Newcastle University (UK) invites applications for the Peter and Norah Lomas Scholarship in Economics, commencing in September 2024. The Scholarship covers full fees (at the domestic rate) and maintenance stipends for three years. 

The UMass Amherst Economics Department is searching for an Assistant Professor with a primary research focus on Economic History. Applications are invited from Ph.D.s in History as well as Economics.

CUNEF Universidad is seeking candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level in the departments of Economics, including a position in Business and Economic History.

As a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, you will join the ERC-Starting Grant project ‘Islamic Endowments (Waqf) and State Formation in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1650 (OTTOWAQF)’, under the leadership of the principal investigator, Professor Christopher Markiewicz.

We invite your participation in “Climate and Business/The Business Climate,” a conference sponsored by the Canadian Business History Association – l’association Canadienne pour l’histoire des affaires, to be held in Banff, Alberta, 19-21 September, 2024 at the Banff Centre. The planning committee welcomes proposals for papers and roundtables relating to business history within a Canadian or international context.  

Utrecht University is searching for a full professor on the 'Social and Economic History of the Early Modern Period' as of May 2024. The chair will be embedded in the renowned Economic and Social History (ESH) section , at the Department of History and Art History  (GKG). The newly appointed professor is or aspires to be at the forefront of their field of study. The chair will play a prominent role within GKG and the university's strategic themes, most notably Institutions for Open Societies  and Pathways to Sustainability . In this capacity, the chair should have, or develop, a research agenda that is interdisciplinary and fits within and contributes to the research programme of the ESH section. This programme is transnational, long-term and comparative in nature. Teaching and supervision will involve the History Bachelor and (Research) Master programmes of GKG and possibly also the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Bachelor programme.

It has been published a public competition for a two-years research position in economic history at the Department of Economics, Management, and Statistics of the University of Milano-Bicocca. The researcher will be involved in a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University on the topic "Management and Consumption of the Natural Resources in Early Modern Italy (1500-1800)", focusing on the case studies of Bologna and Milan. Both the quantitative (amounts consumed, prices) and qualitative (supply areas, products) aspects of the consumption of the natural resources will be included in the analysis. Besides the salary, the researcher will be provided of relevant research funds for archival missions, conferences and publications.

Η Ελληνική Αρχειακή Εταιρεία και η Ελληνική Εταιρεία Οικονομικής Ιστορίας διοργανώνουν, με τη συνεργασία του Ινστιτούτου Ιστορικών Ερευνών - ΕΙΕ, ημερίδα με τίτλο "Αρχεία επιχειρήσεων στην Ελλάδα: διαθεσιμότητες και προοπτικές", την Παρασκευή 20 Οκτωβρίου (ώρες 9:00-19:00) στο Αμφιθέατρο «Λεωνίδας Ζέρβας» του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών (Βασ. Κωνσταντίνου 48, Αθήνα).

With generous support from the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications for an open-ended Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Modern Greek Studies. Applications are welcome from specialists in any area of Greek history, literature or culture from 1453 to the present. 

Precious objects, and jewelry in particular, have generated repeated and echoed reactions over the centuries and across the globe, despite variations in context and location. Indeed, while the disapproval of an often ostentatious dissipation has been recurrent since Antiquity (Pliny the Elder), the benefits of a precious object has been claimed for aesthetic, symbolic, religious and economic reasons alike, whether it may be an agalma worthy of devotion ; an offering to the gods or the dead ; a symbol of status, power, alliance; a social or family heirloom, both a vehicle and a pledge of transmission or tradition ; an inspiration for artistic creation and the development of techniques ; as majors elements of exchange in the gift economy, and even a driving force behind the capitalist economy as emphasized by Bernard de Mandeville, Jean-Baptiste Say, Werner Sombart, and many others.  

Thus, the precious object and jewelry especially, whether carried on oneself, socially exchanged or integrated into spaces, create distinction at all levels, material and symbolic: they “radiate”, according to the worlds of Georg Simmel, attracting attention, reconfiguring the space of appearances, and establishing cultural and social divides and a “partition of the sensible”. Because of their distinctive value, they influence social taste, originate fashion, encourage imitation and counterfeiting, and fake and kitsch reproductions.

The 20th World Economic History Congress will convene from 28 July to 1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The theme for the Congress is Equality and Sustainability Challenges, which highlights some of the central issues facing humanity today and also connects to a broad and diverse range of historical problems. To address both the challenges and to find insights from the historical record for that endeavor, a range of perspectives will be necessary.