Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Storia Economica

Bonn, Germany, June 25-26, 2026 The Archiv für Sozialgeschichte invites contributions for a conference and subsequent publication examining the transformation of rural societies from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The aim is to move beyond the traditional urban–rural contrast and to explore rural communities as socially, economically, and politically dynamic environments. The conference welcomes…

ESSHC, Leiden, 26-29 March 2025Session organizers: Giulio Ongaro (University of Milano-Bicocca), Matteo Di Tullio (University of Pavia), Benedetta Crivelli (University of Parma) The session aims at observing the relationship between the changes in inclusion practices and government policies of local institutions and the economic changes that affected the European rural areas during the Early Modern…

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…