Call for papers: The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Social and geographic mobility. The aims are encourage research on social and socio-economic mobility (both upward and downward) in different historical contexts, as well as on geographic mobility, that is migration (short- or long-distance). As is well known, across human history geographic mobility has often played a major role in shaping patterns of socio-economic mobility. Purpose is to clarify the determinants, the extent and the final consequences of mobility in different periods, across entire societies or regarding specific social groups.

List of participants

1. Renato Amoroso, “Italian emigration to Argentina and Luigi Einaudi’s perspective”
2. Anna Arkhina, “Openness of Russian civil elite in 19th century”
3. Alessandro Brioschi, “Social mobility and exits from apprenticeship training: evidence from early modern Genoa”
4. Alice Dominici, “Networks, diversity and migrants’ success: evidence from the Pontine Marshes, 1932-1941”
5. Giuliana Freschi, “Intergenerational mobility in 19th century Italy: A case study approach”
6. Markus Hansen, “The Material Basis of Downwards Social Mobility in 18th-Century Denmark”
7. Francisco Javier Illana López, “Between Palermo and Madrid. Political service, geographical movements and upward mobility in “Spanish Italy” (16th-17th centuries)”
8. Aurelius Noble, “The Persistence of the Aristocracy: Financial and Social Measures, England and Wales (1858-1907)”
9. Sienna Nordquist, “The Marshall Plan as Sanctioner and Protector: The Case of West Berlin, 1949-1953”
10. Eline Rademakers, “Tracing Social Mobility Among Enslaved Workers in 18th Century Suriname”
11. Francesco Romagnoli, “Origin and Developments of Inequality: Evidence from the Pontine Ager colonization scheme in Italy (1932-1943)”
12. Bas Spliet, “From ‘Migrant City’ to ‘City of the Established’? The Social Mobility of Immigrants: Evidence from Amsterdam, 1600-1800”
13. Noah Werner Sutter, “A Testament to Revolution? Two Approaches to Estimating Intergenerational Persistence of Elite Status in France, 1791-1870”
14. Hillary Vipond, “Grandfathered Out: Sheltering from Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain”
15. Ziming Zhu, “Grim Up North? Regional Intergenerational Mobility across England, 1881-1911”

Experts

• Guido Alfani (Bocconi University Milano)
• Francesco Ammannati (Firenze University)
• Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Neil Cummins (London School of Economics)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)