May 9, 2024
10.45 AM to 11.00 AM Eastern Time US
Virtual Welcome:
15-Minute Virtual Welcome Event
11.00 AM to 12.30 PM Eastern Time US
Parallel Sessions:
HPE of Conflict, Political Competition, and Discrimination
Chair: Dmitrii Kofanov
Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)
“Climate Change, State-Building and Societal Resilience in Ancient Egypt”
Discussant: Vladimir Novikov
Vladimir Novikov (University of Chicago)
“When War Sparks Unrest: Evidence from the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution”
Discussant: L. Guillermo Woo-Mora
L. Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics)
“Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation and Contemporary Land Values”
Discussant: Yegor Albitski
HPE of Incumbent and Challenger Elites
Chair: Jan Vogler
Antoine Boucher (Université Paris-Dauphine/PSL)
“The Political Legacy of 19th Century Politicization and Repression in Southeastern France”
Discussant: Igor Kolesnikov
Igor Kolesnikov (UC Berkeley)
“Spreading Insurgency: Evidence from the Russian October Revolution”
Discussant: Cathrin Mohr
Flavio Malnati (CERGE-EI)
“Deus Vult! Military Capacity and Economic Development in the Teutonic-Order State”
Discussant: Antoine Boucher
Cathrin Mohr (University of Bonn)
“Elite Selection in an Autocracy: The Career Costs of Political Ties”
Discussant: Flavio Malnati
HPE of Elite Creation and Maintenance
Chair: Tine Paulsen
Jonathan Chausovsky (State University of New York at Fredonia)
“General Laws of Incorporation: The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846”
Discussant: Hans-Joachim Voth
Taha Rauf (University of Michigan)
“Long-Run Effects of Religious Institutions on Development in India”
Discussant: Robert D. Woodberry
Robert D. Woodberry (Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion)
“The Religious Roots of Printing Revolutions”
Discussant: Jonathan Chausovsky
Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich, with Sascha O. Becker)
“Shallow Christianity”
Discussant: Taha Rauf
12.45 PM to 2.15 PM Eastern Time US
Parallel Sessions:
HPE of War, State-Building, and Structural Transformation
Chair: Dmitrii kofanov
Luca Bagnato (University of Milan)
“From Taxation to Fighting for the Nation: Historical Fiscal Capacity and Military Draft Evasion during WWI”
Discussant: Alexander Yarkin
Tobias Korn (Leibniz University Hannover)
“Human Capital Shocks and Structural Transformation: WWI and Weimar Germany”
Discussant: Alejandro López-Peceño
Alejandro López-Peceño (New York University)
“Revisiting the Role of the State in the Provision of Mass Schooling: Evidence from the French Loi Falloux”
Discussant: Yusuf Magiya
Yusuf Magiya (NYU Abu Dhabi)
“Bargaining over Fiscal Centralization in the Shadow of War”
Discussant: Luca Bagnato
Alexander Yarkin (LISER and UC Davis)
“Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence”
Discussant: Tobias Korn
HPE of State Capacity and Repression
Chair: Jan Vogler
Vittorio Maresca di Serracapriola
“A Cacophony of Weights and Measures. Fiscal Legibility, Tax Collection, and State Building in Italy, 1861-1890”
Discussant: Magnus Neubert
Ajay K. Mehrotra (Northwestern University)
“The Intellectual Origins of the Modern International Tax Regime: Edwin R.A. Seligman, Economic Allegiance, and the 1923 Economists Report for the League of Nations”
Discussant: Vittorio Maresca di Serracapriola
Magnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO))
“Leviathan’s Shadow: The Imperial Legacy of State Capacity and Economic Development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia”
Discussant: Maximiliano Véjares
Maximiliano Véjares (Johns Hopkins University)
“Varieties of state-building: The transition to direct rule and patrimonial reinforcement in Chile”
Discussant: Ajay K. Mehrotra
HPE of Rebellions, Revolutions, and Resistance
Chair: Tine Paulsen
Joseph Enguehard (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
“Illegal Economy and Ideology”
Discussant: Heqi Cai
Heqi Cai (London School of Economics)
“The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during Taiping Rebellion”
Discussant: Joseph Enguehard
Vladimir Shchukin
“Imperialism, Socialism, and the Industrial Revolution”
Discussant: Riccardo Di Leo
Riccardo Di Leo (European University Institute)
“‘Good’ Citizens in ‘Exceptional’ Times: The Role of State and Regime Legitimacy”
Discussant: Vladimir Shchukin
2.30 PM to 3.30 PM Eastern Time US
Keynote Book Presentation:
Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)
Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Moderator: Dmitrii Kofanov