Location: King’s College London
Organizers: Centre for Hellenic Studies and Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, King’s College London / Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland / Research Centre for Modern History, Panteion University, Greece
Date: Thursday, 31 March 2022

The Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean -ILBSEM- of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Social Policy Lab of the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University of Athens co-organize international colloquium on the issue of modern technologies and their repercussions, entitled “Modern technologies, political philosophy, social, political and economic rights”.

Call for papers: 7th Annual Meeting of the Danish Society for Economic and Social History
Dates: September 17-18, 2021
Theme: Agriculture and Economic History. Papers on the Nordic area are particularly encouraged, but not required.
Hosting Institution: Aarhus University
Keynote speaker: Professor Douglas Gollin, Oxford, CEPR, “Agricultural Productivity and Development: Lessons from the Past and Implications for the Future”
Organizers:
Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark, Chair of the Danish Society for Economic and Social History
Xanthi Tsoukli, University of Southern Denmark
Local organizers:
Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Department of Agroecology - Agricultural Systems and Sustainability, Aarhus University
Mette Vaarst, Department of Animal Science - ANIS Welfare, Aarhus University

This meeting has been generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

The European Association of Urban Historians invites all scholars to reflect on the complex relationship between social inequality and the city. While traditionally social inequality is a preferential playing field for economic and social historians, the conference’s main goal is to tackle this vast theme from a multi-dimensional perspective. Social inequality is not only mirrored but also wrought in forces as different as spatial dynamics, gender, race and class relations, demographic structures, housing and sanitary conditions, labour markets, social security systems, literacy and education, crime, public transport, ecological concerns and so on. This interconnectedness is the very essence of urban social inequality, and more often than not it is also closely linked to historical path-dependencies. Hence, in order to adequately address the historical relationship between (in)equality and the city, a perspective is needed that includes the social, political, cultural, economic conditions thereof across urban societies. 

The present session is part of a longer reflection on the organization of the international agricultural markets between the 19th and the 20th century. It intends to mark a step forward, relying on the debates of the two last editions of the Rural History Conference. We started looking at transnational networks of agrarianism (Leuven, 2017), then we examined the role of experts in the making of global markets (Paris, 2019). In 2021, we focus on the production of data as tools of knowledge and governance of the international agricultural markets in the period 1880-1950.

The WCBH, jointly organized by the EBHA and the Business History Society of Japan, was planned to take place in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2020. Following extensive consultation with different stakeholders, the BHSJ and EBHA have decided to postpone the 2nd World Congress of Business History until 2021.

The Rivista di Storia Economica (RSE) invites submissions for a special issue on the topic "KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH". Guest editors for the special issue are Francesco Cinnirella (University of Bergamo) and Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark).