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CALL FOR PAPERS 2025: “Finance in History”

Datini – ESTER
Advanced Seminar 2025
“Finance in History”

deadline abstracts 15 October 2024

Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their tenth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11th-17th May 2025, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of

“Finance in History”

The organisers

ESTER, established in 1991, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European Universities. ESTER organizes research training in the form of both the annual Research Design Course for starting PhD-students and a series of Ad-vanced Seminars on special themes within economic and social history.

“F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History was founded in 1968 by Federigo Melis and Fernand Braudel. The aim of the Institute is the study of pre-industrial economic history (thirteenth-eighteenth centuries) and the creation on the topic of a space for historical culture, making comparison between different methodologies and schools of research easier and supporting young scholars during their formative years.

Theme

The topic of the Datini-Ester seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress yearly organized by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History and devoted in 2025 to Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries). The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Finance. We particularly welcome papers on the development of financial institutions, risk and control of risk, financial practises and financial behaviour in different historical contexts. Papers may cover topics such as sovereign and public debt, money lending, banking, and insurance, relations between private creditors and debtors, exchange(s) and capital market(s), etc. We welcome scholars working on both the macro and micro level. Papers can cover any relevant aspect and any period, from Antiquity until today, but must have an economic-historical or historical character.

Participants in the Datini-ESTER advanced seminar can receive 4 ECTS credits.

DATINI-ESTER: CALL FOR PAPERS 2025

Description and organization of the Advanced Datini-ESTER Seminar

The seminar is jointly organized by the members of the board of the Datini-Ester Seminar: Guido Alfani (Fondazione “F. Datini”), Ben Gales (ESTER), Jaco Zuijderduijn (ESTER), Francesco Ammannati (Fondazione “F. Datini”). The members of the board, together with other colleagues, specialist in the field, will participate in the seminar as instructors.

The Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar consists of two complementary parts:

a) the participation in the international Datini congress (LVI Settimana di Studi), devoted in 2025 to “Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) • Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)”. The congress will be held in Prato, from May 11 (opening 18.00 [exact time to be confirmed] with the inaugural speech in the municipal building) until May 15 (afternoon) 2025. For information on the congress:
https://www.istitutodatini.it/temi/htm/temi56.htm;

b) a two-day workshop from May 16 (morning) until May 17 (late afternoon) 2025, in a reserved room of the Datini Palace in Prato [place to be confirmed]. The workshop will bring together a number of senior researchers from different countries. Prior to the workshop, students will be asked to prepare a paper. They will have the opportunity of presenting their research project dealing with one or more core problems of their research field and discussing them with both senior researchers and other fellow students. Each paper will be presented by the author during the seminar and then examined and discussed by one of the participating students and by one of the instructors, after which a general discussion among all participants will take place.

The students will be guests of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” from Sunday May 11 (IN) until Sunday May 18 morning (OUT). On May 17, at the end of the seminar, the students will receive diplomas attesting their participation in the Datini congress and Datini-ESTER.

The diplomas will be delivered only to the students who will take part BOTH in the Datini congress AND the seminar.
Besides providing a feedback opportunity for ongoing project on Finance in History, the seminar will provide the opportunity to attend the international Datini congress, and foster cooperation between economic and social historians coming from different countries.
This Advanced Datini-Ester Seminar is open to 15 PhD-students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate less than five years prior to the seminar).

Applications and admission

Students should apply online, and present a 800 words abstract of the content of their paper dealing with economic exchanges.
A first selection of students (by ESTER and Datini) will take place on the basis of the abstracts. After this stage, students who are accepted will be asked to draft their research paper.
The final admission to the course depends upon the following points:
• the student must meet the deadline for submission of his/her paper (whose deadline is the 15th of March 2025);
• the paper must be of sufficient academic quality and the level of the English used in the paper must be sufficient.
The language of the papers, such as that of the seminar, will be English.

Dates and location

The Advanced 2025 Seminar will take place in Prato, Italy, from May 11 (Sunday with the inauguration of the congress) to May 17 (Saturday), so the day of arrival will be Sunday May 11 and the departure Sunday morning May 18. Both the students and instructors will meet on Sunday evening (11th of May) at 7 pm o’clock for a dinner together (the place to be defined). The seminar will start on Friday 16 at 8.30 am. Students wishing to participate are requested to send their application no later than the 15th October 2024. To this purpose the students will use the online form. The selection of students will be completed by the end of October 2024. Deadline for submission of papers by accepted students is March 15th 2025. Following that date, the papers will be made available to all participants. Application forms are available on the ESTER website https://posthumusinstitute.org/

Dates: a summary (2024-25):

June 2024 – Call for Applications
15th October 2024 – Deadline for Applications
31st October 2024 – Selection completed, applicants informed
15th March 2025 – Deadline paper submission. The final paper will be due to posthumus@uu.nl
31st March 2025 – Papers online for reading
11th May 2025 (morning or afternoon): arrival in Prato
11th May 2025 (18.00 inaugural speech in the municipal building)
11th-15th May (afternoon) 2025 – International Datini Congress
16th-17th May 2025 (late afternoon) – Advanced Seminar
17th May 2025 (end of the seminar) delivery of diplomas
18th May 2025 (morning) departure

Funding

Costs for accommodation and catering will be covered by the organizers. The organizers will not cover travel costs (possibly covered by students’ home institutions). Travel arrangements to and from Prato have to be organized by the selected participants themselves. The workshop will be funded by the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and by the ESTER Graduate School

.

Contact

For inquiries concerning this course, please contact ESTER:
ESTER/N.W. Posthumus Institute
Faculty of Arts
P.O. Box 9103
The Netherlands
E-mail: posthumus@uu.nl
Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University).For inquiries concerning the hospitality in Prato, the students have to contact the secretary of the Datini Institute on the dates of their arrival and departure:
Letizia Finocchiaro – Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” di Prato
E-mail: letizia@istitutodatini.it

“Social and geographic mobility”

Call for papers: The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Social and geographic mobility. The aims are encourage research on social and socio-economic mobility (both upward and downward) in different historical contexts, as well as on geographic mobility, that is migration (short- or long-distance). As is well known, across human history geographic mobility has often played a major role in shaping patterns of socio-economic mobility. Purpose is to clarify the determinants, the extent and the final consequences of mobility in different periods, across entire societies or regarding specific social groups.

Made with contributions from:

 

List of participants

  1. Renato Amoroso, “Italian emigration to Argentina and Luigi Einaudi’s perspective”
  2. Anna Arkhina, “Openness of Russian civil elite in 19th century”
  3. Alessandro Brioschi, “Social mobility and exits from apprenticeship training: evidence from early modern Genoa”
  4. Alice Dominici, “Networks, diversity and migrants’ success: evidence from the Pontine Marshes, 1932-1941”
  5. Giuliana Freschi, “Intergenerational mobility in 19th century Italy: A case study approach”
  6. Markus Hansen, “The Material Basis of Downwards Social Mobility in 18th-Century Denmark”
  7. Francisco Javier Illana López, “Between Palermo and Madrid. Political service, geographical movements and upward mobility in “Spanish Italy” (16th-17th centuries)”
  8. Aurelius Noble, “The Persistence of the Aristocracy: Financial and Social Measures, England and Wales (1858-1907)”
  9. Sienna Nordquist, “The Marshall Plan as Sanctioner and Protector: The Case of West Berlin, 1949-1953”
  10. Eline Rademakers, “Tracing Social Mobility Among Enslaved Workers in 18th Century Suriname”
  11. Francesco Romagnoli, “Origin and Developments of Inequality: Evidence from the Pontine Ager colonization scheme in Italy (1932-1943)”
  12. Bas Spliet, “From ‘Migrant City’ to ‘City of the Established’? The Social Mobility of Immigrants: Evidence from Amsterdam, 1600-1800”
  13. Noah Werner Sutter, “A Testament to Revolution? Two Approaches to Estimating Intergenerational Persistence of Elite Status in France, 1791-1870”
  14. Hillary Vipond, “Grandfathered Out: Sheltering from Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain”
  15. Ziming Zhu, “Grim Up North? Regional Intergenerational Mobility across England, 1881-1911”

Experts

  • Guido Alfani (Bocconi University Milano)
  • Francesco Ammannati (Firenze University)
  • Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
  • Neil Cummins (London School of Economics)
  • Ben Gales (Groningen University)
  • Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia)
  • Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)

“Economic Exchanges”

Call for papers: The 2023 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Economic Exchanges. The aims are encourage research on the exchange of goods and services, on the role of markets, monies, trade, transaction costs and institutional contexts, which might foster market integration or, alternatively, constrain economic performance. Purpose is to clarify the role of the economic exchange and market in past economies.

List of participants

  1. Mathias Istrup Karlsmose, Internationalizing the Danish East India Company – Trade, Diplomacy and Warfare in 17th Century Asia
  2. Bram Hilkens, Living and Dying with the Land: Land Inequality, Agrarian Capitalism, and Epidemic Mortality
  3. Florian Probst, Was there an Industrious Revolution in Germany? Wages and labour markets on rural estates, c. 1650-1870
  4. Boyu Fang, The economic status of ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia: trade, social networks, remittances, and entrepreneurship
  5. Carlo Ludovico Severgnini, Financial Administration and Reforms in Burgundy and Savoy (1418-1480)
  6. Tomasso Brollo, Money and Credit in Early Modern Europe. The banco Capponi in Florence and at the fairs of Lyon and Besançon, 1553-1584
  7. Tessa de Boer, A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch ventures in the French West Indies, 1717-1792
  8. Elena Shadrina, A Sea of Parchment: Documentary Culture and Social Networks in Venice and Beyond (950- 1220)
  9. Laura Burnett, “For change and charitie”: how were 17th century trade tokens used and understood by people at the time?
  10. Patrick van der Geest, Trading colonialism for imperialism: How Hope & Co. shaped the advent of European imperial exploitation in Asia and the Atlantic, c.a 1720-1880
  11. Claudio Ferri, From imaginary money to metallic standards
  12. Ramona Negrón, Amsterdam Merchants in the Spanish Americas, 1580-1700
  13. Sally Finn-Kelcy, The Production and Export of Medieval Ireland’s Wool and Woollen Cloth
  14. Aditi Dixit, The ‘Little Asian’ Divergence: A Comparative Study of the Indian and Japanese Textile Industry, ca. 1890-1940
  15. Gustav Ängeby, Scandinavian merchant networks in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, c.1750-1815

Experts

  • Guido Alfani (Bocconi University Milano)
  • Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
  • Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
  • William Caferro (Vanderbilt University – Nashville, USA)
  • Ben Gales (Groningen University)
  • Corinne Maitte (Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne)
  • Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)