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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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CfP: “The consuming countryside. Rural material living standards, consumption patterns, and economic growth, 17th-19th centuries” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
Call for papers for the international workshop We are excited to announce the “The consuming countryside” -workshop, which will take place at 15-16 December 2023 at the University of Antwerp. We will discuss one of the most striking paradoxes of the late early modern period: how did rural households of almost all social strata improve…
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CfP: “Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1990” (deadline 30 settembre 2023)
Call for papers of the working group “Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East-Europe”5th ELHN Conference 11-13 June 2024 in Uppsala The political regime changes of 1989/90 and the rapid restructuring of the planned economies, also referred to as “shock therapy” in the 1990s radically transformed not only the political, economic and social relations…
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CfP: “Participation at Work: The History of Economic and Industrial Democracy” (deadline 26 settembre 2023)
5th ELHN Conference – European Labour History NetworkProvisional Working Group: Economic and Industrial Democracy, June 11–13, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden After years of silence, debates about the democratization of the economy are currently undergoing a significant resurgence in academic research and the broader public. Against the backdrop of burgeoning populist movements and a widely observed decline…
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CfP: “Women of the Waterfront. Gendering ports, careers, relations and (everyday) life trajectories in Modern times” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
The workshop aims to highlight the modalities through which gender (dis)affiliation shaped or influenced labour and/or business cultures, the relations between sexes, classes, generations, nationalities/‘races’ or other kinds of belonging, and, finally, everyday life patterns in (imperial/colonial) European port/emporium cities in Modern times (19th–20th centuries). The workshop proceedings in English and Italian will be published…
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