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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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Call for Papers nella sessione “Profits, Dividends and Returns” – World Economic History Conference (deadline 31 ottobre 2024)
In occasione del World Economic History Conference, che si terrà dal 28 luglio al 1 agosto 2025 a Lund, Svezia, è stata accettata una sessione intitolata “Profits, Dividends and Returns”. Descrizione della Sessione L’aumento della disuguaglianza rappresenta una sfida formidabile per la sostenibilità delle nostre società. Attualmente, il 10% più ricco della popolazione globale detiene…
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Call for Papers per il panel “Oltre il legame biologico. Famiglie intenzionali, di servizio e sociali nell’Italia d’età moderna (XVI-XIX secolo)” (deadline 20 settembre 2024)
Recenti studi hanno messo in luce come, nell’età moderna, il termine “famiglia” fosse impiegato per descrivere una varietà di realtà in cui i membri non erano necessariamente legati da vincoli biologici. Oltre alle “famiglie intenzionali” – nuclei formati tramite adozioni e affidamenti – e alle “famiglie di servizio”, che univano domestici e schiavi ai propri…
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CFP “L’industrie textile en France : une affaire d’État ? (milieu XVIIe – XXIe siècle)” (deadline 20 settembre 2024)
Date del convegno: 23-24 gennaio 2025 Luogo: Archives nationales, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Francia Nell’ambito dell’esposizione “Made in France, une histoire du textile”, che si terrà dal 16 ottobre 2024 al 25 gennaio 2025, le Archives nationales organizzano un convegno di chiusura centrato sul ruolo che lo Stato ha giocato nel controllo e nel sostegno dell’industria tessile francese,…
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CfP: “Everyday Questions. Gender, Economic, and Cultural Practices in Maritime Early Modern and Modern Everyday Life” (17th–20th centuries) (deadline 15 settembre 2024)
International Hybrid Workshop, Naples (Italy) and online, 5–6 December 2024 Organisers: The analytical tools for studying everyday life are manifold. What all approaches and methodologies have in common is that they operate as critiques of everyday life. In other words, all possible approaches have to analyse the ‘structures of the everyday’ (Braudel 1967, 1979) and/or…
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CfP: Labour History special issue on “Gendered labour history in Europe and beyond” (deadline 25 luglio 2024)
The Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invite submissions for a special issue of Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/r/labourhistory) to be published in Nov. 2025. Labour History is an Australian-based journal, keen to bring research from the ELHN to an international English-language readership (primarily…
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CfT: Francesca Carnevali Prize 2024 (deadline 1 settembre 2024)
Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) is happy to announce the 2024 edition of the Francesca Carnevali Prize, awarded to the best Bachelor and Master of Science thesis in economic history, dedicated to the memory of Francesca Carnevali (1964-2013). Theses completed in any University during the period 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024 are…
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