The Irish Research Council is pleased to announce that a new Call for Proposals has launched for a Department of Finance History Fellowship. The History of the Department of Finance: 1922 – 1958 by the late Professor Ronan Fanning is regarded as the seminal history of an Irish Government Department and was published by the Institute of... Continue Reading →

The growth of financial markets in Europe during the early modern period led to the creation of new practices and organizations. Previous research has mostly focused on private actors and personal relations. Thus, scholars have highlighted the role of social networks in building trust and reducing transaction costs, as well the strategy to use trusted... Continue Reading →

The 2019 Edition of the Savings and Retail Banking Award has been launched ! The Award acknowledges academic work that addresses either the evolution of financial systems or savings in the community in general. WSBI-ESBG particularly encourages research into the history of savings and retail banks, and studies that address the day-to-day development and work of savings... Continue Reading →

European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 6-7 May 2019 Keynote speakers: Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) and Regina Grafe (EUI) Application deadline: 22 February 2019 Historical and contemporary research on diverse regional and national trajectories of welfare arrangements – including welfare states – has increasingly acknowledged the importance of non-state actors in providing welfare. This emerging pluralist vision of... Continue Reading →

t. Hilda’s College/Latin American Centre/Global History of Capitalism Project University of Oxford 26-27 April 2019 In the last ten years there has been an increasing amount of historical work published on the international finances of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as on the growth of the Eurodollar market, frequently making use... Continue Reading →

Third Annual Conference on June 13th and 14th 2019  University of Sussex www.womenmoneymarkets.co.uk Keynote speakers: Alannah Tomkin  University of Keele Professor of Social History and PI of the Small Bills project. D’Maris Coffman  University College London Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment Deadline for submissions: March 1st 2019  Conference Organisers: Dr Emma Newport (University of Sussex) and Dr Joyce... Continue Reading →

University of Manchester PhD opportunity. Full tuition fees plus annual maintenance stipend (£17,777). The supervisors will be Professor Akos Valentinyi and Dr Nuno Palma. Ryland Thomas from the Bank of England will participate in supervision meetings when required.  More info here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPZ336/phd-studentship-did-the-bank-of-england-provide-lender-of-last-resort-facilities-to-the-private-sector-in-the-first-150-years-of-its-existence-lessons-for-crisis-management-today Nuno Palma Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, University of Manchester Research Affiliate,... Continue Reading →

2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the crashing of the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, investment schemes – based on slavery, colonialism, and the need to fund standing militaries accompanying them through large-scale public borrowing – that caused a general international liquidity crisis, deflation, and depression.  This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks submissions exploring not only the... Continue Reading →

Workshop on Money Doctors, monetary theories and monetary reforms. Banque de France, 14-15 March 2019. Preparatory for a session proposal at the World Economic History Congress 2021 (Paris) We are pleased to announce that we will hold a workshop on "Money Doctors" on 14-15 March 2019 in Paris. Having had a fruitful discussion in WEHC... Continue Reading →

European Business History Asocciation Annual Congress, Rotterdam (NL), 29-31 August, 2019. Ever since the 1990s, the creative industries have been a topic of both praise and contention. The 2019 EBHA conference, themed around The Business History of Creativity intends to address creativity in business and the growth and development of the creative industries. Keynote speakers are: Joel... Continue Reading →

The International Center for Finance, in partnership with the Women in Management Club, invite you to attend a panel discussion held on Thursday, February 21, 2019 in classroom 4430 from 11:45pm – 12:45pm. Location: Edward P. Evans Hall, Yale School of Management165 Whitney AveNew Haven, CT 06511United States This will be a sharing session in which distinguished... Continue Reading →

Conference April 5, 2019, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT Save the date to attend the Yale Impact Investing Conference 2019. Details to be announced.