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CfP: WEHC 2025: Natural resources, Economy and Sustainability in Preindustrial period (deadline 20 gennaio 2024)
World Economic History Conference – Lund (28 July-1 August 2025) In recent years, sustainability and sustainable development became central issues in economic and political debate. These issues also attracted the attention of historians, although very little systematic historical research has been conducted on this topic, particularly for the preindustrial period. Sustainability, in fact, is still…
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CfP: EHA 2024: Globalization: Perspectives from the Past (deadline 31 gennaio 2024)
Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in Sacramento, California, September 6-8, 2024 The theme for the EHA 2024 meeting is Globalization: Perspectives from the Past. Globalization refers to the movement of goods, services, people, capital, and technology across countries. By many measures, the twenty-first century has become more globalized than at any time in…
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CfP: “Hyperinflation. Financial history conference” and FHR Special Issue (deadline 1 febbraio 2024)
EABH (The European Association for Banking and Financial History e.V.)in cooperation with the Central Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)14 June 2024, Budapest, Hungary. Hyperinflation represents an extreme and rapid form of inflation, where a country’s currency loses its value at an alarming rate, often exceeding 50% per month. Hyperinflation can erode the purchasing power…
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CfP ‘Political inclusion, commons, and economic inequality in the preindustrial period (1500-1800)’ (deadline 15 gennaio 2024)
La sessione, che si terrà durante la World Economic History Conference a Lund nel 2025, è organizzata da Giulio Ongaro, Matteo Di Tullio e Benedetta Crivelli. Questa sessione mira a osservare la relazione tra l’ineguaglianza nell’accesso alle istituzioni pubbliche e al processo decisionale, la conseguente caratterizzazione della gestione delle finanze pubbliche (soprattutto tassazione e beni…
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CfP: AEHN Annual Meeting 2024 (deadline 2 marzo 2024)
The African Economic History Network (AEHN), in association with Sapienza University of Rome and Fondazione Sapienza is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network. The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, on 26-27 September 2024. The…
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CfP: “Towards a History of European Developmentalism: Development, Modernization and Europeanization from the 19th to the 21st century” (deadline 29 febbraio 2024)
As historical narratives on international politics of development and modernization are now consolidate, a genuinely European perspective, that considers the multiplicity of governmental and non-governmental actors, still seems to be missing. This conference aims to understand to what extent a politically integrated Europe might be understood as the result of practices of development policies within…
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CfP: LVI Settimana Datini, 2025, “Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII)” (scadenza prorogata al 31 dicembre 2023)
La call for research paper per partecipare alla LVI Settimana di studi presso l’Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”, che si terrà a Prato tra l’11 e il 15 maggio 2025. Presentazione La storia del rischio e della sua gestione in età premoderna sta vivendo una rinascita scientifica stimolata da un attivo impegno interdisciplinare…
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CfP: “Manifesto and research frontiers for a Renaissance in Economics” (deadline 30 marzo 2024)
University of Perugia, Department of Economics, 20-21 June 2024 The manifesto for a wider economic perspective (full text attached below) signed by more than 300 Italian academics advocates for a new economic paradigm going beyond reductionist approaches in five directions: i) human beings are more than homines economici, have also other-regarding preferences and are capable of…
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CfP: “Household Economy in the Nordics (16th to 20th centuries)” (deadline 17 febbraio 2024)
Workshop, Lund University, 4th and 5th of June 2024 In June 2024 we organize a workshop that explores household finance in the past, with a specific focus on the Nordic countries. The so-called Nordic model represents a unique amalgamation of economic efficiency, welfare policies, and political stability. This system, prevalent in the north of Europe…
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CfP: Ninth European Review of Economic History Fast Track Meeting (deadline 30 gennaio 2024)
The previous fast track meetings were held in Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, and London, and recently online. They were organized by the European Historical Economics Society and the editors of the European Review of Economic History. Those meetings resulted in the publication of several high-quality papers in the European Review of Economic History. The idea of…
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