The Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy is pleased to announce the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, co-organized with the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility and supported by ISPI - Italian Institute for International Political Studies. The summer school will take place from June 29 to July 3, 2026, in Milan. It will consist of a two-day conference on the theme “Inequality and the Future,” held at

FRESH Meeting in Rome, 28-29 September 2026 on Transport, Infrastructure, and Long-Run Development   On 28-29 September 2026, the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Rome Tor Vergata will host a FRESH meeting on Transport, Infrastructure, and Long-Run Development: Historical Evidence. The purpose is to create the opportunity for graduate students and early-stage researchers to present and discuss their work in an environment especially focused on construc

The Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) announces a Call for Papers for its  11th ASE Annual Meeting .   The meeting will be held at Bocconi University, Milan on  October 16-17, 2026 .   It will feature an Economic History Workshop, with presentation of research papers. The ASE Keynote Lecture will be announced very soon. The local organisers of this year’s meeting are Guido Alfani and Andrea Colli.   Proposals for the economic history workshop should be submitted by e

15th IBEO Workshop Economic History Annual Meeting Call for Papers Alghero, Sardinia, July 9, 2026 The 15th IBEO Workshop, organized by Università di Sassari, CRENoS and Università di Corsica, consists of 6 events spanning a range of fields in economics, taking place in Alghero, Sardinia, and in Corte, Corse, in June-July 2026. The Economic History session is set to take place in Alghero on July 9th, 2026 . The aim of the session is to present and discuss state-of-the-art wor

Date: July 1, 2026 Location: Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) Application form: click here   (deadline May 3) Young Scholars Initiative and Figuerola Institute are pleased to invite   you to the Workshop on the Economic History of the Mediterranean  at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M). The organizing committee welcomes submissions on any period and topic related to the economic history of the Mediterranean region and its constituent countries—understanding the

Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) CALL FOR PAPERS (FAST TRACK MEETING 2026)   The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History ( RSE/IREH ) aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim, since 2022, the RSE / IREH invites submissions for a fast-track workshop and review process. Draft articles or long abstracts (at least 2,000 words) shoul

University of Florence, Novoli Campus Florence (Italy), September 17–18, 2026 The Department of Economics and Management (DISEI), University of Florence, invites submissions for the workshop The Dynamics of Inequality: Long-Term Perspectives , to be held on September 17–18, 2026, in Florence. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together economists, economic historians, sociologists, demographers, and statisticians working on the long-term evolution of inequality. The aim i

We are pleased to invite you to a talk by  Prof. Jordi Martí-Henneberg  entitled “Boundary changes” within the Master of Science in European Economy and Business Law (EEBL) at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. The lecture will examine the changing borders of Europe over the past two centuries and their political, social, and economic implications, with a look at current geopolitical developments. This event is part of the  EEBL Talk series . Event location:   Sala del Consi

How to strengthen your dissertation project? The E uropean graduate S chool for T raining in E conomic and Social Historical R esearch (ESTER) is a European platform for postgraduate teaching ESTER announces its annual Research Design Course (RDC) for economic and social historians on 26 – 28 October 2026 in Leuven (Belgium) The ESTER network, established in 1991, involves more than 60 universities throughout Europe and offers high-level research training for PhD candidates

We are happy to share the programme of the workshop Knowledge in Use. Pracrices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period organised within the WorKnow project (“Working Knowledge: the emergence of practitioners in late medieval and early modern Europe”) in collaboration with the Museo Galileo of Florence. The workshop is linked to the special issue on Knowledge in Use   of Galileana, and is taking place in Pisa, at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies ,

How much do you know about the forces that shaped welfare systems in Europe? Why did different countries develop different models of social protection, and what role did efficiency, ideas, and risk play in this process? We are pleased to invite you to a talk by  Paul Sharp  entitled “What Shaped Welfare: Efficiency, Ideas and Risk in European Economic History” within the Master of Science in European Economy and Business Law (EEBL) at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. The t

27-29 May 2026 Tarragona, Spain  The thirteenth CEPR Economic History Symposium will be held on the 27-29 of May, 2026 hosted by the Bank of Spain in Roda de Bará, Tarragona.  The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in the field. Papers are being sought on topics including, but not necessarily limited to:   Economic growth in the very long run Institutions and economic development The history of the international economy Macroeconomic and financial history  P

Rome, 6–7 May 2026 Since the early 2000s, Italian colonialism has been at the centre of renewed historiographical interest, leading to a remarkable expansion of research on the subject. Scholars have examined Italy’s imperial expansion from a variety of perspectives and through diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. One of the first moments when this new season of studies became evident was the conference held in Milan in 2006 – on the 70th anniversary of the end

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The Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy is pleased to announce a lectio magistralis by Professor James...

L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei è lieta di comunicare la pubblicazione dei bandi per i Premi 2026 : Premio Int. «Mottana» per la...

The Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor position in...