The program for this Arthur Lewis Lab conference, previously announced here, is now available. It will take place at the University of Manchester on Nov. 13-14, 2025.
The conference will have 2 days. The first will be a workshop with presentations by PhD students and postdocs, and the second will be composed of presentations by senior researchers / faculty members. This conference is offline only, and has been organized by Yuzuru Kumon and myself (with the help of Jiaqi Yao.)
Nov. 13 graduate workshop
Each presents for 20 minutes, followed by a discussant presenting for 5, and another 5 minutes for questions. Time will be strictly enforced.
9.00-9.30. Paper 1: Yuchen Lin (University of Warwick), The U.S. Origins of Chinese Science
Discussant: Xizi Luo (University of Manchester)
9.30-10.00. Paper 2: Xiaoyun Tang (King’s College London), Panic Without Failure? Public Anxiety in 1930s China
Dissussant: Xiaobing Wang (University of Manchester)
10.00-10.30. Paper 3: Yaroslav Prokhorskoi (ESSEC), Beneath the Ban of Abortion: Evidence from the USSR (with Sultan Mehmood and Hosny Zoaby)
Discussant: Harry Pickard (Newcastle University)
10.30-11.00. Coffee break
11.00-11.30. Paper 4: Emiliano Salas Aron (University of Bueno Aires), Between structural changes and the international market flows: rural inequality in Argentina during the First Globalization (1895-1914)
Discussant: Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley)
11.30-12.00. Paper 5: Felix Schaff (Utrecht University), Before the U-Curve: Intra-Family Roots of Preindustrial Gender Inequality (with Sheilagh Ogilvie)
Discussant: Yuzuru Kumon (University of Manchester)
12.00-12.30. Paper 6: Florentine Friedrich (LSE), In the Crossfire: The Consequences of Church-State Competition in 19th France
Discussant: Brian Varian (Newcastle University)
12.30-14.00. Lunch break
14.00-14.30. Paper 7: Ana Laura Catelén (Carlos III), Are all business cycles alike? A study of Argentine large economic recessions in the long 20th century (1880-2020), with Esteban Alberto Nicolini Alessi
Discussant: Álvaro Matias (Lusíada University)
14.30-15.00. Paper 8: Cihang Wan (University of Manchester), Faith, Medicine, and Fear: Plague and the Uneven Spread of Missionary Hospitals in China
Discussant: James Fenske (University of Warwick)
15.00-15.30. Coffee break
15.30-16.00. Paper 9: Eric Wilhelm (Wabash College), Craft Guilds & City Growth (with Noel Johnson)
Discussant: K. Kivanc Karaman (Bogaziçi University)
16.00 to 18.00. Free break
18.00. Dinner at Zouk
Nov. 14, main conference day
Except for the keynote, each presents for 30 minutes, including questions. It’s up to you how much free time you leave for questions, but we recommend leaving at least 5 minutes. Time will be strictly enforced.
9.00-9.30. Paper 1: Sabrina Di Addario (Bank of Italy): Women inventors: the legacy of medieval guilds (with Michela Giorcelli and Agata Maida)
9.30-10.00. Paper 2: Yuzuru Kumon (University of Manchester): Gendered labor and structural transformation (with Erika Igarashi)
10.00-10.30. Paper 3: Guilherme Lambais (Lusíada University): African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil (with Nuno Palma)
10.30-11.00. Coffee break
11.00-11.30. Paper 4: K. Kivanc Karaman (Bogaziçi University): Global Patterns of Market Integration from the Early Modern Era to the Twentieth Century (with Yavuz Selim Kaçmaz)
11.30-12.00. Paper 5: James Fenske (University of Warwick): A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India (with Latika Chaudhary and Yannick Dupraz)
12.00-12.30. Paper 6: Xizi Luo (University of Manchester), Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China (Melanie Xue)
12.30-14.00. Lunch break
14.00-15.00. Keynote: Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley): International Currencies: Past, Present and Future
15.00-15.30. Coffee break
15.30-16.00. Paper 7: Pim de Zwart (Wageningen University), The Sweet and Bitter Divide: Commodity Exports and Wage Inequality in Colonial Java (with Mark Hup)
16.00-16.30. Paper 8: Omer Moav (University of Warwick): Can a Grain of Patience Trigger Cooperation? The Role of an Outside Option (with Luigi Pascali, Ady Pauzner)
16.30-17.00. Paper 9: Meng Wu (University of Manchester), The Financial Revolution in Republican China: The Case of Indirect Issuance of Banknotes, 1905-1936
17.00 to 18.00. Free break
18.00. Drinks & dinner at Christie’s (including a musical jam!)
Saturday social programme: for those interested, there will be a visit to the Quarry Bank Mill in Styal.
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