Conference | Workshop
(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
- Date
- Friday 5 December 2025
- Time
- Address
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Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- Conference Room (2.60)
The Second Workshop (In)equalizers where MA students will present their research embedded in the course (In)equalizers! Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000.
Programme
08.45 – Informal Welcome
09.00 – Opening and Welcome: Cátia Antunes and Paul van Trigt
Session 1: (In)Equalities and ‘The Other’
Chair: Ece Nişli
09.15 – The Casta System in New Spain: Visualizing Inequalities
Christabel Kaptein
09.35 – The Use and Abuse of Caste and its (In)equalities in Early Colonial Bengal (1765-1820)
Dhruv Kasthuri
09.55 – Early Modern Chinese Migration to Ayutthaya: Inequality as a Push and Pull Mechanism of Migration
Roemer Copraij
10.15 – The Unequal Geography of Prestige: The Transatlantic Trajectory of Diogo Lopes de Ulhoa
Vanessa Virote
10.35 – COFFEE BREAK
Session 2: Imagining and Practicing Inequalities in the Dutch ‘Worlds’
Chair: Alan Mao
10.45 – Social Perceptions of Economic Inequality in the Dutch Republic: Negotiating Fairness in a Commercial Society
Jonah van Lotringen
11.05 – The Modernization Process of the Dutch Postal System and Its Relation to (In)equalities: 1747-1811
Joost Faber
11.25 – Not Equal in Death. Mortuary Politics in the Late 18th and 19th Century Colonial Suriname
Manon Vestjens
11.45 - Inequality Among Inboorlingen: Indo-Europeans in the Late 19th Century – A Time of Increasing Communal Consciousness and Emancipation in the Dutch East Indies
Annabel van der Horst
12.05 – LUNCH
Session 3: Spatial and Environmental Inequalities: Representations and Practices
Chair: Sitze Krom
13.15 – Caught Under the Environmental Undertow: Qing Pirates and the Environment
Alan Mao
13.35 – Inequality in Cartography. European and East Asia Worldviews
Tiago Peixoto Teixeira
Session 4: Inequalities Endured and Enacted
Chair: Annabel van der Horst
13.55 – Universal Heritage and Structural Complicity: UNESCO and the Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden)
Leonidas Pantazis
14.15 - The Violets of Istanbul: Notre Dame de Sion alumni of the 20th Century
Ece Nişli
14.35 – White Northern Workers' Views on Southern Slavery in the Late Antebellum
Eddie Skinner
14.55 - COFFEE BREAK
Session 5: De(Accelerators) of Inequalities – The Netherlands in Retrospect
Chair: Jonathan van Lotringen
15.05 - Between Thrift and Capital: Working-Class Savings in Relation to Yields on Capital Investments in Rotterdam, 1899-1939
Pim Bos
15.25 - Locating Chaning Dutch Social-Democratic Visions of Economic Inequality in the Theoretical Journal Socialisme & Democratie, 1946-1958
Sytze Krom
15.45 – “Indisch zwijgen”: Inequalities in Remembering the Dutch Colonial Past
Suzanne Elbers
16.05 - Boundaries of Belonging. Pro-Gay Rhetoric and Anti-Immigration Rhetoric in the VVD, 2010-2023
Amélie Potze