Josje Schnitzeler (Utrecht University), Private money, public oversight. Orphan chambers of Holland in a European context.
Anke Verbeke (VUB), 'Wat bedroeft lot het is oud, stijf ende arm te wesen': coping strategieen in verzoekschriften van verarmde Brusselse ouderen, ca. 1750-1850.
MONDAY 5 MARCH 2018
Matthijs Korevaar (Maastricht University), Thies Lindenthal (University of Cambridge) and Piet Eichholz (Maastricht University), 500 years of urban rents, housing quality and affordability in Europe.
Frederik Dhondt (Faculty of Law, VUB), A pragmatic Utopian? Saint-Pierre and the practical diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht.
MONDAY 19 MARCH 2018
Laura Nys (UGent/ Department of Criminology, VUB), "Ik was kwaad en ik kon mij niet meer houden." Zelfbeheersing in het Rijksopvoedingsgesticht voor 'weerspannige' jongens te Mol, 1927-1960.
Torsten Feys (VUB), Riding the rails of deportation: the impact of railroads on border controls and expulsion practices.
MONDAY 16 APRIL 2018
Davide Cristoferi (UGent), Coping with the crisis: the Sienese state and the development of Transhumance in the Late Middle Ages (Southern Tuscany, 1353-1419).
MONDAY 30 APRIL 2018
Nick van den Broeck (VUB), 'One has to know the roots of evil in order to reduce them’. Explaining rural poor relief practices: the Campine and Coastal area in the Southern Low Countries compared during the first quarter of the 19th century.
MONDAY 14 MAY 2018
Ayfer Erkul (VUB), “Onder dwang toe te dienen: ½ melk, 2 eieren, 10st suiker”. Hongerstakingen in Belgische gevangenissen: een verkennend onderzoek (1920-1940).
MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2018
Ellen Debackere (UA & VUB) and Anne Winter (VUB), ‘Poor migrants between belonging and expulsion’
Griet Vermeesch (VUB), ‘De poortwachters van de stedelijke rechtspraak’
MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2018
Bart Lambert (VUB), ‘Migration, Gender and Economic Opportunity in England during the Later Middle Ages’
MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2018
Wouter Ryckbosch (VUB), ‘Governance, regulation and the state’
MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018
Rik Vosters (VUB), ‘Historical sociolinguistics: a view from below’
MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2018
Anke Verbeke (VUB), 'The social demography of old age, 1797'
Yasmina Zian (ULB)
MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2018
Bart Lambert (VUB), ‘Citizenry and Nationality: immigrants and Urban Politics in Later Medieval England’
