The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their tenth jointly organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11th-17th May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the seminar is: “Finance in history”.

ESTER, established in 1991, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European Universities. ESTER organizes research training in the form of both the annual Research Design Course for starting PhD-students and a series of Advanced Seminars on special themes within economic and social history.

This Advanced Datini-Ester Seminar is open to 15 PhD-students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate less than five years prior to the seminar). The workshop will carry-out in two-day from May 16 (morning) until May 17 (late afternoon) 2025, in a reserved room of the Datini Palace in Prato [place to be confirmed], permiting to follow the Datini’s Study Week of 2025 (11-15 May).

Applications and admission:
Students should apply online, and present a 800 words abstract of the content of their paper dealing with economic exchanges.
A first selection of students (by ESTER and Datini) will take place on the basis of the abstracts. After this stage, students who are accepted will be asked to draft their research paper (in English).

More details and information are in the call for papers