2. Guest Lecture: Melissa Lee (@PUPolitics) on “Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth-Century France” (2021 Best Article Award by @ApsaEuro)
Day: Friday, December 3, 2021
Time: 3.00–4.30 PM CET / 9.00–10.30 AM ET
3. Guest Lecture: @YuhuaWang5 (@Harvard) on “The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development” (New Book with @PrincetonUPress)
Day: Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021
Time: 4.30–6.00 PM CET / 10.30 AM–12.00 PM ET
All guest lectures will be on Zoom & are scheduled to be 60 min, followed by 30 min Q&A.
Participation is open to everyone. Links will be distributed closer to the lecture dates.
If you would like to already have the link to the first lecture by Centeno, please DM me. 🙂
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Please retweet widely! Also, if you know grad students who work on bureaucracy, state building, or related topics (& who are not on Twitter), please share this announcement with them. I’m looking forward to these lectures. Thank you!🙂
Registration links for all lectures ("Historical Political Economy of Bureaucracy & State Building") are now available at this URL: janvogler.net/Lecture_Series…
A Zoom account is required. (Create one at zoom.us)
I look forward to seeing you at the lecture series! 🙂
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🚨 What are the political consequences of pandemics? 🚨
D. Gingerich & I analyze history’s deadliest #pandemic in a brand new @World_Pol article: “Pandemics & Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the #BlackDeath in Germany”
Brief summary (#TLDR): The Black Death (BD) had a significant long-term impact on Germany’s political development. Hard-hit areas introduced proto-democratic institutions; sustained experiences with participative government later helped reject antidemocratic & illiberal parties.
Long overview (starting here): In 1347, Europe was hit by a pandemic that killed 30–60% of its population: the BD. It had a major impact on medieval society which was based on feudalism/serfdom. Yet the BD’s impact varied greatly across space, leading to divergence in its impact.