The Explorations in Economic History Workshop on Wealth and Income Inequality Around the World will meet in person on Friday and Saturday, October 6-7, 2023, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Our goal is to assemble an outstanding set of papers on historical wealth and income inequality around the world. Papers may focus on a single country or on multiple countries. We plan to accept up to eight papers, which would be published in a special issue of Explorations in Economic History in 2024. The special issue will be edited by Karen Clay and Ralf Meisenzahl.

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their eighth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 14th-20th May 2023, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the seminar is “Economic Exchanges”.

The topic of the Datini-Ester seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress yearly organized by the "F. Datini" International Institute of Economic History and devoted in 2023 to Alternative Currencies. Commodities and Services as Exchange Currencies in the Monetarized Economies of the 13th to 18th Centuries. The 2023 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Economic Exchanges. We particularly welcome papers on the exchange of goods and services, on the role of markets, monies, trade, transaction costs and institutional contexts, which might foster market integration or, alternatively, constrain economic performance. Our purpose is to clarify the role of economic exchange and markets in past economies. Papers can cover any relevant aspect and any period from Antiquity until today.

Extended deadline abstracts 15 November 2022.

The postdoctoral fellowship, open to early career scholars, is to be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School. The fellowship has two purposes. The first is to enable scholars who have already demonstrated an engagement with business history broadly defined to deepen their knowledge of teaching pedagogy and research methods in the discipline. The fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to course development in MBA and doctoral courses in business history. They will also take part in a weekly research seminar in the fall of each year in which leading scholars from around the world present their work. The second purpose is to enable an early career scholar to develop their work in the discipline. The fellow is encouraged to submit an article to Business History Review during their fellowship year. They might also organize a research conference on a subject related to their research. Applicants are expected to hold a PhD by the time of the start of the fellowship.

The organizers of the European Business History Association's 2023 congress challenge you to reflect on how the future relevance of business history can and should be developed. We encourage papers, panels sessions and roundtable discussions dealing with the challenges facing the field of business history in terms of its academic, societal, and educational relevance.

The proposed workshop will target the period of repeated fuel shortages in Europe from roughly 1860 to 1960 – the century during which coal supplied more than 50 % of all energy in Europe. Coal consumption and prices show big fluctuations in European coal markets during this period, creating a classical “shortage” situation. Yet researchers have so far not addressed the nature of European coal shortages sufficiently. In both scholarly and recent public debates coal shortages remain largely overshadowed by the oil shocks of the 1970s. This gap calls for interdisciplinary cooperation in order to assess the story of repeated energy crises in Europe. The announced workshop is planned for 1 February 2023 and it is going to be held online. We invite scholars to reflect together upon coal shortages, their manifold faces and outcomes, during the centenarian apogee of King Coal’s rule in Europe. The event aims to bring together researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, such as history, energy studies, international relations, the technological and environmental humanities, geography, economics, media studies and anthropology. After the workshop, we plan to turn its papers into a special issue for a major peer-reviewed academic journal, or, alternatively, into an edited volume.

Μεταξύ Πέμπτης 29ης Σεπτεμβρίου και Σαββάτου 1ης Οκτωβρίου 2022, διεξήχθη με επιτυχία στην Αθήνα το 4ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Οικονομικής και Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Οικονομικής Ιστορίας, με θέμα “Μορφές του Καπιταλισμού στη Μεσόγειο (18ος-20ός αιώνας)” (Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean, 18^th-20^th century). Το συνέδριο οργανώθηκε σε συνεργασία με το Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου και το Ινστιτούτο Ιστορικών  Ερευνών του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών.

Global history is emerging as a significant perspective in contemporary history writing. This approach examines the transnational networks through which human societies emerge as interactive global communities. Its increasing relevance can be attributed to its explicit focus on transnational relations; transcending euro-centric dominance; and exploring interconnections between and among (but not limited to) regions, communities, and commodities across historical periods. In the process global history seeks to question binaries like the north-south, micro-macro, local-global, empire-colony, and other asymmetric dependencies. However, in practice, it often reproduces them. At present, the acute economic, political, and rapidly accelerating climate crisis has further accentuated global asymmetries and exacerbated fault lines in the practices of global history. Perspectives from Global South provides a crucial vantage point to map and respond to this widening gap. This workshop, by focusing on perspectives from Global South, attempts to initiate discussions on these concerns.

Το Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα Ομίλου Πειραιώς (ΠΙΟΠ), στο πλαίσιο του εκδοτικού του έργου, προκηρύσσει το Πρόγραμμα «Νέοι Ερευνητές-Νέες Εκδόσεις». Στόχος του είναι να συμβάλει στη δημιουργία ευκαιριών για νέους ερευνητές για την παραγωγή συγγραφικού έργου σε επιστημονικά θέματα αιχμής.

Παράταση υποβολής προτάσεων για είκοσι (20) επιπλέον μέρες έως τις 12/12/2022.

Κυκλοφόρησε ο 14ος τόμος του περιοδικού Μεσαιωνικά και Νέα Ελληνικά από το Κέντρον Ερεύνης του Μεσαιωνικού και Νέου Ελληνισμού της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών με αφιέρωμα στη 200ή επέτειο της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης του 1821. 

We inform you that a new position has been entered in the Apella information system:

Title: Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής
Code: APP29455
Organization: University of Ioannina
School: Philosophy
Department/Institute: History and Archaeology
Discipline: Ευρωπαϊκή Ιστορία, 18ος-20ός αιώνας

Submission Opening Date: 10/09/2022
Submission End Date: 11/11/2022

The Rural History 2023 conference continues the tradition of the previous Rural History conferences held in Bern, Girona, Leuven, Paris, Uppsala aiming to promote a scientific discussion on new research on rural history in a broad sense by bringing together researchers dealing with different regions, different periods and from different theoretical and methodological traditions.

In accordance with this, the conference is open for research on all aspects on the history of the countryside in Europe and its interaction with other parts of the world throughout time. We welcome participation from different academic subjects dealing with history, archaeology, geography, economic history, economics, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, development studies, gender studies, environmental history, historical demography, science and technology history, colonial history, global history, etc.) presenting and discussing new research and thereby contributing to expanding our knowledge on the rural history of Europe and beyond. Our conference is also a great opportunity to bring into discussion contemporary concerns regarding rurality, and to highlight ways we could contribute to the safeguarding of living heritage

Lecture by Fernando Guirao (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) with the topic of "The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975". Discussant Morten Heiberg (University of Copenhagen).

The Danish Institute at Athens, 19.9.2022, 19:00