Keynote Lecture | Resourceful Sources? Prospects and Pitfalls in Modern Narratives on the Origins of Economic Growth and Economic Change
Following the success of previous editions, the 3rd Summer School of Economic and Social History, organized by the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (APHES) and co-organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20), is announced to take place in Ponte de Sor, Portugal.
This Summer School offers comprehensive courses on research methods and central topics in Economic and Social History, with lectures by distinguished scholars in the morning sessions and presentations by researchers in the afternoon. The aim is to bring together researchers with varying levels of experience, where all topics in Economic and Social History from any geographical and chronological scope are welcome.
Initiating the event's activities, Phillipp Roessner (University of Manchester) will present the Keynote Lecture titled “Resourceful Sources? Prospects and Pitfalls in Modern Narratives on the Origins of Economic Growth and Economic Change”. Presented in a hybrid format, the audience has the opportunity to attend either in person or live via Zoom.
Phillipp Roessner
I hold two Ph.D.s, one being in Economic History (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh / UK, 2007): for a thesis on Scottish overseas trade in the eighteenth century); the other being a higher doctorate (common across continental Europe, antiquated and comparable to what you may call D.Litt) in Social and Economic History (Dr. phil. habil., 2011) awarded for a thesis on "Deflation - Devaluation - Rebellion" from the Universität Leipzig in 2011. For the latter I studied the connections between coin debasement and popular unrest in fifteenth- and sixteenth century Germany. In 2012 I was appointed Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester and in 2017 promoted to Senior Lecturer. [...]