Session A. Debates and controversies in economic history

Sessions B-1-4. Economic effects of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (B-1) -Structures and dynamics of agricultural exploitations: ownership, occupation, investment, credit, markets (B-2) - Economic and demographic development in rice producing societies: some aspects of East Asian economic history (1500-1900) (B-3) -Economic planning in the post-1945 period (B-4)

Sessions B-5-8. Ethnic minority groups in town and countryside and their effects on economic development (1850-1940) (B-5) -Metropolitan cities and their hinterlands in early modern Europe (B-6) - Shipping and trade (1750-1950) (B-7) - Women in the labour force: comparative studies on labour market and organization of work since the 18th century (B-8)

Sessions B-9-12b. Unemployment and underemployment in historical perspective (B-9) -Growth and stagnation in the Mediterranean world in the 19th and 20th centuries (B-10) - Models of regional economies in antiquity and the Middle Ages to the 11th century (B-11) -Methodological problems (B-12a) - Historical information systems (B-12b) -Sessions B-13-16. Liberalism and paternalism in the 19th century (B-13) - Production, marketing and consumption of alcoholic beverages since the late middle ages (B-14) - Textiles of the Low Countries in European economic history (B-15) - The Town as regional economic centre in the ancient Near East (B-16)

Session D. Recent doctoral research in economic history.