The IOS Annual Conference 2025 will explore differences and similarities in economic development between the interwar period and the post-1989 period, i.e., between the beginning and the end of Europe’s “Long Twentieth Century”. We use this notion deliberately. In line with recent research, we reassess the interwar period in a more positive light, shifting from older narratives of fragmentation and autarky to economic growth, structural change and social attainment. Moreover, the post-1989 period has allowed countries in the region to build on the opportunities first awarded to them in the interwar period. Both issues are vital but largely neglected by proponents of a “Short Twentieth Century” and by those who stress the detrimental effects of the fragmentation of Empire and the end of socialist modernity.

CEPR and the Study Center Gerzensee invite you to submit a paper proposal or to express your interest in attending the twelfth CEPR Economic History Symposium, which will take place in Gerzensee, Switzerland, 24-25 April 2025.

We have now opened the registration for participation in World Economic History Congress 2025. https://wehc2025.com/
 Please note that the Early Bird deadline is by the end of January 2025.

The sixteenth European Historical Economics Conference will be held at the University of Hohenheim from Thursday, September 4 to Saturday, September 6, 2025.

The 2025 Annual Cliometrics Conference will be held on Friday-Saturday, June 20 – June 21, 2025, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sponsored by Williams College and the National Science Foundation. The conference will pay most travel and lodging expenses for faculty and graduate students chosen to attend. The conference will begin on Friday morning and end after the conference dinner on Saturday. Lodging at Williams College will be made available to attendees for the nights of June 19, 20, and 21.

The 20th World Economic History Congress is inviting you, who recently published a scholarly book with economic historical content, to present it at special book sessions during the congress in Lund 28 July – 1 August 2025.

The ESEH is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters, and other, more experimental forms of communicating scholarship for its upcoming biennial conference in Uppsala. The theme of the conference, “Climate Histories”, aims to synthesize historical research on climate variability with present-day lived experiences, to further discourse and enrich perspectives on contemporary climate change. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2024, 23:59 CEST.

The goal of this double session is to examine the Industrious Revolution from a variety of different source materials, methods, and perspectives. Do different approaches change our interpretation of what the Industrious Revolution was, and where and when it might have taken place? Papers should be able to discuss their own methods and sources in a larger context, but need not be multi-method or explicitly methods-oriented. A closing roundtable will give authors the chance to directly discuss and compare their different approaches.

Labor union power ebbs and flows due to relationships with the state. Be it local, regional, or national. The 2024 Online Economic History Workshop is seeking papers of the interplay between government & politicians with labor unions that either strengthen or weaken labor unions.

The World Economic History Congress will dedicate three sessions on Monday 28 July 2025 for the PhD dissertation competition. The sessions and prizes are divided according to the dissertations’ main time focus – before the 19th century, the long 19th century, or the 20th and 20th centuries.

Geoeconomics is an emerging field, but the issues with which it is concerned are not new. Historically, geopolitical factors have always been shaping economic outcomes and vice versa. In this conference we build on this insight and bring together research on recent geoeconomic phenomena as well as historical perspectives.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and/or your full paper to galofrevila[at]gmail.com