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Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians Datini–ESTER 2015

“Shocks”

shocks

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their second jointly-organized Datini-Ester Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 8th-13th May 2015, Prato (Italy) on:

Shocks

The focus of the seminar are the shocks and their influence on past economies and societies. Long debates have been devoted by the historians to agricultural crises (ordinarily caused by sudden changes in the availability of primary goods) and their influence on past agricultural economies and especially on death- birth- and marriage-rates. Although such crises are included, the scope of the seminar is wider. Attention will be devoted to any kind of shocks and their economic consequences (both in the short and long run): from climatic changes, environmental changes, epidemics, wars, sudden changes in markets and finance.

The aim of the Datini-Ester Advanced Seminar is to focus on shocks; without any chronological constraint. The call is, in fact, addressed both to ancient, medieval and modern historians.

Papers devoted to the crises, their causes, their consequences and their de-velopments are welcome.

Description and organization of the Advanced Datini-Ester Seminar

This Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar is open to 15 PhD students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate from no more than five years). Besides providing a feedback chance for ongoing PhD projects on economic crises, the aim of the workshop is also to foster cooperation between Europe-an economic and social historians.

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

a) 3-days workshop (May 8th, 9th, morning 10th). The workshop will bring together a number of junior and senior researchers from different European countries with expertise in the topic of market exchange. Prior to the workshop, students will be asked to prepare a paper (according to  a set of guidelines). They will have the opportunity of presenting their research projects dealing with one or more core problems of their research and discussing them with both senior researchers and other fellow students. Each paper will be presented by the author and then will be examined and discussed. The presentation will be followed by the comments prepared by one of the participating students and by one of the instructors, after which a general discussion among all participants will have place.

b) the students will also take part in the international Datini congress, devoted in 2015, to: THE FINANCIAL CRISES: Their Management, Their Social Implications and Their Consequences in Pre-industrial Times, to be held in Prato, from May 10th (afternoon) until 13th (morning) 2015. Then the students will be guests of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” from Thursday evening May 7st until May 12th in-cluded. On the 12th May (6 pm) the students will receive diplomas attesting their participation in the Datini-Ester seminar. The diplomas will be delivered only to the students who take part both in the seminar and the Datini congress.

Besides providing a feedback chance for ongoing PhD projects on economic crises, the aim of the workshop is also to foster cooperation between European economic and social historians.

This Advanced Datini-Ester Seminar is open to 15 PhD-students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate from no more than five years).

Dates and location

Prato, May 8th-12th, 2015


Contact

For inquiries concerning this course, please contact the program director of ESTER and the N.W. Posthumus Institute:
Dr. Jaco Zuijderduijn
N.W. Posthumus Institute
Institute for History
PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

E-mail: nwp@hum.leidenuniv.nl



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