The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize is an Early Career Prize for Books on the history of technology, sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize-winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, that will take place as part of the 27th International Congress for the History of Science and Technology.

Τα Ιστορικά, τχ. 73 (Οκτώβριος 2021)

Patrick Fridenson is a renown business historian who for decades has played an important role in the profession. In the following video he talks about what he believes are the perils of the profession. 

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 8-13 May 2022, in Prato (Italy) on: “Economic Innovations”. The topic of the seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress organized yearly by the "F. Datini" International Institute of Economic History and devoted in 2022 to The Knowledge Economy. Innovation, Productivity and Economic Growth. The 2022 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Economic Innovations. We particularly welcome papers on technical and institutional innovations and their impact on the economic output. The seminar will not deal directly with the production factors, but with the effects on the productivity and efficiency of the economic system deriving from changes in the mix of the inputs. Our purpose is to clarify the role of technical and institutional changes in different economies and discuss the possibility of measuring their effects on gross product. 

The Fifth International Conference on Strikes and Social Conflicts will take place in Rotterdam at the headquarter of the Dutch Trade Union Confederation (FNV) from 22-24 June 2022. Its objective is to discuss and assess the changing character of strikes and social conflict over the course of capitalist history. The focus is on the lessons learned from the approaches and strategies of trade unions and social movements in terms of responses to the social and economic changes that accompanied globalisation.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the academic programs and fellowships for the 2022-2023 academic year at the Gennadius Library. Opened in 1926 with 26,000 volumes from diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius, the Gennadius Library now holds a richly diverse collection of over 146,000 books and rare bindings, archives, manuscripts, and works of art illuminating the Hellenic tradition and neighboring cultures. The Library has become an internationally renowned center for the study of Greek history, literature, and art, especially from the Byzantine period to modern times.

The Balkan History Association is preparing a volume dedicated to modern Greece, its history, geopolitics, language, culture, and society. The volume will be published by Peter Lang (Series “South-East European History”). Authors are invited to submit their paper proposals with special emphasis on: aspects of the Greek Revolution of 1821; history, ideology, and politics of the modern Greek state in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries; historical and current geopolitics of Greece as a state actor in the wider region; international relations of Greece; linguistics and policies of the Greek language; cultural aspects of modern Greek society.

Call for papers for an issue of the journal Balkanologie. Revue d’études pluridisciplinaires, edited by the Association française d’études sur les Balkans, edited by Mehdi Belasri (EHESS, CETOBaC), Milana Čergić (Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Halle) and Andrea Umberto Gritti (EHESS, CETOBaC), and tentatively entitled «Mutations économiques en Europe du Sud-Est à l’époque contemporaine : acteurs et lieux» / «Economic Mutations in South-Eastern Europe in Contemporary Times: Entrepreneurs and Places».

Le fonds des archives historiques de la Banque de France comporte plus de 110 000 articles (boîtes, registres, photographies…) versés par ses services ou provenant d’établissements en lien avec la Banque de France comme la Caisse des Comptes courants, la Banque de Réescompte de la Sarre ou encore l’Institut d’Émission des États associés. Quelques fonds privés sont aussi conservés comme le fonds d’Argout (gouverneur entre 1834 et 1836) ou le fonds Rist (sous-gouverneur entre 1926 et 1929) déposé par ses descendants. Le fonds d’archives est complété par les 50 000 ouvrages de la bibliothèque historique parmi lesquels figurent des ouvrages rares.

Histoire & Mesure, XXXV-2, 2020

Dossier Inquantifiables fonction publiques?

 Émilien Ruiz, « Faire l’histoire des États en comptant leurs fonctionnaires » (introduction du dossier)
- Antoine Perrier, « Gouverner sans compter. Les effectifs des fonctionnaires marocains et tunisiens entre État colonial et monarchies protégées »
- Aurélie Peyrin, « Quantifier les emplois précaires dans la fonction publique d’État, 1976-2017 »
- Wolfgang Göderle, « De l’empire des Habsbourg à l’État des fonctionnaires, Beamtenstaat (1815-1914) »
- Didier Georgakakis, « Compter la fonction publique européenne. Pistes et matériaux pour une histoire sociale et politique de la statistique du personnel des institutions européennes »
- Émilien Ruiz, « Pour une approche comparée du “nombre des fonctionnaires” : propositions à partir du cas des États-Unis, de la France et du Royaume-Uni ».