About the Quantitative History Webinar Series
The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series provides researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to stay up to date with the latest research in the field. It promotes the dissemination of research findings and the interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. Now entering its seventh year, the QH Webinar Series is co-organised by the Centre for Quantitative History at HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History, in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The series is substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. AoE/B-704/22-R).
Conflict and Gender Norms: Evidence from India
Where do gender norms that favour men come from? Get inspired just in time for Mother’s Day with Bishnupriya Gupta’s QH webinar.
May 11, 2023
16:00 - 17:30 (HKT)
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Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Join us and explore post-1919 New Youth magazine’s role as a proxy for Communism penetration.
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The Uses (and Limitations) of Quantitative Prosopography for Tang and Song History
Nicolas Tackett describes important prosopographic databases available to Tang and Song historians, suggesting some of their uses and limitations.
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西周封國空間過程中的流域與區域 Basins and Regions in the Spatial Process of the Western Zhou Feudal States
Basins and Regions in the Spatial Process of the Western Zhou Feudal States | 中山大學歷史學系（珠海）于薇副教授主講
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State Capacity, Security, and Welfare in the Ancient Middle East and China, 12,000–400 BCE
New comparative evidence | Join us and explore Joerg Baten’s latest use of bioarchaeological sources to study very long-run economic history.
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An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge
How should we think about long-term economic progress? Join us and explore Joel Mokyr’s arguments in support of evolutionary thinking.
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