Events

The Groningen Growth and Development Centre organises lectures, workshops, seminars, conferences and summer schools.

Maddison Lectures
Since 2011 the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) has organised the Maddison Lectures at the University of Groningen. The aim is to bring leading scholars from around the world to Groningen to present on major topics of economic history, growth and development. Past and current issues are on the agenda, always with a long-term perspective, following the footsteps of Angus Maddison, who laid the foundations of research in this discipline at our university. Typically, two or three events per year are organised, at least one in economic history and at least one in development economics.

Conferences

The next GGDC Conference will be held on Wednesday, June 23, and Thursday, June 24, 2027, in Groningen, the Netherlands. The conference will immediately follow the 9th World KLEMS Conference, which will also be hosted by the University of Groningen on June 21–22, 2027. More information, including the call for papers, programme, and venue details, will be shared through the conference webpage in the coming months.

Previous conferences:

• The GGDC Conference was held on May 28–29, 2024, in Groningen.
• The GGDC Conference scheduled for June 16–18, 2021, was cancelled.
• The GGDC 25th-anniversary conference was held on June 28–30, 2017.
• Over the years, GGDC has (co-)organised and presented at international conferences on economic growth and development. For more information, visit our blogs.

Summer schools
The GGDC organises summer schools on a wide range of topics. This summer the Financial, Economic and Business History (FEB-HIS) Summer School for PhD students and Postdocs will take place in Groningen from Monday 24th June to Friday 28th June 2024. It is organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Groningen (UG) and supported by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) and the European Historical Economics Society (EHES). Students will be accommodated in the city centre of Groningen.

• Call for applications
• Related webpage
• Contact address: feb.his.summerschool rug.nl

Below are the topics of the past two summer schools.

• Globalization and Inequality (summer 2016)
• Human Wellbeing and Inequality (summer 2015)

Workshops
In 2013, GGDC organised the e-Frame workshop ‘The Wealth of Nations in a Globalised World’. During two days we were joined by professors, internationally acclaimed researchers and business people to talk about the framework for measuring progress in our field of research.