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CfP: Session for WEHC 2025: “Flowers of Evil? Natural resources and reversals of fortune” (deadline 1 dicembre 2023)
Session Proposal for the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) 28 July-1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden. Session title: Flowers of Evil? Natural resources and reversals of fortune Session theme:Are natural resources a curse or a blessing? History offers numerous examples of how good geography is conducive to economic growth, for example how natural reserves of…
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CfP: Financial History Network 2023-2024 Webinar Series (29 ottobre 2023)
The Financial History Network promotes scholarship in financial history and the history of finance. We seek participants to present works in progress, dissertation chapters, or R&R manuscripts for our 2023-2024 webinar series. The webinar sessions are open to all scholars willing to engage in productive conversations by providing supportive and constructive comments to peers. Our…
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CfP: “The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: policy, diplomacy, economy, and institutional transformation, 1950s-1980s” (deadline 10 dicembre 2023)
The Department of Political Science, Juridical and International Studies of the University of Padova (Italy) and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Bergamo (Italy) invite scholars to contribute papers to an interdisciplinary conference exploring the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in Southern European…
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CfP: “Exposing and punishing “forgery”: the policing of professions in the early modern era (15th-18th centuries)” (deadline 2 febbraio 2024)
September 12-13, 2024, Paris, Ehess-Université Paris-Ouest The aim of this conference is to examine the uses of the notion of ‘forgery’ in policing any given trade or economic activity in the early modern town and/or its peripheries. In other words, to question whether there existed one or more models of such suitable policing through the…
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CfP: “2023 Online Economic Workshop Submission: Professionals Study Logistics” (deadline 9 novembre 2023)
In war, social movements, politics, business and everyday living, what is possible is governed by logistics. The 2023 Online Economic History Workshop (11th-15th December) is seeking papers on the impact of logistics on what can or cannot be achieved in a human endeavor. The selection committee asks that each submission designate a principal author to…
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CfP: “The precious object: a total social fact?” (deadline 31 ottobre 2023)
An international symposium part of an EHESS-Cartier cooperationParis, April 25 and 26, 2024. Precious objects, and jewelry in particular, have generated repeated and echoed reactions over the centuries and across the globe, despite variations in context and location. Indeed, while the disapproval of an often ostentatious dissipation has been recurrent since Antiquity (Pliny the Elder),…
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CfP: Alcide de Gasperi Seminar in History of European Cooperation and Integration,Twentieth Century to the Present (deadline 15 novembre 2023)
The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre invites proposal for the second semester 2023-24 (January-June) of its seminar in the History of European Cooperation and Integration.The seminar welcomes paper proposals from PhD and early career researchers (no more than 5 years after PhD completion) on any aspect of European cooperation and integration, broadly conceived, twentieth century…
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CfP: Les frontières du travail / The boundaries of work (deadline 31 dicembre 2023)
Defining the constituent elements of work in ancient societies is a challenge for historians, as they generally do not correspond to contemporary conceptions of the professional world, which are often ill-suited to the semantic richness and fluidity of the categories in use in the ancient and medieval worlds. It is striking, however, that the notion…
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CfP: Special Issue in SEHR “Politics back in business? State-owned enterprises in recent history” (deadline 30 aprile 2024)
Special Issue in Scandinavian Economic History Review on state owned enterprises Introduction The financial crises, the global pandemic, and the recent escalation of global political tensions have thrust the imperative of states to safeguard their strategic economic interests into the spotlight (Megginson, 2017; Tihanyi et al., 2019). While the concept of state capitalism spans a…
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CfP: “What is a Financial Crisis? Perceptions, memories, analyses in a long-run historical perspective” (deadline 31 ottobre 2023)
London School of Economics and Political Science, 17-18 June 2024 The recent collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the takeover of banking giant Credit Suisse by UBS, ‘orchestrated’ by the Swiss financial and monetary authorities, have again raised the spectre of financial crises. But should these events be considered as a financial crisis, the…
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