The economic history of pre-modern risk and its management is undergoing a scholarly resurgence stimulated by active interdisciplinary engagement with legal, social, and cultural histories. The three concepts of 'risk', 'insolvency', and 'bankruptcy' are central to this topic, providing ample scope for contributions across medieval and early modern Europe and multiple opportunities for comparative links that encompass the Islamic world and the European colonial experiences.
The focus of this Datini Study Week is the interface between the normative aspect of risk, insolvency, and bankruptcy, and their practical implementation as investigated through analyses of daily practices and the tools and strategies of risk management. Particular attention will be paid to the regulation of financial transactions within states, across political borders, and at the intersection of different legal systems. The conceptual framework we propose is one that acknowledges the connection of insolvency and bankruptcy to both 'financial' and 'economic' risks, taking into consideration the analytical separation that exists between the two and how practical solutions for their management overlap.

The results of this call for research papers will be presented at Prato during the 56th Study Week (11-15 May, 2025)

Το συνέδριο "Νησιωτικές και θαλάσσιες κοινωνίες στη Μεσόγειο, τη Μαύρη και την Ερυθρά Θάλασσα" είναι το τρίτο διεθνές συνέδριο ναυτιλιακής ιστορίας που διοργανώνεται από το Κέντρο Ναυτιλιακής Ιστορίας, στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών (ΙΜΣ/ΙΤΕ), στο Ρέθυμνο.

The Geneva Graduate Institute offers fully-funded PhD scholarships to students who wish to write their dissertations in economic history, with particular emphasis in financial history. Depending on interest and background, students can apply through the International Economics or the International History PhDs.

The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Individual grants range from $1,000 to $3,000. Three categories of applicants will be eligible for grants: 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the U.S. and abroad, whose research requires travel to Baker Library and other local archives; and 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields whose research requires travel away from Cambridge.

The Business History Conference is pleased to announce – and invite applications for – its inaugural Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program.  Funded through a generous donation from Henry & Elaine Kaufman Foundation, Inc., the Program is intended to support the work of outstanding emerging scholars whose work engages meaningfully with financial history in any time period or any region of the world.  The Kaufman Program offers Research Fellowships, Dissertation Fellowships, and Post-Doctoral Fellowships.

The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program invites established scholars in business history based outside the United States to spend a period of time in residence at Harvard Business School. The Chandler International Visiting Scholar is expected to interact with faculty and researchers, present work at research seminars, and conduct business history research. 

This award honors the work and contributions of Thomas K. McCraw (1940-2012), who was Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School. The fellowship enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School. The main activities of the Thomas K. McCraw Fellow will be to conduct research in the archives of Baker Library or in other Boston-area libraries, present their work at a seminar, and interact with HBS faculty. 

The Centre of Maritime History in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymnon announces the Sixth International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN), which will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno from the 27th to the 31st of May 2024.

The DFG-Network “Contemporary History of Turkey” is pleased to announce a call for submissions for our upcoming edited volume on social and economic history of Turkey, covering the period from the 1950s to 2000s. Applying a broad understanding of (new) social and economic history, we welcome submissions from scholars and researchers in various disciplines of social sciences and humanitie

The Library Company of Philadelphia invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES). PEAES Fellowships support research in the collections of the Library Company, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and other nearby institutions into the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. The fellowships provide scholars the opportunity to investigate such topics as history of commerce, fin­­ance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, and economic policy making.

The Economic history department at Lund University is calling for a postdoctoral fellow in Circular Value & Supply Chains, focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. This is a three year full-time employment, starting early 2024 or by agreement. The extended deadline to apply is October 10.

The ELHN Labour and Family Economy Working Group invites papers for the session:
Elsewhere. The Migration of Families in the Past from a Labour History and Family Economy Perspective (18th-19th Century) . Organizers: Mario Grassi (Yale University & University of Padua), Céline Mutos-Xicola (University of Girona). Discussant: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Padua). Deadline to receive papers: 10 September 2023.