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• 01 déc 2019

  Reims

  Call for papers - History

  Private Wars: legitimacy, finance and the social contract

  A conference on the public/private boundary in warfare

  The outsourcing of much military labour – to the private sector, and to other publics – has a long-standing historical basis that raises serious questions about the relationship between war, the state and society. Yet, were the boundaries between public and private ever clear? If the global wars of the twentieth century were "total" for some belligerents, what of the millions who served for other kings, other countries and other empires prior to the emergence of the nation state? While much military history and military sociology has been written in national frames, did these frames ever adequately explain the nature of war? What of the private and supranational armies who played such important roles in the making of the modern world?

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• 31 oct 2018

  Venice | Helsinki

  Call for papers - History

  A global history of free ports

  Capitalism, commerce and geopolotics (1600-1900)

  Exactly how free ports arose in early-modern Europe is still subject to debate. Livorno, Genoa and other Italian cities became famous as major examples of a particular way of attracting trade. Between the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century the existence of free ports – as specific fiscal, cultural, political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their first emergence to the present-day special economic zones – has never been written, this research network aims to pave the way for such an enterprise. The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the XVI^th to the early XX^th century.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Utrecht

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Post-doctorate researcher in Coinage in Ancient Greece

  Anchoring Work Package 4

  The use of minted coins was one of the major innovations in the ancient world of the first millennium BCE. Invented in Lydia in the seventh century, coinage spread rapidly throughout the Greek world, first in the Greek cities in Asia Minor, next to Aegina and Athens and soon to the other cities across the Aegean and Mediterranean area. Before the introduction of minted coins, exchange was largely based on weights of precious metals, in smaller amounts weighed on scales, a practice to which striking fixed weights of metal seems just a small and logical step. Yet the swift success of coinage, evidenced by rapidly increasing number of Greek poleis adopting the new medium, shows that the potential of coins to surpass weighed bullion in practical use for all kinds of transactions was recognised early on.

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• 11 avr 2014

  Cambridge

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  The Carolingian frontier and its neighbours

  We are launching a call for papers for 'The Carolingian frontier and its neighbours', a three-day conference to be held at the University of Cambridge, 4 - 6 July 2014.

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• 26 avr 2013

  Pleumeur-Bodou

  Call for papers - History

  Between International, Transnational and Global History

  Information Technologies at Borders, XIXth-XXIst centuries

  Dealing with the history of electric and electronic informations’ borders crossing, the summer school will evocatingly take place where one of the very first transatlantic television transmissions occured, in 1962 in the northern part of Brittany. It aims at providing doctoral students with an overview of relevant research results and of innovative tools and methodologies in the field of communication history in an international / transnational / global perspective.

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• 15 avr 2011

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Fourth International Congress on Construction History

  We are pleased to announce that the next International Congress on Construction History will be held in Paris from the 3rd to the 7th of July 2012. You will find the "Call for Abstracts" and the "List of Topics and Subjects". Additional information is available on the Congress website: www.icch-paris2012.fr.

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