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Two of the 2018-2019 programs at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C. will be of particular interest to readers (note that each seminar has its own application deadline): Jennifer L. Morgan of New York University will head a colloquium entitled "Finance, Race, and Gender in the Early Modern Atlantic World."   From the website description: In recent years, a host of new scholarship exploring the relationship between slavery and capitalism has emerged. How might this new canon be reconfigured by a thorough consideration of race and gender in tandem with histories of fungibility and value? . . .  Interrogating early modern notions of finance by asking how they intersected with, shaped, and were shaped by categories of race and gender will garner new understandings of these interrelated processes. This year-long colloquium will explore those intersections between histories of race, gender, and finance that culminate in early modern Atlantic slavery. The dea...

The Institute for Constitutional History has announced a seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty: "Capital as a Constitutional Issue: Land and Money, 1776-1900." Instructors will be Christine Desan, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of Making Money:  Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism , and Elizabeth Blackmar, professor of history at Columbia University. Her scholarship focuses on the history of property relations in the United States; her books include Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 and The Park and the People: A History of Central Park , co-authored with Roy Rosenzweig.     According to the announcement, the seminar will focus in particular on land and money, critical to state formation and capitalist development in the U.S. from the Revolutionary era to the Gilded Age. The contests to define or control each expose competing sovereignties (native American, imperial, settler; state and federal)...

Copenhagen Business School will be offering a Ph.D. Seminar on “Using Historical Approaches in Management and Organizational Research” this fall on November 17-18, 2014. Faculty will consist of Per H. Hansen, Professor of Business History Tor Hernes, Professor of Organization Christina Lubinski, Associate Prof of Business History Mads Mordhorst, Associate Prof of Business History Majken Schultz, Professor of Organization Roy Suddaby, Editor, Academy of Management Review R. Daniel Wadhwani, Associate Prof of Entrepreneurship Each participant must submit a working paper or full-length proposal for group discussion or review by November 17. Candidates must apply no later than October 17, 2014 . The seminar will provide a broad overview of the uses of history in management and organizational research, and then examine more closely three ways in which historical sources, methods, and perspectives can be used to address organizational research questions. As the organizers explain...

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) has created a History of Capitalism Initiative , a coordinated program to examine this subject through a variety of projects. According to the Initiative website, the coordinators seek to understand the many dimensions of American capitalism, setting the stories of corporate titans and failed entrepreneurs, industrial workers and newly arrived immigrants, in a global framework that arcs from slave plantations to the transnational corporations of today. Our project is to draw together the disparate fields of history—including the study of work, labor, politics, culture, gender, race, environment, the state, and economics—into a rich discussion about the development of capitalism.     The program so far includes an annual conference, the history of capitalism "Summer Camp," and a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), "American Capitalism: A History," taught by Edward Baptist and Louis Hyman. G...

The 7th EBHA (European Business History Association) Summer School will take place in Ancona, Italy, September 1- 5, 2013. The school aims to provide doctoral students with an overview of relevant research results and of innovative tools and methodologies in the field of business history. It is organized jointly by the European Business History Association (EBHA), the University of Ancona, and the Italian Association for Business History (ASSI). Students will debate and discuss their research with leading international scholars. The theme of this year's school is "Business History: Debates, Challenges, and Opportunities," focusing on theoretical, methodological, and practical issues of relevance for advanced research in business history. The main aim of the school is to provide students with a full understanding of the newest trends in research in the field and to provide a friendly atmosphere in which to discuss their preliminary findings with leading scholars as well...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute each year offers a series of Summer Seminars for Teachers , week-long sessions taught by distinguished faculty. Full-time K-12 teachers, as well as National Park Service (NPS) interpreters and museum educators are eligible to apply. Community College faculty are eligible to attend high-school-level seminars. Recent graduates of education and history programs at the undergraduate and graduate level who plan to pursue careers in history education K-12 are eligible to apply for seminars as New Teacher Fellows upon completion of an education degree in either fall 2011 or spring 2012.    Among those of particular interest are: "The Gilded Age and Its Modern Parallels," directed by Richard White at Stanford University, "The Great Depression and World War II," directed by David Kennedy at Stanford University, and "Economic and Financial Crises in American History," directed by Richard Sylla at New York University.   A full lis...

The Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg will conduct a summer school on the topic, "Cultures of Consumption in Asia and Europe" on July 24-28, 2011; the program is directed at graduate students interested in the flows of culture and consumption between Asia and Europe in a broad range of disciplines. As the organizers explain, This year’s Summer School will be a collaborative effort of researchers from different countries to explore various ways in which consumer goods and cultural frameworks of consumption have provided crucial interfaces of entanglement between Europe and Asia in global context.The programme of the Summer School will combine lectures by the foremost researchers in the respective disciplines with the interactive seminars and workshops. The examined topics will be particularly relevant to the graduate students with background in cultural and economic history, area studies, ethnography and anthropo...