Wednesday / December 05, 2018

John Scholes Transport History Research Essay Competition, 2019

The John Scholes Prize is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. The prize is intended to recognise budding transport historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article, or be divided between two or more entrants. Typically, the prize is awarded for research completed as part of a PhD. This year we’re pleased to announce that the prize will consist…

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Friday / February 01, 2019

Mobilities and Transformation: Understanding Societies, Economies, and Environments on the Move

International conference of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme ‘On the Move: People – Objects – Signs’ at the University of Salzburg, 1–2 February 2019, Salzburg Deadline for the submission of proposals: 30 September 2018 Societies of late modernity are characterised by far-reaching social and cultural processes of change, which, through their interaction at the beginning of the twenty-first century, have triggered, accelerated, or fundamentally transformed a plethora of forms of movement. This conference will focus on dynamics among people, objects, practices,…

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Wednesday / March 20, 2019

Mobility and Migration in Historical Perspective – call

The Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Society for Social and Economic History) and the Wirtschaftshistorische Ausschuss of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Economic History Committee of the German Economic Association) jointly host their third conference on economic and social history. We invite you to submit contributions. The conference will include contributions addressing the main theme as well as a free section with no fixed themes. The main theme is: “Mobility and migration in historical perspective”. The overcoming of geographical distances has…

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Thursday / May 23, 2019

Call for papers: Italy and the Suez Canal.

International Conference Italy and the Suez Canal. A global history, from the mid-19th century to the present Turin, 23-24 May 2019 Call for Papers As it approaches its 150th anniversary (it was opened to navigation in 1869), and with a recent expansion doubling its capacity, the Suez Canal is receiving renewed media and historiographical interest. Innovative perspectives from global, imperial and maritime history, and from wide-ranging studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East, have stimulated original research paths on…

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