Upcoming soon, three deadlines for two fellowship opportunities and two conferences, one in Finland and one in Argentina.
December 10 is the last day to submit proposals for the Baltin Connections: Conference in Social Science History at the University of Helsinki. The conference committee is looking for papers on topics like "trade, migration, comparative development, international political economy, and the diffusion and transplantation of institutions, ideas, and cultural influences." The CfP information can be found here. The conference will take place next March 21-23 in Helsinki, Finland, hosting three keynote speakers: James Robinson (University of Chicago), Mattias Morys (University of York) and Heli Valtonen (University of Jyvaskyla).
December 10 is the last day to submit proposals for the Baltin Connections: Conference in Social Science History at the University of Helsinki. The conference committee is looking for papers on topics like "trade, migration, comparative development, international political economy, and the diffusion and transplantation of institutions, ideas, and cultural influences." The CfP information can be found here. The conference will take place next March 21-23 in Helsinki, Finland, hosting three keynote speakers: James Robinson (University of Chicago), Mattias Morys (University of York) and Heli Valtonen (University of Jyvaskyla).
December 15 is the last day to send a 2-page abstract and be considered to participate in the Economic History Conference to be hosted at the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA, www.udesa.edu.ar) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The conference is scheduled for May 23-24, 2019, and has keynote speakers from Spain and the United States: Bob Margo (Boston University) and Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). The Program Committee, consisting of Mauricio Drelichman (UBC), Carola Frydman (Northwestern University), and Tommy Murphy (UdeSA) will have their decisions by the beginning of 2019, and they ask of participants to send their working papers by April 25th, 2019.
A short-term research opportunity is open at the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami Beach, Florida. The museum's Fellowship Program is now accepting applications (and until December 31st), to conduct research in their collections. Awarded proposals will be funded a residency in Miami Beach for 3-5 weeks during the 2019-2020 academic year. "The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is "on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints, and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items." Applications are open to doctoral students and experienced scholars. For more information visit https://www.wolfsonian.org/
Wadham College at the University of Oxford has an opening for a scholar in [pronoun] early career to undertake post-doctoral research in Economic History for a maximum of three years. The deadline to submit applications for the Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, the David Richards Fellowship is January 4, 2019, and the successful candidate is expected to start in September 2019, with a salary of £28,660 p.a. (subject to an annual cost of living review).