Programme
2026-2027
13 October 2026
PhD Session [presentation of PhD project)
Émilien Arnaud (Princeton University)
Chléo Betton (IESEG)
Antony Gobriel (IESEG)
10 November 2026
Guest Speaker: Louis Rouanet (University of Florida)
The Politics of Railroads
15 December 2026
Lina Skoglund (Harvard University)
The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed
12 January 2027
Anselm Rabaté-Canning(University of Strasbourg)
US go home! Economic Impact of foreign military bases
09 February 2027
Lamis Kattan (Georgetown University)
Inheritance, Fertility, and Son Preference: Evidence from Pre-Industrial France
09 March2027
Guest Speaker: Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University)
TBC
13 April 2027
Sara Savani (University of Insubria, University of Bordeaux)
Regional Industrialisation and Market Access: an Exploration on Structural Change in 19th-century France
11 May 2027
Luc Paluskiewicz (Paris School of Economics, Collège de France)
The Political Legacy of Displacement: Evidence from the Spanish Republican Exile
08 June 2027
Camille Remigereau (University of New South Wales)
Escaping Deportation: Evidence from Wartime France
2025-2026
16 September 2025
14 October 2025
18 November 2025
16 December 2025
13 January 2026
10 February 2026
10 March 2026
14 April 2026
12 May 2026
09 June 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