified Growth Theory and Economic History, University of Warwick

2012

• Seminar at London School of Economics (joint with Jan Luiten van Zanden) 

• CGEH Workshop on Quantifying Knowledge: Human Capital Measurement, Utrecht University