Agenda

Professor Deepak Nayyar on The Asian Miracle - learning from a half-century of transformations

22 June 2022 - Seminar - You are all cordially invited to a Lecture organized by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), WUR Economics Section, N.W. Posthumus Institute...

Michael Grimm (University of Passau) The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century US fertility

14 June 2022 - Seminar

RHI Seminar: Merciful Tyrants? Explaining Rebel Forgiveness and State Capacity in Mughal South Asia (1556-1707)

09 June 2022 - Seminar - This month, we are excited to welcome Ms. Safya Morshed from the London School of Economics. The seminar will take place in room B0073 at the...

Piero Ronzani (University of Trento) “Lateral reading and incentives to spot disinformation about science.”

07 June 2022 - Seminar

Dušan Drabik (Wageningen University-AEP) Has Agricultural Land Consolidation Increased Farmland Rents in Slovakia?

02 June 2022 - Seminar

Malik Curuk (Tilburg University) Prices and Real Exchange Rates in Europe over Three Centuries

31 May 2022 - Seminar

Dr. Shashidhara Kolavalli (Senior Researcher) “Steering the cocoasector in Ghana.”

24 May 2022 - Seminar

Michiel Daams (University of Groningen) “Capital Shocks and the Great Urban Divide”.

03 May 2022 - Seminar

RHI-WASS Seminar: When science meets ideology: Contemporary lessons of the Vavilov-Lysenko confrontation.

21 April 2022 - Seminar - On Thursday 21 April, 16.00-17.30, Louise Fresco will visit SSG for a joint RHI-WASS Seminar entitled: ''When science meets ideology: Contemporary...

Jenny C. Aker (Tufts University) Cash Transfers, Home Production and the Dynamics of Household Food Security: Evidence From Rural Liberia and Malawi.

19 April 2022 - Seminar

RHI Seminar: War, Peace and the Spanish flu in Belgium, 1918-19

14 April 2022 - Seminar - On invitation of the Rural and Environmental History Group, Prof. Dr. Isabelle Devos from Ghent University will give a seminar on April 14, 2022. Her...

Insa Thiermann (WUR) "Warm restructuring" of the German pig farming sector: are farmers ready for it?

29 March 2022 - Seminar

Hyuk Harry Son (Cornell University) The Effect of Microinsurance on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia

15 March 2022 - Seminar

RHI Seminar: Withdrawal of the state: the provision of primary schooling in Mozambique under the indigenato

10 March 2022 - Seminar - Our guest this week is Mr. Pablo Fernández Cebrián, who is visiting us from the University of Barcelona. The seminar will take place...

Karlijn Morsink (Utrecht University) Father of the Bride, or Steel Magnolias? Targeting Men, Women or Both to reduce Child Marriage

08 March 2022 - Seminar

RHI Webinar: ''The Embodied Absence of the Past: Tourism’s Transformative Role in Slavery Heritage Narratives''

13 January 2022 - Webinar - Considering the covid regulations, our January RHI seminar will take place online on MS Teams. Our guest is Dr. Emmanuel Adu-Ampong, who is an...

Travis Lybbert (UC Davis) Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture

07 December 2021 - Seminar

Pim de Zwart (WUR) Colonial Paradox: Sugar, Property Rights and Land Inequality in Java

23 November 2021 - Seminar

Sanne Muurling (Radboud University) Disparities in Death: Smallpox and Intra-Urban Social Inequalities, Amsterdam 1870-1872

16 November 2021 - Seminar

RHI Seminar: The Black Death: window of opportunity or disaster? Demographic growth, stagnation and decline in the County of Hainaut (1349-1541)

11 November 2021 - Seminar - On invitation of the Rural and Environmental History Group, Dr. Joris Roosen from Maastricht University will give a seminar on November 11, 2021. To...

Ulf Liebe (University of Warwick) Non-monetary Incentives and Energy Conservation

09 November 2021 - Seminar