FRESH: Future Research in Economic and Social History

French Alps FRESH Meeting Theme: ‘Globalization in the very long run’

Date: 8-9 September 2009

Venue: Saint Pierre d’Entremont, France

Local organizer: Kevin O’Rourke

Main Organizers: Paul Sharp, Jacob Weisdorf

Fourth Summer School: 'Growth and Globalization: Hardships, Barriers and Economic Policies'

Hosted by Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, University of Lisbon

The School is scientifically endorsed

by the European Historical Economics Society

Monday, June 29 – Friday, July 3, 2009

Second Research Design Course (RDC)

OR HOW TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT AND FORMULATE YOUR DOCTORAL THESIS

University of Barcelona, Spain, 28-31 July 2009

Keynote lecture: Professor Jeffrey Williamson

(Harvard University, Department of Economics)

WORKSHOP: The Economic History of Patents and Innovation

The workshop is a moment of exchange between PhD researchers and Post-docs working on historical projects dealing with patents and innovation and senior researchers. The workshop will also have sessions devoted to possible collobaration between different European countries with a view at creating a data-hub on historical patent statics.

June 23-26, 2009, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Organizer: Alessandro Nuvolari

A Comparative Approach to Inequality and Development: Latin America and Europe

The Mini-Conference will gather a group of leading scholars in the field of inequality and development. The main focus of the Mini-Conference is to promote a comparative analysis of inequality in Latin America and Europe, in order to help assess whether inequality really has been a distinctive aspect of Latin American development for centuries, what form that inequality has taken, and whether and how it has been an important factor explaining its relative backwardness. Comparisons between European and Latin American experience since pre-industrial times will enrich our understanding of both. Nevertheless, the Mini-Conference will also give place to papers containing comparative studies of Europe and/or Latin America with other regions.

SEMINAR EURHISTOCK 1: European Stock Markets in Historical Perspective

First Seminar

‘European Stock Markets in Historical Perspective’

Universidad Carlos III Madrid

April 24-25, 2009

Organizers

• Stefano Battilossi (Carlos III)
• Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (Paris School of Economics)
• Stefan Houpt (Carlos III)

Sponsors

• GlobalEuroNet and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)

Visiting Fellowships Program 2009

GLOBALEURONET offers up to 10 short-term residential Visiting Fellowships to be spent during the year 2009 at any University and Research Centre involved in the activities of the network. This Visiting Fellowships Program offers scholars ranging from PhD students and recent doctoral graduates to senior faculty, the opportunity to integrate their research into a wider scheme that aims to promote excellence, increase exposure to scientific assessment and enhance the creation of international research teams.