Workshop Utrecht University, March 2020 Why was it that, in developed Western economies, financial institutions like banks only began to reach deep into society during the 1960s and 1970s? The workshop “The Dynamics of Inclusive Finance” attempts to answer this question by focusing on what drove this expansion and why it did not come earlier,... Continue Reading →

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Finance, Research-Focussed Location: Auckland, New Zealand- Utilise your PhD in Finance or Econometrics - Join AUT – one of the top 30 millennial universities in the world - Permanent full-time role based in the Auckland CBD Auckland University of Technology Business School has a reputation as a leading provider of innovative undergraduate... Continue Reading →

4-6 June 2020 This colloquium, the ninth in a biennial series and the first to be held in the Republic of Ireland, invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between public finance, politics, and print during a period some scholars call the ‘financial revolution’ from around 1688... Continue Reading →

CFP Feminist Studies Special Issue: Feminism and Capitalism This is a call for innovative theoretical, empirical, and creative submissions about feminism and twenty-first-century capitalism. Our call is spurred by phenomena such as the millions of people displaced and relegated to invisibility as “surplus populations,” increasing debt and income inequality, rising corporate profits, persistent agrarian crises, planetary urbanization,... Continue Reading →

Creditors, debtors, and early financial markets (c. 1300-1800): new approaches in social and economic history Call for papers13th European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 18 – 21 March, 2020 Organizers: Elise Dermineur (Umeå University) and Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University) Since the crisis of 2008, debt has increasingly become a major concern in our... Continue Reading →

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 →