New Research 2026 Conference Posters

Inequality in the Early Middle Ages: Distribution of Wealth and Societal Changes in Lombard Northern Italy
Francesco Azzoni (Bocconi University)

Reluctant Citizens? Conscription Evasion and the Making of State Capacity in Liberal Age Italy, 1862-1912
Nicola Fresco (University of Siena)

Social Mobility and Industrialization in Milan, 1880-1910: Exploring the Modernization Thesis
Simone Frisoni (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

New Estimates of Gender Inequality in Ancient Middle East from Chalcolithic to Iron Age: Evidence from Bioarchaeological Sources
Luyuan Guan (University of Tübingen)

Geography of Power: Electrification, Industrial Location and Labour Conflict in Italy, 1883-1911
Laura Hastings Mela (University of Siena)

Gender and Empire: Manipuri Market Women under British Colonial Rule, 1904-1940
Zuzubee Huidrom (University of Edinburgh)

Banking on the Press: Financial Advertising and Book Trade Investors in 1690s England
Can Kazan (University of Cambridge)

Credit Generation without (External) Contract Enforcement: Property Redemption Right in Traditional China, 1592 – 1950
Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford)

When Wealth Wasn’t Health: Typhoid Mortality and Social Status in Late 19th-Century Ireland
Samantha Maitland (University of Auckland)

Gender and Justice: Women’s Legal Engagement in the Gold Coast Colony, 1861-1940
Giulia Martini (University of Gothenburg)

Civil Servants Pouring Pints: Government Alcohol Monopolies and Crime
Padraig McKee (Queen’s University Belfast)

Occupational Gender Segregation in Austria: Evidence from Newspaper Job Advertisements, 1850-1950
Wiltrud Mölzer (University of Graz)

Women, War and Work: Female Labour in Bavaria during the First World War
Miriam Mueller (Paris School of Economics)

Residency Requirements in Welfare Policy: Implications for Migration and Economic Mobility
Catherine O’Donnell (Boston University)

Beneath the Surface: Tracing the Historical Roots of Russia’s Resource Dependence, 1880-2022
Aleksandra Parshina (Public University of Navarre)

Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl
Freya Rubel (Freie Universität Berlin)

Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940: Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System
Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova (University of Gothenburg)

Altruism, Authority, and Allocation: Private Charity and Parish Relief in Early Modern England
Jingwen Shi (London School of Economics)

Skin Tone and Racial Inequality in the US
Kamelia Stavreva & Donato Onorato (Columbia University)

Grassroots Industry and Institutional Synergy: An Empirical Re-evaluation of the Economic Impact of Wartime Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement, 1938-1945
Zhen Zhang (University of Edinburgh)