Jelten Baguet (VUB), FWO-application: How to get on top. Shaping and reshaping urban political elites in sixteenth-century Ghent.
Jelten Baguet (VUB), 'We don’t need no merchant-regent complex'. Reconsidering the interaction between political rulers and corporate elites in the East-India trade.
MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2014
Gerrit Verhoeven (University of Antwerp), How do these foreigners blend in? Migration and assimilation in a declining economy (Antwerp, 1715-’90)
MONDAY 7 MARCH 2014
Ellen Debackere (University of Antwerp), The expulsion of foreigners: the case of nineteenth-century Antwerp.
Maïka De Keyzer (University of Antwerp), Struggle for the commons. Formal and informal conflict resolution mechanisms in the late Medieval Campine area.
MONDAY 25 MARCH 2014
Dave De ruysscher (Department of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, VUB), The Struggle for Voluntary Bankruptcy and Debt Settlement in Antwerp (16th Century).
Peter M. Solar (Vesalius College & Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Why Ireland Starved and the Big Issues in Pre-Famine Irish Economic History.
MONDAY 6 MAY 2014
Alexander Coppens (VUB),Bringing migration policies in practice. Dealing with foreigners in Brussels in the mid-nineteenth century.
MONDAY 17 JUNE 2014
Heidi Deneweth (VUB), Moving up or down the housing market? Real estate and social change in Bruges,1550-1670.
Heidi Deneweth (VUB), ‘Because of the beauty and respectability of a renowned and well-policed city'. Building regulations and urban development in Antwerp and Bruges, 1490-1670.
MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2014
Vicky Vanruysseveld (VUB), Travelling without risks? Itinerant entertainers in Brabant and their uses of passports at the end of the eighteenth century.
Ellen Debackere (University of Antwerp), “Sans papiers, mais son identité est constatée par plusieurs témoins, dont elle est connue." The use of passports in mid-nineteenth century Antwerp.
MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014
Griet Vermeesch (VUB), Wie stuurde pro deo petities in achttiende-eeuws Antwerpen? Een sociale geschiedenis van vroegmodern petitioneren.
MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 2014
Dave De Ruysscher (Department of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, VUB), Marine Insurance in Sixteenth‐Century Antwerp: Riding the Waves of Finance (c.1500-1590).
Rik Vercammen (VUB), Op de dool? Mobiliteit bij veroordeelde landlopers en bedelaars in België (1870-1930).
MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014
Merlijn Hurx (Utrecht University), Architecture as profession. The modernisation of architectural practice in the Low Countries in the fifteenth century. Brussels' quarry zone.
