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CfP: WEHC 2025 Call for Posters (10 dicembre 2024)
Propose a Poster for the WEHC 2025 in Lund, Sweden The Poster Exhibition enables scholars in Economic history to present their latest research projects. We kindly invite you to exhibit your ongoing work through the submission of a Poster. The Poster Exhibition will be active Monday – Wednesday (28–30 July) 13.00–14:00 in connection with the…
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CfP: 2025 Datini-ESTER advanced seminar on “Finance in History” (deadline 15 ottobre 2024)
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 11-17 May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2025 seminar is ‘Finance in History’ and closely related…
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CfP: Cyborg Workers 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Automated Labour – The Social and Environmental Costs of Big Tech (deadline 1 novembre 2024)
International Conference at the European Trade Union Institute Brussels, Belgium, February 13 and 14, 2025 With a keynote lecture by Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire) Contact Information Richard A. Bachmann (North America and Global South Contact): ribachm@umich.edMichele Santoro (Europe Contact): santoromichele7047@gmail.com In recent years, the Big Tech industry has garnered increasing attention as a panacea…
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CfP: Workshop Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past (deadline 31 dicembre 2024)
Universitat de València (Spain), June 12-13, 2025 Conference organizers: Gregori Galofré Vilà and María Gómez León Scientific Committee: Concha Betrán Pérez, Alfonso Díez Minguela and Gregori Galforé Vilà Costs and funding: There is no workshop fee. The organization will provide accommodation and meals. Travel expenses may be covered upon request Conference organizers: Gregori Galofré Vilà…
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CfP: AALAC workshop “Using Digital Tools to Understand the Past: New Methods in Economic History” (deadline 22 novembre 2024)
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Friday March 7 – Sunday March 9, 2025 Recent work has shown how new datasets and digital tools can shape our understanding of the past. Some of these tools include machine learning, text-to-data methods, and geographic mapping. The workshop will bring together economic historians and scholars who are based at liberal…
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CfP: The Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (deadline 16 dicembre 2024)
Warsaw, 3-4 of July 2025, SGH Warsaw School of Economics This international conference follows the history of the two predecessor conferences in Seville in 2019 and Basel in 2022. This third conference investigates insurance as a crucial element of social development, economic advances, globalization of financial services, and capitalism in general. It discusses risk and…
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CfP: 50th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference “Forging New Frontiers” (deadline 31 gennaio 2025)
The Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) is proud to announce its 50th annual conference, to be held in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 29-31, 2025. As we mark half a century of pioneering interdisciplinary research, we invite scholars to explore the theme of “Forging New Frontiers” in economic and business history. We welcome papers and…
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CfP: WEHC 2025 session “Collective action in local common-pool resources: water crises from a global economic historical perspective” (deadline 30 ottobre 2024)
Lund, Sweden, World Economic History Congress, 28 July – 1 August 2025 Organisers: Andrés Palacio (Lund University) and Montserrat López Jerez (University of St. Andrews) Abstract Water crises have been a constant feature of human history. Yet the growing need to secure water for human consumption, to produce food and meet the demands of cities…
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CfP: “Commons and economic inequality in rural Europe (1500-1800)” (deadline 20 settembre 2024)
European Rural History Organization Conference 2025 (Coimbra, 9-12 September 2025) Session proposal: Commons and economic inequality in rural Europe (1500-1800) Organizers: Giulio Ongaro – University of Milano-Bicocca Matteo Di Tullio – University of Pavia Benedetta Crivelli – University of Parma Abstract Recent years have seen a flourishing of studies which have added considerably to our…
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CfP: WEHC 2025 Session: “Going back to the source: The Firm and the historical development of women’s diverse labour market position, 19th and 20th centuries”
Organizers: dr. Corinne Boter (Utrecht University); Prof. Joyce Burnette (Wabash College), dr. Selin Dilli (Utrecht University) Over the past decades, historical research on women’s labour has expanded drastically (Merouani and Perrin 2022), yet topics such as the extend of the gender wage gap (Humphries and Weisdorf 2015), the development of women’s wage work and entrepreneurship…
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