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Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
2nd Edition

July 8 & 9, 2024
Barcelona

Conveners: Francesc Amat (UB) and Didac Queralt (Yale)

4 Seminar Room A-411
     Department of Political Science
     University of Barcelona
     Avinguda Diagonal, 684

Monday, July 8

8:45. Introductory remarks

Session 1 — Keynote
9:00–10:00. Kenneth Scheve (Yale): Market Power and Democracy

10:00–10:30. Coffee Break

Session 2 — Violence
10:30–11:15. Kasia Nalewajko (Carlo Alberto): Allies of the Weak: la Résistance and Jews in Holocaust. Discussant: Arturas Rozenas (NYU)

11:15–12:00. Sascha Riaz (Oxford): Revisiting History, Reshaping Politics: The Effects of Confronting In-Group Atrocities. Discussant: Noam Lupu (Vandervilt)

12:00–12:45. Giacomo Lemoli (IAST-Toulouse): Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitutdes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline. Discussant: Pilar Sorribas (UB)

12:45–13:45. Lunch

Session 3 — Ideas
13:45–14:30. Scott Abramson (Rochester): A Cause to Fight: Ideological Motivation in Civil Wars with Evidence from the British Battalion in Spain. Discussant: Ana Tur-Prats (Merced)

14:30–15:15. Caterina Chiopris (Harvard): The Diffusion of Ideas. Discussant: Alfonso Herraz (UB)

15:15–15:30. Coffee Break

Session 4 — Discrimination

15:30–16:15. Karmen Misiou (EUI): Beyond Backlash: Unveiling Identity Transformations in the Face of Institutional Discrimination. Discussant: Asli Cansumar (UW)

16:15–17:00. Lukas Haffert (Geneva): The Persitent Electoral Effects of the German Anti-Socialist Laws (1878-1890). Discussant: Maria Carreri (Berkeley)

19:30. Dinner at Santa Clara (by UB, carrer Jiménez e Iglesias, 11-13)

Tuesday, July 9

Session 5 — State
9:00–9:45. Asli Cansunar (UW): Iron Fist of Development: Coercive Institutions and Public Services. Discussant: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)

9:45–10:30. Nicola Mastrorocco (Bologna): State Capacity as an Organizatinal Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years. Discussant: Pablo Beramendi (Duke)

10:30–11:00. Coffe Break

Session 6 — Franchise
11:00–11:45. Brenda Van Coppenolle (Sciende Po): Give them Votes and Make Mine Count: Legislators, Proportional and Universal Suffrage tempered by plural voting in Belgium. Discussant: Jordi Muñoz (UB)

11:45–12:20. Jade Ponsard (Aix-Marseille): Collective Action and Gender Role: Evidence from Women Suffrage Demonstrations. Discussant: Francesc Amat (UB)

12:30–13:30. Lunch

Session 7 — China
13:30–14:15. Arturas Rozenas  (NYU): Revolution Through Representation: The Political Origins of Chinese Democracy. Discussant: Carles Boix (Princeton)

14:15–15:00. Erik Wang (NYU): State Building or State-Weakening? The Consequences of Military Control in Medieval China. Discussant: Scott Abramson (Rochester)

15:00–15:30. Coffee Break

Session 8 — Empire
15:30–16:15. Marie Biegelman (UB/Aix-Marseille): Impact of Enslavement Conditions on Families: Evidence from the French Caribbean. Discussant: Luz Marina Arias (CIDE/USAL)

16:15–17:00. Gabriel Leon-Alban (Kings' College): Activism and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire. Discussant: Didac Queralt (Yale)

20:00. Dinner at 1881 Sagardi Museu d'Història, Port Vell

Programme in pdf

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Artwork: La Càrrega, Ramon Casas, 1902