Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their seventh jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 12-18 May 2024, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of ‘Social and Geographical Mobility’

The organisers

ESTER, established in 1991, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European Universities. ESTER organises research training in the form of both the annual Research Design Course for starting PhD-students and a series of Advanced Seminars on special themes within economic and social history.

“F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History was founded in 1967 by Federigo Melis and Fernand Braudel. The aim of the Institute is the study of pre-industrial economic history (thirteenth-eighteenth centuries) and the creation on the topic of a space for historical culture, making comparison between different methodologies and schools of research easier and supporting young scholars during their formative years.

Theme

The topic of the seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress organized yearly by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, which in 2024 is devoted to ‘Social Mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)’. The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Social and Geographical Mobility.

More info

Abstracts for the 2024 edition are due by 15 October 2023. If accepted for participation, the final paper will be due on 15 March 2024. For info on the seminar in general, you may contact Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University).

The full call can be downloaded here: https://posthumusinstitute.org/2023/06/28/ester-datini-2024/