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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️ Virtual Workshop in HPE info ⚠️

@adajkanu.bsky.social is presenting a project on "Colonization and the Politics of Belonging in Nigeria" on Thursday! Martha Wilfahrt (UC Berkeley) will discuss. Let me know if you're not on our email list already and would like to be!

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · 6d

The virtual workshop is back in full gear! Join us this Thursday if you'd like to learn more about what happens to secret police officers after an internal defection

Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · 6d

Please join Virtual HPE Workshop tomorrow, this Thursday, at 12:00 EST! Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)
is presenting his paper "Careers in the Crossfire: The Effects of Internal Defections on Secret Police Officers’ Networks" (with @kkrakows.bsky.social), discussed by Martin Dimitrov.

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Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · 6d

Please join Virtual HPE Workshop tomorrow, this Thursday, at 12:00 EST! Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)
is presenting his paper "Careers in the Crossfire: The Effects of Internal Defections on Secret Police Officers’ Networks" (with @kkrakows.bsky.social), discussed by Martin Dimitrov.

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 29d

The full line up for the 2025–2026 academic year can be found on our website: historicalpe.org/schedule-pas...

If you'd like to get regular invitations to our events, please register for our mailing list via the following Google form: forms.gle/uXcMzct5P35P...

I look forward to seeing you there! 😊

Schedule & Past Participants – Main

historicalpe.org

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 The Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy is back! 🚨

For the new academic year, we have an amazing line up of papers for you!

In our inaugural session 2 HPE superstars will join us: @annagbusse.bsky.social (Stanford) will present & @jvoth.bsky.social (Zurich) discuss! I can't wait. 😀

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Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you, Jan, happy to have you as a co-convenor as well!

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Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations, Jan! Fantastic news!

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨

At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis.

‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️

Link & info in post #2.

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · Jun 3

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊

I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · May 10

Presentations by @kimberlyrenk.bsky.social, @joungyeobha.bsky.social, @adibmk.bsky.social, @adeeweller.bsky.social, @jnchapman-econ.bsky.social, @janvogler.bsky.social, @nikhaenze.bsky.social, and many many (blue sky-less) others!

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · May 10

We’re pleased to release the schedule for this year’s virtual conference in Historical Political Economy 🎉 historicalpe.org/annual-virtu...

Send me a message if you’re not yet on our email list and would like to be!

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · Apr 28

This week, we have a rare Wednesday session in the virtual workshop in HPE! @pauvallprat.bsky.social is presenting work w. @albahuidobro.bsky.social on the long-term effects of women’s representation under autocracy. Ana Tur-Prats (UC Merced) is discussing, so we’re bound to learn a ton

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · Mar 4

Polisky Dictatorsky
Join us next Tuesday!
@dkofanov.bsky.social (Pittsburgh) will present "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) will discuss

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Feb 4

Broadstreet, the blog for historical political economy, is now on Substack. Please subscribe at the link!

Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · Feb 3

New Broadstreet post! By @sgehlbach.bsky.social

www.broadstreet.blog/p/understand...

Broadstreet is now on Substack; click to subscribe!

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · Jan 29

📢 Workshop Call 📢

3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson

At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025

Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk

@didacqueralt.bsky.social

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Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · Jan 28

Please join a new session of Virtual HPE Workshop this Thursday at 12:30 EST!
Federica Carugati is presenting her paper "Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia" (with @giacomobenati.bsky.social and @gabrielleon.bsky.social), discussed by @stasavage.bsky.social.

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · Jan 20

Absolute 🔥 start to this year's virtual HPE workshop! @jannetukiainen.bsky.social is presenting a paper titled "Candidate Exit and Voter Loyalty During Early Democratization" on Thursday. Toke Aidt (Cambridge) will discuss. Send me a message if you're not on our list but would like to be!

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · Jan 15

On March 11, we have @dkofanov.bsky.social (University of Pittsburgh) presenting "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" and @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) discussing.

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A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Finally!!! RAISED TO OBEY launches today 🎉🎉🎉

I learned a great deal researching this book

It transformed my views on education, politics, and economic development

I hope others will learn from it, too!

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

@princetonupress.bsky.social #RaisedToObey #Education

Raised to Obey

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens

press.princeton.edu

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Sep 15

Historical Political Economy has new home @ Harvard's Center for European Studies! A new seminar series co-chaired by leaders in the field @vcharnysh @YuhuaWang5 @CChiopris & grad students Daniel Lowery, @JhengShao, M. Weigand). Great line-up this year. See:
ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups...

Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective

ces.fas.harvard.edu

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · May 1

🚨 Virtual Conference in Historical Political Economy 🚨

The VWHPE co-convenors (@tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @dkofanov.bsky.social, & I) are excited to announce the first annual virtual conference in HPE.

It will take place on May 9, starting at 10.45 AM ET.

Program: historicalpe.org/annual-virtu...

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · Feb 21

Reminder of the Mar 1 deadline for the APSA David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award in Politics and History! Paul Herron and I are on the awards committee: apsanet.org/section24

Politics and History (Section 24)

American Political Science Association

apsanet.org

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Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · Feb 20

Please join us this Thursday, Feb 22, at 12:30 (EST) as @aspaglayan.bsky.social presents her book "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" in the Virtual Workshop in HPE!

Discussion comments will be provided by Jane Gingrich.

Email to [email protected] if you need a zoom link.

Dmitrii Kofanov @dkofanov.bsky.social · Feb 13

Please join us this Thursday, Feb 15, at 12:30 (EST) as
Khasan Redjaboev presents a paper "Communist Colonialism and Development: Forced Labor and the Making of Progressive Public Goods in Eurasia" in the Virtual Workshop in HPE!

Discussion comments will be provided by @ashartnett.bsky.social.

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · Feb 8

Workshop Call 📢📢

Second edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop.

The organizers are @didacqueralt.bsky.social and me and we'll have Ken Scheve (Yale) as keynote speaker.

In Barcelona on July 8 and 9, 2024.

Send us your papers by March 7:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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