News and Events
2013
3 December 2013: Lecture at the British Academy – Event to Launch the 2013 Wolfson / British Academy Research Professorships: Sheilagh Ogilvie: “Human Capital and Economic Outcomes in a European Developing Economy, c. 1600 – c. 1900”
Watch: British Academy Podcast
20-23 November 2013:
CONFERENCE: “Material Culture and Consumption in Early Modern Europe – Objects, Circulations, Appropriations / Materielle Kultur und Konsum im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit – Objekte, Zirkulationen, Aneignungen”, Organized by the DFG Network on Material Culture and Consumption in Early Modern Europe.
Impact Paper by Sheilagh Ogilvie: “Problems and Perspectives of the History of Consumption and Material Culture in Central Europe”
FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: PDF download
15 Apr 2013:
Opening session at the Datini Institute Forty-Fifth Annual Study Week on "Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy, 11th-18th Centuries", Prato, Italy: Sheilagh Ogilvie: "Serfdom and the Institutional System"
19 Mar 2013: Symposium, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Contemporary Studies, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai: Sheilagh Ogilvie and Jeremy Edwards: "Why Nations Fail: An Appraisal"
14 - 27 Mar 2103: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, India
25 Jan 2013: Workshop at L'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris on Sheilagh Ogilvie's book, Institutions and European Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
24 Jan 2013: Evening lecture "Un Livre, Un lecteur", University of Paris-1 Sorbonne, on Sheilagh Ogilvie's book, Institutions and European Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
2012
16 Nov 2012: Seminar paper at the Women's History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research: Janine Maegraith: "Between Charity and Enlightenment: Southwest German Convent Pharmacies in the Long Eighteenth Century and their Role in Rural Welfare"
12-14 Sep 2012:
CONFERENCE: "Revolution des Fleißes, Revolution des Konsums? Leben und Wirtschaften im ländlichen Wurttemberg, 1650-1800 / Consumer Revolution, Industrious Revolution? Making a Living in Rural Wurttemberg, 1650-1800". Organized by the Institut fur Geschichtliche Landeskunde at the University of Tübingen, the Akademie der Diozese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Alemannische Institut, and the University of Cambridge, as an encounter between the Cambridge ESRC project and the German historical discipline. Location: Tagungszentrum Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany.
Presentations from the Cambridge project team on the following themes:
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"Von 'Beybringen' zu 'Verlassthum', von 'Ablasshaube' bis 'Zwehlenblatt': Herausforderungen und Lösungen bei der Arbeit mit Inventaren" ["From 'Marriage Portion' to 'Inherited Estate', from 'Drain-Cover' to 'Twill-Weaving Reed': Challenges and Solutions in Working with Historical Inventories"]
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"Die lokale Regulierung des Konsums im frühmodernen Württemberg." ["The Local Regulation of Consumpton in Early Modern Württemberg"]
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"Private Haushaltsschulden im frühmodernen Württemberg: Belege aus den 'Inventuren und Teilungen'" ["Household Debt in Early Modern Württemberg: Evidence from Marriage and Death Inventories"]
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"Krämer und ihre Waren anhand der Inventuren und Teilungen" ["Shopkeepers and their Wares in Marriage and Death Inventories"]
FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: PDF download 
6 Jun 2012: Seminar paper at the Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge: Sheilagh Ogilvie: "Consumption and Social Capital in Early Modern Europe"
15 May 2012: Seminar paper at the Ruhr-University, Bochum: Markus Küpker: "Fleissrevolution? Konsumrevolution? Uberprüfüng neuerer Theorien zu den Ursachen des europaischen Wirtschaftswachstums am Beispiel Württembergs, 1600-1900. Ein Projektbericht."
11 Apr 2012: Paper presented at the Ninth European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in the "Family and Demography" Network: Janine Maegraith: "Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Material Culture in Southwest Germany: Evidence from Inventories"
25 Feb 2012: Paper presented at the Conference of the Network on Early Modern Material Culture and Consumption, Giessen, Germany: Janine Maegraith: "Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Material Culture in Southwest Germany: Evidence from Inventories"
22 Feb 2012: Paper presented at an international workshop at the University of Münster, Germany, Chair for Social and Economic History: Markus Küpker: "Household Debt in Early Modern Wurttemberg, 1602-1700".
22 Feb 2012: International Symposium on "Finding 'Ie' in Western Society: Historical Empirical Study for Paralleling and Contrasting Between Japan and Europe", University of Münster, Germany, Chair for Social and Economic History: Janine Maegraith: Introduction and Moderation.
20 Feb 2012: International Symposium on "Finding 'Ie' in Western Society: Historical Empirical Study for Paralleling and Contrasting Between Japan and Europe", Queens’ College, University of Cambridge: Janine Maegraith: Introduction and Moderation 2011 29 Oct 2011: Paper at the Conference of the Social and Economic History Section of the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony and Bremen, Historisches Museum, Hannover, Germany: Markus Küpker: "Neue Forschungen zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte in England: 'Human Well-Being and the "Industrious Revolution". Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy' "
6 Oct 2011: Paper presented at the Launch Conference of the Network on Early Modern Material Culture and Consumption, Jena, Germany: Janine Maegraith: "Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Material Culture in Southwest Germany: Evidence from Inventories".
29 Sep 2011: Paper at the University of Venice Doctoral School Workshop "Consumo e cultura materiale nell'Europa preindustriale", Università Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy: Sheilagh Ogilvie: "Retailing, Consumption and Material Culture in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Marriage and Death Inventories" (paper co-authored with Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith)
25 & 27 Sep 2011: Paper Presented at the Symposium on "Finding 'Ie' in Western Society: Historical Demonstrative Study for Paralleling and Contrasting Between Japan and Europe" in Kyoto and at Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan: Janine Maegraith: "Opportunity or Constraint? Partible Inheritance, Family Property and Household Structure in Southwest Germany – Evidence from Inventories"
26 Aug - 10 Sep 2011: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, India: Presentation on "Social Capital, Gender, and the Consumer Revolution in Early Modern Central Europe"
22 Apr 2011: Paper at the Huntingdon / All-UC / Caltech Conference in Economic History, Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California: "Retail Ratios in the Netherlands, c. 1670 – c. 1815" (paper co-authored with Danielle van den Heuvel)
15 Mar 2011: Lecture at the German Historical Institute, London: Sheilagh Ogilvie: “Social Capital, Gender, and the Consumer Revolution in Early Modern Germany”
28 Jan 2011: Seminar paper at the Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of History, University of Sussex: Sheilagh Ogilvie: “Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories” (paper co-authored with Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith)
2010
24 Sep 2010: Introductory paper at the Conference on “Women’s Work in Early Modern Europe”, 23-24 September 2010, Jesus College, Cambridge: Sheilagh Ogilvie and Erik Lindberg: “Women’s Work and Models of Economic Development: Productivity Growth vs the Capabilities Approach”
15 Feb 2010: Seminar paper at
the Financial
History
Seminar, Centre for
Financial History, Newnham College,
Cambridge: Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Markus Küpker, and Janine
Maegraith: “Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from
Personal Inventories”
22 Jan 2010: Seminar paper at the University of Münster: Janine Megraith and Markus Küpker: "Human Well-Being and the 'Industrious Revolution'"
2009
20 Apr 2009: Seminar paper at the Economic History Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University: Ogilvie, Sheilagh: “Consumption, Social Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany”
17 Apr 2009: Seminar paper at the Economic History Workshop, Department of Economics, Harvard University: Ogilvie, Sheilagh: “Consumption, Social Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany”
16 Mar 2009: Seminar paper in the Division of the Social Sciences and Humanities, California Institute of Technology: Ogilvie, Sheilagh: “Consumption, Social Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany”
30 Jan 2009: Seminar paper at the Centre for Quantitative Economic History, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge: Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Markus Küpker, and Janine Maegraith: “Human Well-Being and the 'Industrious Revolution': Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600-1900”
2008
8 Sep 2008: Seminar paper
at the Economic History Seminar, Department of Economics,
University of Venice: Ogilvie, Sheilagh: “Consumption, Social
Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany”
19 Feb 2008:
Seminar paper
at the Early Modern Social and Cultural History Seminar,
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: Ogilvie, Sheilagh:
“Consumption, Social
Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany”