This conference is invitation only. All times below are listed in Central Time.
Agenda
Thursday, December 16, 2021
08:30:00–09:00:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00:00–09:15:00
Opening Remarks
09:15:00–10:00:00
McDonalds on Pushkin Square: From Joint Venture to Foreign Subsidiary and from Communism to Capitalism, 1990-1999
10:00:00–10:45:00
Russian Economic Growth During The Eighteenth Century
10:45:00–11:00:00
Break
11:00:00–11:45:00
Control through Empowerment: Preliminary Evidence from the Inception of Central Asian Republics
11:45:00–13:00:00
The Political Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33
Lunch will be served during the presentation
13:00:00–13:45:00
Living as Before: Keeping up with the Joneses in Times of Political Terror
13:45:00–14:30:00
Political Economy of Rural Self-governance: the Case of the Village Communities in the Russian Empire after the Emancipation
14:30:00–15:00:00
Break
15:00:00–15:45:00
Fending Off Shield and Sword: How Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators
15:45:00–16:30:00
Prisons and Homophobia
18:30:00
Dinner
Topolobampo – 445 North Clark Street
Friday, December 17, 2021
08:45:00–09:15:00
Continental Breakfast
09:15:00–10:00:00
Coercion after Serfdom? Market Power and Factor Mobility in Rural Russia, 1861 – 1914
10:00:00–10:45:00
Human Capital and Industrialization: German Settlers in Late Imperial Russia
10:45:00–11:00:00
Break
11:00:00–11:45:00
Wartime Recruitment: From Oppression to Insurrection
11:45:00–13:00:00
Utopia’s Discontent
Lunch will be served during the presentation
13:00:00–13:45:00
Does Past Labor Coercion Cause Conflict? Evidence from the Late Russian Empire
13:45:00–14:30:00
Fining the Judges, or the Administrative Capacity of the Post-Petrine State in Russia: The Case of the Confiscation Chancellery, 1730s
14:30:00–15:00:00
Break
15:00:00–15:45:00
Burghers into Peasants: Political Economy of City Status in Congress Poland
15:45:00–16:30:00
Discussion: Next Steps
18:30:00