Overview of the ESTER-courses

Overview from year to year

2011

Research Design Course (supported by the Unger-Van Brero Fund)
October 24th-28th 2011, Évora, Portugal 
Organized by: (University of Évora)

2010

Research Design Course (Joint activity with GlobalEuroNet)
November 23rd-27th 2010, Vienna, Austria
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Markus Cerman (University of Vienna)

2009

Research Design Course (Joint activity with GlobalEuroNet)
July 28th-31st, 2009, Barcelona, Spain
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Alfonso Herranz Loncán (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 39 PhD-students, 15 experts  

Advanced Seminar
June 23rd-26th, 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ‘The Economic History of Patents and Innovation’
Organized by: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa/University of Eindhoven), Astrid Kander (University of Lund) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen
Attending: 7 PhD-students

2008

Research Design Course (Joint activity with GlobalEuroNet) September 1st-4th, 2008, Budapest, Hungary
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Agnes Pogany (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 29 PhD-students, 11 experts  

Advanced Seminar (in conjunction with the conference 'Empires and Emporia. The Orient in World-Historical Space and Time')
August 29th-20th, 2008, Leiden, The Netherlands
‘The political economy of the Orient’ 

Advanced Seminar
September 17th-28rd, 2008, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom  ‘Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Representations – Past, Present and Future’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Chris Williams (University of Swansea) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)

2007

Research Design Course
September 4th -11th, 2007, Paris, France
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser (University Paris I-Sorbonne) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 31 PhD-students, 13 experts  

Advanced Seminar
April 25th-28th, 2007, Minho, Portugal (in conjunction with expert-meeting of European historians and demographers as part of the EU COST-program)
‘The transmission of well-being: marriage strategies and inheritance systems in Europe from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries’
Organized by: Isabel Sá (University of Minho) and Prof. Dr. Marco van Leeuwen (IISG; International Institute of Social History/Utrecht University)
Attending: 15 PhD-students

2006

Research Design Course
October 9th-11th, 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden (IISG; International Institute of Social History/Utrecht University) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 26 PhD-students, 10 experts  

Advanced Seminar
July 19th-23rd, 2006, Bochum, Germany (in cooperation with the Institute for Social Movements and the Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (Bochum))
‘European Mining History, 19th and 20th Centuries: Work in Progress’
Organized by: Dr. Klaus Tenfelde (ISB; Institute of Social Movements, Bochum) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute, Groningen/University of Groningen)
Attending: 24 PhD-students

2005

Research Design Course
October 13th-15th, 2005, Münster, Germany
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 15 PhD-students, 8 experts

2004

Research Design Course
October 13th-16th, 2004, Brescia, Italy
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Carlo Marco Belfanti (University of Brescia) and Dr. Ben Gales (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 28 PhD-students, 10 experts  

Advanced Seminar
March 30th – April 2nd, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany
‘Borders, frontiers and border-regions in history’
Organized by: Professor Helga Schultz (European University Viadrina Frankfurt
Attending: 12 PhD-students

Advanced Seminar
April 5th-8th, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany
‘Education and social mobility in Europe: historical approaches (18-20thcenturies)’
Organized by: Professor Helder Adegar Fonseca (Évora)

2003

Research Design Course
November 9th-12nd, 2003, Tampere, Finland
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Riita Hjerppe (University of Helsinki) and Dr. Herman de Jong and Dr. Ben Gales (both N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)
Attending: 29 PhD-students, 9 experts  

Advanced Seminar
March 29th - April 3rd, 2003, London, United Kingdom ’Instruments of Social Control and Regimes of Surveillance’,
Organized by : Prof. Dr. Ian Brown (School of Oriental and African Studies),
Attending: 10 PhD-students  

Advanced Seminar
April 5th-9th, 2003, London, United Kingdom
‘Port and Maritime History’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Robert Lee (University of Liverpool)
Attending: 9 PhD-students  

Advanced Seminar
November 12th-15th, 2003, Tampere, Finland
‘Infrastructure, environment and urban culture: industrial and post-industrial societies’
Organized by: Prof. Marjatta Hietala, Dept. secretary Riitta Aallos, researcher Kimmo Antila, secretary Risto Kunnari & Program Coordinator Sari Pasto (University of Tampere, Department of History)
Attending: 10 PhD-students

2002

Advanced Seminar
February 21st-26th, 2002, Athens, Greece
‘Urban History, a Multiform Discipline’
Organized by: Prof. Lydia Dracaki (Panteion University) and Prof. Pim Kooij (University of Groningen)

Advanced Seminar
February 26th-March 3rd, 2002, Athens, Greece
‘Industrialisation – Past and Present
Organized by: Prof. Lennart Schoen and Prof. Chris Gunarsson (both Lund University)

Advanced Seminar
November 14th-18th, 2002, Ghent, Belgium
‘Long-term development of rural economies and societies, 13th-19th centuries’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Bas van Bavel (Utrecht University)

2001

Advanced Seminar
November 13th-18th, 2001, Bari, Italy
‘The History of Violence and Social Movements’
Organized by: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (University of Bielefeld)

2000

Advanced Seminar
11th-13th Februari 2000, Lisbon, Portugal 
'New trends in urban history'
Organised by professor Henk van Dijk (University of Rotterdam), professor Magda Avelar Pinheiro (Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho)en professor Lars Nillson

Advanced Seminar
September 10th-13th, 2000, Trier, Germany
‘The Social History of Religious Groups (16th-20th centuries)’
Organized by: Prof. Andreas Gestrich (Trier University)

Advanced Seminar
November 7th-12th, 2000, Madrid, Spain
‘Language, History and Art in Nationalistic Movements, 19th and 20th centuries’
Organized by: Prof. Andrès Barrera González (Complutense University of Madrid)

Advanced Seminar
November 29th - December 2nd, 2000, Umeå, Sweden
‘Transport, Communication and Information Technology in the Transformation of Modern Society, 1850-2000’
Organized by: Prof. Lena Andersson-Skog and Prof. Olle Krantz (both University of Umeå)

1999

Advanced Seminar
Madrid, Spain
‘Minority Languages and Nationalistic Movements’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Andres Barrera (Complutense University, Madrid)

Advanced Seminar
October 1ste-6th 1999, Évora, Portugal
‘The History of European Elite Groups‘
Organized by: Prof. dr. Helder Fonseca (University of Évora)

Advanced Seminar
October 10th-14th 1999, Uppsala, Sweden
‘Gender, property, and economic development’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Maria Ågren (Uppsala University)

1998

Advanced Seminar
Prato, Italy
‘Historical Methodology’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Paul Klep (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Advanced Seminar
Barcelona, Spain
‘Social and Economic Changes in Rural Societies’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Ramon Garrabou (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Advanced Seminar
Jyväskylä, Finland
‘Trade, Transport and Communication before 1850’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Riita Hjerppe (University of Helsinki)

Advanced Seminar
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
‘Family and Industrialization’
Organized by: Prof. dr. Jean-Paul Lehners (University of Luxembourg)

1997

Advanced Seminar
Liverpool, United Kingdom
‘Health, Medicine and Society’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Lee (University of Liverpool)

Advanced Seminar
Essex, United Kingdom
‘Ethnicity and Race in Europe and the non-European World’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Stuart Woolf and Dr. Rainer Schulze (both University of Essex)  

Advanced Seminar
Lisbon, Portugal
‘International Economic Relations, 19th-20th Centuries’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Nuno Valério and Prof. Dr. Ana Bela Nunes (both Technical University Lisbon)  

Advanced Seminar
Florence, Italy
‘Institutions and Social Norms in Europe, 16th-19th Centuries’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Laurence Fontaine (National Centre for Scientific Research) and Dr. Pieter Spierenburg (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)

1996

Advanced Seminar
Paris, France
‘Technological Change and Economic Growth’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. François Caron (University Paris Sorbonne-IV) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Fridenson  

Advanced Seminar
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Guild and Guildsmen in European Towns, 16th to 19th Centuries’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Jan Lucassen (IISG; International Institute of Social History) and Prof. Dr. Catharina Lis (Free University of Brussels)  

Advanced Seminar/Summer School (in cooperation with the European Historical Economics Society)
Montecatini Terme, Italy
‘Economic Growth in Industrial and Preindustrial Societies’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Federico (University of Pisa), Prof. Dr. Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen), Prof. Dr. Paolo Malanima (University of Calabria)

1995

Advanced Seminar
Bologna, Italy
‘Gender Division of Labour’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Carlo Poni (Bologna University)

Advanced Seminar
Groningen, The Netherlands
‘Economic Growth and Distribution during the 19th and 20th Centuries’
Organized by: Dr. Bart van Ark (Groningen University)

Advanced Seminar
Stuttgart, Germany
‘Social History of Youth’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Andreas Gestrich

1994

Advanced Seminar
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Trade and Industry in Early Modern-Europe’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Leo Noordergraaf and dr. Clé Lesger (both University of Amsterdam)  

Advanced Seminar
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
‘Migration, Ethnicity and Labour Relations’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Willem van Schendel (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Dr. Michael Baud  

Advanced Seminar
Bielefeld, Germany
‘New Issues, Fields and Approaches in Women’s and Gender History, 18th-20th century’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Gisela Bock (Bielefeld University)

1993

Advanced Seminar
Wageningen, The Netherlands
‘Material Culture 1600-1900’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Ad van der Woude (†)  

Advanced Seminar
Leuven, Belgium
‘Industrial Developments and Long-term Growth’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Herman van der Wee (Leuven University) and Prof. Dr. Rainer Fremdling (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)  

Advanced Seminar
Halle, Germany
‘Regional Identity versus National Identity’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Halle University) and Prof. Dr. van Dijk

1992

Advanced Seminar
Lisbon, Portugal
‘European Expansion: Trade and the World Economy’
Organized by: prof. Dr. Nuno Valério (Technical University of Lisbon)  

Advanced Seminar
Pisa, Italy
‘Industries before the Industrial Revolution’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Paolo Malanima  

Advanced Seminar
Cambridge, United Kingdom
‘European and Non-European Family Systems since 1500’
Organized by: Dr. Richard Wall (Cambridge University)

1991

Advanced Seminar
Utrecht, The Netherlands
‘The Reconstruction of National Accounts for the Nineteenth Century’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University), Prof. Dr. Rainer Fremdling (N.W. Posthumus Institute/University of Groningen)

Advanced Seminar
Brussels, Belgium
‘Changing Labour Relations in the Western and Non-Western World’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Catharina Lis and Prof. Dr. Hugo Soly (Free Univiversity, Brussels)  

Advanced Seminar
Odense, Denmark
‘Financial History’
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Hans Chr. Johansen (Odense University)