Program
September 16, 2025
October 14, 2025
November 18, 2025
December 16, 2025
January 13, 2026
February 10, 2026
March 10, 2026
April 14, 2026
May 12, 2026
June 9, 2026
Joseph Enguehard (University of Bologna)
Extraction or Evasion? The Limits of Fiscal Capacity in Early Modern France
Pol Cosentino (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Circular railroad: Evidence from the Parisian Petite Ceinture
Zhexun Mo (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY)
Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali
Flavian Minel (Université de Perpignan Via Dominitia)
The Estates of Languedoc’s Manufacturing Policy Viewed through the Woollen Industry, 1682–1787
Pierre Brassac (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Wealth Accumulation in WW2-Paris
Carla Salvo (Sapienza University of Rome)
Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the 19th-century
Filippo Liviano D'Arcangelo (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
Intellectuals, Ideas and Support for the French Revolution
Clotaire Boyer (UC Berkeley)
Church-State Competition in Industrializing France
Anne Degrave (IAST)
War, Fiscal Administration, and State Centralization: Evidence from Late Medieval France
Joel Huesler (University of Bern)
France's Economic Wound: How the Huguenot Exodus Shaped Regional Development