Yaron J. Balslev and Dmitrijs Porsnovs from theti University of Stavanger, Norway, invite scholars to present papers on various aspects of waste management at the 2025 Conference of the European Society for Environmental History in Uppsala, Sweden. These papers may include, but are not limited to topics such as urban sanitatiin, technological challenges, geopolcs, environmental…

The KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory is looking to sponsor a series of discussions for the 2025 meeting of the European Society for Environmental History in Uppsala, Sweden around the theme of ‘Environmental History at Work’. These discussions will look to reflect on these experiences, but also provide practical explorations of lessons, methodologies and best practices for…

On 16 and 17 May 2025, the University of Antwerp and the University of Groningen will jointly organise a workshop dedicated to exploring the financial dimensions of colonisation and decolonisation. This event is the first in a series of workshops, with this edition taking place at the University of Antwerp. This workshop aims to foster…

Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the Netherlands and beyond. In the wake of accelerating climate change, many environmental historians are reflecting on how the environment changes their research practices and the implications of doing environmental historical research while inhabiting the era of climate change. To further promote and facilitate dialogue…

On 3 and 4 July 2025, The Warsaw School of Economics will be hosting the Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance. This conference investigates insurance as crucial to social development, economic advances, finance globalisation, and general capitalism. It discusses risk and how people have coped with it from the early beginning…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 21 maart 2025 vindt in Amsterdam het jaarcongres 2025 van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd plaats. In dit jaarcongres van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd van 2025 staat de vraag centraal welke rol ‘de Toekomst’ speelde in de geschiedenis van Nederland en België, inclusief de koloniën in de…

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their tenth jointly organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2025 seminar is ‘Finance in History’ and closely related…

In 2008, the Economic History Society (EHS) introduced an annual prize of £1,000 for the best doctoral dissertation in Economic and/or Social History. Nominations for the 2025 edition, to be awarded at the 2025 EHS Conference are welcome. All dissertations must be written in English and must have been awarded during the calendar year preceding…