Friday 13 December
9.00-9.30am: Coffee, registration and welcome
9.30-11.00am Session 1: Chair t.b.c
Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University and Tirthankar Roy (LSE) The Economic History of Colonialism: Introduction
Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República Uruguay) Spanish America
Leonardo Weller (São Paulo School of Economics) and Thales Pereira (Fundação Getulio Vargas) Portuguese America
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan) and Paul Rhode (University of Michigan) United States of America
11.00-11.30am: Coffee break
11.30am-1.00pm Session 2: Chair t.b.c
Chris Minns (LSE) Canada
Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia/Gothenburg University) Australia and New Zealand
Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College) Russian Empire
Duol Kim (Myongji University) Japanese Colonialism
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00-3.30pm Session 3: Chair t.b.c
Anand V. Swamy (Williams College) British India
Laura Maravall (Universidad de Alcalá) and Laura Panza (University of Melbourne) The Middle East and North Africa
Kate Frederick (Utrecht University) and Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna) East Africa
Erik Green (Lund University) and Rory Pilosoff (University of the Free State) Southern Africa
3.30-4.00pm: Coffee break
4.00-5.30pm Session 4: Chair t.b.c
Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) French Sub-Saharan Africa
Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University) German Africa
Mattia Bertazinni (University of Nottingham) Italian Africa
Frans Buelens (University of Antwerp) Belgian Africa
5.30-6.30pm Drinks, Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE
7.00-9.00pm Dinner, Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE
Saturday 14 December
9.00-10.30am Session 5: Chair t.b.c
Anne Booth (SOAS) British Southeast Asia and Ceylon
Jean-Pascal Bassino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) French Indochina
Bambang Purwanto (Universitas Gadjah Mada) and Abdul Wahid (Universitas Gadjah Mada) Dutch East Indies
Leticia Arroyo-Abad (City University of New York), José Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale University) and Noel Maurer (George Washington University) Spanish and American Philippines
10.30-11.00am: Coffee break
11.00am-12.30pm Session 6: Chair t.b.c
Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen) and Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University) Economic Growth
Kevin O'Rourke (NYU Abu Dhabi) Globalization
Leigh Gardner (LSE) States and Fiscal Systems
Oskar Broberg (Gothenburg University) and Klass Ronnback (Gothenburg University) Business and Investment
12.30-1.30pm: Lunch
1.30-3.00pm Session 7: Chair t.b.c
Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University) and Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School) Labour, Migration and Slavery
Dacil Juid (Carlos III de Madrid) and Pim de Zwart (Wageningen University) Living Standards
Gabrielle Capelli (University of Siena) Missions
Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University) and Emiliana Traviesco (Carlos III de Madrid) Inequality
3.00-3.30pm: Coffee break
3.30-5.00pm Session 8: Chair t.b.c
Henrice Altink (University of York) and David Clayton (University of York) The Economic Roots of Decolonization
David Henley (Leiden University) Post-Colonial Development Policy
James Fenske (Warwick University), Bishnu Gupta (Warwick University) and Anwesh Mukhopadhyay (Warwick University) Persistence Studies
Stephanie Decker (Birmingham Business School) and Stefanie Kreibich (Aston University) Business After Colonialism