A series of virtual seminars in economic history while we are all sheltering in place. 

April 6         Martin Rotemberg       Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing 
April 20.      Martin Fernandez-Sanchez  Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora
April 27       Tania Babina                Crisis Innovation
May 4          Sara Lowes.                 The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa
May 11         Katherine Eriksson     The Rise of the Know Nothing Party
May 18        James Feigenbaum   How the Other Half Dies: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
June 1         Elizabeth Cascio.        Opening the Door:  Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime
June 8         Mara Squicciarini       Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France
June 15       Fabian Waldinger       Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance. Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
June 29      Marco Tabellini           Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
July 27       Jhacova Williams        Historical Lynchings and Contemporary Voting Behavior of African Americans        
August 10  Ezra Karger                  The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s  
August 17  Aradhya Sood.             Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Covenants of Minneapolis
August 24  Diego Ramos-Toro     Self-Emancipation and Progressive Politics: The Legacy of Civil War Refugee Camps
August 31  Belinda Archibong      Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
     

We meet on Mondays from 11-noon Pacific / 2-3 pm Eastern / 8-9 pm Central European Summer Time.
Co-organized with Katherine Eriksson and Melissa Thomasson.

Elizabeth Perlman, Claudia Rei, and Felipe Valencia have agreed to organize this seminar in fall 2020.
Their call for papers and website are here. 

To receive seminar announcements or suggest a paper please sign up here.
And here is a list of other online seminars, with thanks to the Chamberlain Seminar,