While the 2023 Program Committee welcomes individual papers or panel proposals on all aspects of social science history, it is especially interested in papers and panels that explore the many facets of well-being. Topics may include but are not restricted to: • What are the dynamic processes...

The Lofoten International Symposium on Inequality and Taxation (LISIT) will take place at the Scandic Svolvær hotel, in the attractive Lofoten islands, Norway, on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th June 2023. The symposium will focus on the intertwined fields of economic inequality and...

The 2022 ITH conference takes from the present epidemiological crisis to reflect on other times of disaster and their implications for workers, organised labour and labour relations. This includes ecological disasters like earthquakes, floods or droughts; technological disasters such as...

The 9th annual conference of the working group on late medieval economic history (Arbeitskreis für spätmittelalterliche Wirtschaftsgeschichte) will discuss different aspect of premodern labour in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1700. We would like to tackle the topic from various angles and with...

This fourth IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the breakup of the Soviet Union, post-transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as China. We will...

56. ITH Konferenz "Migration weltweit: Linke Strategien, migrantische Akteur:innen,und kapitalistische Interessen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart" Wie haben Arbeiter:innenbewegungen und/oder anderen soziale Bewegungen in den Ein-und Auswanderungsregionen die Frage der räumlichen...

This conference brings together two major events for European labour historians: - the fourth ELHN Conference offering a very broad and diverse program of labour-related sessions organised by the ELHN working groups, - the second WORCK Conference with a clear thematic focus on labour and...

Programme: - The rise of African Economic History and the Bayreuth initiative. An introduction; - Panel discussion: "New developments in African Economic History – a field on the rise?"; - "A History of the Construction of the Poverty Trap in Northern Ghana"; - "Migration and the Production of...

This conference will look at the relationship between the financial sector and migration-takinga comparative historical view.

FRESH meetings aim at gathering researchers to present their ongoing research at an early stage, and discuss them with peers, in a friendly environment. The broad theme of the meeting is “Living standards and economic development in historical perspective”. We welcome proposals using a wide...