EH.N: Program and Registration Information: The Economic and Social History of the Low Countries before 1850

[Laura Vanaert]

The Economic and Social History of the Low Countries before 1850
Third Flemish-Dutch Conference
University of Antwerp
31 January - 1 February 2008


The N.W. Posthumus Institute organizes its Third 
Flemish-Dutch conference on the economic and 
social history of the Low Countries before 1850 
in Antwerp, January 31 - February 1, 2008. The 
purpose of the two day meeting is to present 
recent findings and stimulate new research on the 
economy and society of the Low Countries before 
the Industrial Revolution.


All Conference Papers will be available online on 
January 21st, 2008. You can register for the 
conference simply by completing an inscription 
form and sending it to Laura.Vanaert at ua.ac.be.

Those coming from abroad have the option of 
staying in Antwerp overnight. If you want to, 
please notify it on the inscription form.

The conference will be held at the University of 
Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp - Belgium. 
The exact room will be communicated at a later 
date.

The deadline for papers is January 20st, 2008.

All papers should be send to 
Laura.Vanaert at ua.ac.be.  A beamer will be 
available, please notify if you'll need something 
else.



Program


Thursday, January 31st, 2008

12.00-13.00  Lunch

13.00-13.30  New Research: Erik Thoen, "A History of Agriculture in Europe"

13.30-17.00 Session 1. Labour in the Low Countries

13.30-14.15 Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten Van 
Zanden (Utrecht University) "Age-heaping in the 
Low Countries".
[Comments: Bert de Munck]

14.15-15.00  Erika Kuijpers (Utrecht University) 
"Labour relations in Holland before 1600."
[Comments: Karel Davids]

15.00-15.30  Coffee and tea

15.30-16.15  Thijs Lambrecht (University of 
Ghent) "Agrarian capitalism, specialisation , 
labour organization and poor relief in the 
Southern Low Countries, ca. 1700-ca. 1820." 
[Comments: Karel Davids]

16.15-17.00  Laura van Aert (University of 
Antwerp) "Women and work in the early modern 
Southern Netherlands (Antwerp, Ghent, Liège and 
Mons)"
[Comments: Anne McCants]

17.00-17.30  New Research: Jan Willem Veluwenkamp 
(University of Groningen) "REDS: Realisatie 
Elektronische Databank Sonttolregisters 
(1497-1857)"

17.30 Drinks and Dinner (18.30)


Friday, February 1st, 2008

09.00-09.30  New Research: Manon Van der Heijden 
(University of Leiden) "Civil Services and Urban 
Communities The Netherlands 1500-1800"

0.9.00-12.30 Session 2. Commerce and Culture

09.00-09.45  Bas van Bavel and Oscar Gelderblom 
(Utrecht University), "Land of Milk and Butter. 
The Economic Origins of Cleanliness in the Dutch 
Golden Age"
[Comments: Marjolein 't Hart]

09.45-10.30  Marion Huibrechts (University of 
Leuven) "The arms trade in the Austrian 
Netherlands" [Comments: Clé Lesger]

10.30-11.00 Coffee and tea

11.00-11.45  Bruno Blondé and Ilja van Van Damme 
(University of Antwerp) "The shop in the house: 
commercial middlemen and their use of domestic 
space (Antwerp, l7th and 18th centuries)" 
[Comments: Jon Stobart]

11.45-12.30  Bert De Munck and Reinoud Vermoesen 
(University of Antwerp) "Faiseurs de peu, 
vendeurs de beaucoup. The transition from 
producer to retailer in Aalst, ca. 1650 - ca. 
1800"
[Comments: Jon Stobart]

12.30-13.30  Lunch

13.30-14.00 New Research: Bas van Bavel (Utrecht 
University) "Economic Growth and Stagnation in 
the Pre-Industrial Era: Iraq, Italy and the Low 
Countries, 600-1700"

14.00-15.30  Session 3: There are some more equal than othersŠ

14.00-14.45  Arnout Mertens (University of 
Antwerp) "Aristocratic Independence, Monarchical 
Power, and Early Modern State Building. Pedigreed 
Nobles from Brabant in the Age of Absolutism"
[Comments: Anne McCants]

14.45-15.15  Coffee and tea

15.15-16.00  Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp) 
"Measuring societal inequality and mobility in 
time and space: the case of sixteenth-century 
's-Hertogenbosch" [Comments: Wantje Fritschy]

16.00-16.30  New Research: Oscar Gelderblom and 
Joost Jonker (Utrecht University) "The Evolution 
of Financial Markets in Pre-Industrial Europe: A 
Comparative Analysis"