The New Economic History of Brazil conference: program available!

Here is the program for this conference, previously announced here. We’re looking forward!

09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome address – Álvaro Matias, Director of the Center for Research in Economics and Comparative Development (CIEDEC) and Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences (FCEE), Lusíada University of Lisbon

09:15 – 10:00 | Opening Lecture – Cláudio Haddad, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Insper – Institute of Education and Research (São Paulo, Brazil)

10:00 – 10:40 | Paper 1: Colonial Heritage: Women slavery and the roots of domestic labor – Yuri Barreto (Bocconi University), with Bladimir Carrillo (EESP-FGV) and Breno Sampaio (University of Pernambuco).

10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:40 | Paper 2: Mules: ‘Old Testament technology’, fiscal capacity and economic development in 19th century Brazil – Rafael Cariello (University of São Paulo).

11:40 – 12:20 | Papr 3: Birthweights and Maternal-Infant Health in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil: Evidence from the Hospital Maternidade de São Paulo. – Daniel Franken (University of Groningen, Fulbright U.S. Scholar)

12:20 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 | Keynote Lecture – William Summerhill (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:00 – 15:40 | Paper 4: How a Nation was Born: Four Centuries of Brazilian Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective – Guilherme Lambais (Lusíada University of Lisbon), with Nuno Palma (University of Manchester).

15:40 – 16:00 | Coffee break

16:00 – 16:40 | Paper 5: Protection in Brazil, 1950–1980 – Svante Prado, Christopher Absell, and John Lapidus (University of Gothenburg).

16:40 – 17:20 | Bonus session: Presentation by Banco de Portugal / INE – Historical Series for the Portuguese Economy (1947–2022)

17:20-19:00 | Free break.

19:00 | Conference dinner.