2025

Seminars

Global History Seminar No.133

(Online)

Date: Thursday 17th April, 17：00-18：00 (JST) 11:00-noon(EEST)

（Co-Organize by Economic and Business History Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University）

Ioannis Limnios-Sekeris (Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))

"Between Migration, Business, and the Cold War: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, 1951-1980"

Global Histories of Environmental Transformation and Economic Development

(Hybrid)

Date: Friday 28th February, 13：30-17：30
In person: 509 Seminar room, 5F Law/Econ Research Building, Toyonaka Campus,Osaka University

（Co-Organize by Economic and Business History Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University） Program

Chair: Chiaki Yamamoto (Osaka)

1.30 - 2.30 Keynote

John McNeill (Georgetown), “Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution”

2.30 - 3.00 Paper 1

Hideaki Sato (Osaka), “Between the Metropolis and the Countryside: Demographic and Environmental Changes in Small Towns of Industrializing Japan”

3.00 - 3.30 Paper 2

Shoko Mizuno (Komazawa), “Eco-Development’: Colonial Scientists in Africa and International Technical Assistance”

3.30 - 3. 45 Coffee

3.45 - 4.00 Discussant 1: Michinori Uwasu (Osaka), Development Economics

4.00 - 4.15 Discussant 2: Satoru Kobori (Kyoto), Energy history of Japan

4.15 - 4.30 Discussant 3: Bao Maohong (Peking), Environmental history

4.30 - 5.00 Reply from speakers

5.00 - 5.30 Open Q&A

Global History Seminar No.132

(Hybrid)

Date: Thursday 20th February, 17：00-18：30
In person: 605 Seminar room, 6F Law/Econ Research Building, Toyonaka Campus,Osaka University

（Co-Organize by Economic and Business History Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University）

Professor Bao Maohong (Peking University / Osaka University)

”The environmental history of petrochemical industry in post WWII East Asia”