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20 tuition-free international and domestic MA studentships, MA Global and Regional History, Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia. Rolling admissions, with an international tuition-free competition deadline on 1 February 2021. HSE St Petersburg invites domestic and international applicants to its new two-year, English-language MA ‘Global and Regional History’. Explore the vibrant field of global history through a regional focus on Russian, former Soviet, and Eurasian spaces, and an interdisciplinary unity of history and anthropology. The program’s core seminars in theory and methodology are complemented by a broad array of regional courses from the history of St Petersburg to that of personality cults of the 20th century, the Cold War, imperial crossroads in northern Eurasia, the Caucasus, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Arctic as well as on Russian/Soviet links with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program draws on the proximity and wealth of archives and museum colle...

New Books || Fall 2020 [see pdf ] Send submissions to BHC editor  Paula de la Cruz-Fernández

CFP: Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad  El comité editorial de la revista Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad convoca a investigadores en el área de historia argentina y latinoamericana a enviar contribuciones originales para los números 26 y 27 a publicarse en julio y diciembre de 2021 respectivamente. Desde 1997, Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad se publica semestralmente desde el Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Esta revista es de acceso abierto.  Las propuestas serán sometidas a referato externo, doble-ciego, y pueden estar escritas en español, portugués o inglés.  En esta convocatoria la revista recibe tres tipos de contribuciones para su consideración: - Convocatoria general de manuscritos originales sobre cualquier tema relativo al campo de la historia argentina y latinoamericana. - Dossier: Propuestas para una sección especial bajo un coo...

The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society supports residencies at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware for junior and senior scholars whose projects make use of Hagley’s substantial research collections. Scholars must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degrees by the February 15 application deadline. In accordance with NEH requirements, these fellowships are restricted to United States citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. These fellowships are made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowships may be four to twelve months in length, and will provide a monthly stipend of $5000 and complimentary lodging in housing on Hagley’s property. Hagley also will provide supplemental funds for local off-site accommodations to NEH fellowship recipients who can make a compelling case that special circumstance (e.g. disability or family needs) would make it impossi...

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute offers fellowships on an annual cycle for scholars whose research would benefit from the use of our collections. About 20 fellowships are given out annually, making the Beckman Center the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, technology, and medicine in the United States. Researchers travel from all over the world to use our collections and take part in a vibrant scholarly community. Our materials range chronologically from the 15th century to the present and include over 6,000 rare books, significant archival holdings, oral histories, scientific instruments and artifacts, thousands of images and other graphic media, memorabilia, and a substantial fine art collection, supplemented by over 100,000 modern primary-source volumes and journals. Within the collections there are many areas of special interest to historians of art, business and labor, and the environment, as well ...

LOUIS GALAMBOS NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS Louis Galambos National Fellowship in Business and Politics supports completion of exceptional dissertations for which the Hagley’s Library research materials constitute a significant source and that connect with the mission of the National Fellowship Program. Like other National Fellows, the Galambos Fellow is paired with a senior scholar in the fellow’s field who will serve as a mentor and provide critical guidance during the year. The Fellow also participates in the fall and spring conferences and receives training on how to reach broader audiences. The Galambos Fellow is expected to be in residence at Hagley for the fall and spring academic year. While in residence, the Fellow will receive an office, stack access, inter-library loan privileges, internet access, the opportunity to present a paper in Hagley’s seminar series, and use of Hagley’s accommodations for visiting scholars.  The Fellow receives a stipend of $25,0...

Kaiser Permanente Enterprise Historian - Communications Consultant Scanning/Digitization Archivist - LAC Group Manager, Archival Processing at Estée Lauder 

International Seminar: New perspectives on mid-twentieth century Spain (1931-1959), 4 JUNE 2021 Seminario Internacional: Nuevas perspectivas sobre la España de mediados del siglo XX (1931-1959), 4 JUNIO 2021  The difficult months of the global pandemic have stopped many academic congresses and seminars, limiting possibilities for joint discussion and reflection, vital for ongoing research for early career historians. As a result, the University of Leeds and the University of Granada, in association with their respective departments of modern History, are organising an online international seminar on 4 June 2021 on the history of modern Spain in the mid-20th century. The objective is to create a space for debate and Exchange of ideas, where doctoral students (or those recently graduated) can present their most recent research, and discover research in other universities.   We welcome all proposals, regardless of focus or methodological specialism provided they fit, broadly...

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Special Issue: New Approaches to Music and Sound Guest Editors: David Suisman and Rebecca Tinio McKenna If new book series and journal special issues are any indication, over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in the musical and sonic worlds of the past. Scholars of music, sound studies, disability studies, transnational and postcolonial studies, cultural history, history of the senses, and others have been expanding our historical understanding of soundscapes, music cultures, aurality, acoustics, and other aspects of the work sound does in the world. New scholarship is connecting music and sound with politics and social movements, capitalism and commerce, the formation of racial, gender, and class identity and difference, the history of technology and of natural environments, and more. For historians of music and sound in the U.S. context, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is an especially important period. The years...

We are pleased to announce the Histories of Global Capitalism Forum (HGCF) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Forum provides a space for conversations about new research in the history of capitalism, bringing together emerging and established scholars with a strongly global focus. Building on strengths in several departments and schools (history, business, economics, and public policy), we invite colleagues and friends from the University, the wider Washington, DC region, and beyond to join us in an annual series of talks in varying formats. Our inaugural event, an interdisciplinary panel discussion on “Capitalism and the COVID-19 Crisis,” will take place virtually on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 3.30 PM.  Click here to register   https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoceiqqTwuG9Qh43cFF6JapSsPp5W_0-xq Please contact co-organizers Mircea Raianu ( mraianu@umd.edu ) or David Sicilia ( dsicilia@umd.edu ) with any questions.  We look forward to seeing you...

[Announcement from H-Mexico, the UNAM announcements list ] El Colegio de México (CEH), la UNAM (FE, FFyL, IIH) y el Instituto Mora invitan a la comunidad de historiadores y colegas de disciplinas afines a la  sesión virtual ciento veintitrés del Seminario Interinstitucional de Historia Económica Mesa Redonda: Ponente: Araceli Almaraz (Colef) “Balance de los estudios de la historia empresarial en América Latina” Comentaristas: Mario Cerutti (UANL) y Javier Vidal (Universidad de Alicante) Moderador: Carlos Marichal (Colmex)  Fecha: Lunes 7 de diciembre de 2020 a las 16:00 horas Lugar: Sala virtual a través de El Colegio de México Las personas interesadas en recibir el texto que servirá de base a la presentación y el vínculo para ingresar a la sesión virtual podrán solicitarlo a la co-coordinadora del SIHE (Isabel Avella Alaminos, iavella@unam.mx ) Visita nuestro sitio: http://sihe.colmex.mx

We are pleased to announce the Histories of Global Capitalism Forum (HGCF) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Forum provides a space for conversations about new research in the history of capitalism, bringing together emerging and established scholars with a strongly global focus. Building on strengths in several departments and schools (history, business, economics, and public policy), we invite colleagues and friends from the University, the wider Washington, DC region, and beyond to join us in an annual series of talks in varying formats. Our inaugural event, an interdisciplinary panel discussion on “Capitalism and the COVID-19 Crisis,” will take place virtually on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 3.30 PM.  Click here to register  https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoceiqqTwuG9Qh43cFF6JapSsPp5W_0-xq Please contact co-organizers Mircea Raianu ( mraianu@umd.edu ) or David Sicilia ( dsicilia@umd.edu ) with any questions.  We look forward to seeing you virtu...

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Organizer: AIB Research Methodology Shared Interest Group (Facebook | Twitter) Theme: Doing Research During COVID: Adapting Your Research Design and Methods Time: December 3, 9am New York, 2pm London, 3pm Berlin, 10pm Hong Kong Registration Deadline: December 1, 2020 Overview: COVID-19 has disrupted all aspects of life, including research projects. This webinar is an opportunity for researchers at all career stages to consider ways to adapt their research designs and methods to respond to these conditions. The panelists will cover a variety of research methods, including qualitative fieldwork, experiments and survey research. As well as offering brief presentations from panelists, the webinar will be an opportunity for participants to exchange their knowledge and experiences. Participants will also be directed to resources that will assist them in adapting their research projects during the pandemic period. Key Topics: Ways of adapting fieldwork to pandemic conditions Considerations fo...

The first BHC and ASLH Anne Fleming Article Prize will be awarded in 2022 for an article published in 2020 and 2021. 

Women and Work in the City of London, 1870-1970 Supervisory team: Rowena Olegario (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) and Clara Harrow (Head Archivist, Baring Archive Ltd.) Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Oxford, in partnership with the Baring Archive Ltd. The deadline is January 8th, 2021, for a  starting date of October 2021. Working primarily with the Baring Archive’s historical personnel files, this project seeks to understand the characteristics of the women who sought white-collar employment in the financial sector from 1873 to the 1960s. Past scholarship on women in the City of London has focused on female investors, or individual women executives at the very top of their organisations. Despite the impressive surge in scholarship on the history of working women in Britain, the topic of female white-collar workers in the financial sector remains under-researched. We are also concern...

Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in Tucson, Arizona, September 10-12, 2021 The theme for EHA 2021 is “Rules, Organizations, and Governments: Institutions and Economic History.” Over the last two and a half centuries the economies of the world have dramatically transformed. Part of these transformations occurred in and resulted from technology, demography, and markets. Part of these transformations occurred in and resulted from institutions. The way societies organize themselves, in both public and private spheres, exhibits marked patterns across the range of developed and developing nations. While we know what the patterns are, as economic historians and social scientists generally, we have struggled to understand how the patterns developed or how we might induce the patterns of developed societies in developing (or undeveloped) societies. The program committee calls for papers that take a more granular approach to questions related to institutions, collective decisio...

El Colectivo de Historia Empresarial surgió en mayo de 2020 como una iniciativa de historiadores económicos, empresariales y financieros de Europa y las Américas. El Colectivo provee un espacio para presentar trabajos en historia económica, empresarial y financiera, a través de una serie de webinars iniciada en junio 2020. Los webinars están abiertos a todos los miembros de estos campos de investigación dispuestos a proveer comentarios constructivos. El Colectivo busca apoyar a jóvenes investigadores. Creemos en la necesidad de promover diversidad e inclusión en nuestra comunidad, e invitamos a mujeres, miembros de grupos minoritarios, y gente en disciplinas fuera de la economía y la historia a participar en la serie de webinars. En agosto de 2020, el Colectivo lanzó una iniciativa para apoyar a la comunidad de historiadores económicos, empresariales y financieros en América Latina y la Península Ibérica, con webinars en español, portugués e inglés. Convocatoria de sesiones para febrer...

Call for Submissions: Business History Collective and the webinar series The network aims to promote scholarship in the fields of business history, management history, organizational history, corporate history, and other related fields. The network will launch the Spring 2021 webinar series to provide a space for the presentation and discussion of works in progress, dissertation chapters, or R&R manuscripts. The webinars are open to scholars primarily from a qualitative perspective, willing to engage in productive conversations by providing supportive and constructive comments to peers. We are currently looking for presenters and attendees to get things moving forward. We especially welcome submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of minority groups, scholars based in or working on under-represented geographies (such as Latin America, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia), and schola...

The School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech invites applications for the Melvin Kranzberg Professorship in the History of Technology . Melvin Kranzberg was one of the principal founders of the history of technology as an academic field in the United States. The faculty member will teach four courses per academic year. Successful candidates will be eligible for hire as associate or full professor. Faculty rank will be commensurate with experience and accomplishments. The position is open to scholars in any subfield of the history of technology. Candidates with transnational or global interests, or who study areas outside the United States, are especially encouraged to apply. Review of applications will begin January 1 and will continue until the position is filled. The position will begin in August 2021. Members of historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates should possess a demonstrable international reputation in the history of technology...

Join historians and social scientists to discuss a recent book on the history of capitalism: Koji Yamamoto, Taming Capitalism before its Triumph (2018) . Tuesday 17 November 2020 : Chicago  07:00 CST || New York 08:00 EST || London 13:00 GMT || Hong Kong 21:00 HKT || Tokyo 22:00 JST  About this Event The history of capitalism has seen a renaissance over the last decade, but relatively fewer works have focused on its early phases, including the early modern period in which England began evolving into the ‘first industrial nation’. Koji Yamamoto’s book Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Distrust, Public Service, and “Projecting” in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2018) offers a fresh reappraisal. This online symposium brings together renowned scholars from across medieval history, early modern history, historical sociology and political science to discuss the book. Registration:  Free advance registration is required here . Provisional Programme Opening Remarks Wenkai He...

Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives A free week-long webinar series Convened by the   Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center November 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, 2020 | 1:00-2:30pm ET daily   Registration:   https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PTe1rHzsTG2FSaEHoTcb2w   Details:   https://invention.si.edu/black-inventors-and-innovators-new-perspectives       The Smithsonian’s   Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation   invites you to attend our upcoming webinar series,   Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives . The program is free and open to the public and will convene daily November 16–20, 2020 from 1:00-2:30pm ET.   This week-long program will draw renewed attention to historic and contemporary inventors of color and Black technology consumers, while discussing strategies for building a more equitable innovation ecosystem. Through presentations by an interdisciplinary group of thoug...

https://thebhc.org/2021-bhc-virtual-meeting Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference;  Virtual meeting,  March 11-13, 2021   Proposals due November 14, 2020  https://thebhc.org/2021-call-papers-business-history-building-future  The originally agreed theme of ‘The Ubiquity of Business’ has been dropped. Instead, a new theme ‘Business History: Building for the Future’ has been developed. This year’s BHC annual meeting will be unlike any previous annual meeting as it will be a virtual one.  *** El congreso de la Business History Conference de 2021 se realizará de manera virtual. El tema del congreso será “Historia empresarial: construyendo para el futuro” y se celebrará del 11 al 13 de marzo de 2021.  La fecha límite de envío de propuestas es el 14 de noviembre de 2020. La convocatoria de ponencias en español está disponible aquí .

https://thebhc.org/2021-bhc-virtual-meeting El congreso de la Business History Conference de 2021 se realizará de manera virtual. El tema del congreso será “Historia empresarial: construyendo para el futuro” y se celebrará del 11 al 13 de marzo de 2021. La fecha límite de envío de propuestas es el 14 de noviembre de 2020. El Comité de Historia de Empresas en América Latina (Committee on Latin American Business History), que se creó en 2019 para promover la participación de investigadores de América Latina y la Península Ibérica en la Business History Conference, ha traducido la convocatoria de la #BHC2021online para invitar a que se envíen propuestas en español y portugués. El comité lo coordina Andrea Lluch (Conicet, Argentina, and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) e incluye a Gustavo del Ángel Mobarak (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México), Manuel A. Bautista González (Columbia University in the City of New York, USA), Rory Miller (University of Liverpool, United K...