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• 29 mar 2019

  Quebec City

  Call for papers - Economy

  From fiscal justice to social justice

  2nd day of social and economic ethics at Laval University

  L’inquiétude largement partagée eu égard à la croissance des inégalités appelle à une correction de la situation, et la fiscalité représente l’outil principal dont disposent les sociétés démocratiques pour y parvenir. Ce colloque vise à explorer les possibilités qu’offrent les différents instruments de la politique fiscale pour répondre aux défis actuels de la justice sociale. À cette fin, le colloque invite les contributions qui portent sur ces instruments, leurs modalités et leur faisabilité. Cela peut concerner l’impôt progressif, ses justifications et ses réformes, les débats autour de l’impôt sur les successions, la nécessité ou la réalisabilité d’un impôt sur le capital, ou porter encore sur toute autre forme d’impôt sur la richesse, inédite ou non. 

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• 30 sep 2018

  Guelph

  Call for papers - History

  Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

  The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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• 29 avr 2016

  30 avr 2016

  Cambridge

  Study days - History

  The Circle of Money

  Practices, Politics, and Policy in Premodern Societies (6th-17th Centuries)

  Money is at once elusive and concrete. As a mode of economic exchange it exists within a relatively fixed playing field, with clearly delineated boundaries of benefits and costs. However, poor handling, bad advice, or even a bad turn at a game of chance can swallow money up in one fell swoop. The workshop will investigate this wide array of pre-capitalist, western and non-western contexts from the English Isles, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and China between the Middle Ages and Early Modern times.

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