CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) offers many fellowships-in-residence, most of which are the result of generous gifts from individuals, foundations, or organizations. Applications for 2016–2017 are now available. Please visit the following Web site to find out more and to apply: http://www.chemheritage.org/research/beckman-center/beckman-center-fellowships/apply.aspx.
The CHF also offers travel grants for short-term research on the history of chemistry, broadly construed. There is no deadline for travel-grant applications. Travel-grant applications can be submitted at any time and are assessed by an internal CHF review committee. A travel-grant application must contain a research proposal that also details how the applicant will make use of CHF's collections (one page); a curriculum vitae (up to three pages); and one reference letter (applicants are responsible for references submitting letters directly to CHF via the e-mail address below).
Travel-grant applications must be submitted electronically, as Word or PDF files, to travelgrants@chemheritage.org.
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HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY GRANTS. Hagley Exploratory Research Grants. These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than fifty miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships. These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are prorated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than fifty miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within fifty miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.
Applications for all grants now must take place through our Web-based system that can be accessed through our grants and fellowship page: http://www.hagley.org/library/center/grants.html. Questions about our grant procedures may be directed to Carol Lockman, clockman@Hagley.org.
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ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION CALL FOR PAPERS. The theme for the Economic History Association (EHA) annual meeting of 2016, to be held in Boulder, Colorado on September 16–18, is “economic history and economic development.” Economic history is contextual and a longitudinal process, and so too is economic development. Both fields, moreover, view law and politics as important drivers of economic change. Yet, the fields are typically somewhat divorced. Economic history focuses on past development experiences, often (though not exclusively) in currently developed economies, while economic development focuses on economies that are currently poor. While there is a great deal of methodological congruence, studying the past usually requires exploiting observational, archival data (perhaps exploiting “natural experiments”), while the study of the present allows for implementation of randomized control trials that represent a benchmark for identifying causal effects. One aim of the conference is to point to what the two fields can learn from each other. We thus welcome papers wedding economic history and economic development, and papers drawing on insights from law and political science, as well as (naturally) economics and history.
The program committee welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that specifically fit the theme. Papers should be submitted individually, but authors may suggest to the committee that three particular papers fit well together in a panel. Papers should in all cases be works in progress rather than accepted or published work. Submitters should let the program committee know at the time of application if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or coauthored a paper given at the 2015 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2016 program.
Papers and session proposals should be submitted online. Paper proposals should include a 3–5 page proposal and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by January 31, 2016 to ensure consideration. For more information, please visit: http://eh.net/eha/call-for-papers-eha-2016-history-and-economic-development/.
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WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS CALL FOR PAPERS. The next gathering of the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) will convene July 29–August 3, 2018 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association welcomes proposals from all members of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as from scholars in related disciplines. The first call for papers closes on May 30, 2016. For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit http://wehc2018.org/first-call-for-proposals/.
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BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE. The 2016 Business History Conference Annual Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 31–April 2, 2016. The theme of the meeting will be “Reinterpretation.” The program committee for 2016 consists of Rowena Olegario (Chair), Peter Coclanis, Marcelo Bucheli, Julia Yongue, and Margaret Graham (BHC President). For more information, please visit http://www.thebhc.org/2016meeting.
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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS CONFERENCE. The 2016 Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 7–10. The theme of the meeting is “On Leadership.” The full program has not yet been posted, but sessions and abstracts for various topics are now available, including one for “Business & Economy.” Several of these sessions are sponsored by the Business History Conference. In addition, one of the OAH plenary sessions will feature Paul Krugman, Naomi Lamoreaux, and Eric Rauchway on “Can We Use History?” Registration for the meeting is now open; please visit the conference Web site: http://www.oah.org/meetings-events/2016/.
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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR BANKING AND FINANCIAL HISTORY CONFERENCE. The program for a 2016 conference of the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) on “The Origins of Banking Globalization” has now been posted. Please visit http://bankinghistory.org/events/origins-of-banking-globalization/.
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MONEY, POWER, AND PRINT COLLOQUIUM. Money, Power and Print is an association of scholars interested in interdisciplinary studies of contemporary attitudes toward the Financial Revolution in early-modern Britain, specifically the rise of banks, paper money, joint-stock corporations, stock markets, and public debt. The association's focal point is a series of biennial colloquia. The 2016 meeting, “Money, Power and Print: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688–1776,” will be held from June 23–25 in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.
This colloquium, the seventh in a biennial series and the first to be held in Wales, at the Swan Hotel, Hay-on-Wye, invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between public finance, politics, and print during Britain's “financial revolution.” Five session are planned, four with geographic themes and one with a focus on a particular individual. The four geographic themes will be: Scotland, Ireland, North America (and other colonial entities), and France. There will also be a panel on Joseph Harris (1702–1764), astronomer, navigator, economist, natural philosopher, and King's Assay Master at the Royal Mint.
For more information and to register for the colloquium, please visit http://www.moneypowerandprint.org/home/2016/call-for-papers/2016.
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ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY BLOG. This new blog, started by Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, and Dan Wadhwani, aims to be a hub to publish ongoing activities and publications, and exchange ideas and comments, for those involved in historical approaches to studying organizations. For more information, please visit http://orghist.com/.
