Events

Date/Time: Tuesday 3rd to Wednesday 4th March 2026

Location: Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick (Room: Space 24)

Organised by: Sascha Becker (University of Warwick/CAGE), James Fenske (University of Warwick/CAGE), Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick/CAGE)

CAGE is hosting a two-day workshop on education and social policy that includes the annual Crafts Lecture, this year delivered by Martha Bailey (UCLA) on the topic of “Changes in Educational Mobility in the U.S. over the Twentieth Century and the Role of Public Education”.

Programme

Running order:

DAY 1

12:00 Welcome Lunch: Scarman Dining Room
13:30 Welcome
13:35 Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-EI) - “Forced Displacement of Scholars and Academic Output During the Scientific Revolution” (joint work-in-progress with Sascha Becker, David de la Croix, and Nico Voigtländer)
14:20 Yuchen Lin (University of Warwick) - “The U.S. Origins of Chinese Science”
15:05 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 Xizi Luo (University of Manchester) - “Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China” (with Melanie Meng Xue)
16:15 Break
16:30 Crafts Lecture given by Martha Bailey (UCLA) with Q&A - “Changes in Educational Mobility in the U.S. over the Twentieth Century and the Role of Public Education”
17:45 Day ends
18:00 Drinks reception
19:00 Evening meal: Dinner at Scarman Private Dining Room (by invitation only)

DAY 2

09.00 Francesco Cinnirella (University of Bergamo) - “From Chalkboards to Steam Engines: Early Adoption of Compulsory Schooling, Innovation, and Industrialization” (with Elona Harka)
09:45 Davide Coluccia (University of Bristol) - “Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940”
10:30 Coffee/Tea break
11:00 Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (University of Copenhagen) - “Engines of Change: Networks and Identity in the Second Industrial Revolution” (with Gustav Agneman and Anke Becker)
11:45 Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University) - “Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers” (with Jacob Weisdorf)
12:30 Lunch: Scarman Dining Room
13:30 Sebanti Mukherjee (University of Warwick) - “Social Reform through Force: Wartime Union Army and Black Education in the US South”
14:15 Casper Worm Hansen (University of Copenhagen) - “School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden” (with Christian M. Dahl, Peter S. Jensen, Martin Karlsson, Daniel Kühnle)
15:00 Short break
15:15 Lukas Leucht (Queen's College, University of Oxford) - “Title TBC”
16:00 Event ends

Registration:

If you are interested in attending all or some elements of this event, please click the button below and fill out the registration form. We will get back to you to confirm your place as soon as possible.

Please note that places are limited so it is advised to register as soon as possible. Let us know at cage.centre@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window if you later discover you cannot attend so that your place can be offered to others. Costs are associated with attending meals.

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