Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The starting date is flexible, but we hope to welcome our new colleague on 1 August 2023.

The PhD position is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The duration of the PhD position is three years, including a research stay abroad (the typical duration of the research stay abroad is 6 months).

The Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark is looking for excellent and highly motivated researchers to submit joint projects under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships action. If successful, the project will lead to a position at our university for two years as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. The MSCA PF supports projects that convincingly describe how the applicant’s career will develop by moving to another research group, and where the host environment likewise benefits equally from your knowledge/skills. We have been very successful in obtaining these grants in recent years.

The latest issue of "Il Datini" (the newsletter of the International Institute of Economic History "F. Datini") has been published.

The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) has embarked on a new course with the first issue of 2022. The Editorial Board aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim, the RSE/IREH invites submissions for a fast-track workshop and review process.

The diffusion of education has been unevenly distributed in space and time, across as well as within countries. Economic historians have increasingly taken advantage of such variation across places to examine (i) the relationship between education and economic development and (ii) the determinants of schooling and human capital. Similar issues have been investigated by historians and historians of education, who have explored regional variations in schooling through analyses of national politics bringing about standardization and homogenization, and in studies of the local and regional contexts of education, shedding further lights on the complex settings that enabled the rise of mass schooling.

This workshop aims at promoting interdisciplinary perspectives on the individual, regional and cross-country differences in schooling and their change in the past and in the long run. This workshop will provide a platform where quantitative and qualitative contributions inform each other.

The Simon and Hallsworth fellowships are now open for application:

·       Hallsworth Research Fellowship

·       Hallsworth Research Fellowship in Chinese Political Economy

·       Hallsworth Research Fellowship with focus on External Engagement and Impact

·       Simon Research Fellowship

All of these are suitable for economic historians. Join our growing group at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development!

Είναι με ιδιαίτερη οδύνη που τα μέλη της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Οικονομικής Ιστορίας πληροφορηθήκαμε την απώλεια του Γιώργου Δερτιλή, Ακαδημαϊκού, ομότιμου Διευθυντή Σπουδών στην École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, ιδρυτικού μέλους και πρώτου Προέδρου του Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου της Εταιρείας μας.

Ο Γιώργος Δερτιλής με το ευρύ και σημαντικό έργο του και τη δράση του έπαιξε αποφασιστικό ρόλο στην ανανέωση της Ελληνικής ιστοριογραφίας μετά τη Μεταπολίτευση, τη θεσμική συγκρότηση, τον συγχρονισμό και την εξωστρέφεια της Οικονομικής και Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο και τα Ερευνητικά ιδρύματα. Έχει δίκαια αναδειχτεί σε έναν από τους μείζονες ιστορικούς της γενιάς του και, πέρα από την ακαδημαϊκή κοινότητα, το έργο του έχει επιδραστικά επηρεάσει την πρόσληψη της σύγχρονης ιστορίας στον δημόσιο χώρο.

Ο Δερτιλής στάθηκε ένα υποδειγματικός δάσκαλος για τους φοιτητές του στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών και την École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, όπου υπηρέτησε, και ένας γενναιόδωρος μέντορας για τους νεαρούς συναδέλφους του από όλες τις θέσεις ευθύνης από τις οποίες κλήθηκε να συνεισφέρει στην επιστημονική έρευνα και ανάπτυξη. Στάθηκε μακρυά από θορυβώδεις δηλώσεις και μεγαλόστομες διακηρύξεις, αλλά ήταν πάντοτε παρών σε κάθε κομβική στιγμή της ακαδημαϊκής μας ιστορίας. Ο ρεαλισμός του δεν τον εμπόδισε να αναπτύξει και να υποστηρίξει ένα συλλογικό επιστημονικό όραμα, να θέσει και να επιδιώξει μακροπρόθεσμους στόχους που χάρη στην επίμονη δράση του έδωσαν συχνότατα ώριμα αποτελέσματα. Οι μαθητές, οι συνάδελφοι και οι ομότεχνοί του θα θυμόμαστε πάντοτε την ανιδιοτελή του προσφορά.

Η Ελληνική Εταιρεία Οικονομικής Ιστορίας εκφράζει τα βαθύτατα συλλυπητήριά της στους αγαπημένους του ανθρώπους.

Αθήνα 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2023

Το Δ.Σ. της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Οικονομικής Ιστορίας

The scope of the topics we are interested in discussing at the conference is deliberately broad and seeks to address all aspects of interest to our institutions: the development and conservation of archives and collections, library management, initiatives in the digital humanities, issues related to research and links with researchers, projects related to the publication of books and journals. In addition to convening institutions (affiliated to IALHI or not) and specialists from the Global South, we also invite European and North American members of IALHI to contribute their reflections on these issues, based on their own experiences working with archival materials and colleagues from other regions.

The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards 8–10 fellowships for doctoral students in European history, the history of religion and other historical disciplines.

The IEG funds PhD projects on European history from the early modern period to contemporary history. We are particularly interested in projects with a comparative or cross-border approach, on European history in its relation to the wider world, or on topics of intellectual and religious history.

This special issue´s scope is to explore the methodological, ontological, and empirical strengths of microhistory to advance management history and organization studies. Therefore, we invite both theoretical, and theoretically informed empirical submissions that will further the contribution of microhistory in business history, management, and organizational history, as well as management and organization theory.

Special Issue in Management and Organizational History announcement: "Microhistory in Management History and Organization Theory", edited by Liv Egholm, Michael Heller, and Mick Rowlinson.

The aim of this conference is to bring together recent, evidence-based historical research on the role business and labor actors played in climate and environmental policies during the period that runs from the United Nation’s Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, in 1972, until the Conference of the Parties to be held in the United Arab Emirates in November this year. We invite submissions that focus attention on the political actions or social practices of individual corporations, CEOs, business organizations or federations, consultants, scientific experts, labor unions, workers’ coalitions, whistleblowers, etc. How did these corporate and labor actors react to the growing public attention given to human-made environmental degradation since the 1960s? How did they position themselves towards scientific evidence on climate change? What kind of transnational networks were established between actors in Europe or North America and groups in the Global South? In what circumstances did organized labor oppose the regulation of various types of pollution to the preservation of economic growth and jobs? What impact did neoliberal paradigms have on the integration of business actors into global climate governance? What strategies were put into place to influence regulations of air and water pollution on a national level? Were there conflicts between different business and labor actors on these strategies? How did lobbying influence the work of international organizations or domestic political processes? It is therefore not the history of technological innovation or management practices that is at the center of this conference, but that of power relations involving business and labor.

The conference aims to open a forum of reflection and debate on how national elites in Central and Eastern Europe have related to the peasantry in the process of building the modern state and a democratic political system, and the way political integration took place, by transforming peasants from subjects of different public actors into active citizens. The politicization of the rural world, in the sense of increasing the participation of peasants in public affairs and their identification with certain ideas concerning the ‘common good,’ was an integral part of the phenomenon of modern transformation of societies in these regions. We wish to document the approach to the peasantry and the action of central and local state institutions (such as the school and the army). of associations of all kinds, and of different social actors (intellectuals, teachers, local notables, priests representing the local authority), focusing on the channels of communication of their modernizing agenda (such as the church or the press), circumscribed to the large register of modernization. Our aim is to also explore the impact of the penetration of modernity in the village world, such as the migration of labor to the cities as a result of industrialization, the secularization of the village, the spread of political radicalism, etc.