The Poster Exhibition enables scholars in Economic history to present their latest research projects. We kindly invite you to exhibit your ongoing work through the submission of a Poster. The Poster Exhibition will be active Monday – Wednesday (28–30 July) 13.00–14:00 in connection with the lunches, right in the heart of the congress mingle.

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their tenth jointly organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2025 seminar is ‘Finance in History’ and closely related to the theme of the preceding congress yearly organised by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, in 2025 devoted to ‘Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)’.

The Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Society for Social and Economic History) and the Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuss as part of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Economic History Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik) are jointly organizing their 6th Congress on Economic and Social History. We cordially invite submissions to this conference.

We welcome papers on a wide range of topics related to women’s labour which takes particularly the company and company-level archives as its primary level of analysis. We also welcome papers that explicitly consider the distinct nature of female wage workers and female entrepreneurs, i.e. research on women working for a company or women who own their own company. We welcome scholars working on the following questions:
 1) How has the nature and extend of the gender wage gap changed over time (for instance looking at the difference between piece and time rates);
 2) How do masculinization or feminization of specific occupations, i.e. the extend of occupational segregation, change over time and why?
 3) How and when did women choose entrepreneurship compared to wage work? Can this explain the long-term development of female entrepreneurship?

Our conference welcomes a broad range of topics that are historical in perspective, including but not limited to those concerned with: global trade and monetary order; the economics of empire and decolonisation; international economic organisations and international economic relations; the governing of global food and commodities; global labour practices and markets; global banking and finance; multinational business enterprises; and international tax and regulation. Following the conference, we may solicit articles for the publication of a special issue.

The Exploring Gender, Human Capital, and Labour Intersections in Economic History winter school is an interdisciplinary meeting of economists and historians focused on discussing the interplay between gender, human capital, and labour. To understand how these developed over the past centuries, it is necessary to understand how they are linked and interact with each other, as observing them in isolation provides only a partial picture. The winter school will provide a platform for scholars to share research, approaches, and methodologies for studying labour, gender inequalities, and the evolution of human capital. It comprises two days of academic presentations and a one-day methodological workshop. The methodological workshop consists of two parallel sessions: the first will explore the ways in which marginalized groups can be included in linked census datasets, while the second will provide insight into the processes of saving primary source material and establishing a digital archive.

This session explores profit, dividends, and returns over the 19th and 20th centuries. Organizers welcome papers addressing the issue at the country level or from a comparative perspective. Within this framework, potential research avenues are delineated by the examination of economic sectors, large versus small enterprises, domestic versus foreign entities, metropolitan versus colonial establishments, and innovative versus mature businesses. Perspectives that explore technological spillovers, financial cross-country effects, trade, and foreign-direct investments are also encouraged.

We invite you to submit a paper proposal to the joint CEPR and Tenth Banco de España Economic History Seminar, which will take place on 30 September 2024 at the Banco de España headquarters in Madrid.

The deadline for replies is 19 May 2024 and the organizers will notify prospective participants in June 2024 of their decision.

The scientific committee includes Rodolfo Campos (Banco de España), Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR), Alfonso Herranz (Universitat de Barcelona) and Jacopo Timini (Banco de España).

This workshop proposal aims at bringing together scholars from various disciplines interested in reconstructing historical figures of population and, when available, measures on other socio-economic aspects of society (such as employment or literacy) for European countries by introducing the pseudomunicipalities or constant borders approach that would allow for the use of such data from an intertemporal perspective. We believe that this could be a promising starting point for constructing a network devoted to the fine-grained reconstruction of European local population in the long run. Contributions that focus on methods or empirical applications regarding all European countries, regions and time periods are encouraged.

Keynote lectures will be delivered by Diego Puga, Professor of Economics at CEMFI, and David S. Reher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Deadline for submission: May 17, 2024

The economic history of Eastern Europe is sometimes written as that of an isolated, peripheral region. In this workshop, we want to emphasise the historical connections between Eastern and Western Europe, as well as to other regions of the world. By reassessing the transnational circulation of people, goods, ideas, techniques, diseases, institutions and other factors, this workshop aims to highlight innovative work that uses new archival data, advanced microdata, or techniques of causal analysis to offer a truly integrated East-West perspective. We also celebrate research that integrates insights and research techniques from multiple disciplines to redefine our understanding of Europe’s complex shared economic, industrial, ideological, and political past.