Guillaume Daudin was very happy to participate to the international conference:
Transport statistics in pre- and early industrial economic history: The challenges and opportunities of Sound Toll Registers Online
in Leipzig on October 26th to 28th.
Here is Guillaume’s presentation :
Here is the program:
Wednesday 26.10.2016 (seminar building, room 420)
18:15 – 18:25
Prof. Dr. Manfred Rudersdorf, Dean of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies (Universität Leipzig)
18:25 – 18:30
Prof. Dr. Markus A. Denzel, Chair of Social and Economic History (Universität Leipzig)
18:30 – 19:30 hrs
Keynote on The Baltic Sea as Realm of Memory
Prof. Dr. Michael North (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany)
19:30 –
Dinner
Thursday 27.10.2016 (GWZ, room 3.215) Introduction
09:00 – 09:45 hrs
The electronic database of the Sound Toll Registers: current state and future potential
Dr. Jan Willem Veluwenkamp (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
09:45 – 10:00 hrs
Coffee break
Section 1: 10:00 – 11:30 hrs: Theoretical and methodological issues
Discussant: Dr. Jan Willem Veluwenkamp
10:00 – 10:45 hrs
Generating transport statistics based on pre- and early industrial shipping registers: a methodological outline using the example of the Sound Toll Registers Online
Dr. Werner Scheltjens (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
10:45 – 11:30 hrs
The role of transportation in pre- and early industrial commercial history: some theoretical considerations
Prof. Dr. Markus A. Denzel (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Section 2: 11:45 – 13:15 hrs: Regional patterns of integration through transport and trade
Discussant: Prof Dr. Gelina Harlaftis
11:45 – 12:30 hrs Long-distance circular trade between Northern and Southern Europe
Dr. Magnus Ressel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
12:30 – 13:15 hrs The emergence of Finnish long-distance transport (1700-1850)
Prof. Dr. Jari Ojala (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) 13:15 – 14:45 hrs Lunch
Section 3: 15:00 – 17:15 hrs: STRO and the British industrial revolution
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Jari Ojala
15:00 – 15:45 hrs
British shipping to the Baltic seen from London and Elsinore
Prof. Dr. Peter Solar (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
15:45 – 16:30 hrs
„Ghost acreage“ calculations based on STRO and their contribution to the Great Divergence-Debate
Dr. Klas Rönnback (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Dimitrios Theodoridis MA (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
16:30 – 17:15 hrs
Hemp and Flax exports from the Baltic and their role in the British industrial revolution
Dr. Arne Solli (University of Bergen, Norway)
Roundtable discussion
17:15 – 18:00 hrs The aims and purposes of a scientific committee for promoting STRO- based research
Prof. Dr. Markus A. Denzel & Dr. Werner Scheltjens 19:00 – Dinner
Friday 28 October 2016 (GWZ, room 1.416)
Section 4: 09:30 – 11:45 hrs: STRO and historical database projects: common issues, shared opportunities (1)
Discussant: Dr. Werner Scheltjens
09:30 – 10:15 hrs
Greek shipping statistics and the Sound Toll Registers Online: A comparative analysis of issues and chances of ‘manipulating’ historical maritime data sets
Prof. Dr. Gelina Harlaftis (Ionian University, Greece)
10:15 – 11:00 hrs
The contribution of STRO to the database of French external trade statistics (1716-1821)
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Daudin (Université Dauphine, France)
11:00 – 11:45 hrs
Danube Customs Registers and STRO: A Comparative Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges of Online Databases
Dr. Peter Rauscher (Universität Wien, Austria) & Mag. Andrea Serles (Universität Wien, Austria)
11:45 – 12:00 hrs
Short coffee break
Closing discussion
12:00 – 12:45 hrs
Dr. Werner Scheltjens